Animal Rights: the Debate explores the issues around around our relationship with animals with hosts Martyn Ford and David Thomas.
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Compassion for others is a principle close to the heart of religion, but how far – if at all – does it extend to other animals?
In this episode, we speak to Barbara Gardner, a co-founder of the Animals Interfaith Alliance, ‘a unique alliance of the world’s most influential faith based, animal advocacy organisations. Author of The Compassionate Animal, Barbara Gardner joins us for a discussion about faith, morality, and animals.
In this episode, Martyn and David discuss topical issues in the news which are distinct but also connected – the richness of animals’ lives, their cognitive abilities, and sentience; the benefits to neuroscience from studying animals’ brains, and the implication …continue
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Although the legal safeguards for animals are inadequate, things are changing. Throughout much of the world, judges are establishing that animals are entitled to moral consideration and that their interests should be taken into account. Ankita Shanker has a PhD …continue
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Kimberly Moore, a tax lawyer with an international law firm in Washington DC, Director of Public Relations at the FUR FREE SOCIETY, and a member of the Animal Law Committee of the American Bar Association, talks to us about her …continue
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