In this episode of Knowing Animals, Jed Goodfellow, PhD candidate at Macquarie University and RSPCA Australia policy advisor talks about his book chapter ‘Regulatory Capture and the Welfare of Farm Animals in Australia’ which will appear in the upcoming book ‘Animal Welfare Law and Science: International Perspectives’ edited by Deborah Cao and Steven White. He explains why Departments of Primary Industries should not be responsible for animal welfare.
Knowing Animals is a fortnightly podcast hosted by Dr Josh Milburn who discusses all things related to animals and ethics; animals and the law; animals and politics; and animal advocacy. The show features interviews with Animal Studies scholars and animal advocates.
In this very special episode of Knowing Animals the podcast Dr. Clare McCausland turns the tables and interviews Dr. Siobhan O’Sullivan from UNSW about her 2011 book ‘Animals, Equality and Democracy’. Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio player. …continue
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On this episode, we speak to Nathan Poirier. Nathan is an interdisciplinary critical animal studies scholar with a background in anthrozoology, sociology, and mathematics. He currently teaches at Lansing Community College in Michigan. He’s the co-editor of the 2022 collection …continue
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This episode features two guests. Dr Eze Paez is a returning guest; he first appeared on the podcast back in 2018. Eze is Tenure-Track Professor in Jurisprudence and Bioethics of Pompeu Fabra Universityin Barcelona. He works on questions in moral …continue
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