The Vegan Student Association (VSA) Utrecht podcast is about all things vegan. From vegan history to speciesism and more, we explore everything that it entails to be a "vegan" in our modern world.
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Episode 15:
A Zoological Google Translate in 15 Years?
Imagine your cat could talk to you and tell you whether she enjoyed her life with you or farmed animals could verbalise their suffering in human language. What sounds like science-fiction may soon be reality. Together with communication scientist Maarten Reesink, we explore the possibilities and dangers of using AI to facilitate human-nonhuman animal communication.
Further reading: Karen Bakker – The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
We sat down with Pablo Moleman from ProVeg to dive into how strategic campaigning can drive meaningful institutional change! Pablo shares insights into ProVeg’s recent successes, including the campaign to include plant-based milks in the EU school milk scheme, the …continue
Proudly brought to you by: 26 September 2024
Last time, we talked about the history of industrialised animal farming and the history of animal feed. This time, we cover the influence of antibiotics on industrial farming. How did antibiotics contribute to industrial farming? Were people in the past …continue
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Industrial large-scale animal farming is producing the vast majority of animal products in our supermarkets. But how did it emerge? And how is its emergence related to compound feed? Was there resistance to this development already in the past? And …continue
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