A podcast bringing you thought provoking deep dives across a wide variety of subjects from one of the authors of Think Like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics.
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Max Haiven discusses whether palm oil is a particularly more destructive product than any other. Max’s book, Palm Oil: Grease of Empire, gets into a bit of the history, political, economic and natural impact of the palm oil industry, which had its start during European colonisation of West Africa in the 19th century. Max then zooms out to look at the wider impact and how we might want to consider what we do about palm oil production.
Max is an author, a professor at Lakehead University in Canada and the Canada Research Chair in Radical Imagination. He also co-hosts a call-in podcast called What Do We Want, and directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab, a workshop for the radical imagination, social justice and decolonization. He’s also the first and, so far, only non-vegan guest on this podcast
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Max Haiven
https://maxhaiven.com/ https://reimaginevalue.ca/ @maxhaiven on X https://maxhaiven.substack.com/ https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345826/palm-oil/
Emi Leese
https://emilialeese.substack.com http://thinklikeavegan.com
@emi.leese or @thinklikeavegan, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads Credits
Host: Emilia A. Leese Guest: Max Haiven
Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com
Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com Music
Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business Interlude: “Hit” by Flowers Must Die Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business
This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com
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