Animal Rights: the Debate explores the issues around around our relationship with animals with hosts Martyn Ford and David Thomas.
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Whether it is because of the appalling cruelty inevitable in animal farming, the protection of the environment, or concerns about our health, many people across the world sign up to follow a plant-based diet during January. Is it a steppling stone to a permanent shift in lifestyle, or a short-lived experience? And is the decline in the fortunes of some companies producing vegan alternatives just a set-back as the market adjusts, or does it herald the passing of a fashion? Join us as we speak to Dr. Toni Vernelli, who is International Head of Communications and Marketing at Veganuary.
Millions of animals spend their lives in ‘factory farms’, before they meet a brutal end in a slaughter house. Apart from its impact on the environment, animal farming raises some fundamental moral issues about the treatment and killing of other …continue
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In this episode, we talk to Pandora Pound of Safer Medicine (UK) and Rachel Smith of Animal Free Research Advocacy (Australia), about the reliability (or otherwise) of research using animals and how researchers got hooked on using animals despite highly …continue
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Our knowledge of [other] animals has increased hugely over the last few decades, and so it has become more difficult to deny them the same sort of moral consideration we grant our own species. Professor Grace Clement of Salisbury University …continue
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