This episode of Knowing Animals is recorded before a live studio audience at the 2018 Sheffield Animal Studies event: ShARC Tails! I speak to Dr. Joe Wills. Joe is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester. We discuss his article “A Nation of Animal Lovers? the case for a general …continue
This episode features Jon Pawson on how his veganism fits within Maori culture and decolonisation. Jon is from the Facebook group “Māori and Pasifika Vegans”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/399648523567337/ We also discuss the Abolish Australia Day protests and animal advocacy, as well as a bunch of animal and/or vegan-related stories, including ‘Agribusinesses continue to …continue
-Jasmin and Mariann discuss the greatness of the air fryer. They also mention JL Fields’ book on air frying: (https://bit.ly/2S6d7mo). Also, what some recent disappointing and out of touch “vegan” scenes on Netflix’s Grace and Frankie say about the mainstream status of animal advocacy. -Mariann talks to Christine Dorchak of …continue
January 25, 2019It’s Paw & Order’s one-year anniversary! Thanks to our listeners for an amazing first year. As we promised, this episode features an interview with marine law expert professor Cameron Jeffries, who helps us understand what it means that Japan has withdrawn from the International Whaling Commission and plans …continue
January 25, 2019 It’s Paw & Order’s one-year anniversary! Thanks to our listeners for an amazing first year. As we promised, this episode features an interview with marine law […] Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio player. Paw & Order is Canada’s only animal law podcast, and …continue
Jan Creamer is the president and co-founder of ADI, Animal Defenders International, an organization that has been around since the nineties when Jan and her husband Tim Phillips founded it, and since then Jan and Tim have changed the lives of countless animals all over the globe. One of ADI’s …continue
It’s very possible, say today’s guests, all who have terrific new books on how to accomplish this amazing feat: Chef Mark Reinfeld and his wife Ashley Boudet, N.D., authors of The Ultimate Age-Defying Plan; and journalist and champion race walker Karen Asp, whose delightful and practical new book is Anti-Aging …continue
This week on Knowing Animals I am joined by Dr. Bernice Bovenkerk. Bernice is a philosopher at the University of Wageningen. We discuss Bernice’s journal article ‘The Pedigree Dog Breeding Debate in Ethics and Practice: Beyond Welfare Arguments’, which appeared in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethicsin 2017. That article …continue
