Join us for a conversation with former Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist, Peter Young. Now famous for a series of raids on mink farms across the U.S. Midwest during 1997, and the liberation of thousands of animals, Young was indicted by a federal grand jury in 1998, on “Extortion by Interfering with Interstate Commerce”, and [...]
Jill Robinson, founder and CEO of Animals Asia Foundation, joins us from Chengdu, China. Tune in to hear Robinson describe her work with Chinese and Vietnamese animal activists to provide sanctuary for moon bears (Asiatic black bears), and their efforts to stop bear bile farming. Robinson provides detailed first-hand accounts of bear rescues, painting vivid [...]
This week we catch up with Shannon Keith, filmmaker and activist, to talk about her upcoming film Skin Trade: Fur, Fashion and Truth. After her highly successful and critically acclaimed documentary Behind the Mask, Keith is back planning and shooting her next film. This time, she sets her sights on farmers and clothing designers, to challenge the [...]
“Food, like all apparently physical matter, is energy and vibration and is a manifestation of consciousness, and though it is important to prepare, eat, and share food mindfully, we can see that it’s important to look more deeply than this, to the actual source of our food,” writes Will Tuttle, in his new book The World [...]
Well-known within the animal movements as the author of Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, Dr. David Nibert is a professor of Sociology at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Historically grounded, and passionately argued, Nibert’s theory contends that oppression is primarily underpinned by economic gain and supported by state ideology. His scholarship offers both an [...]
We connect with Jim Mason, co-author of the book The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter. Written with the controversial philosopher, Peter Singer, this new text gives readers an updated version of their previous ground-breaking book Animal Factories, which investigated North American factory farming in the early 1990s. Yet, The Way We Eat does more than provide [...]
Scrambled, over-easy, fried, and mixed into baking, eggs are classic comfort foods. The industry claim that “only content animals are productive animals” seems logical enough, and with heavy security restrictions for battery cage facilities, few consumers understand how such staples materialize. Starting from the premise that consumers have a right to know how their food [...]
Steve Striffler, an associate professor at the University of Arkansas, provides an historical perspective on the rise of the American poultry industry. As the industry has rapidly grown since World War II and struggles to remain competitive, animal agribusiness continues to operate within small profit-margins and employ a series of disturbing labour strategies. Through Chicken, we [...]
We are joined by Dr. Michael Greger, “The Vegan MD,” to discuss the current avian flu scare. Tune in to learn more about why concern is intensifying, how bird viruses spread and mutate, how wild bird populations have and will be affected, and whether factory farming plays any role in the recent outbreaks. Dr. Greger will [...]
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