Skin Trade: An Interview with Shannon Keith
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...
Eco and Vegan Giveaways!
Tune in for our weekly news segment, and a fun holiday program. We’ll be talking to Marisa King, one of the founders of the vegan and environmentally-friendly company, Comondi. We’ll discuss “green consumerism”, the small-scale suppliers behind the products, negotiating economics and activism, and what King wishes she’d known years ago about running a business. She’ll...
From a Renaissance Radical to Talking Pigs: Dr. Erica Fudge’s Take on History and Culture
We often look back on previous eras with moral righteousness, but how far have we really come in our treatment of animals? How complete is any history that fails to acknowledge the enormous role animals have played in shaping human culture, and our self-identity? Historians have rarely regarded animals as a serious topic of study....
Feminism, Animals, and Science: Interview with Dr. Lynda Birke
Please join us for a conversation with esteemed feminist biologist, Lynda Birke. With numerous titles to her name, including The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People (co-authored, 2007), Feminism and the Biological Body (2000), Feminism, Animals, and Science: The Naming of the Shrew (1994), among others, Birke has been breaking new ground for over three decades....
Could You be a Four-Leaf Clover?
We’re biting our nails, crossing our fingers, and searching for a few four-leaf clovers. Did you know that, as part of the community radio station CIUT 89.5 FM, Animal Voices must fulfill a minimum quota of new members during the bi-annual fund-raising drives? Each $25 donation qualifies as a membership, and membership renewal also counts...
Sweet Satisfaction: Interview with Temptation Vegan Ice Cream’s Founders
Ryan Howard and Dan Ziegler are two cherries on the top of a yummy vegan sundae. As founders of Temptation — Vegan Ice Cream, they’re also great examples of people who put ethics before profit. For them, this means paying attention to the details, which includes using fair trade tea, chocolate, and coffee. It also means...
More Than a Thousand Words: The Photography of Jo-Anne McArthur
Celebrated photographer Jo-Anne McArthur joins us in studio to talk about her work in Canada, the Americas, Europe, Asia, and India. We hear about how she uses her camera to tell the stories of animals and people in the most dire to most joyful situations. In our conversation, McArthur reflects on her development as a photographer,...
Literature and The Postcolonial Animal: An Interview with Philip Armstrong
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? (To escape the factory farm? To find somewhere good to dust bathe?) A: Or, maybe, the chicken crossed the road to knock on Philip Armstrong’s door. In Armstrong’s prize-winning essay, “Sympathy”, he writes about a chicken who mysteriously appeared at his home and quickly made herself comfortable,...
Animal Rights Africa: Activism & Witness
“I have seen first hand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are perceived as powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests, and speak out loudly...
Rescue, Shelter, and Education: The Ferret Aid Society Speaks
When people think of vivisection, ferrets aren’t usually the first animals who spring to mind. Or, similarly, mention animal cruelty investigations, and people tend to imagine cats and dogs. While ferrets are plagued by cultural stereotypes that they stink and love to bite, The Ferret Aid Society offers a very different interpretation of these inquisitive animals....
One Huge Veg Food Fair & Vegan Porn’s Successor
Tune in for an aural guide to the Toronto Vegetarian Association’s 23rd Annual Food Fair (September 7, 8, and 9), the largest event of its kind in North America. With 100+ exhibitors, cooking demonstrations, a well-stocked food tent, and samples a plenty, the TVA Food Fair provides an ample opportunity to acquaint the new, veteran, and...
The Secret Lives of Sloths – Part II
We’re delighted that Judy Avey-Arroyo, co-founder of the Aviarios del Caribe Wildlife Centre and the Buttercup Centre Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, will join us again to talk about sloths. We’ll hear more about sloths’ habitat and history, the sloth pet trade, the Sanctuary’s “Adopt A Sloth” program, additional stories about the individual animals at the...
