Vegans of Color
When Johanna Eeva went vegan, she did what she usually does when something big happens in her life: She got on the internet and began researching. Disheartened by the lack of representation for or by vegans of color, plus the simplistic and prejudicial analysis within various vegan communities, Johanna decided (along with the encouragement from...
The Ontario Vegetarian Food Bank: Much to Celebrate, and Much More Still to Do!
It can be slim pickings for vegetarians at conventional food banks, as staples such as tuna fish regularly stock shelves. For long-time or even lifetime vegetarians, consumption of non-vegetarian foods can be psychologically, emotionally, and sometimes physically traumatizing: Meat eating can conflict with people’s religious beliefs, force individuals to compromise their ethics, and even make...
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....
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...
On the MOVE: Interview with Ramona Africa
Revolution is not a philosophy, it is an activity.” — 25 Years On The MOVE We speak with Ramona Africa, a member of MOVE and the sole adult survivor of the May 13, 1985 police bombing of the MOVE house in Philadelphia, which killed eleven people. In the wake of the massacre, she was sentenced and served seven...
Cows, Colonialism, and Capitalism: Interview with David Nibert
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...
Animals Are Part of the Working Class: Interview with Jason Hribal
How have animals shaped history? How is animals’ work undervalued (or simply not acknowledged as such), and how might a class analysis be useful? What would a “history from below” mean in regards to animals? On this show, Jason Hribal delves into these and other questions.
Food Not Bombs Interview
Tune in this Tuesday to learn about one of the most radical and down-to-earth movements on the planet: Food Not Bombs. From the FNB website, “There are hundreds of autonomous chapters sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty. This energetic grassroots movement is active throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle...
Racism and Animal Rights
Please join us for a statement on the Calgary Stampede from Michael Alvarez-Toye of the Calgary Animal Rights Coalition (read full text here), followed by a conversation with Sheila Hamanaka and Patrick Kwan about racism in the animal rights movement. While many believe that they are not racist and that racism doesn’t touch our cause, such...
Native Americans and Vegetarianism with Rita Laws, Ph.D.
We speak with Dr. Rita Laws about connections between vegetarianism and Native Americans. Dr. Laws, who is Choctaw and Cherokee, will provide a historical analysis of hunting and colonialism, along with an examination of some Native American traditional views on non-human animals. Dr. Laws has been vegetarian since 1979. In 1974 she witnessed the slaughter...
The Black Vegetarian Society of Georgia & Tsunami Disaster Aid for Animals
First, we speak with Traci Thomas, founder of the first Black Vegetarian Society in North America. She’ll tell us about why she started the organization in 1997 and how the BVSG has inspired the creation of similar societies. Also from the BVSG, Dr. Joy Scott will talk about “super foods”. For the last half of the...
