Shining the Spotlight on Animal Hero Kids with Susan Hargreaves
Animal Voices is thrilled to welcome back to the show one of its co-founders, Susan Hargreaves! Now that the show has been on the air for approximately two decades, we reflect on how Animal Voices began, along with the importance of alternative media and community radio. Grounded in her work as an undercover investigator and...
WE can make a Difference: Firoz Alam and Macy Tollefson Connect Childhood Literacy Programs with Animal Advocacy in Bangladesh
Firoz Alam, President of the WE Foundation Bangladesh, and Macy Tollefson, project director, joined us in discussing the connection they are making between childhood literacy programs and animal advocacy in Bangladesh. The WE Foundation Bangladesh is a non-profit, youth based organization, providing support to poor families and children in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The WEF’s mission is...
V is for Vegan: Author Ruby Roth Teaches the ABCs of Kindness to Animals
Should we be learning compassion for animals at the same time as our ABCs? Ruby Roth thinks so: her new illustrated book, V is for Vegan, gives kids aged 3 and up a fun introduction to veganism in 26 sentences. Roth will entertain us with rhymes from the book, but we’ll also get serious about...
Vegan Is Love: Author Ruby Roth Trusts Kids With the Truth About Why We Don’t Eat Animals
It all started when the children in Ruby Roth’s art class asked why she didn’t eat the cheese strings at snack break. She went looking for a book she could read with the children, one that covered the full gamut of reasons for her veganism in a child-appropriate way. When she didn’t find one, she wrote...
Paul York on Fighting Animal Use at U of T and Greg Bennick on Fear, Healing, and Sincerity
Today’s Animal Voices presents two interviews. First, we welcome Paul York of the University of Toronto Animal Rights Club. With a focus on anti-vivisection work, UT-ARC has a formidable task ahead: the University of Toronto uses 90,000 animals every year, including rats, mice, dogs, and monkeys. And while the university once promised to stop using monkeys, it quickly...
The Haunted Scalpel: Jan Oakley Investigates Dissection
For some, the image of a mangled pig fetus or an cut up frog on the Biology room table remains a painful and disturbing memory. While the number of animals involved in dissection might seem relatively small compared to other uses, Jan Oakley argues that not only are staggering numbers killed every year, but also...
Herbivore Magazine & The Imaginary Childhood Journal of Albert Schweitzer
Maybe you’ve noticed that cheeky Herbivore magazine has recently taken a bit of whatever Alice did, and has shrunk to about a quarter of its original size. Today we connect with editor, Josh Hooten, to learn more about the Indy Press Newsstand Services (a unit of the Independent Press Association) debacle, the sorry state of indie...
Animals in the Crossfire
What happens to animals during times of war? How do animal organizations mobilize in high risk areas? How does war compound existing problems for animals, and also create new ones? We are joined by representatives from two animal organizations, one from Lebanon and one from Israel, to learn more about how animals are tangled up...
Helping Troubled Teens with Veganism: The Link Between Food and Behaviour
Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, certain cancers — we’ve all heard how eating meat and dairy can affect our physical health. But what about our mental health? Especially in developing children, can veganism be the answer to perceived behavioural disorders and even low grades in school? One of the only people to have studied this topic, Antonia...
The Vegan Lunch Box & New Vegans
Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? What if your resolution was to change your diet, your lifestyle, and make a daily commitment to helping animals? Today we’ll be speaking with Sheena Turcotte who decided to take the plunge and go vegan in 2006. Tune in to hear all the expectations, concerns, hopes and fears...
AR in Japan / PETA2’s Jason Bayless
First, we speak with author and environmentalist Sakae Hemmi of the Elsa Nature Conservancy from Japan who joined us August 30th to discuss the dolphin hunt. In this interview, Sakae discusses the state of the general animal protection movement in Japan. Then Jason Bayless, senior youth outreach specialist with PETA2, a youth marketing and resource branch of the People...
