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Removing Harmful Wild Animal Social Media Posts: Nicola O’Brien of Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition
Episode 63
From taking selfies with wild animal individuals, to promoting them as pets, to faking animal rescues for clicks, content harmful to animals abounds on social media platforms like YouTube, Tik Tok, F…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Stop Cop City to Save the Atlanta Forest for Eco and Racial Justice: Interview with Dr. Echols of the South River Watershed Alliance
Episode 62
On behalf of Atlanta's biggest in-town forest, its resident wildlife, and nearby human neighbors, we discuss the 'Save The Atlanta Forest' movement also known as the 'Stop Cop City' movement, in Sout…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
The Industrial Ag Accountability Act’s Needed Improvements for Farmed Animals & Workers: Explained by Farming Activist Leah Garces
Episode 61
In this double-show, Leah Garces, President of Mercy for Animals, discusses initiatives to protect taxpayers, farm workers, chickens, and pigs in an unprecedented and long-overdue marker to the 2023 …
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Bird flu outbreak’s impact on factory farmed birds and wild/free animal species: Mercy for Animals interview
Episode 60
Mercy for Animals' Managing Director AJ Albrecht updates us on the state of the Avian Influenza crisis and the tens of millions of factory farmed birds who have been inhumanely killed/suffocated in a…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Evolving together toward an animal-free food system: Pax Fauna study of appealing to American meat-eaters
Episode 59
Guest Eva Hamer discusses a recent study of American attitudes toward using animals for food that suggests how best to strategically frame campaign messages promoting a path to evolving together towa…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
The Smell of Money documentary: Pig Factory Farming & Environmental Racism in North Caroliina
Episode 58
The stench and pollution of pig factory farms is devastating Black rural neighborhoods, but, despite intimidation, NC residents are fighting back in court against the world's largest pork corporation…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Wild Souls: Eco Writer Emma Marris on Animal Ethics for Introduced Species in Nature
Episode 57
We take on some tricky ethical dilemmas in how we should treat animals in nature, especially “non-native” species (more respectfully called 'Introduced species'), and when and how we should interfere…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
The Creative Lives of Animals: Dr. Carol Gigliotti on the Culture and Ethics of Fellow Animal Species
Episode 56
We should begin to see multiculturalism as including the creativity and morality found in the cultures of fellow animal species (besides just us humans). In this 27 minute interview, host Carrie Free…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
A Fish’s Perspective on Fishing: With Biologist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe
Episode 55
How are individual fish (as sentient beings) affected by industrial and recreational fishing practices? We find out by talking with the best selling author of “What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of o…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Clean Energy Future in Georgia: What would it look like and how to get there? Sierra Club GA Chapter
Episode 54
What would a clean, renewable energy future look like in Georgia? Neil Sardana, Beyond Coal rep from the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club provides a hopeful yet feasible vision. For energy independ…
Published on 3 years ago