Shows / Species Unite
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Species UnitePaul Bochner: Penelope: A Love Story
"I had no question in my mind that here's a gift that has come to the door, and I will give this gift whatever it requires. And what came back? Many times what…
Species UniteDr. Krithi Karanth: Saving Wildlife in a World of Humans
"India is extraordinary in the sense that we already see a lot of sort of cultural reverence for species and some inherent tolerance in society. And just…
Species UniteDominick Thompson: Beyond the Walls
"That transformation from a guy from the Midwest that was really into a lot of meat and potatoes, like a lot of us are. That transformation and experience was…
Species UniteArash Yomtobian: The Problem with All or Nothing
"Everything is a story. Every belief that we have, every entity or institution is a story that we've told ourselves and each other. And so really identifying…
Species UniteAna Paula Tavares: Save the Chimps
"As I stood about six feet away from him, looking at his beautiful little brown eyes, and Tuffy looked right back into my eyes and actually through my soul…
Species UniteMichael Schneider: Pilots to the Rescue
"We do own and operate aircraft, but we also put a lot of energy into telling the story and that's really important because that's what's going to provide…
Species UniteKevin Sherwin: How do you Milk an Almond?
"His argument against almond milk is that you can't call almond milk milk because you can't physically milk an almond." – Kevin Sherwin Kevin Sherwin is a…
Species UniteJamie Logan and Justina Adorno: Green Goddesses Take New York
"We had to start asking how are we sustainable with the activism in the long run? I think that using humor, using confrontation will get people to look at the…
Species UniteCameron Meyer Shorb: Nature Was Never Eden
"So before I encountered these ideas, whenever I thought about human's relationship to animals, I only thought about the negative parts. I thought the best we…
Species UniteDr. Melanie Joy: Why good people don't want to know
"Let's say that you eat meat and you're sitting down and you're biting into a juicy hamburger, and your dining companion turns to you and says, 'Elizabeth, you…
Species UniteRose Patterson: What are we willing to risk when we know suffering is happening?
"I think something that I learned from doing that was that this is all in our heads, like it's all for show just because there's a security guard that even if…
Species UniteTodd Friedman: The Pig Who Changed Everything
"You want people to stop eating these animals and the only way to do it is to showcase them in a light where people see them as individuals, and not just a…
Species UniteDan Shannon: How Change Happens
"There will come a time in the future where historians look back on this era of history and sort of see it as this moment of historical atrocity, which is what…
Species UniteDax Dasilva: Echoes from Eden
"I really think it's a story is about the heroes, the conservation heroes. It's each one of their stories and then it's about my personal growth story of being…
Species UniteRebecca Bose: Undoing an American Extinction
"I don't know of another animal mammal that does not protect their young. Everybody protects their young. A wolf does too if another predator came. Of course…
Species UniteGemunu de Silva: Industry Standard
"I grew up and I became vegetarian listening to punk albums because there was a real punk scene which talked about vegetarianism, which talked about veganism…
Species UniteGail Eisnitz: Out of Sight
"These workers were so courageous to go on camera to talk about what they were being forced to do, and we had a whistleblower attorney there to protect them…
Species UniteMelissa Hoffman: Eat Your Ethics
A lot of people think that kosher means that animals were treated significantly better than animals that enter the non-kosher market. And largely, this is just…
Species UniteBrett Mitchell: The Man Who Freed the Elephants
"It just makes everything worthwhile with what we did. It just highlights how flexible elephants are and how adaptable they are from captivity to wild, and…
Species UniteNina Jackel and Blake Moynes: The Cruelty Behind the Selfie
"You look at these animals, and they're just so far removed from the life that I want them to have, that they should have that, we would hope that wild animals…
Species UniteAmy Jones: Skin and Bones
"It was a really surreal experience because I didn't know what to expect from a tiger farm. I've been in a lot of industrial farms of other animals. I sort of…
Species UniteThom Norman: How $23 a Month Could Dismantle Factory Farming
"Because we're kind of lowering the stakes. We're saying it's okay to admit to yourself that you care about factory farming and you care about animals because…
Species Unite30,000 Monkeys in Our Backyard
This week, we're doing something a little different. Instead of a conversation, we're sharing something we've been working on for the past year — our new short…
Species UniteMelanie Kaplan: Lab Dog
"Maybe when we started doing this with animals, researching on them and studying them for human benefit hundreds of years ago, we didn't know about their…
Species UniteAnnick Ireland: The Future is Immaculate
"All those kinds of brands in food and in fashion helped pave the way for where we are now. So, on the one hand, it's crushing that they no longer exist, but…
Species UniteSuzanne Lee: Grown, not Extracted
"You know, you walk through a forest. Every leaf on every tree is unique. And that's what biology does. We are all unique, right? Everything about us that…
Species UniteAlex Woodard: Ordinary Soil
"Now more than ever, a lot of farmers are caught in between this kind of industrial complex that that is difficult to pay the bills with - so you got to get…
Species UniteAmber Canavan: The Labels That Lie
"That is no life for these birds and it is definitely not what the consumer is thinking or assuming. When they see these nice labels and they think, 'oh, I'm…
Species UniteChristine Mott: Free Bird
"How could this owl, who was born in captivity, lived his whole life in a cage, how could he possibly survive? He's going to be dead in a few days. That's what…
Species UniteEdita Birnkrant and Tracy Winston: The Horse Who Collapsed in the Street
"I could be walking in Central Park and come up on one of these horse and buggies. I don't think twice about it because I see it as part of the New York…
Species UniteMari Andrew: How To Be A Living Thing
"It was just this love I developed of life, all life and how much life can be a joy to witness and experience if we're not severing ourselves or severing other…
Species UniteDr. Shirley Strum: The Echoes of Our Origins
"So I think this whole idea of cumulative culture is a way to make humans exceptional. But it's clear to me that humans are exceptional, and seeing it through…
Species UniteJeffrey Reed: Cry Wolf: Decoding the Language of the Wild
"I sit in the camp that is going to defend wildlife, and I will live and die in that space. Even though what I see is in the West, wolves have a bad…
Species UniteTrevor Ritland: The Golden Toad
I think you could probably go back and track the stages of grief, probably that is what I went through. But I think if you do it right, you end up at…
Species UniteReuven Bank and Andrew Kim: When the Ocean Lost Its Stars
"72 juveniles is 28% of the current population of sunflower stars under human care in California. More than a quarter of them are at our facility. If you had…
Species UniteDelcianna Winders: The Beginning of the End of Animal Testing
"We don't actually know how many animals we're testing on in this country, because most of them are not protected by any laws. There's not even a requirement…
Species UniteJeff Kerr: Our First Amendment Right to Receive Communications (from Monkeys)
"It is a scientific fact that these macaques, like all other primates, including humans, are communicating. They communicate in much the same way we do -…
Species UniteIsabella La Rocca Gonzalez: Censored Landscapes
"The one that really surprised me was the organic humane Certified Egg Farm. I thought Humane Certified would at least mean that I would see some chickens…
Species UniteJohn Kinder: World War Zoos
John Kinder is the director of American studies and a professor of history at Oklahoma State University. And he is an author. His most recent book is called…
Species UniteRichard (Kudo) Couto: The Hidden Horror Behind a Billion-Dollar Brand
"I used to be the largest dairy consumer on the planet. I used to eat so much dairy and meat. The more that I looked into the dairy industry, the more that I…
Species UniteMeredith Blanchard: We've Cured Cancer in Mice for Decades
"There's a drug called vioxx that was found to be safe and effective in animal trials, so they moved it on to preclinical trials in humans. Once on the market…
Species UniteRob Read: When the Ocean Bleeds
"One year, we actually offered the Faroe Islanders One million pounds to stop the hunts. 1 million pounds, which would go to promoting whale and dolphin…
Species UniteAndrew Stein: Living with Lions
"If we march into that village and we start trying to persecute people for using poison, something that's very illegal, nobody's going to talk to us. We're not…
Species UniteJaap de Roode: Doctors by Nature
"But it makes a lot of sense especially when you think about how traditional healers and shamans have worked, they haven't felt that separation from nature…
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Jonathan Birch: The Edge of Sentience
"I mean, organoids in general are very exciting replacements for animal research because you could model a kidney or a liver or a or a heart without taking…
Species UniteElizabeth MeLampy: Forget the Camel
"The basic premise of the event is that hunters hunt rattlesnakes from the surrounding environment all across West Texas, and bring them into the roundup for…
Species UniteTom Sciolla: Free the Animals
"When we arrived, we had no records, we had nothing. We had no documentation. And one of one of the first things that you have to actually prove to all of…
Species UniteAndrianna Natsoulas: Don't Cage Our Oceans
"That's taxpayer's money that is going to support research and development and pilot projects to develop a food system that is based on environmental…
Species UniteJeff Sebo: The Moral Circle
"It is a little bit terrifying, because it means that AI systems are going to be entering this uncanny valley where we are not sure how to experience them in…
Species UniteJohn Jurko: Rhino Man
"I think it's really the amounts of money that they're able to offer people paired with the violence that they're willing to put on people. It's very much like…
Species UniteJason Edwards: From Icebergs to Iguanas
"I know that one day for me in Antarctica, one morning for me in Antarctica is a dream for someone who will never get there. Because it's hard to get to. So, I…
Species UniteElla Driever and Sneha Sharma: The Timberline Pack
"We don't want Idaho to have a bad reputation. This is our home state. We love our home state. It's beautiful. We pride ourselves on our nature. We pride…
Species UniteCheryl Martinez: Veginner Cooking
"I know that veganism can be a little daunting for some, and they feel like it's either you go fully vegan or you're not allowed in the club." – Cheryl…
Species UnitePatti Truant Anderson: Polling and the Surprising Results Around What People Really Think About the Food System
Text "Do people even want to know about some of these issues? Because I think some of the meat production concerns, it's kind of like people would rather in…
Species UniteTom Philpott: The Human Cost of Meatpacking
"People in the animal welfare world, I think, should broaden their purview to the human parts of it and sort of work in coalition. Like if you can really…
Species UniteKeeve Nachman: A Masterclass in Persistence
"I remember during my training having professors tell me, 'one day you might do something important and you'll tick off a vested interest, and they're going to…
Species UniteBrent Kim: From Farm to Fork and Beyond
"My colleague and I went out to Arizona because there was a community that was concerned about the expansion of an egg laying operation, essentially in their…
Species UniteJG Collomb: Wildlife Conservation Network
"In the case of lions, they're not easy neighbors. They're also not the worst neighbors. I think in in most cases, it's a matter of learning how to live next…
Species UniteAidan Alexander and Thom Norman: The Animals That Need Our Help the Most
"I think there's a lot of people out there who feel the way I felt for many years, which is, 'look, I feel a bit guilty, I know in some sense that having the…
Species UnitePeter Lehner: Cows, Corn and Crap
"We may think that we're just eating our dinner tonight, but when you multiply it by all of that food every day, every day of the year, everyone in the…