Shows / Species Unite
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Species UniteMark Elbroch: If We Want Mountain Lions the East, We'll Have to Bring Them
"Why do we need large carnivores? Obviously as a scientist, I like talk about the biological roles that they play and the ecological roles, but I will drift…
Species UniteRev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner: The Parrot Crisis
"And so I've been doing this for about 40 years, and I still don't get tired of seeing parrots. I see a parrot or I see a bird and I go, I belong. There is…
Species UniteSam Tucker: AI and the Future for Animals
"In terms of specialized AI within these industries. They're years and years ahead of where the animal movement currently is. Factory farms are increasingly…
Species UniteShannon Keith: Freedom Fields
"We enacted what's called the Beagle Freedom Project Bill. Basically, what it said was, if you're a facility that tests on dogs and cats, when the testing is…
Species UniteChimp Crazy: Angela Scott: The Whistleblower
"And the thing that really makes me sad is that we humanize them when they're little, by putting them in diapers and feeding them bottles and dressing them in…
Species UniteChimp Crazy: Brittany Peet: The Attorney
"I mean, it's an addiction, an obsession, a sickness that these people seem to have that they don't think that it could happen to them. And even when it does…
Species UniteKatherine Baxter: Elephants Don't Like Sunflowers
"So this relationship to ourselves, to other people, to other animals - whether farm animals or wild animals, it's very bizarre how we have gotten it so…
Species UniteEmma Hakansson: Collective Fashion Justice
"There are more native crocodiles living in cages and concrete pens that are owned by Hermes or supplying Louis Vuitton than live in their natural habitat. So…
Species UnitePete Paxton: Good People Who Do Bad Things
"I cannot put enough emphasis on this. I have seen so many things that are so weird that even when I would show it to law enforcement at first, before there…
Species UniteIngrid Newkirk: 75 Years of Badassery
"You asked what kind of army we are. Cleveland Amory once said it. He said, "the army of the kind." And that's it. If there's anything going on, we find it…
Species UniteVanessa Barboni Hallik: Another Tomorrow
"50% of clothing that gets created ends up in a landfill in the first year. When we're using way too much resource in the first place, the fact that half of…
Species UniteMelanie Challenger: Animals in the Room
"I think one of the reasons dignity matters to animals is that they are objectified. They are stripped of their agency very often, and they're also caught up…
Species UniteGene Grant: Scores of Chimpanzees Are Still Stuck in Labs
"Anybody with half a heart could understand that this is a very bad deal for these feeling beings. Waking up every day at the same place where these horrible…
Species UniteChloe Sorvino: Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat
"There was a farmer who I met. He had the craziest [story], but not crazy because it's happening everywhere. A hog horn rammed into him and he got a disease…
Species UniteNina Rao: Saving Wild Tigers
"We want to know that we're not separate from all beings - because most of our grief, our fear, our anger comes from feeling separate, not feeling connected…
Species UniteBill Wasik and Monica Murphy: Our Kindred Creatures
"I think that's often the solution when feeling sort of bogged down in the issues of our day is when you zoom out and you look at sort of the whole arc of…
Species UniteSuzanne Lee: BIOFABRICATE
"Wouldn't it be amazing if you went into Nike Town and the same pair of shoes or the same style [but]each pair was different because it had been grown and was…
Species UniteDr. Patricia Wright: For the Love of Lemurs
"He called me into his office and he said, 'you see that picture above my desk?' I said, 'yes.' It kind of looked like an animal that reminded me of a…
Species UniteDanielle Celermajer: Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future
"When those fires happened, it was about 8 o'clock in the morning. It goes completely black, so the sky is completely black. There's no light. The sound is…
Species UniteNicole Green: Better Science
"There's this hidden curriculum, right? With dissection you're supposed to be learning the anatomy, the physiology of a particular animal. But really, what…
Species UniteCarl Safina: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
"We live so disconnected from the natural world, and many people live much more disconnected than I am because I've made the natural world my life, my work…
Species UniteLisa Jones-Engel: STOP the Georgia Monkey Farm!
"One after another, citizens came up. And they just hammered that council with additional concerns. You know, one of the guys, his place is 500ft from there…
Species UniteFaraz Harsini: The Leaders of the Future
Dr. Faraz Harsini has been advocating for animal rights for over a decade. He is the CEO and founder of Allied Scholars for Animal Protection (ASAP), a…
Species UnitePoorva Joshipura: Survival at Stake
"…but what's happening lately is that mink on fur farms have been starting to be infected with H5n1 bird flu. So, the World Health Organization is worried that…
Species UniteMark Vins: Brave Wilderness
"The stonefish is the most toxic, venomous fish on the planet. The stonefish is one of the only fish stings that has been known to kill people. Now, I knew…
Species UniteDamien Mander: Akashinga: The Brave Ones
"You're seeing young men going to prison or getting buried in the ground because they're out there poaching rhinos. And, it just drove a bigger wedge between…
Species UniteCollette Adkins: They're Shooting Wolves from Helicopters in Idaho
"In Montana they allow using dogs to chase down wolves, which essentially becomes like state sanctioned dog fighting. You have this horrible scenario where the…
Species UniteBrett Matthews: Kate Farms
"In the US alone, there are 100 million people with prediabetes or diabetes, 33 million people with some kind of chronic or various stages of kidney disease…
Species UniteRebecca Cappelli: SLAY
"I was at a restaurant and the veil dropped in an instant. The curse broke and I could see for the first time. 'Oh, wow, I'm eating body parts.' And I turned…
Species UniteAaron Cohen: The Farm Bill, The EATS Act and What You Need to Know
"I call the act a poison pill, because really, what it is, is if it ever gets inserted into the farm bill or if it gets passed on its own, it prevents all of…
Species UniteDavid Rothenberg is an Interspecies Musician
"I really felt like I turned into a bird. The way I was playing was changed. Like I played the way nobody would play a clarinet unless they had spent weeks…
Species UniteAnnick Ireland: Immaculate Vegan
"Fashion is a really easy way to get in because it doesn't really involve any sacrifice, does it? I think for a lot of people, the thought of going vegan…
Species UniteGemunu de Silva: Save America's Horses from Slaughter
"Ultimately, this is a dumping ground. The industry is not going to be spending money on horses that are going to be killed for human consumption, so…
Species UniteMonica Engebretson: Why Does the US Still Test on Animals for Cosmetics, Even Though 44 Other Countries Have Banned It?
"When we do polls on this, we've got all political parties high support for ending cosmetics animal testing, from Republicans, Independents, Democrats - age…
Species UniteAlexis Gauthier: The Michelin Starred French Chef Who Turned Vegan
"I understand that when you have been [going to] a restaurant for many years, for some customers, it's normal to think that somehow you own it a little bit…
Species UniteEllie Laks: The Gentle Barn
"The truth is that in between all of those wonderful events was huge debt, maxing out 20 different credit cards and absolutely annihilating my credit, moving…
Species UniteDr. Christopher Servheen: Anti-Predator Polices Based on Bar Room Biology and Fear are Coming for the Grizzly Bears
"I think the thing revolves around the control of nature. You know, I mean, you get way back to that. Some people are really uncomfortable around nature…
Species UniteGalina Hale: The Most Rational Vegan
"…people say, okay, recycle, and then somebody sees you throwing out a little candy wrapper. Nobody's going to point at you say, 'Huh, I saw you threw away a…
Species UniteJoey Pringle is Betting on Animal Free Leather
"We're already starting to see this happening, like there's a leather tannery in Vietnam called Isa TanTeck, where leather runs through the blood. That's what…
Species UniteJessica Kruger: Her Whole Life Changed Because Her Mom Went to Farm Sanctuary
"And it's true that as much as online makes things much more accessible in so many ways, sometimes it's the feeling and seeing that actually really gets people…
Species UniteDavid Meyer is Removing Animals from Our Food System (and he's a Nine Time World Champion of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)
"We're the first species that has enough mixture of intelligence and capabilities to actually screw it all up. That is our distinction. You know, there's a lot…
Species UniteKaren Davis: This Conversation Will Change How You See Chickens
"Chickens have full color spectrum vision. That means they see the entire spectrum of colors from the infrared to the ultraviolet. The reason that roosters…
Species UniteVicki von Holzhausen: Liquidplant
"Somebody told me, when I was a young designer at Mercedes, they said, 'well, it takes like... 20 cows to upholster this sedan.' …Clearly people believe that…
Species UniteCatalina Lopez: Octopus Factory Farming is Set to Begin
Catalina Lopez is the director of the Aquatic Animal Alliance at the Aquatic Life Institute. They're a nonprofit focused on improving the lives of aquatic…
Species UniteMarielle Williamson is Suing Her School District and The US Department of Agriculture
"Despite all the information that we see promoting dairy [in school], you cannot promote plant-based milk unless you also promote dairy even more. It just goes…
Species UniteRose Patterson: Animal Rising
Rose Patterson is part of Animal Rising, the animal activist movement that's disrupting animal exploitation all over the UK. Animal Rising used to be called…
Species UniteKartick Satyanarayan: The Bear Man of India
"Right from the beginning I think I was infected with this disease. It's a very, very contagious disease of not knowing how to say no to an animal in distress…
Species UniteElizabeth Baker: Organs on a Chip, Reconstructed Human Epidermis, Human Simulators and other Highly Effective and Seriously Ethical Methods to Replace Animals in Research and Experimentation
"I think we are at the point where so many of these methods have shown in studies to be more predictive for humans that it really is an issue of human health…
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Daniel Kaul: The Brutal Life Cycle of Captive Lions
"We don't know one case where a lion which was hand fed or bottle fed was released successfully in the wild. Of course, if they see humans and they understand…
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Peter Singer: Animal Liberation NOW
"I think to some extent it shows that we don't want to have knowledge that will make us uncomfortable or make us feel that we're doing something wrong. And I…
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Alka Chandna: Comparing Hells
"It's like comparing hells - it's a different type of hell, right? It's just like one hideous place where you're neglected and you have all manner of suffering…
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Natalie Deana: Bad Girls Who Do Good Things
"We'd never worked in this industry. We'd not got any prior experience in fashion ourselves. But we thought, how hard could it be? Famous last words. How hard…
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Verde Camilla Parmigiani: Vegan Hospitality
"It's very disappointing when I see these menus that are from starter to main courses, all animal proteins… How can you not have like 30% of the menu be plant…
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Feeding Tomorrow: The Future of Meat
"So, if you listen to the experts, we're to be raising dramatically more animals for food in the future. The only way around that, I think, is through…
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Lisa Jones-Engel: 1000 Monkeys
"What I did not expect to see from farmed monkeys being bought and transported into the US, were monkeys who were coming in with things like Ebola like…
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Hanne Strager: The Killer Whale Journals
"I also heard the sounds of killer whales. They were calling to each other loud and clear. these melodious whistles and calls which went right into my ear…
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Mark Elbroch: The Secret Lives of Mountain Lions
"Our cultures are built around stories, right? We connect through stories, we learn through stories and stories are often stronger when they have characters…
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Parneet Pal: The Human Animal
"Our bodies have co-evolved over millennia with the help of all these other beautiful animal species, with the millions of species of bacteria, fungi, and…
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Animal Rights Legend: Ronnie Lee
"And then instead of heroes, we started being referred to as terrorists. But that made no difference to us. I mean, we kind of carried on regardless, and we…
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Christie Lagally: The Game Changer
There's a fundamental mismatch between how we make plant-based meat and the facilities that are making it. When you're using the wrong tool, when you're trying…