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Laura Lee Cascada: The Only US Octopus Farm has been Temporarily Shut Down
"But what the tour guide told us, was that eventually, as they grew, they now have their own octopus catchers. They called them the octopus whisperers, and…
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Rachel Fobar: Why is the USDA in Charge of Enforcing the Animal Welfare Act? And Why Won't They Enforce It?
"It's almost like the Animal Welfare Act is like a safety, a security blanket, because it's like, 'Oh, we have the Animal Welfare Act to protect the animals…
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Meena Alagappan: Teach Heart
"There was a law on the books [in New York], even back in 1917, that required that every publicly funded elementary school needs to provide instruction in the…
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Paul Joslin: Raised By Wolves
"I have often asked myself, 'why is it that wolves don't kill people?' Every year there are records of lions, tigers, bears and other large carnivores killing…
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Chris Wlach: The Limits of the Law and the Places Where He Finds Hope
"I give a presentation to law students on animal law every now and then, and I tell them I can teach you everything you need to know about federal animal…
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Eric Kleiman: Trafficked Monkeys, the Envigo Beagles and the Many Abject Failures of the USDA
"There is this long history, and what's important about history is history informs the present. History shows this is how we got here. Fred Colston was like a…
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Leif Cocks: The Plight of Orangutans and the Fight for the Last Scraps of the Rainforest
"If you really do understand science and persons - such as humans and orangutans, you must realize that that love is certainly not unscientific thing to give."…
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Dr. Katherine Roe: Harvard's House of Horrors
"These animals are being held captive in a laboratory. They have none of what they need for their own physical and mental well-being. And there is an enormous…
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Tanya O'Callaghan: The Plant-based Bassist
"So then, you know, you have the Twisted Sister crew doing yoga and eating kale salad. it's so good. Like, now I'm literally known as the plant-based bassist."…
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Rebecca Mink: The Pioneer
"I said, 'let's go on Zappos and look up Zappos and vegan.' And so I searched it… and I said, 'let's see what you get when you search that.' And they had…
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Prabhat Sinha: The Wolf God is Watching You
"There are written documents that talk about how the same wolf follows a flock of sheep for 300 miles and they come back again with that flock of sheep. And…
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Dr. K. Ullas Karanth: Among Tigers
"India has done more than any other country for recovering its tigers. Nobody can deny that. But still, we could do so much more than being satisfied with what…
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Albert Tseng: Plant-Based China
"The resource allocation of global attention on China is not commiserate with the size and scale of the problem that China represents." Albert Tseng Albert…
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Dr. Krithi Karanth: Rewilding India
"One of the things that we've noticed is when these animals repeatedly show up, that's when people really get frustrated, up to a point where they may leave…
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Dr. Heather Rally: Superhero by Day
"We sat down and we ordered omakase, which is essentially the chef's specialties, and they just keep bringing food out until you say I'm done. So we ate and…
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Claudia Pievani: Fashion Without Victims
"We talk very badly nowadays about fashion, right? Because of the environmental impact and so on. But at the same time, there is also value in fashion. If not…
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Josh Whiton: Make Soil
"And I'm just having this urban, agrarian, techie renaissance thing with my hipster neighbors and it's just so rich. And I think to myself, 'wow, we've have to…
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Stephanie Downs: Revolutionizing the Leather Industry
"One day I was leaving the animal shelter and I would always go and have lunch at this restaurant down the street and I'd get this pork barbecue sandwich. I…
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Devan Schowe: Captivity Sucks
"The pets tend to be the most behaviorally disturbed, I would say. They have the hardest transition most of the time into kind of sanctuary life, because with…
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Lori Gruen and Alice Crary: Animal Crisis
"We have to look at those structures. If we don't look at those structures, if we don't look at the economic structures and we don't look at the…
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Dr. Hope Ferdowsian and Dr. Syd Johnson: Primates and Medical Research A Matter of Convenience, Not Sound Science
"We have this this sort of human exceptionalism or human supremacy that that is used as the kind of baseline foundational justification for exploiting animals…
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Keith Cooper: The Stingray Whisperer
"The number one thing is to respect us as a country and a lot of people are not - people who feel privileged in their life, they own a very nice yacht, they…
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Roy Afflerbach, Jo-Anne Basile, Roland Halpern and Allie Taylor: A Better Future for Animals
"If a bill has been passed in another state, then you know who the opposition was, you know who the supporters were. And it really helps grease the skids for…
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Allie Feldman Taylor: Voters for Animal Rights
"We didn't do any type of advertising. We didn't do any press around it. We just did what we do well, we quietly lobbied the city council and worked until we…
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David Yeung: Omni Presence
"The planet is sustaining way more than just 8 billion human beings because we are consuming second-hand protein. We could have just directly, you know, eat…
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Katie Cantrell: Greener by Default
"If you saw a celiac bowl on a menu, you would never order that unless you have celiac disease and you're gluten free. But if you see a Thai peanut rice noodle…
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Sydney Gladman and Ranjani Theregowda: Next-Gen Materials
"We need to move away from animal derived materials, but we also need to move away from petroleum based traditional materials. So what is out there, what can…
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Ingrid Newkirk: Free the Animals
"The fear factor is probably one of the worst. I mean, if you've ever been deeply afraid, or had a near accident or had somebody pursuing you, if you've ever…
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Drew Pendergrass: Half Earth Socialism
"Animal agriculture can be gone tomorrow. it's not foundational. That's why I find it very puzzling, the amount of pushback because it seems to be the actual……
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Suzanne Asha Stone: Coexistence
"We are fed things like Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs and, you know, we grow up on this stuff, that the wolf is the big, bad character. And…
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Tina Bhojwani: They Don't Look Vegan
"The idea is that we take and take and take from the planet. And we've been taking and there's all this talk about how can we get to neutral? And our company…
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Gordon Meade: Zoospeak
Brown Bear, Germany, 2008 I'm aware of what you are and I'm also aware of what you're thinking. You're a human being I'm aware of what you are and I'm also…
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Yaakov Koby Nahmias: Future Meat
"You see, most of the people in the cultured meat world are usually either biologists that are excited about the biology or physicians that work with stem…
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Gemunu de Silva: Vampire Blood Farms
"I mean this is the crazy thing about it, in 35 years of doing animal protection investigations I didn't know this existed. It wasn't even a thing, because it…
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Jo-Anne McArthur: What We Can't Un-See
Species Unite will be back next week, June 2nd, with a brand new season. Until then, we are re-sharing some of our favorite episodes. Today's is a conversation…
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Lori Marino: Intelligent Life On Earth
Species Unite will be back on June 2nd with a brand new season. Until then, we are re-sharing some of our favorite episodes. This week's is a conversation with…
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Aaron Gross: How To Change The Story Around How And What We Eat
Species Unite will be back on June 2nd with a new season. Until then, we are re-sharing some of our favorite episodes. This week's is a conversation with Aaron…
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Melanie Joy: Why We (Still) Love Dogs, Eat Pigs And, Wear Cows
Species Unite will return in a few weeks with Season 8. Until then, we are re-sharing some of our favorite episodes. Today's is a conversation with Melanie…
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Warren Ellis: Ellis Park
"It's funny because with art, with literature, with music, we are all connected. It's emotion. You know, like if I say, "have you read this or that," or… "do…
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Damien Mander: How to be a Superhero
Damien Mander is the founder and CEO of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF). He is a former Australian Royal Navy clearance diver and a special…
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Maggie Howell: Relist Wolves
"This is their second chance. They were rendered extinct in the wild. And so now this is our second chance to get it right. We killed them off and hopefully…
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Carter Niemeyer: Wolfer
"Packs that are continuously trapped and snared and hunted, the packs are smaller and things are a lot more chaotic in the pack because you're killing uncle…
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Jim and Jamie Dutcher: Living with Wolves
"The alpha female dug a den and had puppies. And we got there as they were squealing in the pack. And what was just amazing is to see how the pack reacted to…
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Alexandra Horowitz: The World According To Your Dog
Today we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Alexandra Horowitz. "I can drive my car off a cliff and just leave it where it lay…
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C.J. Dirago: Song Dogs
"Let's say I own a gun shop, and I want to drum up business, right? I can host a coyote killing contest, which they'll call predator hunting, where cash prizes…
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Shely Aronov: Google Translate for Plants
"Our entire food supply is completely dependent on chemicals and completely dependent on four to eight companies around the world to produce all these…
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Kym Canter: House of Fluff
"I put on the coat, I looked at myself in the mirror, I was going to a party in Brooklyn and I just thought, 'you cannot go to this party like this, you will…
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Jonathan Balcombe: What A Fish Knows
This week we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Jonathan Balcombe. "…gazing up to the night sky saying, 'are we alone?' …well…
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Chef GW Chew: Something Better
"We make everything from a vegan rib, so we got a rib that'll blow your mind. Looks like a rib, tastes like a rib, but guess what? It ain't a rib… it can go on…
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David Benzaquen: Mission Plant
"One percent of the U.S. is vegan, about five percent is vegetarian… And so if I'm thinking about where can I make the most money, it's not going after the…
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Barbara King Makes Us Care
" As we were driving from Jackson, Wyoming, towards the entrance of the park, I was in the passenger seat, Charlie was driving and I saw a bison and I'll never…
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Helena Husseini: Like It's Going To Be The Last Day
Today we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Helena Husseini. I usually live day by day. I always live every day like it's going…
Species UniteRich Hardy: No Blood, No Bones, No Sh*t
Rich Hardy is a former undercover investigator. He spent 20 years doing over 100 assignments in 30 countries. He's been on the podcast before to talk about his…
Species UniteSteven Wise: The Most Important Animal-Rights Case of the 21st Century
"The reason that you should accept our client as having rights is because we're showing what an extraordinary being she is. These beings have mirror…
Species UniteAdam Weiss: Vegan 2.0
"Vegan 1.0 Didn't get us where we needed to go. It didn't turn enough of the country on, it didn't turn enough young people on, didn't make it into… the…
Species UniteSarah Kite: We Can Do Better Than This
"Historically some of the leading airlines in the world were responsible for transporting these monkeys. So, you had national flag carrier airlines, such as…
Species UniteOlivia Swaak-Goldman: Taking Down the King Pins of Wildlife Trafficking
"It's really about bringing the skills and the tools and the techniques that we've already developed and addressing other forms of transnational or…
Species UniteSonalie Figueiras: Green Queen
"I think we we've prioritized certain things in education and in culture, but we're really deprioritizing curiosity. The joy of going into a research hole and…
Species UniteNatalie Rubio is the First Person in the World to Complete a PhD in Cellular Agriculture
"… a lot of the platform technologies do not make sense from a food perspective, and there's just never been a reason to do things a different way. So, for…
Species UniteCasey Dworkin: Apple Leather Boots
"When you talk to the vegan community, you know, it's people who know exactly why they should or shouldn't purchase something. But being able to reach people…