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Species UniteMonica Chen: Teaching Your Children Well
"So, you really want the kids to drink the cow's milk because that's the liquid that's available to them if they're thirsty. And we were also told that yeah…
Species UniteGemunu de Silva: The Power of Undercover Investigations
"Within a month of our investigation's release, we had some amazing news. The French government passed legislation to ban fur farms in France. In 2017, it was…
Species UniteAmy Jones and Paul Healy: Moving Animals
"I think every time we release a story, there's this sense of like almost like legal danger, the legal implications that can come from releasing stories. We've…
Species UniteJane Velez-Mitchell: Jane UnChained
Jane Velez Mitchell the founder of Jane Unchained, a media platform for vegan and animal rights news. Her decades long career as a broadcast journalist has…
Species UniteJenny Desmond: Chimpanzees Forever
"We didn't want to start a Chimp sanctuary. I mean, it's the most extreme really… they're the most, at least in my mind, they're just so socially complex and…
Species UniteJosh Balk: How To Change America's Cruelest Industry
Species Unite will be back with a brand new season next Thursday the 28th. Until then, we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Josh…
Species UniteLiza Heavener: The Game Changer
Species Unite will be back with a brand new season on October 28th. For now, we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Liza Heavener…
Species UniteMilo Runkle: Widening The Circle Of Compassion
Species Unite will be back with a brand new season on October 28th. Today, we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Milo Runkle. The…
Species UniteToni Okamoto: Plant-Based on a Budget
"My family was really suffering from all types of diet related health issues. I had an aunt who had multiple amputations before it took her life because of…
Species UniteErik Molvar: America's War on Wolves
"Let me tell you, there were no bounties when wildlife management became a discipline and it's never been a part of wildlife management, but, but these are the…
Species UniteShannon Falconer: Lab Grown Mouse Cookies For Your Cat
"So, the irony is that meat that people are so obsessed about their cat needing… Yeah, in the wild cats needs meat because in the wild, that meat is a source…
Species UniteIsha Datar: Cellular Agriculture will Disrupt Everything it Touches
"…because animal advocacy has now escaped advocacy and is entering different types of work, really science-oriented work… maybe that was all it took in the…
Species UniteUnderwater Photography Legend Brian Skerry
"…based on my personal experience and having worked with scientists and researchers most of my life, I would say that it's not too late. There are some things…
Species UniteCarl Safina: Becoming Wild
This week we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes - a conversation with Carl Safina about beauty, wonder and why animals matter. "Beings who've…
Species UniteJamal Galves: Manatee Man
"It made me feel like I wished that I had some sort of a super power, so that I could just picked them up and take them somewhere safe. But unfortunately, I'm…
Species UnitePaul Shapiro: Better Meat
"It's kind of like light… you flick a light switch on in the room and when you flip that switch, what you want is the experience of a lit room. You're not…
Species UniteBeverly And Dereck Joubert: Are We Being The Best Version Of Ourselves?
Tuesday, August 10th is World Lion Day, so we are re-sharing this conversation with Beverly and Derek Joubert. "When we were born, there were 450,000 lions…
Species UniteErik Molvar: The American Wild Horse Crisis
"It is not hyperbole to say that livestock grazing on Western public lands is the single biggest and most important environmental impact that does the most…
Species UniteNina Jackel: Lady Freethinker
"You can't get to a point where you're so sensitive that you don't call out cruelty and torture when you see it, whether it's to a human being or to the planet…
Species UniteJustin Barker: Bear Boy
"And then a letter arrived in the mail. It was from a woman who had heard about my work to help zoo animals. She said, 'there's these two bears living in a…
Species UniteDamien Mander: How to be a Superhero
"So, we had 87 women come in for what we call pre-selection, the interviews... And I can say that after all the shit that I've been through in my life, that…
Species UniteEric Adams: Planted Not Buried
Planted. Not Buried. That is how Eric Adams has chosen to see himself through the darkest moments of his life. The first occurred at age 15, when he and his…
Species UniteMax Rye: The End of Dairy
"…by the way, today, there might be an ick factor associated with it, but there might come a day that people will wonder, why are we drinking other species…
Species UniteEdwina Von Gal: For the Birds
Edwina Von Gal is a landscape designer and an indomitable steward of the planet. She spent her career designing landscapes for the rich and famous and…
Species UniteDerek Sarno: Wicked Healthy
Derek Sarno is a chef and a rockstar in the vegan world and he's on a mission to inspire you to cook and eat more plants. He's the Director of Plant-Based…
Species UniteMichael Pellman Rowland: The Oatly IPO, The Magic of Mushrooms, and The Future of the Protein Market Place
"If we fast forward, let's say to 2025, I think you're going to see a lot of companies in the marketplace using mushroom-based products to create alternatives…
Species UniteSharon Guynup: Where Are They Now? The Fallen Stars of Tiger King
"During the time he was on the run, Stark did this Facebook live where he railed against the judges, officials, animal rights, activists. He claimed that…
Species UniteMichael Selden: Making Fish Without the Fish
"There isn't going to be chicken farming on the moon or on Mars, but there could be cellular agriculture. And, so if people are going to eat meat in space…
Species UniteAlexandra Horowitz: The World According to Your Dog
"I can drive my car off a cliff and just leave it where it lay, the most I'll get is a littering fine, and if you throw your dog off the cliff the punishment…
Species UniteJo Anderson: How to Create Real Change
"…there's this disconnect between our beliefs and our behavior and part of what can be useful for overcoming that is to change the behavior first, which sounds…
Species UniteMichelle Egger: Human Breast Milk Made in a Lab
"We see 84% of moms in the U S convert to infant formula partially or entirely in that first six months of life before the recommended period of exclusive…
Species UniteJonathan Balcombe: What A Fish Knows
"…gazing up to the night sky saying, 'are we alone?' …well, wait a minute, look around, there's tons of fascinating life forms. We're so lucky to have all this…
Species UniteHakeem Jimo: Veggie Victory
"A friend of mine in Germany is called Dr. Tofu. He was the first who did tofu on a commercial scale, in the eighties. They arrested him… for cooking something…
Species UniteCarrie Packwood Freeman How We Talk About Animals
"We're all just participating in a culture that really isn't of our choice… we just grew up in this culture, but we can start questioning things and just not…
Species UniteEloísa Trinidad and Power Malu: Overthrow Community Fridge
We're creating a new system. When you look at it in that way, that's activism in itself. And that's actually fighting against a system that has billions of…
Species UniteUma Valeti: The Man Who Will Change the World
"I was doing really well in cardiology. I loved my role. I loved the work I was doing. I'd say except for two or three people, everybody said, 'this is crazy…
Species UniteJim Greenbaum: Giving it All Away
"I sat down, did some number questing and said, okay, 85% is going to be given away during my lifetime and the rest of thereafter. I sleep much better at…
Species UniteHelena Husseini: Like it's Going to be the Last Day
"I usually live day by day. I always live every day like it's going to be the last day. We learned that during the war. We don't know when we're going to die…
Species UniteJill Robinson: Ending One of the Darkest Trades on Earth
"…I just remember walking around this room in total shock and then backing into a cage and feeling something touch my shoulder and realizing, 'Oh my gosh, you…
Species UniteBernat Añaños: Foods For Tomorrow
"…people were treating us like two crazy guys from Spain that were trying to change something in a country that loves meat... And now we see in these…
Species UniteKim and Frohman Anderson: Plant Powered Family
"… it was quite a big change… when I was growing up, I even used to like hunt and fish, to be honest. I mean, that was part of our family tradition through…
Species UniteJennifer Stojkovic: Vegan Women Rule
"We're not even talking about the barriers of having a plant-based company. There are still so many countries that they don't even support plant-based…
Species UniteChris Kerr: The Godfather of Vegan Venture Capital
"We spent 50 years fighting industry and I mean, fighting industry. And we were poking a bear and poking a bear and poking a bear. And then one day that bear…
Species UniteLeah Garcés and Michael Pellman Rowland: Transfarmation
"There's $5 billion of debt collectively from contract chicken farmers. It's enormous. You're just treading water. You're just paying the bills and it starts…
Species UniteDaniel Fox: Feel the Wild
"Scientists have made this study and experiment… people would actually feel bad for the butterfly because now it's ready to come out of its cocoon, so they…
Species UniteThomas King: Plant-based Wunderkind
"…From everything that I'd learned and from everything that I'd seen, I came to realize that our food and how we produce it, particularly products of…
Species UniteAryenish Birdie: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Animal Protection
"I think that when the animal protection movement really started gaining hold in the seventies... in the United States at least, I think there was a lot of…
Species UniteDamien Mander: The Anti-Poaching Crusader
"Even the first morning we saw a toughness, a certain toughness that I hadn't been experienced to. What we didn't realize with selection criteria that we're…
Species UniteNicole Rawling: Lab Grown Animal Leather is Happening
Nicole Rawling is the co-founder and executive director of the Material Innovation Initiative (MII), a game-changing non-profit that is helping to remove and…
Species UniteKelly Guerin: Love Begets Love
"… we are trying to make something watchable that is just unwatchable. I don't want to be here and I don't want to see this. And every part of me wants to turn…
Species UniteLori Marino: Intelligent Life on Earth
"In a natural setting, these animals would be swimming maybe a hundred miles a day, diving deep. They have their social lives, their social networks, roles to…
Species UniteAmanda Hearst: A Better World for All Beings
"Because we're told of so many problems and issues around the world, we get overwhelmed. And if you tell someone, okay, this is what's going on and this is…
Species UniteMelanie Joy: Why We (Still) Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows
"The core of this problem in the world in many ways. is the consciousness that we bring to the world. When we think of others in the world or ourselves as…
Species UniteDan Mathews: Like Crazy
"When I moved my mom in, I certainly felt, okay, now I'm off the market. I've got a broken-down house, a crazy mother, a high-pressure job being a vegan…
Species UniteRyan Bethencourt: This is the Future of Dog Food
"…when I say people had no idea, these were investors, right? These were people who thought they had a crystal ball on the future. And I was like, look, our…
Species UniteJames Arbib: Rethinking Humanity
We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of human civilization in history, a transformation every bit as significant as…
Species UniteApril Tam Smith: Radical Generosity
…not everyone can afford to donate a certain percentage of their money, not everyone can afford to volunteer their time because they're working so much. If you…
Species UniteLiza Heavener: The Game Changer
There would be some mornings that the indigenous tribal leaders would take us out into virgin rainforest… [I was] like, "no human has ever stood here before."…
Species UniteGemunu de Silva: The Quiet Man Speaks
"Bearing witness is difficult. It does hit your emotions... I think you've got to remember, these images that you take are not yours to keep… it's your duty to…
Species UniteMichael Pellman Rowland: The Next Big Plant Based IPO
What's allowed the Beyonds and Impossibles and JUSTs of the world to do what they're doing was not subsidies, it was investment that they put into science and…