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Species UniteNate Salpeter: On Goat-2-Meeting and the Future of Food
"We kept going through this logical exercise of how do we help more and more animals. And every single time the logical end point was - it's not dogs and cats…
Species UniteMilo Runkle: Widening Our Circle of Compassion
The only way to help animals is to help people. Its humans that need to change, not animals. And I think it's the same way when we're talking about other…
Species UniteCarl Safina: Becoming Wild
Beings who've succeeded on earth for millions of years, don't seek, and should not require, our approval. They belong as well as we do. We do ourselves no…
Species UniteBeverly and Derek Joubert: Project Ranger
The COVID-19 pandemic's ripple effects are broad; leaving virtually no industry, economy, or continent immune. As travel and tourism has been brought to a…
Species UniteAdam Sud: Plant Based Addict
"…I checked into rehab and within 72 hours I was diagnosed with type two diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, erectile dysfunction, bipolar…
Species UniteJasmine Leyva: The Invisible Vegan
"What's sad about it is… a lot of people think it's the norm… that's what I thought. Diabetes was something my grandmother had and my mom was pre-diabetic so I…
Species UniteJemma Bullock: Elephants in the Time of Coronavirus
When the pandemic first hit and tourism all over the world shut down, thousands of captive elephants across Asia went from being very much in demand to being…
Species UniteLauren Ornelas: Food is Power
Lauren Ornelas is the founder and the executive director of the Food Empowerment Project, a nonprofit food justice organization that spotlights the abuse of…
Species UniteMichael Pellman Rowland: Betting On Plant Based Meat
"There's no question that Beyond Meat IPO was a watershed event. You cannot overstate enough how big of a deal that was, because before then you had a…
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 UniteJosh Balk: How to Change America's Cruelest Industry
"The time to begin phasing out the intensive confinement systems in which we raise billions of animals is now. We need to accelerate society's direction of…
Species UniteRachel Nuwer: On Her Time Inside the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Rachel Nuwer has spent a decade writing about, reporting on, investigating, and going undercover in the illegal wildlife trade. She is a freelance journalist…
Species UniteAaron Gross: How To Change the Story Around How and What We Eat
We all have a food story; the story that we tell ourselves about what we eat and why we eat it. It's that story that runs the show when it comes to how we…
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Leah Garcés: The Next Pandemic Will Probably Come From A Factory Farm
"…This is not a surprise in many ways and, for decades, not just animal rights activists, but public health experts have been sounding the alarm bells about…
Species UniteRich Hardy: Not As Nature Intended
Rich Hardy is a former undercover investigator who spent two decades working in 28 countries, exposing animal cruelty of many of the worlds worst industries –…
Species UniteJustin Goodman: Taxpayer Funded Torture
Justin Goodman is the Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at White Coat Waste Project, a two and a half million member, taxpayer watchdog group that…
Species UnitePeter Knights: The Next Pandemic Is On It's Way, Unless We Shut Down Wildlife Markets
There's not much that we can be certain about in such uncertain times but there are a few things. One is that unless we change the way that that we treat…
Species UnitePei Su: COVID-19, The Wildlife Trade, and China
Today's episode was recorded on Wednesday April 15th as a live webinar conversation between Pei Su, the Executive Director and Co-founder of ACTAsia and…
Species UniteLori Gruen: Why Do We Treat Animals Like Animals?
"…but why do we treat animals like "animals"? We shouldn't be treating animals like animals, by which that means devalued under appreciated beings." – Lori…
Species UniteJoshua Katcher is Doing Fashion Better
When it comes to fashion and good design, Joshua Katcher, the man behind the sustainable luxury fashion label, Brave GentleMan, cares a lot about beauty; but…
Species UnitePei Su: The Pioneer
"As children, we learnt respect for our elders and for authority, we learnt etiquette too, but rarely was it suggested that we extend any feelings towards…
Species UniteTim Harrison: Lions, Tigers, and Bears… and Wolves, Pythons, Cougars, Alligators, and Sloths Living in America's Basements and Backyards
In neighborhoods all over the United States, there are homes with large predators, venomous snakes, and wild animals from every country on the planet. The…
Species UniteSharon Guynup: The United States Has A Tiger Problem
There is a tiger problem in the USA. There are more tigers in captivity in the US then exist in the wild. The number of American tigers lies somewhere between…
Species UniteAllison Argo: On Passion, Purpose, and the Wisdom of Following Your Heart
If you were to take a brief look into Allison Argo's life, you'd see the definition of what it means to follow your passion - written in large neon letters…
Species UniteJo-Anne McArthur: What We Can't Unsee
Jo-Anne McArthur is an award winning photojournalist and the founder of We Animals Media. For 20 years she has been photographing and bearing witness to our…
Species UniteNatasha Daly: Shedding Light on the Dark Reality of Wildlife Tourism
Natasha Daly is a writer and editor at National Geographic where she covers animal welfare, exploitation, and conservation. She wrote National Geographic's…
Species UniteBarbara King: Animals Grieve, Mourn, and Love
Many of us who have animals in our lives know that they experience emotion, we know because we've seen it. We've witnessed our dogs express joy when we walk…
Species UniteBeverly and Dereck Joubert: Are We Being the Best Version of Ourselves?
Are we being the best version of ourselves? That's a question that Beverly and Dereck Joubert asked quite often during this conversation and also one that they…
Species UniteShannon Keith: Hope for Thousands of Beagles Used in Laboratory Experiments
In the United States we still use millions of animals in laboratory experiments. It's a secretive industry and I think, many people are under the impression…
Species UniteKevin Schneider: The Battle for Legal Personhood for Elephants and Chimpanzees
Elephants, great apes, dolphins, and whales are incredibly complex, social, and intelligent creatures, but our legal system considers them to be "things,"…
Species UnitePatrick Battuello: American Horses are Racing to their Deaths
On Sunday, June 23rd the winter racing season at Santa Anita racetrack in Southern California finally came to a close. And on Saturday June 22nd the 30th horse…
Species UniteMike Wolf: Undercover in America's Factory Farms
Mike Wolf spent four years working undercover on factory farms. He has seen thousands of animals living in deplorable conditions and witnessed abuse that I…
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Delcianna Winders: Justice for Animals
Delcianna Winders is an animal law attorney, scholar, and professor. She has recently joined the Lewis and Clark Law School for Animal Studies where she will…
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Kathy Stevens: On Love, Hope, and a Vegan World
Kathy Stevens is the founder of the Catskill Animal Sanctuary, or CAS. It's based in upstate New York and she founded it in 2001 with a mission to rescue…
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Matt Rossell: His Time Inside The Hidden Worlds of Testing Labs, Circuses, and Fur
He has spent the past two decades fighting to create a better world for animals and it all started by accident. While he was in grad school in the 90s, he…
Species UniteChrissy Beckles: Golden Gloves Boxer in the Fight of her life: Saving the dogs of Puerto Rico
Chrissy Beckles is the founder of the Sato Project, an organization that has been fighting to save the dogs of Puerto Rico for close to a decade. They truly…
Species UniteSusan Wagner: Stop sending our horses to the slaughterhouse.
Susan Wagner is a hero to horses everywhere. She is the President and founder of Equine Advocates, a horse rescue in Chatham New York. They rescue horses from…
Species UniteDr. Andrew Halloran: On Ending the Nightmare for Chimpanzees
Dr. Andrew Halloran is the director of chimpanzee care at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida. Andrew has spent the past 20 years working to improve and…
Species UniteJan Creamer: Stop Circus Suffering
Jan Creamer is the president and co-founder of ADI, Animal Defenders International, an organization that has been around since the nineties when Jan and her…
Species UniteSuzanne Roy: Protecting America's Wild Horses Part 2
Suzanne Roy is the Executive Director of the American Wild Horse Campaign. an organization that has been fighting for years to save America's wild horses. If…
Species UniteEllie Phipps Price: Protecting America's Wild Horses
Ellie Phipps Price is the president of the American Wild Horse Campaign, an organization that has been fighting for years to save America's wild horses. If you…
Species UniteSarah Blaine: How to see an elephant
Sarah Blaine is the founder of the Mahouts Elephant Foundation, a project in northern Thailand and a model for what elephant tourism should and hopefully one…
Species UniteAnita Kranjc: How One Woman Started A Global Movement
Anita Kranjc is living proof that one person can create earth shattering impact, because that is exactly what she did when she made global headlines after…
Species UniteMarc Ching on his time inside Asia's dog slaughterhouses
Marc Ching has all of the makings of a superhero. He is the founder of the Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation, which is an organization that's dedicated to…