HeyJaredFreedom of Species
Animal advocacy on the airwaves, hosted by a team of local animal advocates.
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Somebody Should Do Something: How to help create social change for the animals and environment (opens the original)
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Lottie and Hayden discussed how anyone, yes even YOU, can help create social change for important issues like animal justice and the climate. They drew from the book 'Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change' by Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and Daniel Kelly, which argues that rather than either/or, both individual and systemic actions are needed to create lasting, positive changes. And in fact they feed each other in a constant feedback loop. A key example is reco
Animal Agriculture as a tool of Colonisation (opens the original)
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In modern times, over one third of the Earth’s ice-free land is dedicated to animal agriculture, but it was a centuries long journey to transform our diverse world into one big paddock. The British wool industry played a pivotal role in building the wealth of England leading up to the colonial period and the transition from feudalism to capitalism. In cases such as the Scottish Highland clearances, the Irish great famine and the British colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, Indigenous peopl
The ethics of reproducing and adopting children and non-human animals (opens the original)
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Today Lottie discussed the ethics of human and non-human animal reproduction and adoption. She argues that adopting pets reduces harm and saves lives. But adopting children is not a perfect analogue and removing children from their families and communities often causes a lot of trauma. She argues that an ethics of adoption that is consistent across species would center what is best for the animal or child, not treat them as commodities to profit from, and would keep existing families together wh
Being Viewed as a Piece of Meat: Feminism and Animal Liberation with Cassie Pedersen and Stephen Burrell (opens the original)
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Nick is joined by criminologists Cassie Pedersen and Stephen Burrell to discuss gender and animals. Some more specific topics we cover are: petromasculinity and intersections between gender and the environment, veganism as a feminist practice but also the way some vegans attempt to distance themselves from emotion/femininity, and representations of gender in the documentary Game Changers. Links: You can hear Cassie and Stephen discussing masculinity and caring for nature on Stephen’s podcast Now
Everybody wants to be a vegan cat (opens the original)
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Today Hayden and Lottie discussed the ins and outs of caring for a rescued, indoor, vegan cat. This episode is in honour of our beautiful cat Ceci! We outlined reasons to try switching your cat to a vegan diet and discussed ways to do that safely. More info can be found below: Sustainable Pet Food: https://sustainablepetfood.info (especially 'FAQs' and 'Vegetarian Feline Diets'.) Their 'Sustainability' page also shows that feeding your cat or dog a diet of animal flesh has a large environmental
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