With Mel Broughton - SPEAK UP AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING - Anniversary Episode 26
Release Date: 02/04/2021
With Aiyana Goodfellow - REJECTING PETHOOD AND EMBRACING OUR MULTISPECIES WORLD - Episode 38
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We explore Aiyana's evolution from mainstream vegan activism to their creative projects centring anti-speciesism and collective liberation. Aiyana guides us through some of the concepts and language from her recently published book. In ‘Radical Companionship: Rejecting Pethood & Embracing Our Multispecies World’, Aiyana offers a theory and praxis of how we can develop more respectful relationships with others through an anti-speciesist lens, with particular focus on individuals he terms as 'colonised into pethood'.
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With Dr Corey Lee Wrenn - A RATIONAL AND RADICAL APPROACH TO ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISM - Episode 37
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Corey shares her research on the professionalisation of animal rights organisations and how this is detrimental to a radical abolitionist message.
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With Michelle Schwegmann - ETHICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS ACTIVISM - Episode 36
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Michelle shares how a passion to spread the animal rights message led her and husband Josh to found Herbivore Clothing and more recently to co-create the cook book 'Eat Like You Give A Damn'.
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With Marc Bekoff - NURTURING RESPECTFUL RELATIONS WITH OTHER ANIMALS - Episode 35
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Exploring how scientific findings on other animal cognition and behaviour can inform our advocacy in the animal liberation movement.
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With Carol J Adams - ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON DISMANTLING ANIMAL OPPRESSION PART 2 - Episode 34
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We discuss the claims that the movement is becoming too human-centred with its focus on diet, health and human experiences of oppression.
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With Carol J Adams - ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON DISMANTLING ANIMAL OPPRESSION PART 1 - Episode 33
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Carol discusses some of the themes of her revolutionary book, The Sexual Politics of Meat, including the inextricable link between misogyny and speciesism. We explore how understanding masculinity and meat, feminised protein and the function of the 'absent referent', is essential to dismantling these interconnected oppressions.
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With pattrice jones - CARE, CONTEXT & INTERCONNECTIONS IN THE PURSUIT OF ANIMAL LIBERATION - Episode 32
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pattrice shares her journey from her early activism in the LGBTQ+ movement to co-founding VINE Sanctuary.
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With Lynda M Korimboccus - THE PEPPA PIG PARADOX - CONFRONTING SOCIALISED SPECIESISM - Episode 31
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Exploring Lynda's recent paper, The Peppa Pig Paradox, and how children are socialised into loving other animals whilst learning to normalise their use and consumption.
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With Kristof Dhont - WHY WE LOVE AND EXPLOIT OTHER ANIMALS - Episode 30
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We hear about Kristof's research into the psychology of human-animal relations and how Social Dominance Orientation and Right Wing Authoritarianism influence oppressive behaviours, including speciesism.
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With Mylan Engel Jr - MAKING ETHICAL CONNECTIONS FOR ANIMAL JUSTICE - Episode 29
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Mylan shares his journey from an upbringing in a family of hunters and pig farmers to ethical vegan.
info_outlineMarking the podcast's anniversary with a subject that was my, and my guest's, entry into the Animal Rights movement.
Mel Broughton has been at the heart of campaigning for the abolition of animal testing for 4 decades. This dedication has not come without a price. Mel has served time both in prison and on license, living under severe restrictions, for his part in some of those campaigns. This year marks the seventeenth anniversary of SPEAK, founded by Mel to be a voice for the animals who are held captive and hidden away in laboratories. SPEAK have since had a consistent, weekly presence outside the Oxford laboratory.
Anti-vivisection used to be a corner-stone of the Animal Rights movement, and yet in more recent years has become all but invisible. This is something that concerns both Mel and me, as well as many other activists.
In this podcast, we explore a little of the history of the anti-vivisection movement and how it became the catalyst for the burgeoning radical Animal Rights movement, how it got left by the wayside after the hard hitting campaigns of the 80s & 90s, the positive drive for change within the scientific community, and what the AR movement can do to send a clear, strong message against animal testing.
CW brief references to the distressing violations that other animals endure in laboratories.