Podcasts about farmed animals

If Meat Is Cruel, So Is Dairy... The Hidden Truth for Vegetarians Many vegetarians adopt their diet out of a desire to reduce animal suffering, driven by a belief that animals should not be killed for food. Ethical vegetarians recognize that animals have a right to live free from harm and exploitation, which makes the decision to avoid meat a natural extension of this belief. However, dairy is often overlooked. Because dairy cows aren't killed for their milk right away, some believe that this makes dairy more acceptable. But when we look deeper, we find that dairy is built on the same exploitation and violence as the meat industry. Listen to today's episode for details. Written by Juliane Priesemeister, Dairy-Truth.com posted at All-Creatures.org. #vegan #Plantbased #plantbasedbriefing #vegetarian #animalcruelty #ethicalvegetarian #ethicalvegan #dairy #ditchdairy   ======================== Original post: https://all-creatures.org/mdi2/mdi2-hidden-truth-vegetarians.html  Related Episodes: 304: Next in Line: The Emotional Trauma We Inflict on Farmed Animals. https://plantbasedbriefing.libsyn.com/304-next-in-line-the-emotional-trauma-we-inflict-on-farmed-animals-by-amy-jones-at-sentientmediacom-and-posted-at-all-creaturesorg  69: Do Chickens Mind Seeing Other Chickens Traumatized in Their Presence? https://plantbasedbriefing.libsyn.com/69-do-chickens-mind-seeing-other-chickens-traumatized-in-their-presence ======================== What to Eat When You Don't Eat Animals (FREE GUIDE): https://www.all-creatures.org/what-to-eat.html     All-Creatures is a non-profit dedicated to cruelty-free living through a vegan lifestyle according to Judeo-Christian ethics. Their website is filled with vegan resources relating to animal issues, including bible studies, how to stop cruelty in churches, blogs, quotes and poetry, and lots of great resources for animal rights activism as well. ======================= FOLLOW THE SHOW ON: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@plantbasedbriefing     Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GONW0q2EDJMzqhuwuxdCF?si=2a20c247461d4ad7 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plant-based-briefing/id1562925866 Your podcast app of choice: https://pod.link/1562925866 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/plant-based-briefing/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plantbasedbriefing/     

The Final Ride: Horrifying Truths about Farmed Animal Transport.  One of the most horrendous parts of animals' lives on farms occurs just before they are killed. It's the suffering they face on the transportation trucks that haul them to slaughter.  Listen to today's episode for details. Written by Chelsea Pinkham at Animal Place Sanctuary, posted at All-Creatures.org #vegan #Plantbased #plantbasedbriefing #animaltransport #farmedanimaltransport #animalslaughter #bearwitness ======================== Original post: https://all-creatures.org/mdi2/img/final-ride.pdf  Related Episodes: 304: Next in Line: The Emotional Trauma We Inflict on Farmed Animals. https://plantbasedbriefing.libsyn.com/304-next-in-line-the-emotional-trauma-we-inflict-on-farmed-animals-by-amy-jones-at-sentientmediacom-and-posted-at-all-creaturesorg  69: Do Chickens Mind Seeing Other Chickens Traumatized in Their Presence? https://plantbasedbriefing.libsyn.com/69-do-chickens-mind-seeing-other-chickens-traumatized-in-their-presence ======================== What to Eat When You Don't Eat Animals (FREE GUIDE): https://www.all-creatures.org/what-to-eat.html     All-Creatures is a non-profit dedicated to cruelty-free living through a vegan lifestyle according to Judeo-Christian ethics. Their website is filled with vegan resources relating to animal issues, including bible studies, how to stop cruelty in churches, blogs, quotes and poetry, and lots of great resources for animal rights activism as well. ======================= FOLLOW THE SHOW ON: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@plantbasedbriefing     Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GONW0q2EDJMzqhuwuxdCF?si=2a20c247461d4ad7 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plant-based-briefing/id1562925866 Your podcast app of choice: https://pod.link/1562925866 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/plant-based-briefing/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plantbasedbriefing/      #vegan #Plantbased #plantbasedbriefing #animaltransport #farmedanimaltransport #animalslaughter #bearwitness  

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Progress for factory-farmed animals is far too slow. But it is happening. Practices that once seemed permanent — like battery cages and the killing of male chicks — are now on a slow path to extinction. Animals who were once ignored — like fish and even shrimp — are now finally seeing reforms, by the billions. It's easy to gloss over such numbers. So, as you read the wins below, I encourage you to consider each of these animals as an individual. A hen no longer confined to a cage, a chick no longer macerated alive, a fish no longer dying a prolonged death. I also encourage you to reflect on the role you and [...] --- First published: December 18th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/okEwGpNJnE5Ed9bnW/ten-big-wins-in-2024-for-farmed-animals --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Civil Litigation for Farmed Animals - Notes From EAGxBerkeley Talk, published by Noa Weiss on September 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Overview These are my notes of the "Civil Litigation for Farmed Animals" from EAGxBerkeley, given by Alene Anello, president of Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC). It was an excellent talk, exploring a front of the animal welfare movement that, in my opinion, has the potential to be extremely effective, and is very much neglected. (Would love to hear if you agree/disagree on this). LIC also is currently hiring lawyers, so if you know someone who might be interested, let them know. This is a rare opportunity for folks with legal training to get professionally involved in the movement (those paid positions are hard to come by). ================== Talk Notes Intro Premise: improving conditions on factory farms will go a long way towards helping chickens suffering The law prohibits animal cruelty (in theory) (Gave an excerpt from the California Penal Code) Yet undercover investigations in farms expose such cruelty on a regular basis Footnote on criminal laws: there are some states that have exemptions for animal agriculture But not in California Even states that have exemptions - it's not for *every* kind of abuse. There's a lot of stuff that happens in the farms that isn't technically exempted But police and prosecutors don't really enforce it And even when they do - it's against individual workers and not the company/CEOs Why? Not sure. Perhaps because it's easier to go after someone with less power. Attorney generals are almost always politicians (elected / politically appointed), which means they have an interest in keeping powerful companies happy Some reasons for not enforcing at all: A reason they often officially give: those are misdemeanors, and they're more interested in pursuing felonies (also for funding reasons) Possibly: corruption Possibly: "soft corruption" like not wanting to make powerful people angry Resources and priorities LIC's Solution: "Creative" Civil Litigation Not how civil litigation is usually works Animal cruelty is a crime, would more "naturally" be handled by the criminal system - but since the criminal system doesn't do anything, LIC looks for ways to bring it to civil litigations LIC sues companies and executives Example Cases Example 1: Costco Costco is not only a store but also breeds, raises and slaughters chickens (and sells the meat) Bred them so fast that they could not even stand, eat, drink. Starved to death That's against the law - you're required to feed your animals There are some fiduciary duties - which are on the executives, personally, towards the company One of them: "don't break the law" If the executives haven't fulfilled the duties - the company can sue them Which wouldn't usually happen because the execs control the company But! The company also has owners. In the case of a publicly traded company - share holders So LIC found Costco shareholders to work with (Q: do you have to find existing share holders or can you just buy shares and then sue? A: Alene doesn't know, there isn't really a precedent). Result: The good news: the judge did say that the company has a responsibility re animal cruelty. Which means LIC can bring more cases like that! The bad new: had a different interpretation to the law re what happened at Costco, so dismissed the case Example 2: "Case Farms" - KFC supplier Treated chicks as "dispensible". Let machine drive over them etc. Pretty harrowing. Happened in North California. Has a law against animal cruelty, with an exemption for food/poultry. That was what CF's defense was based on. That thereby anything they do is exempt. LIC disagrees. If you kill the chicks they're not really used for food. This was dismissed and LIC appealed. Currently in the NC court ...

A Chinese survey of diseased animals farmed for their fur – such as mink, foxes and raccoon dogs - has revealed high levels of concerning viruses, including coronaviruses and flu viruses, many of which appear to jump easily from species to species. John Pettersson of Uppsala University discusses the threat to us humans. We learnt early on in the Covid-19 pandemic how important the genetic details of the virus were in tracking the spread and spotting new variants. The vaccines were designed from gene sequences shared electronically long before any biological samples became available. Virologist Emma Hodcroft has teamed up with researchers around the world to develop a new virus database, Pathoplexus, to speed up the sharing of gene sequences. Mpox outbreaks are causing concerns in Central and West Africa - particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A smallpox vaccine has started arriving, giving some protection against mpox. But there's good news this week in an experimental vaccine developed especially for mpox by Moderna – one of the companies that brought us the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Galit Alter, vice president of immunology research at Moderna, tells us animal tests show that it appears to be highly effective. And we discuss embryonic eavesdropping with Francisco Ruiz-Raya of Glasgow University. In the yellow-legged-gull, baby bird embryos that have chattier parents tend to come out chattier themselves – and likely receive better care because of their enhanced communication. Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Jonathan Blackwell Production Coordinator: Andrew Rhys Lewis (Image: Mink farm. Production of elite fur. Animal in a cage, in the hands of a man. Credit: Neznam via Getty Images)

Ostrich meat is growing in popularity as health-conscious consumers seek alternatives to beef and lamb, but are they being farmed under humane conditions? Lester Kiewit speaks to Celine Doak, UWC LLM Graduate of Environmental Law, who is calling for the development of national legislation on the rearing of animals for consumption.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Farmed animals are neglected, published by Vasco Grilo on June 24, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary Farmed cows and pigs account for a tiny fraction of the disability of the farmed animals I analysed. The annual disability of farmed animals is much larger than that of humans, even under the arguably very optimistic assumption of all farmed animals having neutral lives. The annual funding helping farmed animals is much smaller than that helping humans. Introduction I think one should decide on which areas and interventions to fund overwhelmingly based on (marginal) cost-effectiveness, as GiveWell does. Relatedly, I estimated corporate campaigns for chicken welfare, like the ones supported by The Humane League (THL), have a cost-effectiveness of 14.3 DALY/$, 1.44 k times that of GiveWell's top charities. However, for communication purposes, I believe it is fine to look into the benefits of fully solving a problem as well as philanthropic spending. Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) has a great graph highlighting the neglectedness of farmed animals in the United States relative to their scale. In this post, I estimate the annual disability of and philanthropic spending on humans and farmed animals, both globally and in China[1]. The data and calculations are in this Sheet. Methods I got the annual disability of each group of farmed animals multiplying its population by its disability per living time in (human) years lived with disability (YLD) per animal-year[2], which I calculated from (1 - "welfare per time as a fraction of that of a fully healthy human as a fraction of the welfare range (normalised welfare per time)")*"welfare range". For a normalised welfare per time equal to: 0, corresponding to a neutral life, the disabilty per living time is equal to the welfare range, which makes sense. By definition, a dying human has a disability per living time of 1 YLD/year (which is equal to the welfare range of humans of 1), and a welfare per time of 0. 1, respecting a fully healthy farmed animal, the disability per living time is 0, which checks out. By definition, a fully healthy human has a disability per living time of 0, and it is natural to extend this to farmed animals. In agreement with the above, disability throughout this post refers to the potential for increasing ( affective) welfare up to the level of a fully healthy being. In contrast, the global burden of disease study ( GBD) focuses on actual disability. For simplicity, I did not consider years of life lost ( YLL). I would have to figure out the life expectancy as a function of age for farmed animals living in ideal conditions, as GBD uses a reference life expectancy for ideal human conditions. A "reference life table, or theoretical minimum risk life table (TMRLT), is used in GBD to calculate years of life lost (YLLs) due to premature mortality. It was constructed based on the lowest observed age-specific mortality rates by location and sex across all estimation years from all locations with populations over 5 million in 2016". I used Rethink Priorities' median welfare ranges. I relied on the value for pigs for cows, the mean between the values for carp and salmon for fish, and the value for black soldier flies for insects. To find the normalised welfare per time of farmed broilers, hens and decapod shrimp, I assumed: The time that farmed broilers, hens and decapod shrimp on ongrowing farms experience each of the 4 pain categories defined by the Welfare Footprint Project (WFP). I also supposed all broilers are in a conventional scenario, and that hens are in conventional cages or cage-free aviaries, using data from WFP to find the respective fractions. Excruciating pain is 1 k times as bad as disabling pain[3]. Disabling pain is 100 times as bad as hurtful pain. Hurtful pain is 10 times as bad as...

Do animals have a voice? Not many are aware that India's animal laws are actually forward looking. Come discover this and other empirical evidence that Malathi Renati unearths in her conversation with Shreya Swaminath: Director, Farm Animal Protection, HSI/India. While the focus is on farmed/ domesticaled animals, the concerns are similar across other flora and fauna. It continues to be riddled with apathy and poor implementation. From improving the living conditions of farmed animals to the outdated penalties for animal cruelty, there is alot that we, as individuals, can do with a little awareness. Listen in and share your comments!  All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru. Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/ Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in/

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Lessons from two pioneering advocates for farmed animals, published by LewisBollard on April 26, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. What would Ruth and Henry do? How much can one person achieve for animals? Ruth Harrison (1920-2000) and Henry Spira (1927-1998) started out pessimistic. They inherited an animal welfare movement that had generated more noise than results, especially for farmed animals. As factory farming arose in the mid 20th Century, the movement paid little attention. Moderate groups, like the ASPCA and RSPCA, were too busy sheltering lost cats and dogs - a role that had largely supplanted their original missions to win legal reforms for all animals. Radical activists, meanwhile, were waging an endless war on animal testing. "Self-righteous antivivisection societies had been hollering, 'Abolition! All or Nothing!,'" Spira recalled, noting that during that time animal testing had skyrocketed. "That was a pitiful track record, and it seemed a good idea to rethink strategies which have a century-long record of failure." Harrison and Spira shook up this impasse. Harrison's 1964 book Animal Machines exposed factory farming to a mass audience and led to the world's first on-farm animal welfare laws. Spira's campaigns won the world's first corporate animal welfare policies, first for lab animals and then farmed animals. Today's movement, which has won dozens of laws and thousands of corporate policies to protect factory farmed animals, owes much to Harrison and Spira. So how did they do it? And what can we learn from them? Ruth-lessly effective advocacy In 1960, an obscure grassroots group, the Crusade Against All Cruelty to Animals, pushed a leaflet against "factory farming" through Ruth Harrison's door. They got lucky. The leaflet prompted Harrison, a Quaker peace activist and life-long vegetarian, to reflect that "in doing nothing I was allowing it to happen." She set out to study the issue. The result was Animal Machines, the first book to document the cruelty of factory farms. With graphic images and vivid prose, she described a system "where the animal is not allowed to live before it dies." She called for a slate of political reforms. Harrison then expertly promoted her book. She got Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring, to write a foreword. Harrison leveraged Carson's endorsement to get a top publisher and to serialize the book in a London newspaper. The book's publication sparked an outcry loud enough to force a reluctant UK Ministry of Agriculture to order a commission of inquiry. The resulting Brambell Commission called for farms to provide animals with Five Freedoms, which guide many animal welfare policies to this day. A few years later, the UK government passed a farm animal welfare law and established the Farm Animal Welfare Committee, on which Harrison served. These reforms partly inspired the European Convention on the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes, which led to all modern EU farm animal welfare laws. Harrison's work also motivated the animal welfare movement, including the RSPCA, to re-engage with farmed animals. And her work helped inspire a young Australian philosopher to write an article in the New York Review of Books entitled "Animal Liberation." Henry for the hens Henry Spira read that article. A former union organizer and civil rights activist, Spira would later recall that "I decided that animal liberation was the logical extension of what my life was all about - identifying with the powerless and vulnerable." His first campaign took on cruel experiments on cats at the American Museum of Natural Histor...

Slaughterhouse Work Is Still Some of the Most Exploited Labor in the World by Valerie Monckton at SentientMedia.org    Original post: https://sentientmedia.org/slaughterhouse-work-exploited-labor/   Related Episodes: 545: The Disturbing Link Between Slaughterhouse Workers and PTSD by Andrew Gough at SurgeActivism.org   487: 4 Reasons Why Going Plant Based Promotes Social Justice from ProVeg.com   462: [Part 2] The Psychological Toll of Killing Animals: PTSD in Slaughterhouse Workers by Emily Moran Barwick at BiteSizeVegan.org   461: [Part 1] The Psychological Toll of Killing Animals: PTSD in Slaughterhouse Workers by Emily Moran Barwick at BiteSizeVegan.org   330: [Part 2] Who Would Want to Be a Farmer? The Burden on Mental Health. By Jackie Norman at SurgeActivism.org   329: [Part 1] Who Would Want to Be a Farmer? The Burden on Mental Health. By Jackie Norman at SurgeActivism.org   130: Slaughterhouse Workers, Farmed Animals and Animal Advocates: Can There Be Justice for All? By Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns at UPC-Online.org   129: From Slaughterhouse Worker to Vegan: ‘The Work Made Me Sick' at All-Creatures.org   Sentient Media is a nonprofit news organization that is changing the conversation around animal agriculture across the globe. They seek to create and sustain a sense of global urgency about the agriculture industry's impact on the climate crisis, extraction of natural resources and systematic exploitation of the fringes of society. They're doing this through critical commentary, investigative journalism, creating resources, strengthening the journalist and advocate community, partnering with publishers and holding the media accountable when it fails to report on the most pressing issues of our time.    How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop  Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #plantbased #plantbasedbriefing #slaughterhouse #exploitedlabor #slaughterhouseworkers  

Around the world, there are tens of billions of non-human animals trapped in the barbaric system of industrial animal agriculture. And unfortunately, that number is increasing. It's a severe problem, not just for the suffering animals, but for human health and the health of our planet.    Fortunately, there are people dedicating their lives to tackling this issue. And today, we're joined by one of these remarkable individuals.   Lewis Bollard is a dedicated animal advocate making meaningful change on a global scale. He is the Farm Animal Welfare Director at Open Philanthropy, which is a philanthropic funder addressing important and often neglected causes. Prior to working there, Lewis was the Policy Advisor and International Liaison to the CEO of The Humane Society of the United States.   Join us to hear our illuminating discussion with Lewis as we shine a spotlight on his quest for a more ethical world and his efforts to end factory farming once and for all!    “We chose farm animals just because of the sheer numbers. I mean the sheer scale of factory farming globally in terms of tens of billions of animals suffering. And as you say, I mean it is definitely especially neglected because people don't pay attention to them. I think that's partly, I mean, people will say yes because they're not smart, but I'm skeptical that's what's really going on. I think it's just convenient to not care about them, and it would be really inconvenient to take seriously their interests. I mean, as with you, I think that what ultimately matters is whether they can suffer. You know, I think across all these species, I suspect there's a lot more going on. I suspect they're smarter than we give them credit for. But I ultimately think that debate doesn't even really matter to our moral obligations. We just, shouldn't torture them. We shouldn't cause suffering to a being who can suffer.” - Lewis Bollard   What we discuss in this episode: - The eye-opening family trip that changed Lewis's life.  - Why do people fall off the vegan wagon? - Lewis's thoughts on alternative proteins and plant-based meats. - How the animal rights movement has evolved. - The most abused farm animals in the world. - Positive changes in the animal rights movement and the potential threat AI poses. - How governments around the world are promoting plant-based diets. - The work Lewis is doing to effect positive change. - Lewis's advice to those who want to make a positive impact but don't know where to start.   Resources: - Open Philanthropy: Lewis Bollard | Open Philanthropy - https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/lewis-bollard/ - Lewis's Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Lewis_Bollard - Vote for the Switch4Good podcast here: https://bit.ly/s4gpodcast   ★☆★ Click the link below to support the ADD SOY Act! ★☆★ https://switch4good.org/add-soy-act/ ★☆★ Share the website and get your resources here ★☆★ https://kidsandmilk.org/ ★☆★ Send us a voice message and ask a question. We want to hear from you! ★☆★ https://switch4good.org/podcast/ ★☆★ Dairy-Free Swaps Guide: Easy Anti-Inflammatory Meals, Recipes, and Tips ★☆★ https://switch4good.org/dairy-free-swaps-guide ★☆★SUPPORT SWITCH4GOOD★☆★ https://switch4good.org/support-us/ ★☆★ JOIN OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP ★☆★  https://www.facebook.com/groups/podcastchat ★☆★ SWITCH4GOOD WEBSITE ★☆★ https://switch4good.org/ ★☆★ ONLINE STORE ★☆★ https://shop.switch4good.org/shop/ ★☆★ FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM ★☆★ https://www.instagram.com/Switch4Good/ ★☆★ LIKE US ON FACEBOOK ★☆★ https://www.facebook.com/Switch4Good/ ★☆★ FOLLOW US ON TWITTER ★☆★ https://mobile.twitter.com/Switch4GoodNFT ★☆★ AMAZON STORE ★☆★ https://www.amazon.com/shop/switch4good ★☆★ DOWNLOAD THE ABILLION APP ★☆★ https://app.abillion.com/users/switch4good

Monday February 12, 2024 Factory Farmed Animals up Almost 50 percent over last 20 years

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: First book focusing on EA and Farmed Animals: The Farm Animal Movement: Effective Altruism, Venture Philanthropy, and the Fight to End Factory Farming in America, published by Jeff Thomas on January 18, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Thank you so much to Lizka for encouraging me in this post. I'm so excited to share my book that will be of great interest to EA folks was just released by Lantern. The Farm Animal Movement: Effective Altruism, Venture Philanthropy, and the Fight to End Factory Farming in America tells the stories of this exhilarating moment in our movement in a way that I hope will inspire millennials to dedicate their careers and resources to EA and to helping end farm animal suffering. The chapters are: Introduction: Ending the World's Worst Suffering Numbers Don't Lie: Effective Altruism and Venture Philanthropy Political Power: Family Farmers Versus Big Meat Vegans Making Laws: From California to Capitol Hill Building a Movement: Mercy for Animals and Emotional Intelligence Betrayal of Trust: Inside the Humane Society's #MeToo Scandal "We are hurting so much": Racism and 'Color-blindness' Animal Law and Legal Education: Pathbreakers and Millennials Dreamers: The Good Food Institute and Clean Meat The target audience is people who are EA- or animal-aligned (students, career-changers, donors, volunteers) but who haven't yet found their niche. Hopefully it will be helpful for EAs as a recruitment tool. It's the first book to focus exclusively on EA and farm animals, so I hope it makes a difference! I feel like the movement needed a book that would be useful for laypeople, advocates and scholars. The book has a popular, engaging writing style with academic methods and footnotes. I am thrilled at how the book turned out with the insight and help from the team at Lantern. All credit goes to them for the beautiful cover design. I am so proud to be a member of this movement and grateful to all who participated in this project (EA Forum commenters, you know who you are :) ). Thank you for the opportunity to post on this Forum. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A year of wins for farmed animals, published by Vasco Grilo on December 24, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a crosspost for A year of wins for farmed animals, published by Lewis Bollard on 14 December 2023 in Open Philanthropy farm animal welfare research newsletter. It's been a tough year for farmed animals. The European Union shelved the world's most ambitious farm animal welfare reform proposal, plant-based meat sales sagged, and the media panned cultivated meat while Italy banned it. But advocates for factory farmed animals still won major gains - here are ten of the biggest: 1. Wins for the winged. Advocates won 130 new corporate pledges to eliminate cages for hens or the worst abuses of broiler chickens. This progress has now expanded well beyond the West: recent wins include cage-free pledges from the largest Asian restaurant company and the largest Indonesian retailer. That's mostly thanks to the work of the 100+ member groups of the Open Wing Alliance, who now campaign across 67 countries. We estimate that, if fully implemented, pledges secured to date will reduce the suffering of about 800 million layer hens and broiler chickens alive at any time. 2. Cages canceled. A fair question has long been whether these pledges will be implemented. So far, they mostly have been: 1,157 corporate pledges are now fully implemented, 89% of the pledges that came due by last year. As a result, 39% of American hens, 60% of European hens, and 80% of British hens are now cage-free, up from just 6%, 41%, and 48% respectively a decade ago. There's still a lot more work to do to hold companies accountable to their pledges. But globally 220 million more animals are already out of cages thanks to this work. 3. Pigs Supreme. The US Supreme Court upheld California's Proposition 12, which bans the sale of eggs, pork, and veal from caged animals and their offspring. This ruling also protects seven other similar state laws. Once fully implemented, these laws will collectively require about 700,000 pigs and 80 million hens be raised cage-free. Advocates are now fighting a last-ditch effort by pork producers to overturn the Court's ruling, and have already mustered the support of over 210 members of Congress for our side. 4. Plant-based policies. Denmark unveiled the world's first state action plan to promote plant-based eating, including plans to promote plant-based foods in schools and support innovation in alternative proteins. South Korea said it would soon unveil one too. The European Parliament called for an EU-wide "action plan for increased EU plant-based protein production and consumption." 5. Meaty milestones. For the first time, the COP28 climate summit served mostly vegetarian meals. The UN Environment Program released the first-ever UN report on the potential of alternative proteins. New data showed that only 20% of Germans now eat meat every day, down from 34% eight years ago. Half of all US restaurants now offer a plant-based alternative, up from a third five years ago. 6. Cultured policymakers. US regulators approved the nation's first sales of cultivated meat. Japan's Prime Minister pledged support for the nation's cellular agriculture industry. Germany pledged 38M to promote alternative proteins, while Catalonia (Spain), Israel, and the UK funded more research. Alternative proteins have now attracted over a billion dollars in public funding committed to research and infrastructure globally. 7. Alternative aspirations. Major German retailer Lidl pledged to double the share of its range of proteins that are plant-based by 2030. The second largest Dutch retailer, Jumbo, set a goal for 60% of its protein sales to be plant-based by the same year. Both began their efforts by slashing the price of their own plant-based brands to parity with meat. So too did German...

This is a crosspost for A year of wins for farmed animals, published by Lewis Bollard on 14 December 2023 in Open Philanthropy farm animal welfare research newsletter. It's been a tough year for farmed animals. The European Union shelved the world's most ambitious farm animal welfare reform proposal, plant-based meat sales sagged, and the media panned cultivated meat while Italy banned it. But advocates for factory farmed animals still won major gains — here are ten of the biggest: 1. Wins for the winged. Advocates won 130 new corporate pledges to eliminate cages for hens or the worst abuses of broiler chickens. This progress has now expanded well beyond the West: recent wins include cage-free pledges from the largest Asian restaurant company and the largest Indonesian retailer. That's mostly thanks to the work of the 100+ member groups of the Open Wing Alliance, who now campaign across 67 [...] --- First published: December 24th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/aiXyEvheFdwsEoPeC/a-year-of-wins-for-farmed-animals Linkpost URL:https://farmanimalwelfare.substack.com/p/a-year-of-wins-for-farmed-animals --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

In Memory of Karen Davis: Chicken or Broiler, Cow or Steer, Owner or Guardian? by Karen Davis at UPC-Online.org Original post: https://www.upc-online.org/thinking/140501_liberating_the_language_of_animal_abuse.html  *************** The world lost an amazing advocate and educator when Karen Davis, founder of United Poultry Concerns (UPC) “passed away peacefully on the morning of November 4, 2023 at the United Poultry Concerns sanctuary,  surrounded by her beloved birds,” UPC announced, pledging to “continue her vision and legacy through our sanctuary and vegan advocacy.” Karen Davis was an icon. She was instrumental in my vegan journey. I learned to understand, love, admire, and appreciate the amazing birds she dedicated her life to educating people about, and am honored to be able to share some of her teachings on the podcast. Many times it was difficult to narrate her articles as they were bringing me to tears. Other times her articles would fill me with joy as I read about the amazing social lives of these precious innocent, defenseless individuals who deserve to be protected and respected. Karen was President and Founder of United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of chickens, turkeys, ducks, and other domesticated birds. She created an amazing, open-air, covered sanctuary in Virginia to house and care for them. She is the author of numerous books, essays, articles and campaigns, and host of the Thinking Like a Chicken podcast. I hope we can all step in to help fill the gap in chicken and turkey advocacy left by her passing. If you'd like to listen to past episodes highlighting some of Karen's brilliant work, check out the following. It's amazing to see just this tiny subset of her contribution. Let's all band together and continue to educate ourselves and advocate for these birds.

Aurelia is the Africa co-ordinator for the Open Wing Alliance where she supports African organisations with their cage-free campaigning efforts. In this episode Aurelia walks us through the state of the advocacy movement in Africa and the unique complexities of campaigning in this region. We hear Aurelia's thoughts on progress in Africa and the importance of flexibility when devising and testing the strategies and tactics required to end cages in Africa. Relevant links to things mentioned throughout the show:Open Wing Alliance WebsiteDonate to the Open Wing AllianceMember organisationsWhich companies are leading the way on animal welfare in Africa?-  Ranking ReportTicking Clock: The Rapid Rise of Farmed Animals in Africa - EA Forum PostAnimal welfare: A unique African Perspective - EA Forum PostIf you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review us - we would really appreciate it! Likewise, feel free to share it with anyone who you think might enjoy it. You can send us feedback and guest recommendations via Twitter or email us at hello@howilearnedtoloveshrimp.com. Enjoy!

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ticking Clock: The Rapid Rise of Farmed Animals in Africa, published by AnimalAdvocacyAfrica on September 19, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. As humanity continues its era of rapid population growth and rising economic prosperity, the demand for animal protein is anticipated to reach unparalleled heights. This surge in consumption is set to drastically impact the lives of farmed animals worldwide. Nowhere is this growth more pronounced than in Africa. The evidence Previously, our anticipation of Africa's sharp increase in livestock numbers was primarily grounded in the historical global expansion of farmed animal populations over the past decades, coupled with human population growth trends across the African continent. This post, however, delves into the specific projections of farmed animal numbers and animal farming intensification from 2012 to 2050, as outlined by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which is based on many more factors than just historical changes in animal agriculture and human population growth, providing us with more detailed estimates than previously available. If not stated otherwise, all figures named in this blog post refer to these projections, which can be found here. The FAO's projections encompass a range of future scenarios, including both a "business as usual" model and a "towards sustainability" model. For the scope of this post, we focus on the "business as usual" projection, which assumes the absence of any significant efforts to reduce the extent of factory farming. This allows us to explore the potential ramifications of the current trajectory of animal agriculture. Notably, even upon considering the projections from the "towards sustainability" model, the prospects for Africa remain largely unaltered. In contrast, for all other continents, we can observe a noticeable reduction in farmed animal numbers in comparison to the "business as usual" model. Although far from certain, this may indicate that the FAO assumes that growth in animal agriculture in Africa is close to unavoidable or that nothing will be done to hinder its growth. The FAO provides data for farmed land animals, including cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, and buffaloes, but omits figures for other mammals, such as rabbits, horses, and dogs, as well as insects, fish, and seafood. This exclusion is noteworthy since the protein yield from smaller animals demands significantly greater numbers of individual animals per kilogram in contrast to large mammals like cows and pigs. Thus, while the analysis below offers crucial insights, it only represents a fraction of future developments. Africa in global comparison According to the FAO's projections, the number of farmed land animals in Africa is anticipated to experience a remarkable surge in the coming decades. As shown in the graph below, the population of farmed land animals for the entire continent of Africa will rise from around 2.6 billion in 2012 to around 9.4 billion in 2050, an increase of 262%. Consequently, Africa would surpass all other global regions in terms of the total size of farmed animal populations by 2050, except for Asia, and reach roughly twice the total number of animals of other regions like Europe or North America. At present, Asia leads and will continue to lead all continents in terms of the total number of farmed land animals. This can largely be attributed to factory farming in China, Indonesia, and India. Nevertheless, Africa's livestock numbers are expected to increase by a much larger absolute number and at a higher rate than Asia's projected 26% rise from 2012 to 2050. Note that these numbers (along with all following numbers in this post) refer to the count of live animals at a given time in a year, which is not to be confused but should be highly c...

The disturbing link between slaughterhouse workers and PTSD by Andrew Gough at SurgeActivism.org   Original Post: https://www.surgeactivism.org/articles/slaughterhouse-workers-and-ptsd  Powerful BBC article mentioned: Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker    Related Episodes: 129 From Slaughterhouse Worker to Vegan: ‘The Work Made Me Sick'  130 Slaughterhouse Workers, Farmed Animals and Animal Advocates: Can There Be Justice for All? 461 [Part 1] The Psychological Toll of Killing Animals: PTSD in Slaughterhouse Workers 462 [Part 2] The Psychological Toll of Killing Animals: PTSD in Slaughterhouse Workers  Surge is a non-profit, grassroots animal rights organization determined to create a world where compassion towards all non-human animals is the norm. Our philosophy is that change comes through vegan education - with media content and campaigns, as well as educational programmes and investigative work.  Ed Winters (known online as Earthling Ed) is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Surge.  How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop    Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #plantbased #plantbasedbriefing #earthlinged #slaughterhouseworker #ptsd #PITS #trauma #depression #mentalhealth    

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Maybe Family Planning Charities Are Better For Farmed Animals Than Animal Welfare Ones, published by Hank B on May 6, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This piece estimates that a donation to the Humane League, an animal welfare organization considered highly cost-effective, and which mainly engages in corporate lobbying for higher welfare standards, saved around 4 animals per dollar donated, mostly chickens. “Saving a farmed animal” here means “preventing a farmed animal from existing” or “improving the welfare of enough farmed animals by enough to count as preventing one farmed animal from existing.” That second definition is a little weird, sorry. If you're trying to help as many farmed animals as possible this seems like a pretty good deal. Can we do better? Maybe. Enter MSI Reproductive Choices, an international family planning organization, which mainly distributes contraception and performs abortions. They reported in 2021 that they prevented around 14 million unintended pregnancies on a total income of 290 million pounds, or 360 million dollars at time of writing. This is roughly 25 dollars per unintended pregnancy prevented. Let's pretend that for every unintended pregnancy prevented, a child who would have been born otherwise is not born. This is plausibly true for some of these unintended pregnancies. But not all. On the other hand, MSI also provided abortions which plausibly prevent child lives as well. Maybe that means MSI prevented 14 million child lives from starting in 2021 (if we think the undercounting from not including abortions counter perfectly the overcounting of unintended pregnancy). I have no reason to think that's particularly plausible, but let's just keep pretending that's right. Let's further pretend that all of MSI's work happened in Zambia. MSI does work in Zambia, but they also do work in lots of other countries. I choose Zambia mostly because trying to do this math with all the countries that MSI works with would be hard. Zambia had a life expectancy at birth of 62 years in 2020 according to this. According to this, Zambians consumed an average of 28kg of meat per person per year. The important subfigures here are the 2.6kg of poultry and 13kg of seafood per person per year, since chickens and fish are much lighter than other animals killed for meat. One chicken provides say 1kg of meat (I'm sort of making this number up, but similar numbers come up on google). One fish provides say 0.5kg. This means that the average Zambian would eat 2.6 chickens and 26 fish per person per year. Over a lifetime, that'd be 62 years of consumption. If a human who would have otherwise existed no longer exists because of your efforts, they also no longer eat the meat they would have eaten otherwise. Thus, if MSI prevents one human lifetime for every $25 you donate, then you'd be saving 62(2.6+26) farmed animals which is around 1,750. That's 70 animals saved per dollar donated. This analysis is so bad in so many ways. I took the number for animals saved per dollar donated to The Humane League on total faith. I also just assumed that MSI is correct in saying that they prevented 14 million unintended pregnancies and I made clearly bad assumptions to get from that number to number of human lifetimes prevented. At least we can have some confidence in the total weight of meat consumed on average by a Zambian per year and the life expectancy at birth in Zambia. However, my way of getting from total weight to animals slaughtered is pretty hokey and doesn't even include cows, sheep, pigs, etc. There are many other problems too. For example, I took the average cost per unintended pregnancy prevented by MSI. However, the average is not the relevant figure here. We'd like the marginal cost of preventing an additional unintended pregnancy. This is a figure I don...

In this double-show, Leah Garces, President of Mercy for Animals, discusses initiatives to protect taxpayers, farm workers, chickens, and pigs in an unprecedented and long-overdue marker to the 2023 Farm Bill -- the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act -- to be considered in the U.S. Congress in Fall 2023. After learning about these issues, U.S. citizens can contact their Congresspeople to express opinions on this critical bill, as Senators and Representatives in the House would need to sign on to it this spring and summer. This link helps you easily make contact: https://mercyforanimals.org/iaa/   The Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act was put forward by Senator Cory Booker, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, who worked with Mercy for Animals and other farming groups to propose this groundbreaking legislation to start to hold accountable a corporate-dominated animal agribusiness industry, especially to get companies to better prepare for (and pay for) inevitable natural disasters and pandemics. So I devoted a double-long show to this topic, especially since the myriad problems with industrial animal agribusiness rarely get addressed in Congress (due to a powerful agribusiness lobby), despite how much the public disapproves of factory farming and how much taxpayer money goes to subsidize it (millions of taxpayer dollars annually are bailing out profitable factory farming corporations, especially during disasters, but also routinely in subsidizing their feed crops rather than subsidizing fruits and vegetables humans need to be eating more of). This radio show and this bill shine a light on many problems with factory farming that most of us don't know. In this this 49-minute show recorded in March 2023, In Tune to Nature host Carrie Freeman interviews Leah Garces, long-time farmed animal advocate and current President of the nonprofit group Mercy for Animals at https://mercyforanimals.org/ With her on-the-farm experience, she helps us understand all the various exciting initiatives of the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act and what it proposes to do to help humans (agricultural workers, incarcerated workers, and also taxpayers and some smaller ‘growers' in debt to larger animal ag corporations) as well as helping other animal species in terms of reducing some of their immense suffering. From slowing down the kill-line speeds, to including chickens and turkeys in the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, to prohibiting the killing of pigs too lame to walk, to reducing the time that hungry and thirsty animals are kept in transit to slaughterhouses, to offering severance pay and healthcare to vulnerable farmworkers in disasters, to prohibiting the continued exploitation of incarcerated workers made to work in factory farming disasters – this Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act is long overdue and needs everyone's attention, as the Farm Bill only gets amended every 5 years. Also, in Dec 2022, Vox wrote a great overview of Sen. Booker's act titled “Sen. Cory Booker has a plan to stop taxpayer bailouts of Big Meat.” In Tune to Nature is a weekly show airing on Wednesdays from 6:30-7pm EST on Atlanta indie station WRFG (Radio Free Georgia) 89.3FM hosted by Carrie Freeman or Melody Paris. Please consider donating to support this 50-year old independent, non-commercial, progressive Atlanta radio station at https://wrfg.org/   PHOTO: Leah Garces and rescued chicken Take care of yourself and others, including other species.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Tyler Johnston on helping farmed animals, consciousness, and being conventionally good, published by Amber Dawn on March 10, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post is part of a series of six interviews. As EAs, we want to use our careers or donations to do the most good - but it's difficult to work out what exactly that looks like for us. I wanted to interview effective altruists working in different fields and on different causes and ask them how they chose their cause area, as well as how they relate to effective altruism and doing good more generally. During the Prague Fall Season residency, I interviewed six EAs in Prague about what they are doing and why they are doing it. I'm grateful to my interviewees for giving their time, and to the organisers of PFS for supporting my visit. I'm currently working as a freelance writer and editor. If you're interested in hiring me, book a short call or email me at ambace@gmail.com. More info here. Tyler Johnston is an aspiring effective altruist currently based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Professionally, he works on corporate campaigns to improve the lives of farmed chickens, and is interested in cause prioritisation, interspecies comparisons, and the suffering of non-humans. He's also a science-fiction fan and an amateur crossword puzzle constructor. We talked about: his work on The Humane League's corporate animal welfare campaigns how he became a vegan and animal advocate whether animals are conscious how being conventionally good is underrated On his work at The Humane League Amber: Tell me about what you're doing. Tyler: I work for The Humane League. We run public awareness campaigns to try to get companies to make commitments to improve the treatment of farmed animals in their supply chains. This strategy first gained traction in 2015, and was immediately really powerful. Since then, it has got a lot of interest from EA funders. Amber: Did The Humane League always do that, or was it doing something else before 2015? Tyler: It was a long journey; The Humane League's original name was Hugs for Puppies Amber: Aww, that's very cute! Tyler: Yeah, I feel like we'd be a more likeable organisation if we were still called that. They started doing demonstrations around issues like fur bans, and other animal welfare issues there was already a lot of energy around. They then switched to focussing on vegan advocacy, which involved things like leafleting, and sharing recipes and resources. Amber: So the strategy at that time then was to encourage people to go vegan, which would lower demand for factory farming, which would mean there were fewer factory-farmed animals? Tyler: That's right. There was some early evidence that showed this was promising, and it also just made sense to them, since most vegans would attribute their own choice to be vegan to a time in the past when they heard and agreed with the arguments. So they thought, ‘why wouldn't this export to other people?' Amber: But you said the strategy is different now - it's to lobby actual food producers to treat the animals that they're farming better. Say more about that. Tyler: That's our dominant strategy now, yeah. It's part of a broader shift in the [animal advocacy] movement toward institutional change rather than individual change. If for some given company, you either have to change the minds of, like, 10 million consumers, or a dozen executive stakeholders - the latter is just a lot more tractable. It started with running small campaigns to persuade companies to source cage-free eggs, and it turned out that this worked. Around 2015 there was a sharp turning point in the number of farmed birds that are cage-free - before 2015, the percentage was growing very slowly, from 3% to 5%, but between 2015 and today, the percentage went up from 5% to 36%. And people attr...

We're all diet conscious on this week's show, as Claire delves into the relative environmental credentials of various animal proteins to find out if feathers, fur or fins are doing the best by the earth as a protein source. And Chris looks at a health issue which has affected him personally and will affect many people in their lives, the risk of cardiovascular disease. How is it measured, what is the cause, and how it may potentially be avoided or reduced by dietary and lifestyle choices. 

The media practice of ignoring, trivializing and demeaning farmed animals is well characterized by the phrase “Dominance Through Mentioning.” In Dominance Through Mentioning, disturbing truths and unorthodox viewpoints are “mentioned” so that the press can claim “balanced” coverage, but is it? Tune in to learn more.

Leah Garcés is CEO and President of Mercy for Animals and author of "Grilled: Turning Adversaries Into Allies To Change the Chicken Industry". She has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the animal protection movement and has partnered with some of the world's largest food companies on her mission to build a better food system. She's overseen international campaigns in 14 countries at the World Society for the Protection of Animals and launched Compassion in World farming in the U.S. And her work has featured in national and international media outlets —she has been in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, Chicago Tribune. In this conversation, Leah discusses how the media can help shift narratives around animal agriculture, how farmers suffer at the hands of corporations and why focusing on removing cages for laying hens is so important today.Links: Mercy for Animals: https://mercyforanimals.orgGrilled, book: https://mercyforanimals.org/grilled/True Cost of Your Cheap Chicken @New York Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6xE7rieXU0Deloitte study on plant-based consumer trends referenced:  https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/retail-distribution/future-of-fresh-food-sales/plant-based-meat-sales.html

Dan McKernan Founder and President of Barn Sanctuary explains how he left a job in the tech sector to turn the family farm into a rescue sanctuary for farmed animals. Dan and Jillian discuss operating a nonprofit to rescue farmed animals, the dark side of the animal farming industry, a cross-country van life trip with Mike the Cow, TikTok, and how your donations can help Barn Sanctuary feed the animals. Dan exemplifies the Citizen J Tenant: Be The Change.  

Jared Milrad sits down with filmmaker Jusep Moreno about his award-winning documentary, WHEN PIGS ESCAPE, which tells the story of Matilda, a pig who escaped from a farm and gave birth to her piglets shortly after in a nearby woodland. Following a pressure campaign, the pig family was eventually rescued by Brinsley Animal Rescue and The Surge Sanctuary in the UK. WHEN PIGS ESCAPE recounts the campaign to save the pig family and follows the new life of Matilda and her babies after being rescued, in a biographical piece that invites us to look at pigs like we have never seen them before. PLUS: Jared and Jusep discuss veganism and the road ahead for farmed animals.We depend on your generous support of Rewriting Hollywood to empower new creative voices and share urgently important stories with the world. Make a tax-deductible donation today: movikarma.org/donate

Plainville Farms in Pennsylvania touted itself as a place that raised "certified humane" turkeys. But a PETA investigator got the truth on video tape: Workers kicking, choking, strangling turkeys. Workers simulating sexual acts with the birds. All in all, the video was enough to get Pennsylvania State Police to get prosecutors in six counties to file the most defendants with the most charges ever in a case of cruelty to factory farmed animals. Dan Paden, PETA VP of Evidence Analysis, breaks down the case in conversation with Emil Guillermo on the PETA podcast. See what the investigator saw. Take action against grocers like Harris Teeter, Publix, and Wegmans that sell Plainville Farms products. See the video at PETA.org.   The PETA Podcast PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way. Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism. Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe. Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow the podcast by taking this short survey. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST! Originally released Oct. 26, 2022  © PETA, 2021-2, All rights reserved.

We recount a particularly emotional channeling session in which Laova and Eric were contacted by the spirits of animals who lost their lives in the factory-farming system. The spirits provided their perspective on modern farming and the soul loss and power loss that it brings. *Trigger Warning* This episode covers distressing material. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiritworld/message

Farmed animal advocates can be frustrated by the language agribusiness uses to describe the animals we seek to liberate from abusive and demeaning usage – both actual and rhetorical. In today's podcast episode I provide examples of terms to avoid and terms to choose when speaking and writing on behalf of farmed animals. Tune in & listen up!  

Next in line: the emotional trauma we inflict on farmed animals. By Amy Jones at SentientMedia.org and posted at All-Creatures.org. Original post: https://www.all-creatures.org/articles2/mdi-next-in-line.html  Related Episode 69: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/episodes/episode/1d9ecd7c/69-do-chickens-mind-seeing-other-chickens-traumatized-in-their-presence-from-upc-onlineorg  My Octopus Teacher: https://www.netflix.com/title/81045007 What to Eat When You Don't Eat Animals:  https://www.all-creatures.org/what-to-eat.html    All-Creatures is a non-profit dedicated to cruelty-free living through a vegan lifestyle according to Judeo-Christian ethics. Their website is filled with vegan resources relating to animal issues, including bible studies, how to stop cruelty in churches, blogs, quotes and poetry, and lots of great resources for animal rights activism as well. How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop   Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #Plantbased #veganpodcast #plantbasedpodcast #plantbasedbriefing #allcreatures #farmedanimals #animals #slaughter #killfloor #chickens #cows #pigs #sheep #aquaticlife #fish #myoctopusteacher #nextinline #trauma #emotionaltrauma    

Does the law protect farmed animals? By Cheryl Leahy at AnimalOutlook.org Original post: https://animaloutlook.org/does-law-protect-farmed-animals/  National Animal Rights Day info: http://thenard.org/  Hear Erin Wing (Animal Outlook investigator) on this podcast: https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/episode-18-inspiration-and-courage-with-undercover-investigator-erin-wing/  Animal Outlook is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal advocacy organization based in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA. Their mission: Working today to build a better tomorrow for all animals. We're strategically challenging the status quo of animal agribusiness through undercover investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and empowering everyone to choose vegan.   How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop  Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #Plantbased #veganpodcast #plantbasedpodcast #plantbasedbriefing #animaloutlook #animallaw #factoryfarming #animalagriculture #animalcruelty #undercoverinvestigation #tyson #legaladvocacy #animaladvocacy     

Watch our conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c1A2YTDfYK8 Find Jessica on Twitter and Instagram:https://twitter.com/JessLReidhttps://www.instagram.com/jesslsr/ Jessica's author page at Sentient Media:https://sentientmedia.org/author/jessicascottreid/ Jessica's articles about horses:https://sentientmedia.org/taking-on-canadas-horse-meat-industry/https://sentientmedia.org/black-lives-matter-protests-police-horses-oppression/Jessica's articles about Greenwashing:https://sentientmedia.org/how-grass-fed-beef-is-duping-consumers-again/https://sentientmedia.org/there-is-no-such-thing-as-sustainable-beef/Jessica's articles about ag-gag laws:https://sentientmedia.org/ag-gag-laws-keep-animal-farming-in-the-dark-and-diminish-public-trust/More on the horse Carriage issue in New York:https://sentientmedia.org/ban-new-york-horse-carriages/   https://w42st.com/post/could-contentious-video-signal-the-end-of-horse-carriages-in-central-park/More on the horse hormone issue:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/16/iceland-urged-to-ban-blood-farms-that-extract-hormone-from-pregnant-horses References:‘The beef with fake meat: Dairy and meat lobbies take aim at plant-based products' By Jessica Scott-Reid https://www.corporateknights.com/food-beverage/meat-companies-undermine-plant-based-products/‘Are sustainable poultry claims all they're cracked up to be?' By Jessica Scott-Reid https://www.corporateknights.com/food-beverage/sustainable-poultry-claims/ ‘One Study, Five Headlines' By Caroline Christen https://sentientmedia.org/one-study-five-headlines-how-to-deal-with-conflicting-diet-news/‘Critics explode over Niagara Falls nightly fireworks plan' By Jessica Scott-Reid https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/05/16/critics-explode-over-niagara-falls-nightly-fireworks-plan.htmlNicholas Carter & co. at plant-based data for climate science:  https://www.plantbaseddata.orgFaunalytics study into effective advocacy: https://faunalytics.org/relative-effectiveness/‘How a Vegan Diet Takes the Joy out of Life' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/doctors-diary/vegan-diet-takes-joy-life/ by James Le FanuTenderly Magazine:  https://tenderly.medium.comDocumentary ‘Meat Me Halfway' https://www.meatmehalfway.org  

On this week’s podcast I will be talking to Will Lowrey of Animal Outlook about a case that really has everyone in the animal law community talking. Several years ago Animal Outlook conducted an undercover investigation of Martin Farms, in Pennsylvania, a dairy farm that proved to be the locus of much hideous cruelty to animals. Some of that cruelty was… The post Animal Law Podcast #82: Maybe Cruelty Laws CAN Protect Farmed Animals! appeared first on Our Hen House.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why the expected numbers of farmed animals in the far future might be huge, published by Fai on March 4, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary In case you read my comment in the The Future Fund's Project Ideas Competition post, this is kind of a detailed version of the comment. This post is essentially a case that factory farming could be a longtermist cause area. (but not a case that the current portfolio of work on factory farming are good or relevant for the future) Alternatively, you can see this post as a response to claims similar to this: “The scale of the problem of factory farming itself (ignoring potential long-run benefits of animal advocacy) is small compared to the scale of issues affecting future generations.” Unlike previous attempts like this or this, this post does not base the case on arguments about the flow-through/knock-on effects of farmed animal advocacy (or other animal advocacy). I used the expected number of humans by (Future of Humanity Institute 2021),as a basis of my guesstimates. This formed my view that the case for concerning about farmed animals in the far future is at least as strong as the case for concerning about humans in the far future. The strongest argument against the importance of this post is that, in expectation, artificial sentience will far outnumber the number of farmed animals. The caveat is that this argument would also suggest that humans are not of significant concern in the longtermist worldview. The only intervention I am proposing in light of this proposed longtermist cause area, is to do research to update the guesstimates I provided in this post. Why this post? In 10+ (I believe 12-14, I regret not tracking them seriously from the start) discussions (mine vs others, and also discussions I see on EA forum, podcasts, forwarded emails, etc.) about longtermism, I often heard from other longtermists claim that factory farming is a “shortermist”/non-lontermist cause area. For example, 80000 hours said in their factory farming cause area profile: “The scale of the problem of factory farming itself (ignoring potential long-run benefits of animal advocacy) is small compared to the scale of issues affecting future generations.” The most often heard (in fact, I don't remember a single case when it wasn't) justification for this view is that, they believe, factory farming is grossly energy inefficient in comparison with its potential substitutes, especially cultivated meat, and therefore will likely (some say certainly) be replaced. I (and a few people in animal welfare and alternative protein spaces I talked to) am personally baffled by the level of certainty they tend to have on the claim, and also the lack of support further than the energy efficiency argument. Since then, I have found more and more evidence that this view is probably misinformed. And since the truth of this claim might have very significant implications for the longtermist picture (especially for people who focus more on S-risk then X-risk). I decided to write a post on it. Applying the expected value theory, also to animal issues Before going into the technical details of the topic. I want to discuss a bit about applying the expected value theory consistently. In quite a lot of discussions on the relation between animal welfare and longtermism, people made arguments like “I think a key objection for me is to the idea that wild animals will be included in space settlement in any significant numbers.“ Or “I'm pretty optimistic this won't happen however. I think by default we should expect that the future (if we don't die out), will be predominantly composed of humans and our (digital) descendants, rather than things that look like wild animals today.” I think this type of responses suffer from the same problem, that they are not strong enough to...

Attorney and animal activist Wayne Hsiung has repeatedly risked serving prison terms to wake the world up to the horrors of modern day animal agriculture! This co-founder of the groundbreaking animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere is using high-tech Virtual Reality cameras and Livestreams to bring viewers along with him as he, and other activists, engage in what DxE has coined Open Rescue. This is when activists trespass onto modern day Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, farms and slaughterhouses to rescue animals they identify as sick and/or at risk of death. Wayne Hsiung and others have been prosecuted for these actions. He was recently convicted in North Carolina for removing a baby goat from a farm in 2018, an action which he LIVE STREAMED on Facebook. He got a suspended sentence. Wayne Hsiung represented himself in the case and tried to bring issues of animal rights into the trial but was blocked by prosecutors and the judge. What's next for Wayne Hsiung? Upcoming trials? This brilliant, changemaker discusses this and more with UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell.

Attorney and animal activist Wayne Hsiung has repeatedly risked serving prison terms to wake the world up to the horrors of modern day animal agriculture! This co-founder of the groundbreaking animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere is using high-tech Virtual Reality cameras and Livestreams to bring viewers along with him as he, and other activists, engage in what DxE has coined Open Rescue. This is when activists trespass onto modern day Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, farms and slaughterhouses to rescue animals they identify as sick and/or at risk of death. Wayne Hsiung and others have been prosecuted for these actions. He was recently convicted in North Carolina for removing a baby goat from a farm in 2018, an action which he LIVE STREAMED on Facebook. He got a suspended sentence. Wayne Hsiung represented himself in the case and tried to bring issues of animal rights into the trial but was blocked by prosecutors and the judge. What's next for Wayne Hsiung? Upcoming trials? This brilliant, changemaker discusses this and more with UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell.

Attorney and animal activist Wayne Hsiung has repeatedly risked serving prison terms to wake the world up to the horrors of modern day animal agriculture! This co-founder of the groundbreaking animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere is using high-tech Virtual Reality cameras and Livestreams to bring viewers along with him as he, and other activists, engage in what DxE has coined Open Rescue. This is when activists trespass onto modern day Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, farms and slaughterhouses to rescue animals they identify as sick and/or at risk of death. Wayne Hsiung and others have been prosecuted for these actions. He was recently convicted in North Carolina for removing a baby goat from a farm in 2018, an action which he LIVE STREAMED on Facebook. He got a suspended sentence. Wayne Hsiung represented himself in the case and tried to bring issues of animal rights into the trial but was blocked by prosecutors and the judge. What's next for Wayne Hsiung? Upcoming trials? This brilliant, changemaker discusses this and more with UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How To Help Farmed Animals Without Going Vegan (A Happier World video), published by Jeroen W on February 18, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Hi all! Together with Jack Hancock from Humane Hancock we made a video on how to help farmed animals without going fully vegan. We explore three main ways: Through your diet (cutting/reducing fish/chicken/eggs), your money (donating to effective animal organisation) and your career /free time (mentioning 80,000 Hours and Animal Advocacy Careers). Feel free to give us any feedback in the comments here or on YouTube. I'm also curious to hear: did you learn any new things? Has it changed/updated your mind on anything? If you liked the video, I would encourage you to share it with your friends (especially those who aren't in the effective altruist movement). You're also welcome to use it for any EA events you're hosting! In case you do, let us know how it went! More on A Happier World in this earlier EA forum post. Thanks to Gage Weston and Sarah Emminghaus for their help with the script. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

Nandita is the ED of Population Balance which works to address the impacts of human overpopulation & overconsumption on the planet, people & animals. She is the co-director of the Fair Start Movement, which works on legal & educational reform towards a sustainable & just family-planning model. As faculty with the Institute for Humane Education, Nandita teaches a course “Pronatalism & Overpopulation” about the pervasive pressure on women to have children & the impacts on them, families, non-human animals & the planet. Previously, Nandita worked as a high school physics & math teacher & an administrator in both the public & independent school systems as well as an engineer at Bombardier Aerospace. She has a B.Eng. (Aerospace Engineering) from Ryerson University, a B.Ed. from University of Toronto & an M.Ed. (Humane Ed.) from Antioch University. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what's real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube. We discuss: 00:00 Welcome 01:10 Nandita's Intro - Engineering to teaching maths/physics to studying & teaching at the Institute of Humane Education (animals, humans, environment) - Pronatalism: The pressure to have children - Population stabilisation 04:26 What's Real? - Growing up in a fairly liberal household in North-West India - Moving every 3 years. "Wired to desire change" - Following Hindu religious holidays & traditions - Transactional religious compliance: fear-based & conditional - Tribalism & superstition "It didn't make a lot of sense to me" - Moving to Canada - Becoming non-religious was fairly straight-forward - Dabbling in self-discovery & studying psychology: Realising "These pieces of my identity were for the most part socially constructed" - De-constructing values & beliefs "Who I was made to believe I was was very limited & finite & self-serving." Reputation, wealth, success, family - "What motivates me deeply?" rather than "what do people expect of me?" - Exploring eastern & western philosophy - "There is this deep reverence that I hold - not for a god... but for the entire evolutionary process" "There seems to some kind of a kind of miraculousness to it" - Interconnectedness, scale, deep time, human humility - "There is something much bigger going on." Mystery - driven by science - but not limited to evidence, because there may be things we'll never have evidence of - Evidence might be limited but that's not an excuse for "making stuff up" - How supernatural beliefs can warp compassionate ethics 22:18 What & Who Matters? ...and much more. Full show notes at Sentientism.info and on YouTube. Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is here on FaceBook. Come join us there! Thanks Graham.

Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns discusses the social justice issues relating to slaughterhouse workers, farmed animals, and animal advocates. United Poultry Concerns, founded by Karen Davis, is a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl including a sanctuary for chickens in Virginia. Karen is the author of numerous books, essays, articles and campaigns advocating for these birds. Her latest book is For the Birds: From Exploitation to Liberation: Essays on Chickens, Turkeys, and Other Domesticated Fowl.  Also please check out their excellent podcast called "Hope for the Animals", hosted by longtime animal advocate and author Hope Bohanec. She has great conversations with expert guests, and definitely check out the ‘Reason for Vegan' series, and the ‘microsanctuary' series. I highly recommend it, and you can find it all at UPC-online.org.  Original post: https://www.upc-online.org/industry/200728_slaughterhouse_workers_farmed_animals_and_animal_advocates-can_there_be_justice_for_all.html  Brave New Life Project: https://vegnews.com/2021/8/brave-new-life-project-workers-animal-agriculture https://www.bravenewlife.org PETA Initiative:  https://www.livekindly.co/former-slaughterhouse-workers-make-vegan-meat/ Rancher Advocacy Program:  https://rancheradvocacy.org  The Transfarmation Project:  https://thetransfarmationproject.org  Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #plantbased #veganpodcast #plantbasedpodcast #plantbasedbriefing #unitedpoultryconcerns #karendavis #hopebohanec #upc #slaughterhouse #slaughterhouseworkers #meatpackers #poultryprocessors #animalcruelty  

Cheryl Leahy, Executive Director of Animal Outlook, has been shedding light on the exploitation of animals in our food system since 2006. In this deep dive interview, Sentient Media's Executive Director Ana Bradley explores the role of investigations and the law in building a better future for all and uncovers hidden suffering in the pet food industry as the pair discuss the role of animals in society, from "crush videos" to food. Find Cheryl and Animal Outlook here: https://animaloutlook.org https://www.instagram.com/animal.outlook/https://www.facebook.com/AnimalOutlook/https://www.youtube.com/c/animaloutlookhttps://twitter.com/animaloutlook/  Hit subscribe and find us here: Newsletter: https://sentientmedia.org/newsletter​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/sentientmediaorg​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sentient_media​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/sentient_media​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sent...​Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCudaVg7_tLsKzdg0fWko2bg

Kate Good explains fish farming and the impact on fish and the environment at FishFeel.org. Originally published at OneGreenPlanet.org. Fish Feel is the first organization devoted to promoting the recognition of fish as sentient beings deserving of respect and compassion. Despite fish constituting the largest category of animals used for food (including as farmed animal feed), and despite huge numbers of fish harmed for research, “sport,” and aquaria, their well-being receives very little attention, even from the animal protection community. Fish Feel is an all-volunteer organization primarily serving to help educate the public as to why these animals are deserving of our admiration and appreciation, the immense problems caused by the exploitation of them, and how we can help them. Original post: https://fishfeel.org/news/commentary/  Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #fishfeel #onegreenplanet #aquaculture #fishfarm #aquafarm #factoryfarming #fish #antibiotics #proteinpellets #parasites #waterpollution #animalcruelty #vegan #veganpodcast #plantbasedpodcast #plantbasedbriefing  

Episode 195 Alex Hershaft, PhD. Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Alex Hershaft, PhD. Alex Hershaft began his national struggle to end the use of animals for food by launching the Vegetarian Information Service in 1976. Five years later, he founded the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), which grew into a national force opposing animal farming. Since then, Dr. Hershaft launched World Day for Farmed Animals in 1983, the Great American Meatout in 1985, and Vegan Earth Day in 1989. He also organized eight animal rights conferences between 1981 and 1991 and 20 more between 1997 and 2017. Dr. Hershaft has written hundreds of letters to the editor about the benefits of plant-based eating and the devastating impacts of animal farming. He launched The Vegan Blog in September of 2019 to offer a bi-weekly critical review of the history, accomplishments, and potential of the U.S. animal rights movement. Dr. Hershaft received his B.A. in 1955 from the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. in inorganic and physical chemistry from Iowa State University in 1961. He spent the next 20 years teaching in Israel and working for military and environmental consulting firms in the Washington DC area. During that time, he also led several organizations advocating for religious freedom and testified at Congressional hearings about diet and health. Dr. Hershaft was born in Warsaw, Poland, and survived the Nazi regime in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1951, after five years in an Italian refugee camp. He has lectured extensively about his journey from the Warsaw Ghetto to his struggle for animal rights in Israel, in Europe, and throughout the U.S. Dr. Hershaft has been inducted into both the Vegetarian and the Animal Rights Hall of Fame. He is an honorary fellow of the International Vegetarian Union. https://farmusa.org https://neveragain.global https://theveganblog.org Note: Guests create their own bio description for each episode. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! The easiest way to donate is via the Venmo app and you can donate to (at symbol) CuriosityHour (Download app here: venmo.com) The Curiosity Hour Podcast is available free on 13 platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, Soundcloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Podbean, PlayerFM, Castbox, and Pocket Casts. Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language. The Public Service Announcement near the end of the episode solely represents the views of Tommy and Dan and not our guests or our listeners.

Kathy Halamka, one of the founders of Unity Farm Sanctuary, talks about how she and her husband started their farm sanctuary, what they do and what they're looking forward to in the future. Unity Farm Sanctuary provides a safe and loving lifelong home for farm animals, offers unique educational programs to the public, and promotes a culture of kindness and connection. To learn more about Unity Farm Sanctuary, please visit their website, https://www.unityfarmsanctuary.org/

Show notes: -"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new" is the quote that todays guest, Jessica, shares with us to remind us that while it is very important to create system change, but also equally important to help create the world you want to live in. -I am so excited to be speaking with Jess, who I met when I spent time in Hawaii! She is one of the founders and directors of the Aloha Animal Sanctuary, and is a passionate animal rights and human trafficking activist and she is also a nurse! -Listen in to hear about Jess's activist journey, animal rights activism, animal rescues, and learn the story behind the sanctuary and what makes it so special! -The Aloha Animal Sanctuary is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit for Farmed Animals based on Oahu, Hawaii the focuses on education, sustainability, and community! Connect with Jess on IG: @sonrisajess Follow the Aloha Animal Sanctuary on IG: @alohaanimalsanctuary Aloha Animal Sanctuary website: https://www.alohasanctuary.org/ Connect with me on IG: @star.heart.traveler Check out my Etsy Shop: Aqua.Loam Podcast cover art: Mackenna Cady @kennaaloha

Earlier this month, officials in Australia announced plans to shoot and kill thousands of camels. What did the camels do to deserve this punishment? They were looking for water to drink, and this search brought them into human communities.Last year, U.S. federal and state governments spent tens of millions of dollars on plans to “eradicate” bands of feral pigs. What did the pigs do to deserve this punishment? They were looking for food to eat, and this search, once again, brought them into human communities.This year, Denver is poised to kill more of its Canada goose population, after slaughtering 1,600 geese last year. What are the geese doing to deserve this punishment? They are merely trying to live—Colorado is part of their historic range—and are seen as a nuisance.These stories are the tip of the iceberg. While the details vary, the general theme is always the same. When human and nonhuman interests appear to conflict, we use violence, often in the form of organized extermination campaigns, to resolve these apparent conflicts in our favor.Read the article here: https://sentientmedia.org/stop-treating-animals-as-invaders-for-simply-trying-to-exist/ Hit subscribe and find us here: Newsletter: https://sentientmedia.org/newsletter​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/sentientmediaorg​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sentient_media​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/sentient_media​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sent...​

Antibiotics are given to animals to make them fatter - even when they aren't sick. So what do you think it's doing to you? It’s disrupting your microbiome, encouraging weight gain, and potentially causing systemic inflammatory diseases like autoimmune conditions.What can you do to protect your microbiome and health if you need to take an antibiotic? For 10% off my favorite probiotics for sensitive people that I mentioned in this episode along with other health protocols visit: https://us.fullscript.com/welcome/vitaminrx For other health goodies and bonuses visit: www.vitaminrx.me/free 

This show includes a feature interview with Emily Wilson, the founder and head chef at Living Tree Foods. We discuss her background as an animal rights lawyer and her passion for affordable, delicious, and local vegan cheese products. We also hear a story from pattrice jones discussing her first time bringing ducks to Vine Sanctuary and the assumptions we make about non-human animals based on the narrative that animals are motivated by reproduction and survival, rather than love, eros, and community. Read more →

Gene Baur, author and President of Farm Sanctuary, discusses insights on journalistic coverage of farmed animals, vegans, and veganism, as well as the animal agribusiness industry's advertising and marketing tactics. Gene and interviewer Carrie Freeman (radio host, media professor, and coauthor of AnimalsandMedia.org guidelines) also discuss respectful language to use to describe fellow animals. 27 minute podcast. Recorded in November 2019. USA.www.farmsanctuary.org    www.animalsandmedia.org In Tune to Nature airs live Wednesdays from 6:30-7pm EST on radio station 89.3FM-Atlanta and worldwide on wrfg.org (Radio Free Georgia, non-commercial independent radio). The show's website is www.facebook.com/intunetonature 

Todays conversation with Pam Ahern from Edgars Mission Farm Sanctuary is a chat I sought out as a beacon of hope and positivity in a time when life can seem a little overwhelming and a lot uncertain. I feel like the world seems small right now. We're doing less, planning less, excited by less and yet there's still such a positive impact you can have in one ... READ MORE The post Pam Ahern from Edgars Mission Farm Sanctuary Is Creating A Kinder World For Farmed Animals. appeared first on Healthification.

What if a single tool could utilize animal numbers as well as economic, political, and cultural data from a multitude of countries to help effective altruists identify where and how they can make the greatest impact for animals? Learn about the new Farmed Animal Opportunities Index, an open-source tool that offers a research-backed formula for … Continue reading Virtual EAG 2020: Identifying opportunities for farmed animals (Garcés, Leah)

The guys kick off the hour with a serious discussion as oil barrel prices reach negatives and explain and get help from callers to talk about how this happens and what it means. The hour is heavy with topics regarding gas prices, how this affects farmers and their crops and animal prices and even how this will affect collegiate athletics as Ross points out we may have been the biggest coach contracts we'll see in our lifetimes.

-Jasmin and Mariann talk about the recent success for legislation in New York banning foie gras and improving working conditions for carriage horses, and the work that has been done to get to this point. They also discuss Mariann's new teaching position, and Jasmin's birthday! -Jasmin talks to photographer Daniel Turbert from The Sentient Project about working to capture the full perspective of how society treats animals, why he chooses to focus on photographing farmed animals, documenting indigenous tribes in the Amazon, and his new documentary Cows Come Home. (14:50) -Mariann brings us Rising Anxieties about the labeling of plant-based foods, and VEGAPHOBIA!. (49:50) -This week's episode is brought to you in part by OSEA Malibu: the original plant-based, results-driven skincare line. Go to oseamalibu.com/ourhenhouse to receive $10 off your first purchase of $50!

In this episode, Kathy Stevens and Scott David discuss: The massive scale of Quality Pork Processors The program piloted by Quality Pork Processors that erases the maximum speed on the slaughter line...and the problems caused by such speed How hard animals fight for their lives How workers who must "keep the line moving" treat pigs who are too weak or injured to move Suggestions for individuals who want to work on behalf of animals Key Takeaways: The emphasis on speed at all slaughterhouses makes an already horrible experience for animals and workers far worse than it needs to be Downer animals -- those too weak to stand/move on their own -- are beaten and shocked so that the line can keep moving Slaughterhouse workers are victims, too, under enormous pressure from management to maintain a rate of speed that is not possible without grave consequences The suffering of billions of animals annually vanishes if we choose not to eat them “These animals are struggling, trying to get away however the can...but they're in a slaughterhouse: there's nowhere for them to go." – Scott David Connect with Scott David & COK:Twitter: @TryVeg & @SDUndercoverFacebook: Compassion Over KillingWebsite: COK.net & TryVeg.comYouTube: tryvegPinterest: Compassion Over KillingInstagram: @compassion_over_killing Connect with Kathy Stevens:Facebook: facebook.com/kathy.stevens.CAS, facebook.com/catskillanimalsanctuaryTwitter: twitter.com/CASanctuary/Books: https://store.casanctuary.org/collections/books/products/where-the-blind-horse-singsWebsite: Catskill Animal SanctuaryInstagram: instagram.com/catskill_animal_sanctuary/YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/CASanctuary

Leah Garcés is a founder of Compassion in World Farming USA and, as of October 1, the first female President of Mercy for Animals (MFA) - an international nonprofit animal protection organization founded in 1999 by Milo Runkle. Mercy For Animals is dedicated to preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies. You may remember our last conversation with Leah from Episode 24, where we talked about her journey right after she joined MFA. This conversation is about her new book - GRILLED: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry. GRILLED details Leah’s experiences working alongside farmers and food industry leaders—encouraging change through dialogue and discussion—to reduce animal suffering and shine a spotlight on the rapidly growing plant-based food sector. In this conversation we talked about what moved Leah to write the book, why she decided to focus on chicken and what she learned along the way. Tune in to learn more! For more information, please visit: https://mercyforanimals.org/grilled https://www.mercyforanimals.org Purchase the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Grilled-Turning-Adversaries-Chicken-Industry/dp/1472962583/ Follow Leah on IG: https://www.instagram.com/leahgarces

-Jasmin and Mariann talk about the urgency of animal activism in the face of climate crisis, and our dear friend Jo-Anne MacArther's new Masterclass! -Jasmin talks to Amy Jean Davis of L.A. Animal Save about the origins the Save Movement and how anyone can start a chapter of the Movement in their community, how bearing witness can inspire people to become activists, and the difficult but necessary experience of participating in vigils for animals on the way to slaughter. (18:15) -Mariann brings us Rising Anxieties about Adopt-A-Cow programs, and Taylor Swift! (52:55)

In this episode, Kathy Stevens and Scott David discuss: Scott’s drive and willingness to take risks to do good for animals His work in 3 slaughterhouses as an undercover investigator The conditions of slaughterhouses for the human workers The lawsuit Compassion Over Killing filed between Superior Farms and the USDA Key Takeaways: Slaughterhouses value speed over everything else – it is factory farming There are horrifying consequences of that speed for animals and humans There is no such thing as “humane slaughter” The COK legal victory over Superior Farms sends an important message to the industry “For all the stuff we do, the changes we make, we still need to continue doing undercover investigations. We are always looking towards the future, trying to see which sorts of places we should check out and remind people of what we have already shown them." – Scott David Connect with Scott David & CKO: Twitter:  @TryVeg & @SDUndercover Facebook:  Compassion Over Killing Website:  COK.net YouTube: tryveg Pinterest: Compassion Over Killing Instagram: @compassion_over_killing Connect with Kathy Stevens: Facebook: facebook.com/kathy.stevens.CAS, facebook.com/catskillanimalsanctuary Twitter:   twitter.com/CASanctuary/ Books:  https://store.casanctuary.org/collections/books/products/where-the-blind-horse-sings Website: Catskill Animal Sanctuary Instagram: instagram.com/catskill_animal_sanctuary/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/CASanctuary

In this second Episode of the Podcast Die "Weltretterin", i have one very special guest. Jo-Anne McArthur is a very inspirational women. She is an award-winning photographer, author, and speaker based in Toronto, Canada. She has been documenting our complex relationship with animals around the globe for the project We Animals. You learn in this interview: * Who is Jo-Anne * What is her Why for her great work * What is her experience * How does she cope with heartbreaking situations with farmed animals * How does she make her living while giving away photos for free * What are her most wonderful experiences with her work * What would she tell the world, if everybody listened and understood I wish you a very inspirational Interview, Your Andrea

We begin with great news out of Florida! The citizens have voiced their strong desire to end greyhound racing by passing Amendment 13. Peter speaks with Christine Dorchak with Grey2K USA, which has been fighting for greyhounds for 2 decades. Dorchak calls greyhound racing industrialized cruelty, in which the dogs are kept confined in stacked […]

Let’s Rage Together Podcast — In this episode we discuss some listener feedback about the last episode and a question about guide dogs. We also chat about the Hambach Forest evictions, the proposed Cresta Shopping Mall aquarium and the World Day for Animals fast. Our main discussion centres around an introduction to feminist concepts, including toxic masculinity and rape culture. Trigger warning: Rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, gender discrimination, racism, domestic violence Topics: Patriarchy, Feminism, Intersectionality, Veganism, Rape Culture, Toxic Masculinity, Equality, Capitalism, Guide dogs, Ableism, Speciesism, Sexism, Misogyny, Racism, Transphobia, Homophobia, Gender Binary, Gender, #menaretrash, #notallmen, #rememberkhwezi, Jacob Zuma, Domestic Violence, Serena Williams, Sexual Assault, Sexual Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Total Liberation, Let’s Rage Together, Environmentalism, Animal Rights, Animal Liberation, Ecofeminism, Feminazi, the Matilda effect, Pay gap, Slut shaming, Victim blaming, White Feminism, Intersectional Feminism, Radical Feminism, Classism 18twenty8 · Tracee Ellis Ross - A Woman's Fury Holds Lifetimes of Wisdom · Audre Lorde · Ban Animal Trading · Cresta Shopping Centre Aquarium Petition · Hambach Forest · Herbi Vohr · Jackson Katz - Violence Against Women; It's a Men's Issue · Judiciary · Mortality Rate · The People VS Patriarchy · Carol J. Adams - The Sexual Politics of Meat · Unoffensive Animal · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists · World Day for Farmed Animals

In honor of World Day for Farmed Animals, tonight's topic is, ""healing gifts and wisdom teachings of farm animals in Animal Reiki practice."

Camille and Peter tackle one of the most important issues in Canadian animal law: the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC), and the codes of practice it publishes for the treatment of farmed animals. Shockingly, animal welfare on farms is almost completely unregulated in Canada. Instead, the government lets the farm industry-dominated NFACC develop voluntary, unenforceable "standards" for animals confined on farms. Learn more about this organization, and why we're concerned that NFACC's style of self-regulation is window-dressing that's ultimately counterproductive for animals.

Camille and Peter tackle one of the most important issues in Canadian animal law: the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC), and the codes of practice it publishes for the treatment of farmed animals. Shockingly, animal welfare on farms is almost completely unregulated in Canada. Instead, the government lets the farm industry-dominated NFACC develop voluntary, unenforceable "standards" for animals confined on farms. Learn more about this organization, and why we're concerned that NFACC's style of self-regulation is window-dressing that's ultimately counterproductive for animals.

This week The ChickPeeps take a more serious turn as we investigate the issue with dairy and exactly why vegans don't consume it. Many non-vegans argue that taking its milk doesn't hurt cows and that in fact milking actually relieves the cow. We explore the reasons why this is a myth, and discuss the results of quitting dairy products entirely. We also interview two of the founders of Animal Equality, and creators of the groundbreaking iAnimal project, Jose Valle and Sharon Nunez, who recount in vivid detail the experiences they've had on dairy farms and the typical life of a dairy cow. Also on this episode... Is there more suffering in a glass of milk? 'You're not lactose intolerant, you're just not a baby cow.' The gifts/health benefits cows give you when you stop eating their secretions. Evy expresses her frustration with evolution to provide cows with adequate weaponry - why no fanged cows yet? Momo suggests carving holes in animals is probably not to their liking. Why do people think calcium is synonymous with dairy milk?  The Chickpeeps discuss their favourite dairy substitutes. Is dairy a feminist issue? How Animal Equality was founded. Jose shares how the iAnimal project was conceived. Tylor: 'These Animals are children who are then forced to have children who are then taken away just so we can drink their milk.' Is there an ethical way to consume dairy? The future for dairy farms. Links A Vegan Guide to Calcium Animal Equality Website: animalequality.org Virtual Reality Experience of the Lives of Farmed Animals: ianimal360.com Help and Tips for Going Vegan: loveveg.com Animal Equality's Instagram: @animalequality Love Veg Instagram: @love veg_us Animal Equality's Twitter: @animalequality Animal Equality's Facebook: @animalequality Social Media Twitter: @ChickPeepsPod Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast Momoko Hill: @oh_momoko Robbie Jarvis: @robbjarvis Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch

This week on Animal Instinct, host Celia Kutcher is joined by Sharon Nunez, president and co-founder of Animal Equality. Sharon talks about the release of iAnimal, an immersive virtual reality experience into the lives of farmed animals. iAnimal uses cutting-edge virtual reality technology to give viewers an immersive look at the life cycle of factory farmed animals from birth to death. This latest project features footage filmed by 13 investigators in six countries.