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Species Unite

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32:49

Drew Pendergrass: Half Earth Socialism

Species Unite ·

2022/07/07

“Animal agriculture can be gone tomorrow. it's not foundational. That’s why I find it very puzzling, the amount of pushback because it seems to be the actual… low hanging fruit. You write a book about socialism and no problem at all, people are like. “yeah, sure get rid of capitalism. No problem.” Get rid of animal agriculture, they get very mad.” -Drew Pendergrass Drew is a PhD student in environmental engineering at Harvard. He is also the co-author with Troy Vettessee of Half Earth Socialism A

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Suzanne Asha Stone: Coexistence

Species Unite ·

2022/06/29

"We are fed things like Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs and, you know, we grow up on this stuff, that the wolf is the big, bad character. And what the real wolf is like is so totally different." - Suzanne Asha Stone A couple of months ago, we did a series on wolves. The episodes focused on the massacre of entire wolf populations in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. At the time, I said that we did enough wolf episodes. But the truth is we didn't do enough because wolves are still

29:02

Tina Bhojwani: They Don’t Look Vegan

Species Unite ·

2022/06/23

“The idea is that we take and take and take from the planet. And we've been taking and there's all this talk about how can we get to neutral? And our company wanted to do something a little bit differently. We wanted to give back more than we were taking.” – Tina Bhojwani Tina Bhojwani is the co-founder and CEO of AERA, a luxury vegan footwear brand. In a past life, she held key leadership roles at global brands including Donna Karan, Theory and was President of Dolce & Gabbana North America.

30:11

Gordon Meade: Zoospeak

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2022/06/16

Brown Bear, Germany, 2008 I'm aware of what you are and I'm also aware of what you're thinking. You're a human being I'm aware of what you are and I'm also aware of what you're thinking. You're a human being and you are thinking I am something else I'm aware of what you are and I'm also aware of what you're thinking. You're a human being and you are thinking I am something else put here for your entertainment. I'm aware of what you are and I'm also aware of what you're thinking. You're a

44:00

Yaakov Koby Nahmias: Future Meat

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2022/06/08

“You see, most of the people in the cultured meat world are usually either biologists that are excited about the biology or physicians that work with stem cells and regenerative medicine. They're asking, “can we make a steak? Can we make a muscle?” They are not asking what is the cheapest way of making this? They're assuming somebody else is going to come and solve it. The difference between them and us is that I am an engineer. So that, yeah, I can make a muscle. I made a muscle back then. I'm

42:58

Gemunu de Silva: Vampire Blood Farms

Species Unite ·

2022/06/02

“I mean this is the crazy thing about it, in 35 years of doing animal protection investigations I didn't know this existed. It wasn't even a thing, because it sounds it sounds too crazy to actually believe - that you'd get blood from pregnant horses and then it helps productivity in pigs.” – Gemunu de Silva Gemunu de Silva is the co-founder of Tracks Investigations. He is a filmmaker and an activist who's been investigating and documenting animal rights abuses since the 1980s. Tracks has

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Jo-Anne McArthur: What We Can’t Un-See

Species Unite ·

2022/05/26

Species Unite will be back next week, June 2nd, with a brand new season. Until then, we are re-sharing some of our favorite episodes. Today's is a conversation with Jo-Anne McArthur. Jo-Anne McArthur is an award winning photojournalist and the founder of We Animals Media. For 20 years she has been photographing and bearing witness to our complex relationship with animals. She’s worked in over 60 countries in just about every industry one can imagine - including: fur farms, factory farms, bear bile

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Lori Marino: Intelligent Life On Earth

Species Unite ·

2022/05/18

Species Unite will be back on June 2nd with a brand new season. Until then, we are re-sharing some of our favorite episodes. This week’s is a conversation with Lori Marino. “In a natural setting, these animals would be swimming maybe a hundred miles a day, diving deep. They have their social lives, their social networks, roles to play in very tightly-knit family groups. They raise their children. They have cultures, different ways of doing things in different populations. They can explore and play

43:15

Aaron Gross: How To Change The Story Around How And...

Species Unite ·

2022/05/11

Species Unite will be back on June 2nd with a new season. Until then, we are re-sharing some of our favorite episodes. This week’s is a conversation with Aaron Gross. We all have a food story; the story that we tell ourselves about what we eat and why we eat it. It’s that story that runs the show when it comes to how we shop, cook, and feed our children. It was most often taught to us by our parents and their parents, most who thought they were passing on good values and deep traditions and

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Melanie Joy: Why We (Still) Love Dogs, Eat Pigs And,...

Species Unite ·

2022/05/05

Species Unite will return in a few weeks with Season 8. Until then, we are re-sharing some of our favorite episodes. Today's is a conversation with Melanie Joy. Melanie Joy is a Harvard-educated psychologist, specializing in the psychology of eating animals, social transformation, and relationships. She is the award-winning author of six books, including the best-selling, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows. She is the founder of the non-profit, Beyond Carnism, dedicated to exposing and

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Warren Ellis: Ellis Park

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2022/04/28

“It's funny because with art, with literature, with music, we are all connected. It's emotion. You know, like if I say, “have you read this or that,” or… “do you know Alice Coltrane? Do you know John Coltrane?” Whatever it is you've got a language and there's a connection going on. And, we should have that with the world. We should have that feeling of like an artistic sensibility to the world. We do have that with other things. People can talk about movies and they feel connected in a way

01:02:34

Damien Mander: How to be a Superhero

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2022/04/21

Damien Mander is the founder and CEO of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF). He is a former Australian Royal Navy clearance diver and a special operations military sniper who became an anti-poaching crusader and an environmental and animal welfare activist. In 2009, while traveling through Africa, he was inspired by the work of rangers and the plight of wildlife. He liquidated his life savings and established the International Anti-Poaching Foundation. Over the past decade,

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Maggie Howell: Relist Wolves

Species Unite ·

2022/04/14

“This is their second chance. They were rendered extinct in the wild. And so now this is our second chance to get it right. We killed them off and hopefully they have enough of what they need that they can take the second chance and run with it.” – Maggie Howell This is the last episode in a series that we are doing on wolves. It's probably not the final episode because I'm not going to shut up about wolves until they're all back on the endangered species list. But for the moment, it's the last.

01:08:42

Carter Niemeyer: Wolfer

Species Unite ·

2022/04/07

“Packs that are continuously trapped and snared and hunted, the packs are smaller and things are a lot more chaotic in the pack because you're killing uncle, you're killing dad, you're killing mom. The pups may get good leadership training and learn how to hunt or the family could be broken up and the puppies never fully learn how to hunt. And so all this hunting and trapping lowers the pack size, fragments them often and might cause a pack to break up, and those broken packs can actually send

40:10

Jim and Jamie Dutcher: Living with Wolves

Species Unite ·

2022/03/31

“The alpha female dug a den and had puppies. And we got there as they were squealing in the pack. And what was just amazing is to see how the pack reacted to this. They were so excited. Even when she started digging the den, the other wolves start digging other holes… they weren't helping at all, they were just caught up in it.” – Jim Dutcher I've talked about this before and I'm going to talk about it a whole lot more, there is a mass slaughter of wolves taking place in Idaho, Montana and

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Alexandra Horowitz: The World According To Your Dog

Species Unite ·

2022/03/24

Today we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Alexandra Horowitz. “I can drive my car off a cliff and just leave it where it lay, the most I'll get is a littering fine, and if you throw your dog off the cliff the punishment is actually pretty similar. That's because they're the same type of thing to the law. So, unless you change that status, and you have people of course, who are thinking that there should be a status of kind of living property that might give them

33:59

C.J. Dirago: Song Dogs

Species Unite ·

2022/03/17

“Let's say I own a gun shop, and I want to drum up business, right? I can host a coyote killing contest, which they'll call predator hunting, where cash prizes of let's say $1000 goes to whomever kills the most coyotes in a 24 hour period. You might have 500 people show up from my state and out of state, and through any means necessary thermal scopes at night, any technology, electronic game calls to lure them in, hunting over bait... The competitive killing of coyotes happens for cash prizes all

24:52

Shely Aronov: Google Translate for Plants

Species Unite ·

2022/03/10

“Our entire food supply is completely dependent on chemicals and completely dependent on four to eight companies around the world to produce all these products.” – Shely Aronov Shelly Aronov is the founder and CEO of InnerPlant. InnerPlant is kind of like Google Translate for plants. They’re bioengineering plant genes so that crops can send messages to farmers, and the farmers will literally be able to understand what's going wrong with the crops. So that when they're under attack, the farmers

31:14

Kym Canter: House of Fluff

Species Unite ·

2022/03/03

“I put on the coat, I looked at myself in the mirror, I was going to a party in Brooklyn and I just thought, ‘you cannot go to this party like this, you will be shunned and you don't want to be this person.” And I took off the coat and I never looked back.” – Kym Canter Kym Canter is the founder and creative director at House of Fluff, a New York City-based, animal free, material innovation studio and outerwear brand. They also happen to make some of my favorite faux fur coats on the planet. All

40:21

Jonathan Balcombe: What A Fish Knows

Species Unite ·

2022/02/24

This week we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Jonathan Balcombe. “…gazing up to the night sky saying, ‘are we alone?’ …well, wait a minute, look around, there's tons of fascinating life forms. We're so lucky to have all this amazing panoply of life on the planet. I get the question… are there other humanoids out there? Or, are there other conscious beings? But we ought to be pretty grateful for what we have on this planet… there's a lot of amazing creatures and

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