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The Freedom of Species Team

Animal advocacy on the airwaves, hosted by a team of local animal advocates.

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Dr. Leila Dehghan - decolonising nutrition

Freedom of Species ·

2025/02/23

Dr. Leila Dehghan is a doctor-turned-nutritionist, activist, and educator. Her journey to veganism began as an animal rescuer, but she later discovered the healing power of a whole food, plant-based diet, which helped her overcome debilitating migraines. This experience shifted her career focus, leading her to earn a Master’s in Clinical and Public Health Nutrition from University College London. Leila is the founder of Plant-based Health Justice, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness

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Human Hair & Sheep’s Wool: A Tale of Two Textiles

Freedom of Species ·

2025/02/16

In today’s show, an introduction to the wool series, Betty and Trev respond to a podcast episode called ‘Wearing Hair’ from ‘Articles of Interest’ by Avery Trufelman. We discuss the concept of wearing human hair textiles as an alternative biomaterial as spearheaded by the Dutch company ‘Human Material Loop’ asking… is it vegan to wear human hair? We go on to unpack some of the inherent ethical issues with sheep’s wool as a material and critique the wool advocacy of author and knitting influencer,

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Animal Trivia! Attenborough, ALFF and Aquafaba

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2025/02/09

This episode is a trivia show, with questions related to animals, animal rights and veganism. Listen in and see if you can think of the answers before the Freedom of Species listeners and hosts get them! The show is hosted by Jennifer, Jasmine, Gonzalo and Nick. Music: Animal Liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/ I like birds by Eels: https://www.eelstheband.com/ Pigs…(in there) by Robert Wyatt: https://open.spotify.com/track/33HqYo8b3I9xPdEALEdFFi?si=94b218e3539542e8 Apartment

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Project Fresh Start with Jolene and Duaine

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2025/02/02

Our guests on today's show are Jolene and Duaine from Project Fresh Start, a vegan food relief charity operating in the south eastern region of Melbourne/Naarm. Project Fresh Start's mission is to address the challenges of food insecurity and food waste. They aim to eliminate the obstacles faced by marginalised people in accessing nutritious plant-based foods. Their initiatives are designed to achieve this goal by repurposing food waste to create healthy meals and fostering social connections

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Riot Dogs: Protest dogs of the world with Betty and Meg

Freedom of Species ·

2025/01/19

In 2008 during the Greek Austerity riots, a strange phenomena was born. Stray dogs began joining in the protests in Athens Greece against the IMF and their austerity measures directed toward every day citizens. These good boys and girls would voluntarily join protests and actively try to protect protesters against the police and their violence, siding always with the demonstrators. Photographers and videographers were the first to notice that the same dogs were turning up day after day, barking at

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Rope, Dope and the Empire: A Brief History of Humans...

Freedom of Species ·

2025/01/05

In today’s summer special, Betty takes Nick and the listeners through 12,000 years of the cannabis plant. Starting in the ancient world, through the age of sail and into the modern era, we follow the cannabis plant on its global journey and its role in human politics and development. We finish with a discussion on cannabis pharmacology, drug prohibition and challenges facing the revival of the hemp industry in modern times.Music has been removed from the podcast version of the show due to copyright

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Wales and the Welsh Language with Meg (Summer Special)

Freedom of Species ·

2024/12/29

Summer Special Join Meg as she talks about her father's country of Wales, the Welsh language, mythology and people and her connection to this historic and mysterious land. All music is in the Welsh language. The music has been edited out of the podcast due to copyright issues, please see below for menitoned music in order of play. Y Bwci Bos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3YwB0rcFuk&list=PLNq6F0_BGDH-BWQVvEfStYdlSmz6k_91u&index=4 Bendigeidfran

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Call Me Queen! Reddit Stories through a Social...

Freedom of Species ·

2024/12/22

On this Summer Special, Hayden and Nick discuss Reddit stories covering a wide range of topics, including: chosen names, religion, work, class, dogs, sexuality, gender and cheating. Happy Holidays! During the Freedom of Species timeslot Sunday 1-2pm, there will be Summer Specials for the next few weeks. Meg will be covering the women’s liberation movement on Dec 29 and Jan 12 and Betty will be discussing the history and politics of the cannabis plant on Jan 5. We will return to normal Freedom of

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Am I The (Vegan) Asshole?

Freedom of Species ·

2024/12/15

Hayden, Katie, Nick and Moo Moo discuss Reddit stories through a vegan lens, focusing on the social aspects of veganism. The stories are from Am I The Asshole, Confessions and Vegan sub-Reddits. Links: Happy Cow’s Top 25 Vegan-Friendly Cities 2025: https://www.happycow.net/vegtopics/travel/top-vegan-friendly-cities Vegan Australia’s 12 Days of Vegan Christmas campaign – check it out for tips, gift ideas, and recipes for the holiday period:

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Who Cares About Insects?

Freedom of Species ·

2024/12/08

Why do we overlook insects so often? In this show we decided to focus on insects for a change. Our guest Alex Hill is doing his PhD research on human insect relationships. We discuss why people including animal advocates and vegans do not consider insects much at all. We have a short quiz on insects, we talk about the threat of insect extinction and look into the details about different species of insects. Music Played: Graeme Revell 'La Danse Des Ténèbres (Dance Of Shadows)'

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Is “Soft” Activism a Path Forward? Veganism in Japan...

Freedom of Species ·

2024/12/01

This show features Ruby Ramsden on her PhD research on vegan activism in Japan. Some of the specific topics covered are: barriers to eating vegan in Japan, Ruby’s vegan/animal journey, “insider” and “outsider” research, a history of veganism and animal consumption in Japan, and tactical vegan advocacy. You can look further into Ruby’s work by checking out her article Veganism in Japan: How ‘soft’ activism is changing minds in a meat-eating nation:

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Animal-Free Science Advocacy interview with Rachel

Freedom of Species ·

2024/11/24

In this episode Meg interviews Rachel from Animal-Free Science Advocacy (AFSA), a not for profit organisation dedicated to advocating for the removal of animals from experimental science. We talk about AFSA's efforts to facilitate a culture of animal free alternatives in research, experimentation and training, and how this relates to the evolution of non animal experimental models of all kinds. Join us as we talk about current technology, how AFSA is tapping into this ever evolving aspect of

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Vegans For Trump? Conspirituality in the Vegan Movement

Freedom of Species ·

2024/11/17

Katie and Nick discuss well-known vegan spiritual figure Supreme Master Ching Hai supporting Donald Trump. We use this as a starting point to cover broader issues around connections between spiritual/wellness movements, including some vegans, and the far-right. This broader discussion draws on Naomi Klein’s book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. Links: We’re releasing this show as two separate podcasts. You can hear part one of this show, where we analyse the book and movie Uglies from an

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Is Uglies Really A Dystopian Story? Pop culture...

Freedom of Species ·

2024/11/17

Katie and Nick analyse the book and movie Uglies through an animal rights lens. The movie is streaming on Netflix but Katie recommends the book over the movie! We’re releasing this show as two separate podcasts. You can hear part two of this show, covering wellness/spiritual people including some vegans supporting Donald Trump, via our website and a range of podcast apps: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode/supreme-master-supports-trump-conspirituality-and-vegan-movement Music: Animal

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The ethics of companion animals

Freedom of Species ·

2024/11/10

In this show, Meg and Caroline discuss the history of companion animals and pethood and the ethical dilemmas this can raise. Music we played: Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday This is America by Childish Gambino Gibson Girl by Ethel Cain We also highlighted the work of Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS). MALS is an all-volunteer organisation that provides training for protest movements, information & resources on the rights to protest in Victoria, and fields Legal

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Food Empowerment Project

Freedom of Species ·

2024/11/03

Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P) is a volunteer-based non-profit organization focused on veganism and food justice. F.E.P's mission to to create a more just and sustainable world by recognising the power of one's food choices. They encourage healthy good choices that reflect a more compassionate sociert by spotlightin the abuse of animals on farms, the depletion of natural resources, unfair working conditions for produce workers, and the lack of availability of healthy foods in low-income areas

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One Year In: Reflections and the Ongoing Resistance

Freedom of Species ·

2024/10/27

On this show, we play the recording of a recent panel discussion, "One Year In: Reflections and the Ongoing Resistance" held on September 28, 2024 and hosted by Dr Leila Dehghan. In this conversation, the panel reflect on the televised genocide of the Palestinians, the silence within the vegan and animal rights movement, and discuss actionable steps for moving forward in solidarity. This panel discussion is available on YouTube as a video recording. If you'd like to watch that, please find it

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Activism Burnout - We Need to Talk

Freedom of Species ·

2024/10/20

We need to talk about an issue that doesn't get as much discussion as it needs. It's a particularly important topic right now with the state of the world and the exhaustion some activists are feeling. Today we are talking about activist burnout, what it means, how we get to this point and what both the individual activist and the justice movements as a whole can do to prevent it happening and create a supportive, understanding and sustainable structure where activists can continue to do the good

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Animals in Medieval Europe

Freedom of Species ·

2024/10/06

Sometimes if we take a look at how animals were percieved in the past, it can give us new insight into our perceptions of animals today. Join Meg and Trev to discuss how people in Medieval times in Europe perceived animals wild, domesticated and fantastical. We look at how the dominant paradigms of the times (Paganism and Christianity) affected how different animals were treated, the unique relationships peope of the time had with animals, how the different classes of people viewed animals, and

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Is Veganism A Cult?

Freedom of Species ·

2024/09/29

Katie, Lottie and Nick go through common characteristics of cults and whether any of them apply to veganism. For those that do, we also discuss if they apply just to some vegans, or are inherent to veganism. Throughout the show, we draw on Katie’s childhood experiences in a cult, Amanda Montell’s book Cultish and the podcast episode ‘The Cult of Veganism’ by Sounds Like A Cult. Links: Amanda Montell’s book Cultish: https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780062993151/cultish/ The podcast episode ‘The

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