Freedom of Species

Today's show is a broadcast of Vegan Psychologist, Communications Trainer and Author, Clare Mann's recent talk at Animal Activists Forum 2015. "What to say when you don’t know everything"https://www.communicate31.com.au/

This is an excellent talk given by Kyle Behrend, from Edgar's Mission farm sanctuary, at the 2015 Animal Activist Forum in Melbourne. He talks about the role of farm sanctuaries in animal advocacy and also about digital storytelling. Great information for all animal activists. www.edgarsmission.org.auwww.activistsforum.com

In Australia, the current review of the Poultry Code is underway. The last review was in 2001 and gained pitifully little for the life of a chicken born into the food production industry which is of no surprise. Birds don't belong in cages, let alone on our plate. Likewise, animal welfare does not belong in the Department of Primary Industries. Like the wings of a caged hen, welfare ain't going to...

How can a Hindu-majority country that recognises cows as sacred also be a major global producer of beef, leather and milk? Dr Yamini Narayanan shares her research into this most perplexing contradiction. Dr Yamini Narayanan is a Research Fellow at Deakin University's Australian Research Council. Her research explores trans-species feminist urban planning - examining the significant and yet invisib...

On this week's show Elio Celotto from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses discusses the group's plans for this year's sping racing carnival.www.horseracingkills.com

"MAY THE FOREST BE WITH YOU"  We chat with a true solutionary-Aviram Rozin, co-founder of Sadhana Forest . Sadhana has projects in India, Haiti & Kenya where they have been successfully introducing a growing number of people to sustainable living, food security through ecological transformation, wasteland reclamation, and veganism.http://sadhanaforest.org

A speech by Philip Wollen at the recent Animal Law Conference, hosted by New South Wales Young Lawyers. Philip Wollen is a former Vice-President of Citibank and was also General Manager at Citicorp. Wollen became a vegan following his departure from Citibank and is a prominent member of the animal rights movement. He conducts intervention programs to rescue abused animals and funds outreach progra...

Emmanuel Giuffre, Legal Counsel for Voiceless, gives a presentation at the 2015 Animal Law Conference in Sydney that provides valuable insights into the animal welfare issues and legal framework of the Australian dairy industry.  The event was hosted by NSW Young Lawyers.  If you think the dairy industry is benign, you need to listen to this.https://www.voiceless.org.au/our-approach/research-and-p...

This week's show present's highlights from the 2014 Animal Activists Forum, which was held in Sydney last October. We present excerpts from three talks: DANIEL BEECHER & DAVID RISSTROM Experienced Lawyer / Criminal Defence Barrister Legal Aspects of Animal Activism Legal practitioners Daniel Beecher and David Risstrom lead an informative and thought provoking discussion on how activists can prepar...

Can people in the developing world eat as much meat and dairy as people in the industrialized countries without destroying the planet? And do they really want to? Brighter Green is a public policy action tank based in  New York that works to raise awareness of and encourage policy action on issues that span the environment, animals, and sustainability and they explore these qs  in a short document...

Each year, approximately 80 000 unweaned seal pups are clubbed to death on the beaches of Namibia.  It's regarded as one of the cruellest hunts on Earth and one Australian citizen profits hugely from it. We chat with South African activists Pat Dickens, founder of The Seals of Nam, and Nikki Botha who are campaigning against the slaughter.  We also hear from Peter Shaughnessy of the South Australi...

ARE ANIMALS OUR BEST FRIENDS IN COMBATTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?Phil Arkow from the Link Coalition tells us "Animal abuse is a human welfare issue"We discuss this with Lydia Tong, Veterinarian and Research Affiliate with the University of Sydney & we hear from CEO of RSPCA Victoria, Liz Walker about the RSPCA submission into the Royal Commission into Family Violence. WAIT>>>there's more!! We talk abo...

Ahead of next week's tenth birthday celebrations, we chat with Nichola Donovan, President of Lawyers For Animals, about the past decade of advocating to improve the welfare of animals through education and the law. Join us to help celebrate Lawyers For Animals reaching double figures – the big ONE Ohhhhh! http://lawyersforanimals.org.au LAYWERS FOR ANIMALS 10TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION EVENTWHO:  Keyn...

This week we chat with the International Vegan Rights Alliance, it's founder Jeanette Rowley, and Australian representative Greg McFarlane. We discuss the paper Jeannette will be presenting at the current "ANIMAL PUBLICS: Emotions, Empathy, Activism" conference at The University of Melbourne. Her paper "Toward a vegan jurisprudence of human rights" provides much to discuss for vegan activists, and...

So, you've always wanted to move to the country and have an animal sanctuary? If that's the case, you need to meet Justin Van Kleeck. He co-founded the Microsanctuary Movement which rethinks the conventional model of farm animal sanctuaries. Don't let your small urban space hold you back! 

 We chat with  Anne Lloyd-Jones, Australian Director of Animals Asia Foundation and get the facts on the Yulin dog meat festival in China.  We also discuss the mainstream media  recommendations to swap beef for chicken to combat climate change with Mark & Simon from Less Meat Less Heat & Paul Mahony -environmental and animal rights campaigner. This week we talk with Ahmad Safi, executive director...

This week we talk with Ahmad Safi, executive director of Palestinian Animal League, Ahmad is a Palestinian animal rights and veganism activist and founder of PAL. His work focuses on raising public awareness and the establishment of new laws for animal welfare and rights in Palestine."Every single one, who are breathing or not breathing are targetted from the occupation in this country" - Ahmed Sa...

These two species have brought together John Lemon of Painted Dog Conservation and Kevin Richardson to collaborate on an Australian speaking tour to help raise awareness of the plight of these two remarkable species.   We chat with Kevin about the campaign against lion canned hunting imploring tourists to South Africa to be discerning when it comes to partaking in any 'lion conservation/tourism' a...

Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop from Beyond Zero Emissions talks about BZE's Land Use Plan and its recommendations for Australia's animal agriculture industry. And Judith Friedlander from the University of Technology Sydney sheds some light on why mainstream media goes so quiet on the topic of meat with regard to climate change.

Ahead of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania conference, we talk to the opening night speaker, Dr Dinesh Wadiwel. Dr Wadiwel is a Lecturer in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney. His research interests include sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies. In his forthcoming book, The War against Animals, he argues that...

OUR CAMELS - FERAL OR THOROUGHLY AUSTRALIAN? A recent paper written by Leah Gibbs, Jennifer Atchison & Ingereth Macfarlane & published in Geoforum raises many questions about the place of camels in Australia. When do we accept that a species belongs here? What does the story of the camel have to tell us about our cultural development when it comes to ethnicity? While some view camels as ferals to...

This week we speak with Clair Linzey, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and discuss their upcoming summer school and major report, "Normalising the Unthinkable - The ethics of using Animals in Research". http://www.oxfordanimalethics.com/

We chat with Mia Macdonald, Executive Director of policy action tank ,"Brighter Green" about global agribusiness & finance focusing on China , animal activism in China, that headline that circulated last week,"Feds vegan diet best for planet" & "What's for dinner?", a groundbreaking Chinese documentary produced by Brighter Green & internationally recognized independent filmmaker, Jian Yi.http://wf...

When you enter the dark halls of lethal control we use for wildlife population and "'pest control" 1080 poison is banned in most countries as an option -it is undeniably death by torture and it kills indiscriminately yet Australia still orders it in big time to use in our National parks, pastoral land & many large landholdings. We discuss the current state of 1080 usage in Australia with Andy Medd...

We catch up with Mark Pearson. You may know him as the long-standing Executive Director of Animal Liberation in Australia but he is also in the running to be the first person to represent the Animal Justice Party in Australian state parliament. That’s making history! Mark is an Animal Justice Party general committee member, the Registered Officer for NSW and AJP’s lead candidate for the Legislativ...