Think Like a Vegan

Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass are the authors of Half Earth Socialism:A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso). We talk about their book, the simulation game that goes with their book and why vegans should be socialists and socialists should be vegans. We also talk about Drew's work at mapping methane and other emissions in real time and go really off pis...

Marx, Veganism and Political Solidarity Across Species Where is the political solidarity from those who’ve thought and care about labour and social exploitation? Our guest today is Professor Leigh Claire La Berge. Her forthcoming new book Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (Duke University Press), makes the case for political solidarity across species. As we talk about in our book, Think Like a Veg...

Benny Malone, author of How to Argue with Vegans: An analysis of anti-vegan arguments , talks to us about his top five favourite fallacies. Not the ones we might be familiar with, but those requiring a bit more work and thought. In the second half of the program, I'll share my top three strategies when choosing to engage with others on the topic of veganism.   Credits Host : Emilia A. Leese   Gues...

Geertrui Cazaux, author ( Een Ander Soort Zuster ), blogger and vegan, animal rights and inclusivity activist talks to us about why and how veganism is not an ableist ethical practice. We'll hear about what it means to live as a vegan with a chronic illness and how to centre veganism on solid ethical foundations.   Credits  Host : Emilia A. Leese   Guest : Geertrui Cazaux; https://criphumanimal.or...

The Center for Contemporary Science works on replacing animal experimentation with more effective methods of research and testing based on human biology. Dr Aysha Akhtar explains how human biology-based methods offer a more effective way to understand the diseases that afflict us, enabling researchers to predict how people may respond to medicines and chemicals with far greater accuracy than anima...

Using graphic images of animals in activism is almost expected. In this episode, I explore what doing so means in terms of consent, advancing the case for framing the question of use over welfare, and what might be some alternatives.   Credits Host : Emilia A. Leese   Production & Engineering : Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions   Music Opening theme : “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic...

Professor Sherry Colb speaks to us about reconciling the debates over reproductive rights and animal rights -- something that’s rarely discussed together and which was the subject of the book she co-authored with Michael Dorf, Beating Hearts . Professor Colb gives us an overview of the question “Do animal rights activists really care more about the well-being of nonhuman animals than they do about...

Most people never think animals are considered merely property, like your phone or your car. In this episode, Professor Maneesha Deckha will be speaking to us about her book, Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Antrhopocentric Legal Orders, where she talks about what it would look like to replace the property classification for animals to a new legal status she calls  “beingness”. Credits  Host: E...

Animals are classed as property. In an economic context, this means they're viewed as both the product and the machine. How does veganism fit into a leftist political practice? What language should we use? Professor Jason Hannan, editor of Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial, talks to us about the rhetoric of animal exploitation.    Credits Host: Emilia A. Lee...

In this episode I talk about what "Veganism is for everyone" means. I break veganism down to its fundamental ethical component, show why it must be part of social justice discussions and demystify what it means to be an activist.    Credits  Host: Emilia A. Leese  Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions  Music Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Busines...

A podcast bringing you thought provoking deep dives across a wide variety of subjects from one of the authors of Think Like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics. Each episode is a mini talk about one topic which might not be the focus of an everyday conversation, including activism, ableism, reproductive rights, animals and the law, alternatives to animal experimentation in medicine...