Animal Activists

102: PeTA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk by Derek Goodwin

An interview with PETA President and Co-Founder Ingrid Newkirk after her Naked Truth event in NYC. Ingrid offers up tales of animal intelligence and use of language and questions our quest for intelligent life in the cosmos when we haven't truly attempted to communicate with intelligent beings on our own planet. We also cover PETA's controversial stance on euthanasia.

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101: We Animals photographer Jo-Anne McArthur by Derek Goodwin

Animal rights photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, featured in the documentary Ghosts in Our Machine, known for her project We Animals in which she documents, through photography, animals in the human environment who are being used for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship. 

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99: NYC Walk For Animals with Gene Baur & Jane Velez-Mitchell by Derek Goodwin

Lo Vee and Derek check out the 2012 NYC Farm Sanctuary Walk For Farm Animals. Over 700 New Yorkers showed up to show support and raised over $70,000 for Farm Sanctuary. We feature interviews with sanctuary co-founder Gene Baur & host of CNN's Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell (you guessed it...) Jane Velez-Mitchell

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83: Eric the Abolitionist by Derek Goodwin

Show 83 features an interview with Eric Prescott, a Boston-based animal rights activist who is working on a variety of interesting projects, including a kiosk named OVED, a documentary series on Youtube called "I'm Vegan", the Boston Vegan Association, and his blog An Animal Friendly Life. Eric is an abolitionist who subscribes to the philosophy of Gary Francione.

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35: The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act by Derek Goodwin

Featuring audio from the 2006 conference at the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, MA - where the recently passed Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act was discussed, including a phone-in from presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. Also an interview with 13-year-old vegan Walker Argendeli, who is an entrepreneur, novelist, and spelling bee champion.

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34: Inadmissible Comparisons: Animal Exploitation, Slavery & Genocide by Derek Goodwin

Featuring audio clips from the Inadmissible Comparisons Conference in NYC: radical queer vegan feminist Patrice Jones, Jews for Animal Rights founder Roberta Kalechofsky, and "anarchist Panther" Ashanti Alston. We also have a short interview with our favorite vegan feminist theorist Carol Adams.

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