Corey Lee Wrenn is a UK-based American sociologist and scholar of social movements and human-nonhuman relations. She is a lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. Corey says: “The magnitude of nonhuman suffering is such that activists can’t afford to take chances. My work is designed to take the guesswork out of social movement mobilization and animal rights activism, and I need your help to implement the findings.”

Full show notes are here: https://sentientism.info/vegan-stuff-is-going-to-be-hot-sociologist-corey-lee-wrenn-new-sentientist-conversation

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We discuss (and much more):

- The Vegan Feminist Network, The Vegan Society

- Corey’s books: “A Rational Approach to Animal Rights“, “Piecemeal Protests”, Animal Rights in Ireland, Vegan Sociology, Vegan Feminism

- Growing up atheist in the american “bible belt” south, surrounded by deeply religious culture and family

- A cousin gifting a bible saying “I’m worried about your soul!”

- Reading the bible – “a lot of animal killing… this isn’t for me”

- The sociological concern about whether urbanisation and the de-emphasis of religion might leave a moral vacuum (e.g. Durkheim)

- Being “a child of the human rights project” – individual freedoms (e.g. from suffering), equality, social justice

- Mishka joins our conversation 🐶

- First animal protest at 8 years old “I crawled under my bed and wouldn’t come out” re: animal shelter euthanasia

- Drawing pictures showing the turkey’s perspective at Thanksgiving

- Growing up in a meat-eating, hunting culture as the “lone Appalachian vegan”

- Vegetarian at 13 when realised “That was an actual animal”

- Vegan on first day at university after leaving home

- Granting moral consideration to all sentient beings regardless of category...

You can find Corey at coreyleewrenn.com, here on FaceBook and @DrCoreyLeeWrenn.

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