Sentient: The Podcast

This episode was recorded as part of our monthly, live Sentient Sessions series. Watch the recording on our YouTube. 

Meet the Speakers:

The Outlaw Ocean Project is a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on reporting about environmental and human rights crimes at sea.

Ian is also author of The Outlaw Ocean series was originally published in The New York Times, where Ian Urbina (See: Wikipedia) has been an investigative reporter for over two decades. Several of his stories have been adapted into major feature films, including The Outlaw Ocean which was purchased by Netflix and Leonardo DiCaprio.

During his career, Ian has won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting, and his work has been nominated for an Emmy Award. He has degrees in history and cultural anthropology from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago. Before joining The Times, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Cuba and he also wrote about the Middle East and Africa for various outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s and Vanity Fair. He lives in Washington D.C. with his family.

The Outlaw Ocean reporting, almost all done offshore, took Ian across 5 seas and 14 countries in Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean, South America, and the Middle East. It resulted in 8 front-page stories in The New York Times and a book published by Knopf Doubleday. While reporting for the book, Ian was joined by an award-winning photographer from Brazil named Fábio Nascimento.

After more than a decade campaigning to defend, conserve and protect marine wildlife, Lex joined the vegan campaigning charity Viva! in 2018.

As Head of Investigations, Lex is responsible for coordinating, conducting, and delivering key investigations to support Viva!'s ground-breaking campaigns.

Her investigations have been covered in the press many times:

Three illegal fishing trawlers arrested following night raid

Captain deliberately sank illegal fishing vessel

Imagine living in a cage filled with millions of tiny parasitic sea lice

With Sea Shepherd she participated in three whale defence campaigns in Antarctica and four anti-poaching campaigns from the Southern Ocean to the North Sea, including Operation Icefish (which Ian Urbina wrote about in the New York Times).

Pete Paxton has been doing animal cruelty investigations since 2001, uncovering abuse at puppy mills, factory farms, slaughterhouses, commercial fishing boats, and pet stores. He has worked in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India, and Philippines, finding and training investigators in several countries.

His work has been covered in the HBO documentaries Dealing Dogs and Death on a Factory Farm, and the Nat Geo documentary Animal Undercover. He is the author of Rescue Dogs, and has been awarded a Coin of Excellence from the US Attorney’s Office of Arkansas for his role as an undercover investigator to help shut down a seller of dogs and cats to research labs.

Much of Pete’s work has involved working undercover for weeks or months as facilities, enabling Pete to understand the plight of undocumented immigrants exploited in agriculture, and the factors amongst all commercial animal operations that lead to predictable criminal behavior.

All proceeds from this event go directly into funding Sentient Media.

Sentient Media is a nonprofit media organization that produces independent reporting on farmed animal lives and our broken food system.

Our mission is to increase public awareness of key issues that matter to all of us: the treatment and well-being of all sentient beings and the health of our planet.

We believe exposure is the first step toward behavioral change. That’s why we bring together journalists, digital marketing, and tech expertise to reach a diverse audience.

In 2020, our animal-related content reached over 1 million readers, with over 25 million first page impressions on Google, 250 articles published on Sentient Media and 72 articles placed in outside media including The Guardian, USA Today, WIRED, NY Daily News, Citizen Truth, The Times, and more.

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Jian Yi is the founder of The Good Food Fund, a Chinese NGO that takes a holistic approach to protecting the environment by examining food systems and climate change. In this interview, Sentient Media’s Executive Director, Ana Bradley, explores the history of food in China, the need for a global solution for our broken food systems, and Jian Yi’s thoughts on the future of food. 

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Sentient Media caught up with Damien Mander, founder of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, to talk about his work in Africa and how reliance on the meat industry is destroying our ability to protect wilderness. Damien Mander, aka The Vegan Snipper, founder of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, has been changing the way we protect our wildlife since 2009. In this interview, Sentient Media’s Executive Director, Ana Bradley, explores how women are leading change for Africa’s wildlife, the need for conservationists to champion plant-based living, and a typical day in the life of the Vegan Sniper. 

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