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As a young boy, John Gluck was kind to animals. But as a scientist, he was mentored by the notorious vivisector Dr.Harry Harlow at the University of Wisconsin. Then something clicked. He began to see the animals as patients, not tools of science. Gluck's book, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals" has become a guide for scientists, especially of a new generation, seeking to practice a science aligned with their ethical identity. Gluck talks with Emil Guillermo about the ethical journey he's taken and admits he remains haunted by the faces of the animals he experimented on.

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The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

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(Originally published Oct.28, 2020)

TeachKind, PETA's Humane Education Division, has a new high school program that makes learning empathy easy by connecting how we treat each other with how we treat animals. Megan Snyder, a former teacher and now an assistant manager with TeachKind, talks of the brand new program, "Challenging Assumptions," with host Emil Guillermo.

Get information on the curriculum at TeachKind.org/SocialJustice.

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The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

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Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk

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(Originally published Oct.21, 2020)

Ingrid Newkirk, PETA president talks with Emil Guillermo about "Animalkind," her new book written with Gene Stone. Newkirk talks about what "animalkind" means and how we need to understand that humans are animals too, and not necessarily superior to other species. 

Buy "Animalkind" wherever books are sold.

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INDEX:

4:00 Ingrid on NY launch.

4:46 Feeding birds and attracting predators; coexisting.

6:35 On finishing the book.

7:56 The stories she left out of the book.

9:10 On seeing a video about abuse in a chicken shed.

10:50 Stories about wool shearing sheds; Why Ingrid doesn’t wear wool.

11:50 Supremacists and trophy hunting.

12:30 A fire department deer hunt protest.

15:35 Insecurity and empathy.

16:50 Why she dedicated the book to the people she did.

21:41 Ingrid’s ideal reader—people who are kind and interested in animals.

23:04 “Not an animal person…”

25:17 Coining of phrase “animalkind.”

27:11 People’s ignorance of animals.

27:25 Elephants

28:52 Drug sniffing elephants?

30:06 A synthetic frog for dissection.

30:17 Amazing animal facts.

32:06 How garden snails find their way home.

34:18 The bird that can fly for 7,000 miles without stopping to eat or drink.

35:48 How to care and make a difference.

36:55 That Golden Gloves vegan dinner and Joaquin Phoenix

37:50 On fish.

38:24 Vegan or Nothing.

39:04 40 years of PETA.

40:29 keeping message alive

41:29 racism and speciesism

42:00 Emil’s journey, broadening circle of compassion.

The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

Contact us at PETA.org

Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk

Music provided by CarbonWorks.

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(Originally published Jan. 15, 2020; Encore, Oct. 14,2020)

Tim Stark of "Tiger King" fame was known to be even badder than Joe Exotic among those in the big cat petting zoo industry. Stark's sadism made him stand out. In September,  PETA shut him down after a three-year lawsuit found Stark and his Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park to be in violation of the Endangered Species Act. Brittany Peet, general Counsel of PETA Foundation's Captured Animal Law Enforcement (CALE), breaks down the case in this conversation with Emil Guillermo.

Peet describes how a convoy of federal marshalls accompanied PETA to rescue the animals abandoned by Stark who at this time has yet to be apprehended by authorities.

Go to PETA.org for more about Tim Stark.

The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

Contact us at PETA.org

Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk

Music provided by CarbonWorks.

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Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok

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Originally Released Oct. 7, 2020  

PETA Sr. VP Dan Mathews' new memoir, "Like Crazy: Life with My Mother and Her Invisible Friends," talks about caring for his mom as she grew older. It made him a better human and a better animal rights activist, Mathews' said. 

Get his book wherever books are sold. 

The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

Contact us at PETA.org

Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk

Music provided by CarbonWorks.

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Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok

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Originally Released Sept. 30, 2020. 

PETA undercover investigation video reveals the horrific conditions at one of the major primate research centers in the nation, this one at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The video shows how monkeys are going crazy in their cages waiting to be bred or experimented on. Monkeys are physically and psychologically damaged, pulling out their hair, acting overly aggressive, all general signs of the stress of living in a lab. For most of the monkeys, this is the only life they'll know, as monkeys are bred here for use in experiments. 

See the video of the monkeys at PETA.org.

Send a message to the labs here.

The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

Contact us at PETA.org

Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk

Music provided by CarbonWorks.

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Originally Released Sept. 23, 2020. 

Jes Cochran is a key member of PETA's Community Animal Project (CAP). It provides free spay/neuter and vet services in the underserved areas in VIrginia and North Carolina around PETA's Norfolk headquarters. For ten years, Cochran saw a dog name Edith chained up in a yard. Then one day Edith was gone. Cochran tells Edith's story to Emil Guillermo.

See Edith's story in the new documentary, "Breaking the Chain," available now on Amazon, i-Tunes, GooglePlay, Vudu, Apple TV, and Vimeo on Demand.

See the trailer here.

The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

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Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk

Music provided by CarbonWorks.

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Originally Released Sept. 15, 2020. 

Thanks to a whistleblower, PETA has filed a federal complaint over animal mistreatment at the University of Alabama-Birmingham's xenotransplantation lab. One animal, in particular, a baboon named Laja suffered lesions and was treated unconventionally with Woolite. She suffered and had to be euthanized. The university admitted to using Woolite but not to any wrongdoing. See the video of Laja and take action by writing UAB's president to stop the experiments that are supported by corporate donations of nearly $20 million.

Go to PETA.org and see the video of Laja and other animals in the UAB lab.

The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

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Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk

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Originally Released Sept. 9, 2020. 

"Breaking The Chain" is a new documentary, executive produced by Anjelica Huston, that shows how PETA's Community Animal Project helps animals around the Norfolk, Virginia area, especially the chained dogs in the area. Many are abused, malnourished, and tethered mercilessly to a chain. PETA has forced local and state officials to establish anti-tethering laws. It's a model for the country. The documentary also addresses the problem with no-kill shelters, and why avoiding euthanasia is not the answer to the dog and cat overpopulation problem. Daphna Nachminovitch, PETA Sr.VP for cruelty investigations speaks with Emil Guillermo.

Get the documentary on Amazon, Apple TV, iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, and Vimeo on Demand.

For the trailer and more information on "Breaking the Chain" go to its website.

The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

Contact us at PETA.org

Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk

Music provided by CarbonWorks.

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Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok

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Originally Released Sept. 1, 2020. 

SeaWorld is planning to open up again. But there's always good reason to not support the animal abusement park. 

Here's a reprise of part two of our conversation with John Hargrove, the heralded orca trainer who blew the whistle at SeaWorld, and then went on to turn his story into a New York Times best seller, "Beneath the Surface."

In this podcast, Hargrove reveals how orca semen he collected may determine exactly how long SeaWorld stays in business.

Hargrove begins by talking about how the documentary "Blackfish" changed his life. He talks about the frustration with how long SeaWorld has managed to stay operational.  And he talks about how he deals with the guilt he still feels for the orcas who are still at SeaWorld. He says SeaWorld's future may be dependent on China and Russia, and the stash of orca semen he collected while leading the artificial insemination program at SeaWorld. To this day, Hargrove says, the semen remains unaccounted for.

Hargrove's best-selling book has just been recently published in China for people there to understand what happens "Beneath the Surface." 

Listen to part one of the Hargrove conversation here: 

The PETA Podcast

PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way.

Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism.

Contact us at PETA.org

Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk

Music provided by CarbonWorks.

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Originally Released March 11, 2020; Re-released Aug.26,2020.