Think Like a Vegan

Researcher Rimona Afana unflinchingly exposes the hidden victims of Israel's war on Gaza: the natural world and nonhuman animals. She reveals how advanced weaponry creates a psychological distance enabling destruction on a colossal scale, making ecocide a feature, not a byproduct, of modern conflict.

Website/Socials

Rimona Afana

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rimonaafana

Ecocide/Speciesism: Legislating Hierarchy, Interdependence, Death

https://www.facebook.com/ecocide.speciesism 

Other links

Israel's Crimes Against the Dead and Unborn in Gaza 

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels-crimes-against-the-dead-and-unborn-in-gaza

Emi Leese

https://emilialeese.substack.com 

http://thinklikeavegan.com 

http://emilialeese.com 

Instagram @emi.leese

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thinklikeavegan/videos 

Credits

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guest: Rimona Afana

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com 

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com 

Music

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business 

Interlude: Birds from Shwikeh, Tulkarem, Palestine by sounds_from_palestine -- https://freesound.org/s/802437/ 

-- License: Creative Commons 0

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com

There are those who study nature, and then there are those who listen to it. Alan Watson Featherstone is such a listener, a quiet revolutionary who has spent his life translating Earth's silent longing into action.

In this episode, we walk with Alan through:

The act of rewilding — not just restoring land, but restoring relationship

Why healing broken ecosystems is the most radical hope we have

How a single sapling carries within it an entire future

A man of many gifts — photographer, storyteller, planter of forests — Alan founded Trees for Life in 1986 and for three decades served as its guiding spirit, transforming Scotland's barren glens into cathedrals of green. A vegan since 1979, his life reminds us that compassion must stretch beyond our species

This is not a lecture on ecology. This is an invitation to remember, to see, as Alan does, that every act of rewilding is a love letter to a better future for everyone

Website/Socials

Alan Watson Featherstone

https://alanwatsonfeatherstone.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-watson-featherstone-8063961a 

X @AlanWatsonFeat1

Photography https://www.naturepl.com/search?s=Alan+Watson 

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@alanwatsonfeatherstone9676/videos 

Other links

Findhorn community https://www.visitecovillagefindhorn.uk 

Trees for Life https://treesforlife.org.uk

Ishmael https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(Quinn_novel)

Kathleen Jannaway https://youtu.be/2ai7lnUsVPE?feature=shared 

Auroville https://auroville.org 

Jack Whitten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whitten 

Birchfield https://birchfieldhighlands.org 

Emi Leese

https://emilialeese.substack.com  

http://thinklikeavegan.com   

http://emilialeese.com  

Instagram @emi.leese

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thinklikeavegan/videos    

Credits

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guest: Alan Watson Featherstone

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com 

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com 

Music

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business 

Interlude: "Contemporary Music Too" by Matthew Gerstenberger

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com    

Capitalism didn't just commodify animals - it turned suffering into an industry. Meet John Sanbonmatsu, the revolutionary philosopher tearing apart the meat-industrial complex in his incendiary new work The Omnivore's Deception. This book is an indictment of the entire capitalist food regime  

Sanbonmatsu doesn't debate reform. He demands total dismantling of the oppressive structures that treat life as profit. This is food system analysis as class war, revealing how your burger funds environmental racism, worker exploitation and mass extinction. The only moral response is revolution  

Website/Socials

John Sanbonmatsu

https://www.johnsanbonmatsu.com

Other links

Karen Davis essay https://www.upc-online.org/thinking/rhetoric.pdf

Emi Leese

https://emilialeese.substack.com     

http://thinklikeavegan.com      

http://emilialeese.com     

Instagram @emi.leese

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thinklikeavegan/videos   

Credits

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guest: John Sanbonmatsu

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com 

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com 

Music

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business 

Interlude: "7am" music by Matthew Gerstenberger and voice by Chiyako

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com   

This episode goes back to basics. We hear about animal rights, welfare, compassion and kindness. It all sounds like good things and stuff we should have. So I want to share with you why when I talk about animal ethics, I centre my words around rights instead of welfare or compassion and kindness

Website/Socials

Emi Leese

https://emilialeese.substack.com   

http://thinklikeavegan.com    

http://emilialeese.com     

@emi.leese or @thinklikeavegan, Instagram, Facebook, X and Threads

Credits

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com 

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com 

Music

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business 

Interlude:  "On the Forbidden Balcony" by Matthew Gerstenberger; Seismicity on Soundcloud https://on.soundcloud.com/3Pf8g 

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com   

When you hear the term zoonotic disease, what does it mean to you? What do you think of and who is responsible for them?

Maybe you think about Covid 19. How about HIV-AIDS? Is your impression that zoonotic illnesses are something relatively new? Or uncommon?

In this episode, I'll explore just how far back in time zoonotic illnesses go and think about how our entanglement with other animals affects us -- and them -- on a cellular level

Website/Socials

Emi Leese

https://emilialeese.substack.com  

http://thinklikeavegan.com   

http://emilialeese.com    

@emi.leese or @thinklikeavegan, Instagram, Facebook, X and Threads

Credits

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com  

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com  

Music

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business 

Interlude: "Pinglie"  by Matthew Gerstenberger; Seismicity on Soundcloud https://on.soundcloud.com/3Pf8g 

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com    

Ida B. Wells and the relevance of her work to the animal justice movement

Zane McNeill and Nathan Poirier discuss Ida B. Wells' historical and contemporary legacy and relevance to critical animal studies 

For more than 40 years from the late 1800s, Ida B. Wells fought for justice for Black Americans. Wells was a journalist, newspaper owner, feminist, suffragist and organiser. In particular, she called herself a lynching agitator and she’s probably still best known for this work

McNeill and Poirier discuss the historical and foundational influence the Black feminist body of work plays for critical animal studies. This influence is all too often not made clear. While barely mentioning nonhuman animals,” the essay on Ida B. Wells, “fundamentally belongs within critical animal studies  via consistent anti- oppression” by studying  historical gender and racial activism through the efforts of an early and important yet understudied Black feminist”. 

Their book is entitled Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation (2023, Peter Lang https://www.peterlang.com/document/1298884)

Website/Socials

Zane McNeill @zane_crittheory on X

Nathan Poirier https://www.facebook.com/nathan.poirier.7792 

Emi Leese

https://emilialeese.substack.com 

http://thinklikeavegan.com  

http://emilialeese.com   

@emi.leese or @thinklikeavegan, Instagram, Facebook, X and Threads

Credits

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guests: Zane McNeill and Nathan Poirier 

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com 

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com 

Music

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business 

Interlude: "Memories/Generations"  by Matthew Gerstenberger; Seismicity on Soundcloud https://on.soundcloud.com/3Pf8g 

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com   

What should we say to vegans?

Benny Malone returns to the podcast to discuss with me what people should say to vegans instead of the usual excuses. Benny joined me in Season One in the episode entitled "Discussing Veganism with Others" where Benny talks about his top five fallacies vegans encounter when talking with others and I talk about my top three tips when engaging with others about veganism. 

Benny is the author of How to Argue with Vegans, an analysis of anti-vegan arguments. He’s an autodidact in science, nature and philosophy. And if there’s a book about veganism out there, he’s read it cover to cover. 

Website/Socials

Benny Malone

@BennyMalone on Facebook @benny_malone_ on on Instagram and @BennyMaloneUK on X 

Emi Leese

https://emilialeese.substack.com 

http://thinklikeavegan.com   

http://emilialeese.com  

@emi.leese or @thinklikeavegan, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads

Credits

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guest: Benny Malone

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com 

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com 

Music

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business 

Interlude:  "Gendrone" by Matthew Gerstenberger; Seismicity on Soundcloud https://on.soundcloud.com/3Pf8g 

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com   

Pre-order the paperback edition of our book, Think Like a Vegan! This highly anticipated release will be available January 2025 in the UK and worldwide and April 2025 in North America. It will contain a new afterword so you can dive into updates and new material you won't find in the hardcover. We've added insightful reflections and fresh content to keep you inspired and informed. Pre-order on ⁠Amazon⁠, ⁠Target⁠ or wherever you buy books and ask your library to carry it

Alice Crary and Lori Gruen talk about what is effective altruism, why it's harmful and what are alternatives which already exist. Should we measure the effectiveness of an act meant to benefit another? How do we decide its effectiveness and for whom it’s effective - for the beneficiary? For the actor? And why should we be thinking about effectiveness when we’re talking about doing something that’s meant to do good or change minds?

Website/Socials

https://emilialeese.substack.com

Host: Emilia A. Leese

Guests: Dr Alice Crary and Dr Lori Gruen

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

Interlude: "Fuurin Sanpo" by Matthew Gerstenberger; Seismicity on Soundcloud https://on.soundcloud.com/3Pf8g

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com

Pre-order the paperback edition of our book, Think Like a Vegan! This highly anticipated release will be available from January 2025 in the UK/worldwide and April 2025 in North America. It will contain a new afterword so you can dive into updates and new material you won't find in the hardcover. We've added insightful reflections and fresh content to keep you inspired and informed. Pre-order on ⁠Amazon⁠, ⁠Target⁠ or wherever you buy books and ask your library to carry it

Whenever people talk about the environment or the plight of animals, they all seem to say something like “oh I agree industrial animal farming is terrible!” And it is. But that's not the full story.

https://emilialeese.substack.com

Host: Emilia A. Leese

Music

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

Pre-order the paperback edition of our book, Think Like a Vegan! This highly anticipated release will be available from January 2025 in the UK/worldwide and April 2025 in North America. It will contain a new afterword so you can dive into updates and new material you won't find in the hardcover. We've added insightful reflections and fresh content to keep you inspired and informed. Pre-order on ⁠Amazon⁠, ⁠Target⁠ or wherever you buy books and ask your library to carry it

Dr Stacy Banwell discusses her book, The War Against Nonhuman Animals: A Non-Speciesist Understanding of Gendered Reproductive Violence. I began exploring the entanglement of war and animals in season two of my podcast when Josh Milburn and Sara van Goozen were my guests. Stacy takes the analysis of war and animals along the logical continuum, putting our actions within the context of International Humanitarian Law, the Geneva Convention and the additional protocols. She does so in an astonishing way - she’s at once clinical in her analysis, devastating in her straightforward telling of facts and incredibly sensitive to the real and lived experiences of people and animals.

Stacy is an associate professor of Criminology at the University of Greenwich in the UK. She has made two remarkable animations on why the war against animals is a crisis for humans too and one on gendered wars and gender-based violence. She has a long list of publications in addition to the book discussed in this episode, and many focussed on gender violence whether during war or armed conflict or otherwise, including The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence, Sex and Crime, and the monograph Gender and the Violence(s) of War and Armed Conflict: More dangerous to be a woman?

TW: discussion of gendered and reproductive violence

Website/Socials

Stacy Banwell

https://www.vegansociety.com/get-involved/research/who-we-are/stacy-banwell

https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/las/stacy-banwell

Animations:

Why is the war against nonhuman animals a crisis for humans too?

https://emilialeese.substack.com

Credits

Host: Emilia A. Leese

Guest: Stacy Banwell

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com

Interlude: "Jin Regret" by Matthew Gerstenberger; Seismicity on Soundcloud https://on.soundcloud.com/3Pf8g

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business