Think Like a Vegan

Geertrui Cazaux, author (Een Ander Soort Zuster), blogger and vegan, animal rights and inclusivity activist talks to us about why and how veganism is not an ableist ethical practice. We'll hear about what it means to live as a vegan with a chronic illness and how to centre veganism on solid ethical foundations.  

Credits 

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guest: Geertrui Cazaux; https://criphumanimal.org; https://brugesvegan.com; https://www.graswortels.org  

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions 

Music 

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

Intermission: "Chilo Gorge" by Derek Solomon

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

The Center for Contemporary Science works on replacing animal experimentation with more effective methods of research and testing based on human biology. Dr Aysha Akhtar explains how human biology-based methods offer a more effective way to understand the diseases that afflict us, enabling researchers to predict how people may respond to medicines and chemicals with far greater accuracy than animal tests. The outcome of this is better treatments, therapies and cures.   

Credits 

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guest: Dr Aysha Akhtar; https://contemporarysciences.org 

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions 

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

Intermission: "Nostalgia of an ex-gangsta rapper" by deef 

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

Using graphic images of animals in activism is almost expected. In this episode, I explore what doing so means in terms of consent, advancing the case for framing the question of use over welfare, and what might be some alternatives.  

Credits Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions 

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

Intermission: "Luangwa Sunrise" by Derek Solomon 

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

Professor Sherry Colb speaks to us about reconciling the debates over reproductive rights and animal rights -- something that’s rarely discussed together and which was the subject of the book she co-authored with Michael Dorf, Beating Hearts. Professor Colb gives us an overview of the question “Do animal rights activists really care more about the well-being of nonhuman animals than they do about tiny humans?” and the converse question, “Do pro-life activists really care more about a human cell than about the suffering of fully sentient animals whose evolutionary history, brain chemistry, and emotional repertoire closely resemble our own?"

Credits 

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guest: Prof Sherry Colb; https://verdict.justia.com/author/colb; http://www.dorfonlaw.org; and on Twitter @SherryColb

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions 

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

Intermission: "Half Life" by Meredith Avila 

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

Most people never think animals are considered merely property, like your phone or your car. In this episode, Professor Maneesha Deckha will be speaking to us about her book, Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Antrhopocentric Legal Orders, where she talks about what it would look like to replace the property classification for animals to a new legal status she calls  “beingness”.

Animals are classed as property. In an economic context, this means they're viewed as both the product and the machine. How does veganism fit into a leftist political practice? What language should we use? Professor Jason Hannan, editor of Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial, talks to us about the rhetoric of animal exploitation.