Best Animalprotection Podcasts (2024)

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Alan Weisman | Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? 1:06:54

10d ago1:06:54

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In this episode with award-winning author and journalist Alan Weisman, we discuss his 2013 book Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? capturing his journey to over 20 countries over five continents to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth, and also the hardest. ‘How many humans can the planet ho…

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Jennifer Watling Neal and Zachary Neal | Getting the Numbers Right: The Childfree Choice More Prevalent than Reported 1:03:47

25d ago1:03:47

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In this episode with Dr. Zachary Neal and Dr. Jennifer Watling Neal, we explore their research about the prevalence and characteristics of childfree adults in the US and globally. Despite the fact that people without children make up a significant portion of the population, both nationally in the US (20-25%) and globally, this group remains largely…

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Travis Rieder | Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices 1:01:17

1M ago1:01:17

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In this episode with bioethicist and moral philosopher Dr. Travis N. Rieder, we discuss his latest book Catastrophe Ethics, in which he explores how individuals can make morally decent choices in a world of confusing and often terrifying problems. We explore the morally exhausting and puzzling nature of modern life in which individual actions can o…

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Laura Carroll | Breaking Out of the Baby Matrix: Busting Common Pronatalist Myths 1:01:36

2M ago1:01:36

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To celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th, we interviewed Laura Carroll, internationally recognized expert on pronatalism and the childfree choice, who starts by sharing highlights from her latest book A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never had Children. We also unpack her book The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our …

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Christopher Ketcham | The Megamachine and Green Growth Delusions 52:28

2M ago52:28

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In this interview with freelance writer Christopher Ketcham, we unpack the techno-industrial extractivism that plagues modern societies and the media’s complicity in failing to challenge the growth model on which it is based. We discuss Chris’ book This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West in which he outlines…

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Angela Saini | The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule 1:03:22

3M ago1:03:22

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In this interview with award-winning science journalist Angela Saini, based on her bold and radical book The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, we explore the roots and complex history of how patriarchy first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present. Angela discusses how gendered roles, pronatalism, a…

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Diana Coole | The Toxification of Population Discourse: How Population Became a Dirty Word 1:05:15

3M ago1:05:15

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When and why did population become a dirty word? And why are so many people shamed for advocating for population reduction? Despite innumerable scientific studies showing the impact of human overpopulation and overconsumption on mounting social and ecological catastrophes, including climate change, biodiversity destruction, ocean acidification, res…

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Asher Miller & Rob Dietz | Navigating the Great Unraveling with Resilience 1:00:04

4M ago1:00:04

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In this episode, we chat with Asher Miller and Rob Dietz of the Post Carbon Institute about their latest report "Welcome to the Great Unraveling", which explores ways to navigate the environmental and social breakdown resulting from multiple intersecting crises. Recognizing human supremacy and overshoot as the drivers of the polycrisis, we discuss …

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Hope Ferdowsian | Phoenix Rising: Pathways toward Animal and Human Liberation 1:00:54

4M ago1:00:54

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Dr. Hope Ferdowsian, president of Phoenix Zones Initiatives (PZI) and a public health physician, discusses how she and her colleagues are working to dismantle the roots of oppression, exploitation, and domination harming humans and non-humans. She highlights the physical and psychological suffering and harm that animals face in food production and …

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Episode 229: What are animal rights for? With Steve Cooke 32:13

5M ago32:13

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Dr Steve Cooke is an Associate Professor of Political Theory in the School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester. His work addresses animal rights, and how we (individually and collectively) should act given that our political communities are not friendly to animals. On this episode, we talk about Steve's …

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William Rees | Confronting Overshoot: Changing the Story of Human Exceptionalism 1:30:41

5M ago1:30:41

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We chat with population ecologist, co-creator of the ecological footprint analysis, and one of the world’s best big-picture ecological thinkers, Dr. Bill Rees. Bill explains how our blind faith in human exceptionalism, technological optimism, and neoliberal economics fooled us into disregarding ecological limits and brought us into a state of extre…

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Episode 228: An animal rights archive with Kim Stallwood 30:16

5M ago30:16

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This episode features the independent activist and academic Kim Stallwood. After becoming involved in animal rights campaigning in the 1970s, Stallwood began archiving material relating to the movement. Much of this media is now available to researchers as part of the Kim Stallwood Archive at the British Library. In this episode, we discuss his arc…

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Kevin Bales | Population Growth, Modern Slavery, and Ecocide 1:05:26

6M ago1:05:26

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Dr. Kevin Bales, world-renowned expert on contemporary global slavery, shines a light on the human rights violations and ecocidal impacts of modern day slavery, which tragically still exists in much of the world today. Dr. Bales discusses the history of slavery, from ancient civilizations to modern times, highlighting how it has evolved over time, …

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Episode 227: Killing animals in shelters with Angie Pepper 37:57

6M ago37:57

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Dr Angie Pepper in a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton in the UK. She works in moral and political philosophy, and has published papers on, among other topics, animals’ right to privacy, animals’ political agency, and what we owe to animals in light of climate change. In this episode, we discuss the collection The Ethics of Ani…

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Episode 226: New omnivorism with Christopher Bobier 29:48

6M ago29:48

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On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Dr Christopher Bobier. Chris is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and the Associate Director of the Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership. Among other things, his research concerns ethics, including lots of work on animal and food ethics. Today, w…

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Isabel Fassbender | Neoliberalism in the Womb: Japan’s Answer to its Baby-Shortage Panic 1:02:53

6M ago1:02:53

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Japan-based feminist scholar, Dr. Isabel Fassbender, discusses her new book, Active Pursuit of Pregnancy: Neoliberalism, Postfeminism and the Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Japan, and how a toxic mix of patriarchy, biomedical capitalism, and nationalism has emerged in response to Japan’s slightly declining population. As a country whose e…

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Episode 225: Solitary confinement of humans and animals with Delcianna J. Winders 33:21

6M ago33:21

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This episode features Professor Delcianna J. Winders. Delci is an associate professor of law and the Director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law & Graduate School in the United States. Her published work addresses the law around farmed animals, slaughterhouse workers, captive wild animals, animal advocacy, animal testing, and rel…

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Episode 224: Animals and Epistemic Injustice with Andrew Lopez 29:13

7M ago29:13

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This episode features Andrew Lopez. Andrew is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Queen’s University in Canada, where he works on critical animal studies, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and the philosophy of biology. Regular listeners to Knowing Animals will have heard his name before – he was the co-author of the excellent ‘Gendering anim…

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Camilo Mora | Population: A Threat Multiplier for Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, & Pandemics 1:00:18

7M ago1:00:18

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In this interview with Dr. Camilo Mora, widely acclaimed professor and award-winning researcher, we discuss the impacts of human activity on climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, and pandemics, and how to move past population denial to grapple with our compounding crises. Dr. Mora shares his firsthand experience of the direct impact…

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Episode 223: The Cheese Paradox with Devon Docherty 28:54

7M ago28:54

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Devon Docherty is a recent graduate of the master’s programme in Human-Animal Interactions at the University of Stirling in Scotland and a tutor in Stirling’s Division of Psychology. She is also a media assistant with the British animal activist organization Surge. In this episode, we talk about her paper ‘The cheese paradox: How do vegetarians jus…

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Trevor Hedberg | The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation 1:07:32

8M ago1:07:32

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We chat with environmental and procreative ethicist Dr. Trevor Hedberg about his recent book The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation, and the ethical implications of bringing new life into existence, both in terms of the risk of harm to which the child is subjected, but also the environmental impact that it has on the …

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Episode 222: Celluloid specimens with Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa 31:45

8M ago31:45

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This episode features Dr Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa. Ben is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. He works in critical animal studies, the history of science, documentary studies, and science fiction studies. In this episode, we talk about his 2023 book The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research…

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Suprabha Seshan | From Ego to Eco: Rewilding Nature and Ourselves 1:02:07

8M ago1:02:07

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What happens when we renounce our ego and allow nature to become our teacher? We talk with rainforest conservationist and educator Suprabha Seshan about her incredible efforts to protect and restore the forest at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary in Kerala, India. Suprabha shares with us her decades of work which has involved the integration of scie…

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Episode 221: Praising (and blaming) animals with Rhys Borchert and Aliya Dewey 30:10

8M ago30:10

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This episode features not one but two guests. Rhys Borchert is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona in the United States and Dr Aliya Dewey is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence Research Centre at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. We…

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Episode 220: Categorizing (and Killing) Cats with Virginia Thomas 31:03

9M ago31:03

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The guest on this episode is Dr Virginia Thomas, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter in the UK. She has a background in literature, science communication, and sociology, and was previously a veterinary nurse. We talk about her paper ‘Categorisation of cats: managing boundary felids in A…

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Animalprotection Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The Overpopulation Podcast

Population Balance

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Knowing Animals

Josh Milburn

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Alan Weisman | Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? 1:06:54

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Jennifer Watling Neal and Zachary Neal | Getting the Numbers Right: The Childfree Choice More Prevalent than Reported 1:03:47

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Travis Rieder | Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices 1:01:17

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Laura Carroll | Breaking Out of the Baby Matrix: Busting Common Pronatalist Myths 1:01:36

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Christopher Ketcham | The Megamachine and Green Growth Delusions 52:28

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Angela Saini | The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule 1:03:22

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Diana Coole | The Toxification of Population Discourse: How Population Became a Dirty Word 1:05:15

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Asher Miller & Rob Dietz | Navigating the Great Unraveling with Resilience 1:00:04

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Hope Ferdowsian | Phoenix Rising: Pathways toward Animal and Human Liberation 1:00:54

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Episode 229: What are animal rights for? With Steve Cooke 32:13

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William Rees | Confronting Overshoot: Changing the Story of Human Exceptionalism 1:30:41

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Episode 228: An animal rights archive with Kim Stallwood 30:16

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Kevin Bales | Population Growth, Modern Slavery, and Ecocide 1:05:26

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Episode 227: Killing animals in shelters with Angie Pepper 37:57

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Episode 226: New omnivorism with Christopher Bobier 29:48

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Isabel Fassbender | Neoliberalism in the Womb: Japan’s Answer to its Baby-Shortage Panic 1:02:53

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Episode 225: Solitary confinement of humans and animals with Delcianna J. Winders 33:21

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Episode 224: Animals and Epistemic Injustice with Andrew Lopez 29:13

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Camilo Mora | Population: A Threat Multiplier for Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, & Pandemics 1:00:18

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Episode 223: The Cheese Paradox with Devon Docherty 28:54

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Trevor Hedberg | The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation 1:07:32

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Episode 222: Celluloid specimens with Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa 31:45

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Suprabha Seshan | From Ego to Eco: Rewilding Nature and Ourselves 1:02:07

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Episode 221: Praising (and blaming) animals with Rhys Borchert and Aliya Dewey 30:10

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Episode 220: Categorizing (and Killing) Cats with Virginia Thomas 31:03

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