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Knowing Animals is a regular 20 minutes podcast about all things related to animals and ethics; animals and the law; animals and politics; and animal advocacy. It features interviews with academic and animal advocates. It is available free so enjoy!
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.
Welcome everyone to my podcast Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano. This podcast will feature in-depth interviews with plant-based celebs, politicians, athletes, entrepreneurs, influencers, environmentalists, doctors, chefs, animal activists and so much more! I am dedicated to exploring how certain individuals are making the world a better place for themselves, those around them, our environment and our animals through their food choices, practices and businesses. I really do believe if we ...
Australian Farmers: Telling Our Story is hosted by television presenter and journalist, Angie Asimus and is powered by the National Farmers Federation. It’s dedicated to connecting our wonderful farmers with health conscious consumers and ethically minded shoppers. Together, we can all learn more about the food we eat and the fibre we wear. This is your exclusive look behind the farm gate. As a country girl herself, Angie knows you'll love what you hear. From the freshest produce, to carbon ...
After Animals uncovers trends and stories at the cutting edge of the global post-animal movement. What does a future look like, in which food, fashion and entertainment no longer have to exploit animals to be successful? In each episode, we share a remarkable and inspiring story about someone who is forging a more compassionate future for us all. After Animals seeks to activate a kinder, more compassionate world through innovation.
Defender Radio and The Switch bring experts and solutions to wildlife advocates and animal lovers around the world. Hosted by award-winning journalist Michael Howie, Defender Radio and The Switch are produced by The Fur-Bearers (TheFurBearers.com) and released weekly. Learn more at DefenderRadio.com
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A Summation of the Plant-based Business World's First Quarter of 2023
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In this solo episode of the Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth shares tales of her latest travels to different food and tech conferences including Expo West, the Digital Animal Summit, and Future Food Tech. She provides a summation of the plant-based business world's first quarter of 2023 and her predictions for the rest of the year. Subscribe rig…
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Ep. 269: Life After Fast Food Hell; How Chuck Carroll Went Vegan
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At age 27, Chuck Carroll was so addicted to fast food he thought he wouldn't see age 30. He has since lost 300 pounds and kept it off with a vegan diet. In conversation with Emil Guillermo, Carroll talks about how he did it and how it led to his hosting "The Exam Room," the podcast of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Carrol…
Their motto is “When you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves,” and so, Little Big Dairy near Dubbo in Central West NSW was born. It is an incredible business, one of only a handful in the nation offering single source milk, meaning the milk comes solely from one farm, is processed on-site and sold directly to cons…
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How Can ESG Frameworks Assist Plant-based Businesses? Sharyn Murray of GFI
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Sharyn Murray, Investment Engagement Manager at the Good Food Institute discusses how ESG Frameworks can assist plant-based businesses in communicating their positive impact data to the outside world. It's a tactical knowledge drop today on the Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast and write a 5-star review. For p…
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Ep.268: Charles River Labs, One-Thousand Monkeys, and the Fight to End Monkey Importation
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Charles River Labs has a 1,000-monkey problem. It's being investigated for the illegal importation of monkeys from Asia. That fact keeps the company from using the monkeys for research, so it wants to send them back to Asia and start the process over again. Not so fast. PETA advocates the best thing for the monkeys is immediate placement in a sanct…
When you picture a farmer in your mind’s eye, maybe a certain image comes up each time. My guest today has made it her mission to change perceptions around people with a disability in the industry. She developed an online platform to raise awareness of and provide opportunities for people living with disabilities. It’s a cause close to her heart af…
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Ep.267: Army Secretly Resumes Weapons Testing On Animals
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In the 1980s, the Army had a rule that stopped and banned weapons testing on animals. Now it's revealed the it has reversed the ban and has begun weapons testing using live ferrets. Shalin Gala, PETA VP in the Laboratory Investigations Department, goes over the history of the issue, dating back to when PETA first got the Army to stop using animals …
Many of us have heard of mohair but for a fibre that’s been around for centuries, perhaps we don’t know a lot about it. It is a textile made from the hair of Angora goats. These animals are native to the mountainous regions of Turkey with the Sultan of Turkey first allowing the export of raw mohair to Europe in 1820. Now, they’re raised in many oth…
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Ep.266: The Best Films Animal-wise: The Oscats 2023
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Emil Guillermo talks to Courtney Penley, of PETA's Animals in Film and TV division. Who won an Oscat this year? The biggest winners were in animation. See more about the winners, go to PETA.org 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 insid…
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FOOD FIGHT: Grilling Deena Shanker of Bloomberg
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We've all seen the Bloomberg article declaring plant-based meats a fad. Author of the article and long-time food reporter, Deena Shanker, joins Elysabeth Alfano on today's Plant-based Business Hour. Are Plant-based Meats a fad and a flop? They get into it. Listen in! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding con…
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Episode 212: Vegan Socialism with Troy Vettese
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Today's guest, Dr Troy Vettese, is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. He’s an environmental historian who, in addition to animal studies, has expertise in energy history and environmental economics. We discuss his book Half-Earth Socialism, which was co-authored with Drew Pendergrass and published by Verso in 2022. This episod…
Nestled on 120 acres in the picturesque Byron Bay Hinterland is a true paddock-to-plate eatery, delightfully named Frida’s Field. There you will find a blank canvas in the process of being transformed into a productive farm that grows an abundant variety of foods using regenerative techniques. The owners, Edward Rawlings and Jeanie Wylie wanted to …
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Ep.265: Peter Singer on his groundbreaking work, "Animal Liberation."
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In 1975, philosopher Peter Singer argued for the end of tyranny by human animals over non-human animals. His book "Animal Liberation," has been an ethical compass for several generations of animal rights activists. In this conversation with Emil Guillermo, Singer talks about the changes in the last five decades, how his book helped bring about thos…
Turning 18% of his 3500-hectare farm into forest is a move that’s landed this producer a seat at a very influential table. Mark Wootton travelled from his property just north of Hamilton in Western Victoria, all the way to Egypt for the COP27 world climate conference. There, he was part of a pitch to promote the benefits of farm-grown sustainable t…
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Matias Muchnick of NotCo and Michael Natale of Ingredion Talk About Their Unlikely Partnership
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Enjoy this re-run of one of our favorite episodes! Matias Muchnick of NotCo and Michael Natale of Ingredion join The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the success of their unlikely partnership, each company's path towards furthering plant-based business and their vision for the future. And, of course, we chat about AI platform/program, Guiseppe! …
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Ep.264 PETA-Germany Saving Animals' Lives in Ukraine
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PETA Germany's Sylvie Bunz coordinates the effort to save thousands of animals' lives in Ukraine. PETA team members along with groups inside Ukraine, have been working since day one of the war to help animals. A year later, Bunz tells Emil Guillermo how the effort is going. For more, go to PETA.org. The PETA Podcast PETA, the world's largest animal…
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Episode 211: Animal Creativity with Carol Gigliotti
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On this episode, we speak to Professor Emerita Carol Gigliotti. Before retirement, Carol was Professor of Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. She will be known to many listeners for her work on critical animal studies, animals and technology, and animals in art and design.…
** Trigger warning ** This episode contains conversations about suicide, so if you need resources or support go to beyondblue.org or for 24 hour free counselling in Australia, the number for Lifeline is 13 11 14. A childhood on her family farm at Streaky Bay on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula combined with a career as a Clinical Psychologist has g…
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Ep.263: PETA Exposes Budweiser's Dark Secret--The Mutilation of the Clydesdale Horses
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Kathy Guillermo, PETA Sr. VP talks about how Budweiser is mutilating the very Clydesdale horses you see on television ads and at public events. PETA undercover investigators got the facts. Budweiser prefers to keep its cruelty secret. Go to PETA.org to find out how you can stop Budweiser's Mutilation of Clydesdales. https://www.peta.org/media/news-…
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Perfecting the World's First Cultured Gourmet Pork - Novel Farms, Inc. CEO and Co-Founder Nieves Martínez Marshall
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This episode features exciting developments in the world of cultured pork loin. Nieves Martínez Marshall, Ph.D., co-founded Novel Farms in 2020 along with Michelle Lu. As the company's CEO, Nieves leads the early-stage food tech company dedicated to producing whole cuts of gourmet cell-based meat products using scalable and tunable scaffolds. They …
Today we are visiting Scone in the NSW Hunter region. So often we think of those in rural and regional communities as farmers alone but there are so many other crucial roles that make up the fabric of rural life – including those who document what’s going on in their part of the country and the world more broadly. My guest today is artist Janno McL…
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Global Food Systems Transformation: David Meyer of FSI
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CEO of the Food System Innovations, David Meyer, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the global food systems transformation towards sustainability, optionality and efficiency. What will move the needle the most? Policy? Technology? Consumer Demand? Industry Sustainability? Lots to breakdown and we get to it all. Subscribe right now …
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Ep. 262: Will Utah Bigfoot Grassroots Animal Rights Activists?
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Utah's Senate Bill 113 would restrict animal enterprises and would mean the rollback of a local ban on the carriage horse trade in Salt Lake City. The state bigfooting the locals? It's a unique anti-animal rights strategy grassroots activists are fighting in Utah. PETA's Amy Meyer talks to Emil Guillermo and warns how if the anti-animal strategy wi…
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Episode 210: Saving Animals (and Ourselves) with Jeff Sebo
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Dr Jeff Sebo is a Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at New York University, where he is also an affiliated professor in Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, as well as the director of the Animal Studies MA Program and the Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program. He’s also co-director of the university’s Wild Animal Welfare P…
Growing up on the land offers and idyllic childhood for so many kids. But it’s certainly not without its challenges for the parents. Motivated by her own experience of raising youngsters on a farm in Tasmania, my guest today saw a few gaps that needed to be addressed. So, she created Australia’s first personalised online rural mothers’ group. Mothe…
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Is The Plant-based Foods Sector Dead? Three Industry Experts Discuss
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I am joined by the CMO of Change Foods, Irina Gerry and the Founder of the Vegan Women Summit, Jennifer Stojkovic to discuss the State of the Plant-based Foods and Innovation Industry. Is the sector dead? Has the media gotten it wrong? Is there positive data to report? Where is the sector headed? Have your own thoughts? Share them with me on Linked…
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Ep. 261: What's That Lion's Head Doing On Your Dress, Kylie Jenner?
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When the fashion world went crazy in Paris over a lion's head on a long, elegant dress, the first one the media called was PETA. Lisa Lange, PETA's Sr.VP of Communications talks to Emil Guillermo about the shock of fashion, especially when Kylie Jenner is a part of it. Also discussed: buzz about PETA's Oscats and a new PETA exhibit at UCLA. The PET…
A good wedding anniversary present can be hard to find but when Julie Kos bought her husband Paul a smoker as a gift, they had no idea just how life-changing it would be. They started smoking everything and as egg farmers, well, they gave that a go too. It was a light-bulb moment. Now, the Victorian couple are the proud owners of The Smoked Egg Co …
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CEO of The Kitchen Hub, Jonathan Berger, Talks Israel's Lead in Plant-based Innovation
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CEO of Israel's incubator, The Kitchen Hub, Jonathan Berger discusses Israel's leadership in Plant-based Innovation, what we can expect to see in 2023 in the sector globally and the role government plays in fostering innovation. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out …
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Ep.260: Birds Should be Free, Not Domesticated Nor Caged.
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PETA VP Christina Matthies talks to Emil Guillermo about birds, especially domesticated ones. Most human companions aren't as knowledgeable about birds. It means the situation devolves to the point a bird rescue is needed. How best to avoid a bird rescue? Don't turn to birds to be your companion animals. Let the birds be birds. Matthies is also the…
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Episode 209: Teaching Literary Animal Studies with Liza Bauer
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Today's guest is Liza Bauer, a PhD candidate in literature at the University of Giessen in Germany, as well as the manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking project at Giessen. Her dissertation, Livestock in the Laboratory of Literature, explores literary visions of human-animal relationships as thought experiments for novel political futures. She…
They say, ‘the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’, and the Montague family have proven that to be true. It all started with the patriarch Bill in 1948. Fast forward to now, and his grandson Scott has been busy learning about the orchard, packing, distribution, sales and marketing. As much as we all love a Granny Smith or Red Delicious, the famil…
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Can Brands Get in Climate Shape? Here's How with Maha Tahiri
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Maha Tahiri, Founder of Nutrition Sustainability Strategies, joins me today on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss sustainability and health goals for corporations and brands and what the years ahead will be for clean, short, healthy labels and ingredients. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consultin…
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E.259: PETA Victories: Ending Experiments, Saving Animals
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Kathy Guillermo talks about some of PETA's big victories in 2022, starting with FDA Modernization Act, and what it means for you and the animals. She also talks about the victories for dogs at Envigo in Virginia, and at Texas A&M. See more on the FDA Modernization Act at PETA.org. See more on the Texas A&M dogs. See PETA's top victories for 2022. T…
Managing a family farm comes with big responsibility but my guest today has not only excelled in the running of Barunga Grains near Bute on the Northern Yorke Peninsula of South Australia – he’s made it his own. Technology has opened up a wealth of information many operators won’t even know exists. His work has just earned him a gong in the Farmer …
