Listen HERE Analysing the sociology behind the posting of pictures of flesh and animal products on Animal Rights internet forums. Special guests Roger Yates from On Human Nonhuman Relations , and wonderful abolitionist advocate Timothy E. Putnam ! Enjoy I forgot to add that in honour of Dr. Yates this is a BELLS podcast. (Bells courtesy of Zsebi the kitten)...
Listen HERE This episode it was a pleasure and a joy to feature Diane Ellis who was referred to me by James Peden from Harbingers of a New Age, creators of Vegecat and Vegedog. Diane is their spokesperson, and is among other things an expert on feline nutrition, who has successfully raised three cats (and two dogs - of course!) on diets free from animal products, which is a success story I wish we could hear more of. She has very positive experiences and lots of great knowledge to share, for tho...
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Listen HERE This week I have the absolute pleasure of interviewing new NZ abolitionist podcaster and animator Emmy James from the Vegan For Life Podcast. We talk about her journey to veganism, her animation and podcast, and her plans for the future as a vegan in this world. Enjoy! Thanks to Emmy for coming on the show, please listen to her podcast! Here is a link to the Vegan For Live Blog: http://vegan-for-life.blogspot.com/ To access the podcast on iTunes click HERE This is a link to Emmy's Yo...
Listen HERE This week I talk about too much stuff to write about here, but the following are all the relevant links: The NEW NZ ABOLITIONIST VEGAN PODCAST from Vegan For Life Now available in iTunes Mylène Ouellet's podcast is also on iTunes Veganacious ' Barbara DeGrande new podcast episode is here oo and here is an interview she did with Mylène! Darn, I knew I had missed something out! >:( Sam Tucker's latest episode can be accessed through this page LiveVegan's podcast can be accessed thro...
Listen HERE This week I talk about a Veganism is not a diet, and I also just want to clarify some of the things I said last time, just to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding. Also, I have a new update about my profile from my job, there is a permanent entry and they have put a link to this website, for which I am very surprised and pleased :) Here is a link to the new profile: http://www.vetcare.net.nz/elizabeth.html This is the link to the CNN article that I mention: Global bake sale is 'sw...
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE This week I talk about my new job, the new member of my family, domestication and why I am more and more opposed to it every day, and I talk about the irrelevancy of the abortion issue to animal rights. Here is a link to the "Elizabeth Collins cont'd" part of my "profile" from my new job (scroll down): http://www.vetcare.net.nz/about_us.html This is the link to the debate on Michael Medved's radio show between Gary L. Francione and Wesley J.Smith: http://www.abolitioni...
Listen HERE This week I relate some experiences from the street stall in the hopes that it will help anyone else who is promoting veganism to people. Big shout out to William Paul for all his help and for being such a wonderful street stall colleague. I also mention some new developments: Barbara De Grande from Veganacious is doing a podcast!!! Please subscribe on iTunes here and you can also listen to the first episode here . Props to Jordan Wyatt from Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals for helpi...
Listen HERE This week I read a statement from a group of Abolitionist Vegan Feminists, including myself, voicing our objection to sexism in the animal movement. You can also read the statement as iit is posted in various blogs whose links are below, also Porolita has read it on her YouTube channel, in English and in Spanish, and I hope to read it in Spanish also for my NZ Vegano Podcast. I hope you enjoy and I REALLY hope you agree with it :-) Thanks for listening. The essay has been signed by t...
Listen HERE This week I talk about how I personally deal with the accusation that advocates of the abolitionist approach "don't care about animals who are suffering NOW!" For starters, I strongly recommend listening to this debate (there is a link to the audio in the post itself. Please listen): http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/my-dinner-at-eriks-happy-meat-diner/ and I strongly STRONGLY recommend reading Rain Without Thunder . Please please read this book. I also talk about how the focus of ...
Listen HERE This week I speak to fellow NZ abolitionist and podcaster Sam Tucker about single issue campaigns, welfarist thinking and what the future may hold for a 14 year old vegan. We also speak a little bit about living in a farming community and advocating for veganism at a school where many of the students actually live on farms themselves. In this episode we talk about Sam's radio show and podcast, which can be accessed from the following site: http://fftradio.wordpress.com/ We mention th...
Listen HERE This week I talk about Victor Schonfeld's article in the Guardian newspaper and Ingrid Newkirk's response in the same paper. Please go on there and comment, please help us spread the vegan message. It is really happening, I can feel it in my bones. These are the links Five Fatal Flaws of Animal Activism (Victor Schonfeld) A pragmatic fight for animal rights (Ingrid Newkirk) Please read this latest blog post (and then go on to read the entire site of course) by Vincent Guihan of We Ot...
Listen HERE This week I welcome back to the show my first ever podcast listener Jordan Wyatt from the Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals podcast, and we discuss his podcast about veganism and animal rights, what it is like to be vegan in Southland, talking to NZ farmers about veganism, the economy, the issue of sterilization, the counter movement of industry advertising and other things. You can find Jordan's blog here: Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals You can subscribe to his podcast via iTunes h...
Listen HERE This week I talk to Pao Aldana AKA Porolita, who lives in Guatemala and is spreading the vegan message on YouTube in English and in Spanish, plus educating people in her local community about veganism and abolition. We talk about Porolita's journey to veganism, the ease and necessity of abolitionist advocacy, the usefulness of social networking sites like YouTube to spread ideas, and what it is like to be vegan in Guatemala. Please check out Porolita's great videos on her YouTube cha...
Listen HERE I have had a wonderful week hanging out with my fellow NZ abolitionists William and Vish, and we had a chance to do the street stall together! This epidsode we talk about our experiences on Queen Street in our first street stall event of 2010. We also mention Part 1 of the BBC Documentary Animals and Us which is archived here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005k2zy Thanks Vish for coming up to Auckland to visit us and thanks to both William and Vish for helping with the street stal...
Listen HERE This week I am very pleased to have back as my guest William Paul. We talk about his experience as a peaceful activist and how about an occurrence where he was challenged on his nonviolence stance while speaking out against violence. We also talk about the NZ Vegan Society's Big Book of Vegan Products which is a fantastic new resource by this great new NZ Vegan Society . We discuss the up-and-coming (we hope) SAFE vegan campaign and whether it will actually happen, how it will happen...
Listen HERE Just articulating some things that I have been trying to come to terms with lately, specifically this desire to see "results" and to claim responsibility for things we really have no right to claim responsibility for. When someone takes animal rights seriously and goes vegan, it's their "victory" and no one else's. The benefit is for all, but the credit for that is given to the individual who takes that action. And alternatively if people resist and turn away, that also lies with the...
Listen HERE The second half of my conversation with Adam Kochanowicz where we talk about issues and opinions and share experiences as two advocates for abolitionist veganism in this speciesist, welfarist world! Enjoy! Please check out the interview with Gary Francione at The Vegan News : All Episodes Subscribe to The Vegan News Video Subscribe to The Vegan News Audio Or watch on YouTube...
Listen HERE This week I was chatting with Adam Kochanowicz , as we often do, and we thought it would be an interesting experiment to post our conversations about events and about what we think and what we are doing, and see if anyone else can relate! Please check out the interview with Gary Francione at The Vegan News : All Episodes Subscribe to The Vegan News Video Subscribe to The Vegan News Audio Or watch on YouTube...
Listen HERE This week I address the silliness of thinking that it is "manly" to consume animal products, specifically "eating meat" because that is one of the most touted myths and one of the biggest misunderstandings of our times, and is another paradigm shift in thinking that we must dismantle and redirect towards obvious truth. Thanks for listening! Please check out these quotes at Atheist Vegan : Pro Slavery Anti Slavery...
Listen HERE This week I have a long awaited and well worth the wait interview with Corey Wrenn from the Roanoke Vegan Examiner . We talk about Professor of Philosophy Bernie Rollins with whom Corey is taking an animal "rights" seminar, and the many challenges involved in being the only actual rights advocate in the room, and that includes the lecturer. We also discuss student advocacy, the absence of animal issues from the environmental movement. sociology and academia in general, and discuss wh...
Listen HERE This week I talk about how as a vegan consumer in a capitalist society I am trying to work as best as I can in the system, as a consumer in my daily life, aside from the main focus of advocating to individuals for a paradigm shift, and opening people's minds up to a fundamentally different way of thinking about all other animals and life on the planet by promoting the abolitionist approach and veganism. I admit I am very uneducated about politics, history, agriculture, sociology, and...
Listen HERE Just having a little whine today. Things have just GOT to change!
Listen HERE This week I comment on a breaking story by Greenpeace NZ which has everyone up in arms about how the dairy farmers are importing palm kernels to NZ by the millions of tonnes in order to supplement the feed of the dairy cows. Thing is, nobody is vegan, so they all eat dairy products. Ummmmm? These are the articles by the NZ Herald about the story: Greenpeace Moves Palm Kernel Protest to Port Greenpeace Defiant over Palm Oil Protest Here is a link to my Indymedia NZ article (PLEASE fee...
Listen HERE This episode I talk about my support of non violence and of the abolitionist approach and peaceful non violent vegan education. I give my reasons why, based on my own personal experience and non-expert opinion, and my core beliefs, which is all I can do. In this episode I am specifically talking about some of the things that I have read over the last few weeks in which proponents of violent tactics in the name of animal rights have been getting a lot of attention, and I have read som...
Listen HERE I am very pleased to welcome back Francis Glass, coordinator of Animal Liberation Youth , from Animal Liberation Victoria . In our last interview we talked about non-vegan volunteers handing out literature, and this episode we would like to respond to the comments and concerns that raised about this subject, as it is definitely something that needs to be discussed. Thank you to Karin Hilpisch for your comments! We also talk about young people who are going vegan and how important the...
Listen HERE Part two of my interview with Francis Glass from Animal Liberation Youth , of Animal Liberation Victoria . We talk about the social conditioning we are up against, the deep rooted moral schizophrenia in our lives as human beings and the profound effect on our psyche and our peace of mind. We talk about young men, or all men, in many cultures who are terribly depressed and repressed because of being pressured into being so unreasonably "tough" and expected to be violent in order to pr...
Listen HERE Part one of my interview with special guest Francis Glass, an 18 year old abolitionist vegan from Australia,and coordinator of Animal Liberation Youth , which is part of the abolitionist vegan advocacy group Animal Liberation Victoria . We talk about activism, vegan education, the counterproductiveness and elitism of welfare reform, and emphasize the fact that the abolitionist movement is part of the peace movement. You can find information about this abolitionist activism in Austral...
Listen HERE I am very pleased to welcome back to the show Dr. Roger Yates. This is a topic I have been wanting to tackle for the longest time, and I am very glad Dr. Yates agreed to help me. The article we refer to in the the podcast is the following: Independant.co.uk/world/australasia/australia-gets-the-hump Please contact me if you have any comments or questions, this is an extremely complicated subject and I would love some feedback, as always, and I am happy to revisit this in the future. I...
Listen HERE I am honoured to have again as my guest Professor Gary L. Francione of The Abolitionist Approach . We talk about the abolitionist approach and why it is fundamentally different from the welfare reformist approach, and we refer to the frequent discussions that occur between the two separate groups of thinkers, which is wonderfully illustrated on the blog My Face is on Fire , in a recent blog post . Please read the post and the ensuing comments to see what Professor Francione is talkin...
