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. Le...
Sep 18, 2024•12 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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 ht...
Sep 04, 2024•20 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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 Poirie...
Aug 21, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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 aut...
Aug 07, 2024•47 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 Gru...
Jul 24, 2024•48 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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 ab...
Jul 10, 2024•13 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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 discus...
Jun 26, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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 Max Haiven discusses whethe...
Jun 12, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In this series, the big theme has been systems with special attention to economics and capitalism. Selling as many different products is one of the principal manifestations of capitalism. And in the context of vegan products - What’s it mean to have more vegan products available to buy? Do more vegan products mean fewer animals are being exploited for their bodies and secretions? Is veganism about products? Is veganism winning? I share my thoughts about this and more in the last episode for this...
Sep 20, 2023•14 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Sara van Goozen and Josh Milburn are the first to include considering harm to animals in just war theory. Broadly speaking, just war theory looks at whether a war is justified and if so, how that war should be conducted. They authored "Counting Animals in War: First Steps towards an Inclusive Just-War Theory” published in the journal Social Theory and Practice.Sara is a lecturer at the University of York. Her research focuses on topics in contemporary just war theory and global ethics. She’s wri...
Sep 06, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 7
For his Master Thesis, Tim Reysoo developed the concept of human privilege by extending the notion of social privilege to make sense of the enormous power differential between humans and animals in society. He develops the concept and social category of “species privilege” and “human innocence”. Tim studied Philosophy and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He conducted his graduate fieldwork in Ghana on the role of social movements in Leaving Fossil Fuels Undergrou...
Aug 23, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Doctor Josh Milburn's book, Just Fodder: The ethics of feeding animals (McGill-Queen's University Press), explores a variety of questions from “Who are we obliged to feed? Who are we permitted to feed? What are we allowed to feed animals? To What is the role of the state in feeding animals? And How might obligations concerning the feeding of animals differ from obligations concerning the feeding of humans and why? These are thought provoking questions and this book really pushed me to consider t...
Aug 09, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Joshua Katcher and Tracey Katof are researching the fashion industry as a compelling case-study for the macroeconomic phenomenon of circumfauna, a term Joshua coined. They analyse the social, historical, and environmental influences on the large-scale shift towards intentionally reframing supply chains without animals. Joshua Katcher is a fashion designer, author and educator who has taught at Parsons and has lectured at universities internationally and lobbied in the United States for sustainab...
Jul 26, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Infighting. It’s something people in the veganverse complain about. So what do we mean by infighting? Is it something unique to the vegan and animal rights space? Should we be concerned about it? Does it benefit one group over another? How should we engage with it if at all? And what might be some of its consequences, if any? If this is something you think about or have encountered, you’re not alone. My guest is Dr Corey Lee Wrenn, Lecturer of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Stud...
Jul 12, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass are the authors of Half Earth Socialism:A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso). We talk about their book, the simulation game that goes with their book and why vegans should be socialists and socialists should be vegans. We also talk about Drew's work at mapping methane and other emissions in real time and go really off piste by chatting about my rewilding project in Scotland. Troy is an environmental historian who specia...
Jun 28, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Marx, Veganism and Political Solidarity Across Species Where is the political solidarity from those who’ve thought and care about labour and social exploitation? Our guest today is Professor Leigh Claire La Berge. Her forthcoming new book Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (Duke University Press), makes the case for political solidarity across species. As we talk about in our book, Think Like a Vegan, animals’ bodies are both a means of production and a saleable product. They’re bound up in this ...
Jun 14, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Benny Malone, author of How to Argue with Vegans: An analysis of anti-vegan arguments , talks to us about his top five favourite fallacies. Not the ones we might be familiar with, but those requiring a bit more work and thought. In the second half of the program, I'll share my top three strategies when choosing to engage with others on the topic of veganism. Credits Host : Emilia A. Leese Guest : Benny Malone; on Twitter @bennymaloneUK Production & Engineering : Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Pr...
May 13, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 Blo...
May 06, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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. Lee...
Apr 29, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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...
Apr 22, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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...
Apr 15, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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”. Credits Host: Emilia A. Leese Guest: Prof Maneesha Deckha; https://www.uvic.ca/law/facultystaff/facultydirectory/deck...
Apr 08, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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. Credits Host: Emilia A. Leese Guest: Prof Jason Hannan; https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/rhetoric/faculty/jason-hannan.html; https://www.w...
Apr 01, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this episode I talk about what "Veganism is for everyone" means. I break veganism down to its fundamental ethical component, show why it must be part of social justice discussions and demystify what it means to be an activist. Credits Host: Emilia A. Leese Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions Music Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business Intermission: "Elephant Hour" by Derek Solomon Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic B...
Mar 25, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 1
A podcast bringing you thought provoking deep dives across a wide variety of subjects from one of the authors of Think Like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics. Each episode is a mini talk about one topic which might not be the focus of an everyday conversation, including activism, ableism, reproductive rights, animals and the law, alternatives to animal experimentation in medicine and more. These short talks and guests will inspire and educate, expanding the conversation around v...
Mar 19, 2022•3 min
