by Duncan | Nov 6, 2024 | Advocates, Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Dogs, Educators, Environmental Impact, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Pets, Rescue, Vegetarian/Vegan
Peter Singer–the philosopher, professor emeritus of bioethics at Princeton University, and author (including his landmark 1975 work, “Animal Liberation” and the just-published “Consider The Turkey”—explains that his slate of pursuits post-retirement from...
by Duncan | Oct 30, 2024 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Horses, Legislation, Mammals, Vegetarian/Vegan
Jodie Wiederkehr–veteran animal advocate and Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals (CAA)—recounts details of how CAA was formed, in 2015. (She has recalled in a previous “Talking Animals” conversation how her earliest professional animal...
by Duncan | Oct 23, 2024 | Advocates, Authors, Educators, Health & Behavior, Mammals, Pets, Rescue
Mara Hvistendahl, a The New York Times reporter who wrote “The Panda Factories”–an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism probing the impact of China’s gambit nearly 30 years ago to send pandas to zoos in other countries, hoping the visiting animals...
by Duncan | Oct 16, 2024 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Educators, Health & Behavior, Rescue, Wildlife
Nancy Murrah—President of The Raptor Center of Tampa Bay (RCTB), which rescues, rehabilitates, and releases hundreds of native birds of prey annually—describes the preparations required at RCTB before something like Hurricane Milton, and how the facility fared...
by Duncan | Oct 2, 2024 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Educators, Legislation
Melissa Zepeda–an attorney and accomplished animal rights advocate, with a notable breadth of interests and topics that have animated her activism—recalls growing up in family that revered animals, then being stopped in her tracks when a fellow high school...
