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Mark Devries, documentary filmmaker, “Humans and Other Animals”

Duncan — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 04:00:34 +0000

Mark Devries–the documentary filmmaker (https://markdevries.com/) who specializes in exploring the realm of animals and animal welfare—expands on the final line (the fate of our kin is up to us) of his new film, “Humans and Other Animals.” Laying out an eloquent and philosophical operating principle—which permeates his new film, as it did his debut doc, […]

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Temple Grandin, autistic animal scientist and author

Duncan — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 05:00:14 +0000

Temple Grandin–sometimes referred to as the world’s most famous autistic person, amidst several ways to describe her, including expert on animal behavior, prolific author, longtime professor of animal science at Colorado State University, fervent activist for autistic people, and tireless lecturer—sat with me onstage at the Paramount Theatre in Austin for what became a truly […]

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Alene Anello, founder and president of Legal Impact for Chickens

Duncan — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:00:02 +0000

Alene Anello–founder and president of Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC), a nonprofit dedicated to bringing lawsuits that benefit chickens—recalls growing up in a family with plenty of animals, mostly dogs. However, when at age 11, she asked for her very own animal, her parents gave her a cockatiel, Conrad. Anello says that Conrad lived for […]

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Karen Davis, founder-president of United Poultry Concerns

Duncan — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 04:00:29 +0000

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the third program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way the broadcast will come together for the foreseeable future. Karen Davis—founder of United Poultry […]

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Jane Velez-Mitchell, host of “New Day, New Chef”

Duncan — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:00:19 +0000

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the first program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida. Jane Velez-Mitchell— the New York Times bestselling author and former TV anchor, whose newer ventures including hosting “New […]

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Ronnie Lee, veteran animal rights activist & founder of the Animal Liberation Front

Duncan — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 04:00:08 +0000

Ronnie Lee—the veteran British animal rights activist, who in 1976, founded the Animal Liberation Front (ALF)—muses about how to reconcile a lad whose childhood, in its basic contours, resembled many people’s childhood, yet he went on to become a firebrand activist. The subject of a new book, “The Animals’ Freedom Fighter: A Biography of Ronnie […]

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Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone contributing editor

Duncan — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:00:41 +0000

Paul Solotaroff—Rolling Stone contributing editor who wrote a wide-ranging, high-profile exposé about the netherworld of puppy mills in the then-new issue of the magazine—discusses how he came to write the piece, sort of goaded into it by Humane Society of The United States CEO Wayne Pacelle, after Solotaroff completed another Rolling Stone investigative opus about factory […]

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Anita Krajnc, activist & co-founder of Toronto Pig Save

Duncan — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 05:00:40 +0000

Anita Krajnc—the animal rights activist who co-founded Toronto Pig Save (spawning The Save Movement)—discusses her arrest for giving water to a truckload of thirsty pigs on a sweltering day last summer, as the truck was pulling into a Burlington slaughterhouse. But, in this wide-ranging conversation, we cover a number of other topics, including Krajnc’s formative years, […]

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Nathan Runkle, founder of Mercy For Animals…Plus, Joan Jett!

Duncan — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:23 +0000

Nathan Runkle—founder and president of Mercy For Animals—recounts the horrific incident (a fellow high school student that Runkle said slammed a baby piglet on a concrete floor during class) that prompted him to create the organization in 1999. He discusses Mercy For Animals’ early years and early achievements, as well as the evolution of the organization […]

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Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn, “Cowspiracy” filmmakers

Duncan — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 04:00:45 +0000

Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn—filmmakers behind the documentary “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret,” which examines how the animal agriculture industry dwarfs all other causes of global climate change (and other ills), and how the most prominent environmental nonprofit organizations look the other way, and worse—discuss their respective backgrounds and how they teamed up for this project. […]

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Kevin Fulton, owner of Fulton Farms

Duncan — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:00:21 +0000

Kevin Fulton—the owner and operator or Fulton Farms, a 2800-acre organic farming and grazing operation in central Nebraska—discusses his unusual background and career path, starting with growing up on the farm and helping his veterinarian father on his calls, and later getting a master’s degree in exercise physiology and working as a college strength and […]

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Mark Devries, director of “Speciesism: The Movie”

Duncan — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 05:00:36 +0000

Mark Devries—director of the new documentary, “Speciesism: The Movie”—discusses how the film came about, and how he first became interested in factory farming. He traces the genesis of “Speciesism” to encountering some PETA protests, spurring an interest in learning more about what truly goes on behind the walls of factory farming operations, at about the […]

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Paul Shapiro, VP Farm Animal Protection, HSUS

Duncan — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:33 +0000

Paul Shapiro—Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, at The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)—recounts his formative years as an animal lover and advocate, including launching Compassion Over Killing and how that organization’s undercover video investigations in the pre-Internet age served as an important precursor to the more sophisticated ones later undertaken by HSUS, Mercy […]

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Dr. Temple Grandin, author, professor, expert on autism and animal cognition

Duncan — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:00:57 +0000

This interview with Dr. Temple Grandin was delayed because the flight she was on that morning was very late landing, which we didn’t know in the first part of the show, when we were trying to reach her, and moving elements of the show around in her absence. Once we connected, Dr Grandin, who herself is […]

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