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Jessica Janson, East Coast Coordinator of Food for Thought

By | June 3, 2020 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Health & Behavior, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing (though loosening) Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the eighth program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way our broadcasts will come together thru mid-June. Tentatively, we’re due back in studio on June 24.

Jessica Janson —East Coast Coordinator of Animal Place’s Food for Thought program, which seeks to help animal welfare, social justice, and environmental organizations adopt animal- and earth-friendly menu policies for their events—outlines some information about Animal Place, a farmed animal sanctuary in Northern California, one of the country’s oldest and largest. Read more…

Jo-Anne McArthur, photographer, co-editor, and creator of “Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene”

By | May 27, 2020 | Advocates, Authors, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Mammals, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the seventh program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way the broadcasts will come together thru mid-June. Tentatively, we’re due back in studio on June 24.

Jo-Anne McArthur —an acclaimed photojournalist who served as creator, co-editor, and photographer for the forthcoming book, “Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene”—responds to my beginning the interview in a different way (chiefly because McArthur has previously been a guest multiple times), starting with my questions about how she, as a photographer who’s specialized for years in documenting the often-awful plights of animals, staves of burnout or worse. Read more…

Karen Davis, founder-president of United Poultry Concerns

By | April 29, 2020 | Advocates, Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Factory Farming, General, Operations, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

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 Concerns (UPC), a nonprofit founded in 1990 that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic foul—recalls growing up in Altoona, Pennsylvania as a sensitive girl highly attuned to animals, which made it all the more difficult that hunting was a central activity of her family. Read more…

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

By | April 15, 2020 | Advocates, Authors, Cats, Dogs, Educators, Factory Farming, Health & Behavior, Operations, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

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 Day New Chef,” a vegan cooking show that currently streams on Amazon Prime Video—resumes the critique of the way others in the media covers animal welfare issues that began in our previous Talking Animals interview in 2012. Read more…

Logan Vindett, executive director of Kindred Spirits Sanctuary

By | February 26, 2020 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Logan Vindett—executive director of Kindred Spirits Sanctuary, a Citra, FL facility that provides safe, permanent refuge to disabled, abused, abandoned, and neglected farm animals—recounts growing up with a powerful love of animals, with some in her family thinking she should become a veterinarian. Read more…

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