Animal Legal Defense Fund | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:30:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Animal Legal Defense Fund | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Scott Blais, co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, currently running Elephant Sanctuary Brazil https://talkinganimals.net/2019/12/scott-blais-co-founder-of-the-global-sanctuary-for-elephants-running-elephant-sanctuary-brazil/ https://talkinganimals.net/2019/12/scott-blais-co-founder-of-the-global-sanctuary-for-elephants-running-elephant-sanctuary-brazil/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2019 05:00:40 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=7888 Scott Blais—co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, whose initial facility is the Elephant Sanctuary Brazil—begins the conversation aiming to answer my question about what makes elephants magical, what provokes such passionate response to them in so many people. Noting our last full-length interview was in 2013, at which point the Elephant Sanctuary Brazil was […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2019/12/scott-blais-co-founder-of-the-global-sanctuary-for-elephants-running-elephant-sanctuary-brazil/feed/ 0 7888 Bruce Friedrich, co-founder & executive director of The Good Food Institute https://talkinganimals.net/2019/03/bruce-friedrich-co-founder-executive-director-of-the-good-food-institute/ https://talkinganimals.net/2019/03/bruce-friedrich-co-founder-executive-director-of-the-good-food-institute/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2019 04:00:49 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=7434 Bruce Friedrich—the co-founder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI), which promotes plant-based dairy, eggs, and so-called clean meat, as alternatives to those items as produced by animal agriculture (factory farming)—outlines how, starting at age 12, he toiled on behalf of the homeless, inspired by an influential pastor and his faith. In response […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2019/03/bruce-friedrich-co-founder-executive-director-of-the-good-food-institute/feed/ 0 7434 Elaine West, founder of Rooterville Animal Sanctuary https://talkinganimals.net/2018/02/elaine-west-founder-of-rooterville-animal-sanctuary/ https://talkinganimals.net/2018/02/elaine-west-founder-of-rooterville-animal-sanctuary/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2018 05:00:01 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=6671 Elaine West—the founder of Rooterville Animal Sanctuary, a haven housing about 300 rescued farm animals, predominantly pigs, located in Melrose, FL—recalls the first pig she met, as a kid at her aunt’s farm in Illinois, describing a love-at-first-sight sensation that’s continued for decades. West also recounts the circumstances surrounding the first pig she rescued, when […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2018/02/elaine-west-founder-of-rooterville-animal-sanctuary/feed/ 0 6671 Stephen Wells, executive director of Animal Legal Defense Fund https://talkinganimals.net/2017/03/stephen-wells-executive-director-of-animal-legal-defense-fund/ https://talkinganimals.net/2017/03/stephen-wells-executive-director-of-animal-legal-defense-fund/#respond Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:00:34 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=6037 Stephen Wells—the executive director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF)—traces his intriguing, sometimes colorful, career path before joining ALDF, particularly his years in Alaska, where, among other developments, he formalized his commitment to becoming a professional animal advocate. (His early time in Alaska included participating in the clean up of the Exxon Valdez oil […]

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