All posts tagged animal welfare

Jessica Janson, East Coast Coordinator of Food for Thought

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…

Bob Barker, retired host, “The Price Is Right” & philanthropist

Bob Barker–the retired host of “The Price Is Right” who, over the years, has underwritten a huge array of animal welfare organizations, projects and programs–discusses his lifelong love of animals and how this, combined with the wealth he accumulated over some 35 years of hosting “The Price Is Right,” accounts for his large-scale philanthropy.  Read more…

Jill Robinson, founder of Animals Asia Foundation

Jill Robinson–the founder and executive director of Animals Asia Foundation., a Hong Kong-based organization devoted to the welfare of wild and urban animals in Asia – recounts her initial experiences and observations about the treatment of animals in Asia upon relocating to Hong Kong from England in 1985. Read more…

Animal behaviorist & author John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw–Foundation Director of the Anthrozoology Institute at the University of Bristol, and a longtime academic and scientist specializing in animal welfare and behavior–discusses his new book, “Dog Sense: How The New Science Of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend To Your Pet,” and the reactions to it. Read more…

Sherry Silk and Cathy Bellatin, from The Humane Society of Tampa Bay

Sherry Silk–executive director of The Humane Society of Tampa Bay (HSTB)–discusses how the animal welfare/rescue landscape has shifted in the 2 1/2 years since our last interview, including the effect the economic climate has had on donations & adoptions, as well as newer wrinkles and trends, like the growing impact and value of Facebook.  Read more…