Arin Greenwood | Talking Animals

Arin Greenwood on loving & living with dogs

Duncan — Wed, 01 May 2024 04:00:24 +0000

Arin Greenwood–a wearer of many hats, mostly animal-related, including Director of Philanthropy Communications at Austin Pets Alive! former animal journalist extraordinaire (HuffPost, Washington Post, The Today Show website, et al), and novelist–maintains a sizable social media presence, posting regularly on Facebook, which in a way, spawned this interview. That is, I was struck by the […]

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Arin Greenwood, ALDF Senior Writer, ex-animal journalist, author of animal-oriented novels

Duncan — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:00:24 +0000

Arin Greenwood is a “Talking Animals” favorite and a friend of the show. She’s also currently Senior Writer at the Animal Legal Defense Fund, formerly animal journalist extraordinaire—she was the animal welfare editor at The Huffington Post, and a regular contributor to The Washington Post, The Today Show website, and The Dodo, among others. She’s […]

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Bruce Friedrich, co-founder & executive director of The Good Food Institute

Duncan — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 04:00:49 +0000

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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Arin Greenwood, journalist and author of “Your Robot Dog Will Die”

Duncan — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 04:00:34 +0000

Arin Greenwood—a journalist who specializes in writing about animal welfare, and whose sterling new novel, “Your Robot Dog Will Die,” was published Tuesday (April 17)—offers her synopsis of the book, and recalls key elements of the setting, story, and fundamental themes that she arrived at while in the formative stages of writing “Your Robot Dog […]

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Arin Greenwood & Lee Greenwood, sibling animal welfare advocates

Duncan — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 05:00:05 +0000

Arin Greenwood and Lee Greenwood—siblings who are both lawyers, skillful writers, and engaged in promoting animal welfare, from different platforms—recount growing up in a house that was, unsurprisingly, brimming with animals (though Arin notes a difficult six-year stretch, start when she was 6, when the family went dog-less). The Greenwoods agreed there was no predict […]

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Keegan Kuhn, co-director of “What the Health”

Duncan — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:00:49 +0000

Keegan Kuhn—half of the filmmaking duo behind the award-winning documentary, “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret,” and whose new film is “What the Health”—discusses the impact and acclaim generated by “Cowspiracy,” and how, rather than feeling intimidated by the success in approaching the next project, he and partner Kip Andersen largely viewed this new movie as an […]

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Panel Discussion About The End Of Ringling

Duncan — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:00:08 +0000

For today’s edition of Talking Animals, I jettisoned the usual format and convened a panel discussion about the end of the Ringling Bros. circus. I was inspired to present the panel because I was struck by the array of reactions in the wake of the announcement by Feld Entertainment that it was shutting down the circus […]

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Darcy Dennett, director of “The Champions”

Duncan — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 05:00:50 +0000

Darcy Dennett—the director of “The Champions,” a documentary chiefly about the pit bulls rescued from Michael Vick’s dog-fighting ring—outlines her professional experience that served as a prelude to this, her feature film debut. She explains the passion that propelled her through making “The Champions,” partly born of similar work—and attachments formed with some of the […]

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