by Duncan | Feb 12, 2025 | Advocates, Captive Exotic, Cats, Educators, General, Legislation, Mammals, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan, Wildlife
Howard Baskin—often identified as Advisory Board Chairman of Big Cat Rescue, and spouse of Carole Baskin, the founder of the sanctuary that operated in Tampa for more than three decades—recalls, as a savvy businessman wielding a Harvard MBA, his reaction upon first ...
by Duncan | Oct 30, 2024 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Horses, Legislation, Mammals, Vegetarian/Vegan
Jodie Wiederkehr–veteran animal advocate and Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals (CAA)—recounts details of how CAA was formed, in 2015. (She has recalled in a previous “Talking Animals” conversation how her earliest professional animal...
by Duncan | Nov 1, 2023 | Adoption, Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, Health & Behavior, Mammals, Vegetarian/Vegan
Dr. Faraz Harsini–biomedical scientist and speaker at the 2023 Tampa Bay Veg Fest—remembers growing up in Iran, including a possible foreshadowing of his future activism, when participating in a student protest of the country’s leadership resulted in his being...
