ARZone Podcast 64: Karen and Michael Budkie - Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!

Episode 64 features Karen and Michael Budkie of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (www.SAENonline.org).

Michael Budkie once worked in laboratories as an Animal Health Technician, witnessing first hand the traumas inflicted on other animals. Karen and Michael discuss the work that SAEN does in uncovering the abuse of other animals who are experimented on, the role of money in scientific research, and most importantly, what any person who cares about other animals can do to stop exploitation now. Audio podcast, approx 65 minutes.

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SAEN, founded by the Budkies in 1996, is a grassroots organisation in the United States that is focused on ending the abuse of other animals in laboratories.  

The Budkies campaign, educate and investigate full time throughout the US. SAEN calls attention to - and in many cases has put a stop to - experimentation on primates and other individuals, the seizures by labs of dogs and cats from shelters, as well as revealing many other forms of routine abuse.

Find SAEN on Facebook here.

ARZone Podcast 60: Karol Orzechowski - Maximum Tolerated Dose

Episode 60 features activist, vegan and creator of still and moving images, Karol Orzechowski.

Karol Orzechowski, a long time advocate for social justice causes, has recently produced and directed the full length documentary Maximum Tolerated Dose. MTD presents accounts of experimentation on other animals from the perspectives of the humans who have performed it as well as of the other animals who have survived it. Karol speaks with ARZone about his art and his activism - how they come together and how they stay apart. Audio podcast approx 95 minutes.

You may also listen H E R E, or visit this webpage to subscribe using iTunes, and please remember to visit ARZone on the web at www.ARZone.net.

Please click here for more information on the film Maximum Tolerated Dose.

Find MTD on Facebook.

Visit this page to keep up with all of Karol's work: Decipher Images.

To learn more about MTD's Lush Prize click here.

Join Fighting Animal Testing on Facebook.

Karol mentions the online archive Conflict Gypsy.

Read Tom Regan's ARZone interview.

ARZone Podcast 58: Ronnie Lee - Encouraging Vegan Education

Episode 58 features ARZone admin Ronnie Lee.

Ronnie Lee, famous as the founder of ALF (Animal Liberation Front), speaks with his fellow ARZone admins about his most recent project called Encouraging Vegan Education (EVE). He also talks about why the ALF has not been as effective as many had hoped, about the long history of veganism within the animal protection movement, about the best ways to reach out to non-vegans, and about the importance of patience in the struggle for the rights of other animals. Audio podcast, approx. 58 minutes.

You may also listen H E R E, or visit this webpage to subscribe using iTunes, and please remember to visit ARZone on the web at www.ARZone.net.
 

ARZone Podcast 54: Dr. Andrew Knight Returns!

Episode 54: ARZone welcomes back special guest Dr. Andrew Knight.

Andrew speaks with ARZone about his work making schools of veterinary medicine aware of methods and procedures that respect the lives of other animals, he answers some questions regarding the health and diets of cats and dogs, and he tells about the incredible vegan endurance events he's participated. Audio podcast, approx 59 minutes.


 
Dr. Knight is the author of the book The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments which examines the practice of medical testing on other animals. Andrew is an Australian born bioethicist, living in London, who is now a European Veterinary specialist in welfare science, ethics and law. He first spoke with ARZone in a podcast published in July 2012. At that time, Andrew spoke about his pending lecture tour of Peru and his eagerly anticipated world’s first ever vegan ultramarathon in Wales, which sounds like it was more like a survival adventure!

You may also listen H E R E, or visit this webpage to subscribe using iTunes, and please remember to visit ARZone on the web at www.ARZone.net.

Please click on the following links to learn more about Andrew's work:

ARZone's previous podcast interview with Dr. Knight is here.

To learn more about the benefits of vegan living for cats, dogs and other animals, please visit www.vegepets.info

The book: The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments: http://www.andrewknight.info/publications/book/book.html

Andrew's informational websites on animal experimentation (www.AnimalExperiments.info) and humane teaching methods (www.HumaneLearning.info).

Animals Count: a British political party for people and animals: http://www.animalscount.org
The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics: http://www.OxfordAnimalEthics.com
Animal Consultants International: http://www.AnimalConsultants.org
The Extreme Vegan Sporting Association: http://www.extremevegansports.org
The first vegan ultra-marathon (not run by, but in accordance with the aims and ethos of the Extreme Vegan Sporting Assoc): http://www.vegan-welsh-3000s.co.uk/#

For more information about Dr. Knight's publications or to inquire about the possibility of arranging for a presentation by Dr. Knight, please visit the website: http://www.andrewknight.info.

ARZone Podcast 47: Dr. Andrew Knight

Episode 47 features special guest Dr. Andrew Knight. Andrew talks about his book The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments, the problem of vivisection, the use of other animals in veterinary schools, vegan ultramarthons and fitness, and much more. Approx. 44 min audio podcast.



Dr. Andrew Knight is an Australian bioethicist and European Veterinary Specialist in Welfare Science, Ethics and Law who lives and practices veterinary medicine in London. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the Director of Animal Consultants International, which provides multidisciplinary expertise for animal issues, and he is spokesperson for Animals Count, a British political party for people and animals.

Andrew has produced over 50 scientific publications on animal issues. His key publications include a major series examining the contributions to human health-care of animal experiments. His work has attracted several awards at international scientific conferences, and forms the basis for his 2010 PhD as well as providing the foundations for his 2011 book The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments.

Andrew’s other publications have examined the contributions of the livestock sector to climate change, vegan companion animal diets, the animal welfare standards of veterinarians, and the latest evidence about animal cognitive and related abilities and the resultant moral implications.

You may also listen H E R E, or visit this webpage to subscribe using iTunes, and please remember to visit ARZone on the web at www.ARZone.net.

Please click on the following links to learn more about Andrew's work:  

The book: The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments: http://www.andrewknight.info/publications/book/book.html  

Andrew's informational websites on animal experimentation (www.AnimalExperiments.info) and humane teaching methods (www.HumaneLearning.info).

Animals Count: a British political party for people and animals: http://www.animalscount.org  

The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics: http://www.OxfordAnimalEthics.com

Animal Consultants International: http://www.AnimalConsultants.org  

The Extreme Vegan Sporting Association: http://www.extremevegansports.org  

The first vegan ultra-marathon (not run by, but in accordance with the aims and ethos of the Extreme Vegan Sporting Assoc): http://www.vegan-welsh-3000s.co.uk/#  

For more information about Dr. Knight's publications or to inquire about the possibility of arranging for a presentation by Dr. Knight, please visit the website: http://www.andrewknight.info.

ARZone Podcast 45: Marc Bekoff

An interview with Marc Bekoff, world renowned animal behaviorist, biologist, author (Animals Matter) and advocate for other animals.

Marc talks about the need to connect hearts and minds by "rewilding" ourselves, his ideas about compassionate conservation, what we know about the minds of other animals, and how the way forward for other animals is for human advocates to stop their bickering and learn to work for a common purpose.

Prof. Bekoff is a former Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a past Guggenheim Fellow. His main areas of research include animal behavior, cognitive ethology (which is the study of animal minds), and behavioral ecology; Marc has also published extensively on the need to change how humans regard, treat and use other animals. Named to the advisory board of GreenVegans in 2010, Marc has served as an advisor or board member to numerous organizations throughout his career, including as co-founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Marc has published more than 300 essays (both scholarly and for mass media) and 22 books, including Species of mind: The philosophy and biology of cognitive ethology (with Colin Allen) and the Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare. Professor Bekoff has appeared on national and international television programs, and has been published in major newspapers and magazines. He currently writes a popular column called Animal Emotions for Psychology Today. 

In 1986 Marc became the first American to win his age-class at the Tour du Var bicycle race (also called the Master's … or age-graded Tour de France).

It’s safe to say that Prof. Bekoff is a recognized expert in animal cognition and behavior, and a trusted voice both inside and outside of the animal advocacy community.


You may also listen H E R E, or visit this webpage to subscribe using iTunes, and please remember to visit ARZone on the web at www.ARZone.net.

Please click the following links to read Marc's articles that are discussed in this podacst:

Rewilding Our Hearts: Maintaining Hope and Faith in Trying Times. 

Animals and Inmates: Science Behind Bars

Do Dogs Really Feel Pain and Are They Really Conscious?

Bears Can "Count"

Animal Consciousness and Science Matter: Anthropomorphism is not anti-science

Compassion Begets Compassion

The Hearts and Minds of Animals: A Discussion with Dr. Marc Bekoff

ARZone Podcast 32: The Brit Pack.

An ARZone Special on the history and development of the Animal Advocacy Movement, featuring "The Brit Pack" - Brendan McNally, Kim Stallwood, Louise Wallis, Lynne Yates, Ronnie Lee, and Roger Yates. The host is ARZone founder, Carolyn Bailey.



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A Toast to Ronnie Lee, or Ronnie Lee You're Toast! Listen in awe as Brendan McNally stops Ronnie Lee in full flight with the skillful use of the word "toast."

ARZone Podcast 29: Kim Stallwood.

This time, the ARZone team are joined by long-time animal advocate and vegan since 1976, Kim Stallwood, who has worked for a number of campaigning organisations including Compassion In World Farming (CIWF) and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV).

Kim Stallwood.

Grumpy Vegan.




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ARZone Podcast 20: Gary Smith on Vivisection, Beagles, Single-Issues, and the Mass Media.

Episode 20 features Gary Smith, author of the blogThe Thinking Vegan, who speaks about ways to campaign against vivisection.



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