ARZone Podcast 7. General Orders.

ARZone's special guest for this episode is Ronnie "The General" Lee, longtime British animal protectionist, co-founder of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and ethical vegan since 1971.

Ronnie provides ARZone Podcast listeners with an action-packed trip down memory lane as well as a powerful thought-provoking vision for a radical vegan future in which humanity returns to inhabiting the Earth rather than "occupying" the globe as a "dominating, tyrannical, force."

See what you think of Ronnie's ideas about human supremacy, arson, single-issue campaigning, scrapping the private car and mechanised farming, the world population, vegan festivals, violence, and a dog who is thin and brown.

The ARZone team for this podcast was Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier and Roger Yates.


You can also listen to the podcast by using THIS LINK.

ARZone Podcast 6. Intervention, Interaction, or Non-Interference.

This time the ARZone team explore the difficult and complex issue about whether human beings should interfere in the lives of other animals - indeed, should we, as philosopher David Pearce suggests, micro-manage every part of the planet in the name of compassion and in order to prevent pain anywhere and everywhere?
The New York Times website mentioned by David Pearce in this podcast can be accessed here.


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ARZone Podcast 5. Dr. Will Tuttle.

This is our first podcast with a former ARZone "chat" guest. We are very pleased to have Dr. Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet, as our first podcast interviewee.

Dr. Tuttle talks about his appearance at the 2011 Vegetarian Summer Fest in the USA (yes, we do ask him why it is not known as the Vegan Summer Fest), and issues raised in his book The World Peace Diet, including a wonderful story of his encounter with a free-living elk.



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ARZone thanks Dr. Will Tuttle for giving us his time during his busy schedule.

ARZone Podcast 4: Bearing Silent Witness

In this podcast, the ARZone team provide a tour around the Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) website, explaining it uses and features and then they discuss an ARZone guest answer by Animal Equality's Jose Valle about a particular style of demonstration made popular in Spain when animal advocates quietly and respectfully hold the dead bodies of the nonhuman animals they have found on Spanish farms, making the usually invisible visible again.


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ARZone Podcast 3: Communicating Disagreement

After a productive ARZone guest interview, or "chat," with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau of Compassionate Cooks, the ARZone team discuss a clip from one of Colleen's podcasts in which she talks about communicating with those we disagree with - and also those we agree with.

The ARZone team for podcast 3 are Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Jason Ward, and Roger Yates.



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[STOP PRESS - We have just about finished validating our Podcast Account for iTunes - watch this space!]

ARZone Podcast 2: Live Exports

Tim Gier reads out the ARZone Mission Statement and then the ARZone team, Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Jason Ward and Roger Yates discuss the ongoing controversy about live exports to Indonesia from Australia.



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At about 6 mins in, this image is the subject of the discussion.


And just for fun...

ARZone Podcast 1: Considering Tom Regan

Welcome to the first podcast from Animal Rights Zone (ARZone). The ARZone team, Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Jason Ward, and Roger Yates, explain the aims of the podcasts before presenting and discussing extracts from their guest Q&A interview with animal rights philosopher, professor Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights, Defending Animal Rights and Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights.



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The Animal Rights Zone podcasts are the result of global Skype recordings by people located in Australia, North America, Canada and Ireland. Therefore, please excuse some slight volume problems and other technical glitches in some sections.

Related links.

Main ARZone site.

ARZone Podcast 0: Introducing Animal Rights

ARZone hopes to begin posting soon.

In the meantime, here's a great podcast from Roger Yates, featuring some of the ARZone team.

The Tom Tom Club: An ARZone Tom Regan Week Podcast.

In this podcast, featuring Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) administrators Carolyn Bailey, Tim Gier, Jason Ward, and myself, we informally review and assess why ARZone staged the Tom Regan Week (duh!), talk about how we wanted to introduce another generation of animal advocates to this important rights-based philosopher's work, and explore the degree to which his body of work is still relevant in the 21st century.
 
In a moment of utter recklessness, I also handed over the choosing of the music for my "boring old fart" spot to Carolyn, Tim and Jason, and a right old rag-tag bunch of "music" they came up with, as you'll hear.
 
LISTEN HERE...
 
And HERE for some fun outtakes with a serious message at the end from Tim Gier.