Episode 53 features special guest David Cantor.http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7392026724731048755#editor/target=post;postID=1699410862535916337
A full-time animal advocate with national organizations since 1989, in late 2002 David Cantor founded and since then has served as the Executive Director of Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA), a group that engages in what he refers to as “strict rights advocacy”. RPA rejects both the traditional animal welfare strategy as well as abolitionism. Audio podcast, running time approx 48 mins.
David believes and argues that “rights precede abolition”. RPA promotes unalienable equal basic autonomy, ecology, and dignity rights of all animals, including humans; an end to rights of corporations and a number of other initiatives and strategies.
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.
To learn more about the Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA) please visit the RPA website at www.RPAforall.orgTo see RPA's lecture schedule for Fall 2012 please click here.
Episode 52 features special guest, Dr. Melanie Joy.
Dr. Joy is a social psychologist, a professor of psychology and sociology, and a celebrated speaker who has spent many years researching the psychology of eating meat, systems of oppression and strategic social change. Running time approx. 53 minutes.
Melanie is the author of two books Strategic Action for Animals as well as Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, which explores what she calls Carnism, the ideology of why we consider some individuals our friends and some our food. She has also authored numerous articles on psychology, animal advocacy and social justice.
She has been involved in the animal advocacy community for more than 20 years, working as an activist and an educator, and has recently announced the launch of Carnism Awareness and Action Network (CAAN) which is the first organisation to focus exclusively on the psychological and social underpinnings of eating other animals.
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.
To learn more about the Carnism Awareness and Action Network (CAAN) please visit the Carnism website at www.carnism.com
