This time, the ARZone team are joined by artist, designer, writer, and blogger, Ruby Roth. Vegan since 2003, Ruby is the author of two children's books about human relations with other animals, “That's Why We Don't Eat Animals,” published in 2009, and her new book, “Vegan is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action.” In this podcast, we discuss (... More)

This time, the ARZone team are joined by artist, designer, writer, and blogger, Ruby Roth. Vegan since 2003, Ruby is the author of two children's books about human relations with other animals, “That's Why We Don't Eat Animals,” published in 2009, and her new book, “Vegan is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action.”

In this podcast, we discuss with Ruby the links between health veganism and ethical veganism, the socialisation of children, social movements and the internet, feminism and animal rights, vegetarianism and veganism, and much more.

Of course, even though Ronnie Lee could not make it this time, we made sure we remembered to ask "The Ronnie Question"!






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In this short special podcast, the ARZone team of Carolyn Bailey, Ronnie Lee, and Roger Yates speak about the ARZone Vegan Buddies programme being fully operational. Its "third stage" - making the Vegan Buddies programme known to new and aspiring vegans - is now up and running. ARZone's second video about its Vegan Buddies initiative (... More)

In this short special podcast, the ARZone team of Carolyn Bailey, Ronnie Lee, and Roger Yates speak about the ARZone Vegan Buddies programme being fully operational. Its "third stage" - making the Vegan Buddies programme known to new and aspiring vegans - is now up and running.

ARZone's second video about its Vegan Buddies initiative is also available. SEE HERE.

[See HERE for Vegan Buddies 1 video]




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http://www.indymedia.org.au/2012/04/27/arzones-vegan-buddies-now-fully-operational
http://www.indymedia.org.nz/article/82348/arzones-vegan-buddies-now-fully-operatio
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101772?search_text=arzone




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Rae Sikora and JC Corcoran join the ARZone team for a lively discussion about vegan advocacy and related topics. Rae and JC have each been advocates and educators for more 30 years. Rae Sikora is a co-founder of the Institute for Humane Education, working to help develop critical thinking skills and awareness about (... More)

Rae Sikora and JC Corcoran join the ARZone team for a lively discussion about vegan advocacy and related topics.

Rae and JC have each been advocates and educators for more 30 years.

Rae Sikora is a co-founder of the Institute for Humane Education, working to help develop critical thinking skills and awareness about human health, the global environment, and justice for other animals.

JC Corcoran is a retired fire captain and paramedic. He holds a degree in Emergency Medicine. He has founded a number of organizations and has used his medical training and fitness background to help others see that the ways in which we use other animals affects us as well as them.

Together, Rae and JC have founded vegan-based Plant Peace Daily, and have written a new book by that name.





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In this special podcast, the ARZone team introduce their Vegan Buddies programme . Vegan Buddies is a vegan mentoring scheme designed to help new and aspiring vegans to become and stay vegan. In this podcast, listeners are given a brief "audio tour" of the main features of ARZone's Vegan Buddies initiative which can be accessed via the (... More)

In this special podcast, the ARZone team introduce their Vegan Buddies programme . Vegan Buddies is a vegan mentoring scheme designed to help new and aspiring vegans to become and stay vegan. In this podcast, listeners are given a brief "audio tour" of the main features of ARZone's Vegan Buddies initiative which can be accessed via the main Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) website. At this stage, ARZone are appealing for people to step forward and volunteer to become Vegan Buddy mentors by contacting veganbuddies@arzone.net

The ARZone Vegan Buddies programme is dedicated to the memory of British animal advocate Neil Lea (1958-2007).

ARZone have also produced a new short V I D E O about the Vegan Buddies programme.




or play podcast HERE.


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David Pearce is without doubt a controversial figure within the animal advocacy movement. He is a British negative utilitarian and transhumanist philosopher and author of the online text calling for the end of suffering for all sentient life, The Hedonistic Imperative. In 2002, David Pearce co-founded the Abolitionist Society, which (... More)

David Pearce is without doubt a controversial figure within the animal advocacy movement. He is a British negative utilitarian and transhumanist philosopher and author of the online text calling for the end of suffering for all sentient life, The Hedonistic Imperative.

In 2002, David Pearce co-founded the Abolitionist Society, which has "Towards the abolition of suffering through science" as its subtitle. Pearce is the author of "The Abolitionist Project" (which includes a 34 minute podcast) which is about "getting rid of suffering."





or listen HERE.



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An ARZone Special on the history and development of the Animal Advocacy Movement. Number 1 in a series, featuring "The Brit Pack" - Brendan McNally, Kim Stallwood, Louise Wallis, Lynne Yates, Ronnie Lee, and Roger Yates. The host is ARZone founder, Carolyn Bailey. or listen HERE. A Toast to (... More)

An ARZone Special on the history and development of the Animal Advocacy Movement. Number 1 in a series, featuring "The Brit Pack" - Brendan McNally, Kim Stallwood, Louise Wallis, Lynne Yates, Ronnie Lee, and Roger Yates. The host is ARZone founder, Carolyn Bailey.



or listen HERE.



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."


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This time the ARZone team are joined by Harold Brown, founder of Farm Kind. Harold was born and raised on a “cattle” farm, and spent more than half of his life involved in agriculture - three years of which were in the dairy industry. Now he works as an advocate for sustainable, independent family farms, environmental and social justice, (... More)

This time the ARZone team are joined by Harold Brown, founder of Farm Kind.

Harold was born and raised on a “cattle” farm, and spent more than half of his life involved in agriculture - three years of which were in the dairy industry. Now he works as an advocate for sustainable, independent family farms, environmental and social justice, and peace – through non-violence.

Harold is featured in the Tribe of Heart documentary Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, in which he speaks of his transformation from a farmer of other animals to a vegan and advocate for other animals.




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FIND THE DANG! AND WIN A VEGAN PRIZE!ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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Welcome to Part Two of ARZone's Greatest Hits Number Three with Dean Bracher, Katrina Fox, Robert Garner, Sharon Nunez, Dino Sarma, Kim Stallwood, David Sztybel, Jose Valle, and Lynne Yates.Issues covered in this episode include, ARZone member's questions, the "Ronnie Question," up-to-date and local video materials, the meaning of Dharma, (... More)

Welcome to Part Two of ARZone's Greatest Hits Number Three with Dean Bracher, Katrina Fox, Robert Garner, Sharon Nunez, Dino Sarma, Kim Stallwood, David Sztybel, Jose Valle, and Lynne Yates.

Issues covered in this episode include, ARZone member's questions, the "Ronnie Question," up-to-date and local video materials, the meaning of Dharma, intersectionality, vegan supplementation, reading Animal Liberation, the wearing of t-shirts controversy(!), lunchboxes and vegan foods for kids, the proprty status of other animals, does vegan education lead to underage drinking, and political campaigning.

or listen HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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Welcome to Part One of ARZone's Greatest Hits Number Three, featuring podcast guests Dean Bracher, Brandon Becker, Katrina Fox, Robert Garner, Sharon Nunez, Dino Sarma, Gary Smith, Kim Stallwood, David Sztybel, Jose Valle, and Lynne Yates.The ARZone Team members featured: Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Ronnie Lee, Jason (... More)

Welcome to Part One of ARZone's Greatest Hits Number Three, featuring podcast guests Dean Bracher, Brandon Becker, Katrina Fox, Robert Garner, Sharon Nunez, Dino Sarma, Gary Smith, Kim Stallwood, David Sztybel, Jose Valle, and Lynne Yates.

The ARZone Team members featured: Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Ronnie Lee, Jason Ward, and Roger Yates.

or listen HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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This time the ARZone team are joined by Mary Martin who holds a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from New York University. She is a vegan, a runner, meditator, atheist, and most importantly, a mother. Mary's blog Animal Person, deconstructs the language, ethics and economics of our relationship with other animals. You can find her blog at www.animalperson.net. (... More)

This time the ARZone team are joined by Mary Martin who holds a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from New York University. She is a vegan, a runner, meditator, atheist, and most importantly, a mother. Mary's blog Animal Person, deconstructs the language, ethics and economics of our relationship with other animals. You can find her blog at www.animalperson.net. Mary Martin is also a writer and editor and has collaborated on, ghostwritten or edited more than 20 non-fiction books.

or play HERE.

FIND THE DANG! AND WIN A VEGAN PRIZE.

Take One - or when the Sky falls in (you can judge whether this is real or a fake).

ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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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. or (... More)

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.

or listen HERE.

FIND THE "DANG!" AND WIN A PRIZE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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This time the ARZone team are joined by Katrina Fox. Katrina is a freelance journalist, originally from London and now based in Sydney, Australia. She is the editor-in-chief and publisher of the online magazine The Scavenger.Vegetarian since the age of 11 and vegan since 1997, Katrina is also passionate about feminist, gay, lesbian, (... More)

This time the ARZone team are joined by Katrina Fox. Katrina is a freelance journalist, originally from London and now based in Sydney, Australia. She is the editor-in-chief and publisher of the online magazine The Scavenger.

Vegetarian since the age of 11 and vegan since 1997, Katrina is also passionate about feminist, gay, lesbian, bisexual and Sex and/or Gender Diversity issues, and the intersectionality of social justice.

or play HERE.

Can you find the first hidden DANG! of 2012? (See HERE for details of ARZone's "DANG!" competition.)ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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This time the ARZone team are joined by grassroots activist from Animal Liberation Action, Brandon Becker. Brandon speaks about his time at PeTA and why he left the organisation, the formation of his grassroots group, their activities, and their aims. He also considers whether there remains a place for many of the large national animal advocacy (... More)

This time the ARZone team are joined by grassroots activist from Animal Liberation Action, Brandon Becker. Brandon speaks about his time at PeTA and why he left the organisation, the formation of his grassroots group, their activities, and their aims. He also considers whether there remains a place for many of the large national animal advocacy groups in the age of internet and comments on Roger's recent blog essay, "The Abolitionist Approach is Not Fit for Purpose."






or play HERE.

Can you locate the "Hidden DANG!!"ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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Joining the ARZone team this time is Dean Bracher, a British grassroots animal activist who for many years has been giving school talks on veganism and related topics. He is also an experienced organiser of a number of vegan events and animal advocacy activities in Britain. or play HERE.ARZone exists to help educate (... More)

Joining the ARZone team this time is Dean Bracher, a British grassroots animal activist who for many years has been giving school talks on veganism and related topics. He is also an experienced organiser of a number of vegan events and animal advocacy activities in Britain.

or play HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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Welcome to ARZone's second Greatest Hits package, featuring discussions and guest voices from ARZone podcasts 11-20. Guests featured are Bruce Friedrich, Oscar Horta, Thomas Janak, Robin Lane, Helen Masterman-Smith, David Nibert and Jordan Wyatt. The ARZone team featured are Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Ronnie Lee, Jason Ward and (... More)

Welcome to ARZone's second Greatest Hits package, featuring discussions and guest voices from ARZone podcasts 11-20. Guests featured are Bruce Friedrich, Oscar Horta, Thomas Janak, Robin Lane, Helen Masterman-Smith, David Nibert and Jordan Wyatt. The ARZone team featured are Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Ronnie Lee, Jason Ward and Roger Yates.

or play HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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Find the Hidden DANG! and Win a Prize! This time the ARZone team are joined by anti-speciesists Sharon Nunez and Jose Valle of Animal Equality who talk about their dramatic street events, single-issue events, vegan education, their open rescues, their journeys to veganism, their on-going legal problems, and their general anti-speciesist (... More)

Find the Hidden DANG! and Win a Prize!

This time the ARZone team are joined by anti-speciesists Sharon Nunez and Jose Valle of Animal Equality who talk about their dramatic street events, single-issue events, vegan education, their open rescues, their journeys to veganism, their on-going legal problems, and their general anti-speciesist campaigning for other animals.





or listen HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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This time the ARZone team are joined by Dino Sarma, cook, podcaster, vegan educator, and all-round good (vegan) egg. Dino Sarma is the author of Alternative Vegan: International Vegan Fare Straight From the Produce Aisle, which is a vegan cookbook based solely on produce. Dino focuses on cooking simply, inexpensively and with an East Indian influence. (... More)

This time the ARZone team are joined by Dino Sarma, cook, podcaster, vegan educator, and all-round good (vegan) egg. Dino Sarma is the author of Alternative Vegan: International Vegan Fare Straight From the Produce Aisle, which is a vegan cookbook based solely on produce. Dino focuses on cooking simply, inexpensively and with an East Indian influence. Dino produces popular podcasts, in which he takes his listeners through the world of the vegan kitchen, cooking without the use of what he deems "omnivore substitutes." He also maintains his blog, which is a cooking blog, but also a space that he uses to write about what's going on in his life. Dino currently lives in Manhattan with his husband. He has worked at the Sacred Chow, in Greenwich Village.





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This time the ARZone team are joined by animal ethicist Dr. David Sztybel. David has been a vegan since 1988 and talks about his evolving philosophy in the field of animal ethics, how a genuine interest in the concept of ahimsa has been an influence in his life, his interest in normative sociology, his journey to veganism, and his vision (... More)

This time the ARZone team are joined by animal ethicist Dr. David Sztybel.

David has been a vegan since 1988 and talks about his evolving philosophy in the field of animal ethics, how a genuine interest in the concept of ahimsa has been an influence in his life, his interest in normative sociology, his journey to veganism, and his vision for the future.

There were one or two technical difficulties during the recording of the podcast, so we hope that you do not find them too distracting - now and then, a word or two is not audible.

Also, since some of the podcast is quite philosophical in nature, you may find it useful to ref to the following glossary of terms while you listen.

Thanks,
ARZone Team.
btw - found the "Dang"?


GLOSSARY

Affect. Principally refers to (a) feelings and (b) desires. Also extends to moods, attitudes, and related phenomena.

Affective cognition. Part of David Sztybel's ethical theory: awareness of feelings and desires and their properties. For example, one may be aware that one is pleased. A property of the pleasure is that it is medium-grade wistful anticipation. Traditionally, feelings and desires are supposed to be noncognitive. Sztybel questions this because we are aware of our feelings, and not through the five senses either. So we must be aware of them somehow: through another mode of cognition or awareness. Let's call it feeling cognition, since it is literally the way we come to be aware of feelings as such. Are we aware that pain feels bad, not only in a verbal sense, through affective cognition? Does pain ever feel good or indifferent? Masochists feel bad from pain too or they would not inflict such hardship on themselves out of self-hatred or what-have-you.

Epistemology. The theory of knowledge in philosophy. It investigates questions such as: What is knowledge? How strict a standard should we use before we say we know that a belief is true? Should a belief be beyond all possible doubt? How is knowledge distinguished from, say, rational beliefs? Many epistemologists agree that we have certain knowledge of our mental states, but that technically, we do not have knowledge of the external world (which includes pencils and pogo sticks), because, for example, our perceptions could conceivably be "fed" to us as an illusion by a powerful being. These theorists would say we have very rational beliefs about the world that we perceive outside of ourselves, whereas we know 2 + 2 = 4, or if we are in pain, for two examples. Others say of course we know about the external world! But then it is a real challenge as to how to theorize that supposed knowledge. There are four popular theories of knowledge:

(a) foundationalism. Holds that we are aware of some truths that are self-evident, or otherwise evident, and that these basic pieces of knowledge form a foundation from which we can logically derive other pieces of knowledge. For example, I am aware of the side of a car. With other foundational bits of knowledge, I can be aware of a car as a whole, calculate estimated times of arrival, and so forth.

(b) coherentism. Propounds that no single beliefs are foundations of knowledge, but rather a web of beliefs that "cohere" (stick together in terms of logic, analysis, causation, explanation, definitions, and so on) accounts for our claims to knowledge. My knowledge of the side of a car depends on knowledge about colour, distance, cars, and so forth. Beliefs depend on many other beliefs and a variety of different forms of evidence.

(c) skepticism. Essentially denies that we have knowledge. Sometimes it is confined to certain areas of knowledge, such as purported knowledge of the so-called external world.

(d) pragmatism. Agrees at some level with the skeptic that we cannot give an absolute account of supposedly everyday knowledge, but insists that we need a sense of knowledge by which we can unequivocally say absolute truths about the world we try to access with the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. So pragmatism holds that if it "works" for individuals to say that they know, then they know. It works much better in a court of law, for example, to declare what one has witnessed with certitude, if that applies, rather than unnecessarily introducing doubts that are impractcal to consider, and could needlessly undermine a case.

Intuition. A basic belief that is so basic that no justification can be given for it. For example, the following assumption is an intuition: We should maximize pleasure and minimize pain overall. The latter is a version of act utilitarianism in ethics. See below on utilitarianism.

Intuitionism. The view, sometimes confined to ethics, which states that it is acceptable to base our moral theories on intuitions. After all, we need to start somewhere. If we have an infinite chain of a belief that in turn justifies a belief that in turn justifies a belief, and so forth, we will not be able to start the process of justification. The first belief would also need to be justified, and so on. Intuitionism has in common with foundationalism (see above) the possibility of starting with a single belief. (less...)

This time the ARZone team are joined by long-time British activist Lynne Yates. Lynne, a vegan since the late 1970s, has been a science teacher for many years, an education adviser to a local authority, and has worked in Southern Sudan. In the 1980s, she was the National Secretary of The Campaign for the Prevention of Cruelty by Angling (which, when (... More)

This time the ARZone team are joined by long-time British activist Lynne Yates. Lynne, a vegan since the late 1970s, has been a science teacher for many years, an education adviser to a local authority, and has worked in Southern Sudan. In the 1980s, she was the National Secretary of The Campaign for the Prevention of Cruelty by Angling (which, when she joined, had a membership of about 5 people!) and, as a radical feminist, organised and participated in many campaigns and mobilisations.





or play HEREARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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The ARZone team are joined by political theorist Professor Robert Garner, author of Animals, Politics and Morality, the Political Theory of Animal Rights, and Animal Ethics, and co-author with some other guy of The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation. Or play HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans (... More)

The ARZone team are joined by political theorist Professor Robert Garner, author of Animals, Politics and Morality, the Political Theory of Animal Rights, and Animal Ethics, and co-author with some other guy of The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation.



Or play HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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This time the ARZone team are joined by Gary Smith of the Thinking Vegan blog to talk about ways of campaigning against vivisection. Or play HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

This time the ARZone team are joined by Gary Smith of the Thinking Vegan blog to talk about ways of campaigning against vivisection.





Or play HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

The second part of our podcast with Professor David Nibert and Dr. Helen Masterman-Smith. Or play HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

The second part of our podcast with Professor David Nibert and Dr. Helen Masterman-Smith.




Or play HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

This time and next, the ARZone Team discuss David Nibert's "entanglements thesis" laid out in the 2002 book Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation with Professor Nibert himself, and with Dr. Helen Masterman-Smith of Charles Sturt University. Or play HEREARZone exists to help educate (... More)

This time and next, the ARZone Team discuss David Nibert's "entanglements thesis" laid out in the 2002 book Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation with Professor Nibert himself, and with Dr. Helen Masterman-Smith of Charles Sturt University.





Or play HEREARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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In our last podcast, ARZone interviewed Bruce Friedrich from Farm Sanctuary. In this episode, the ARZone team chat about issues that seemed to us to arise from Bruce Friedrich's podcast. Or play HERE. Found the Dang?! Extra, Extra, hear all about it. A few minutes cut (... More)

In our last podcast, ARZone interviewed Bruce Friedrich from Farm Sanctuary. In this episode, the ARZone team chat about issues that seemed to us to arise from Bruce Friedrich's podcast.





Or play HERE.


Found the Dang?!


Extra, Extra, hear all about it. A few minutes cut from the main podcast.



Or HERE.ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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This time the ARZone team are joined by Bruce Friedrich of Farm Sanctuary. Bruce Friedrich has recently left PeTA after 15 years working there. The ARZone team were interested to discover the reason for the move, and to explore issues about "farm animal" welfare, his film editing, and his veganism. ARZone podcast host, Carolyn Bailey, (... More)

This time the ARZone team are joined by Bruce Friedrich of Farm Sanctuary. Bruce Friedrich has recently left PeTA after 15 years working there. The ARZone team were interested to discover the reason for the move, and to explore issues about "farm animal" welfare, his film editing, and his veganism.

ARZone podcast host, Carolyn Bailey, experienced a thunderstorm during the recording. This accounts for the abrupt ending, and that some of the sound is poor and fragmented towards the end of the podcast.





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Found the Dang!?ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.

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