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S13E24 Cameron Meyer Shorb: Nature Was Never Eden
"So before I encountered these ideas, whenever I thought about human's relationship to animals, I only thought about the negative parts. I thought the best we could ever achieve would be to maybe…
S13E23 Dr. Melanie Joy: Why good people don't want to know
"Let's say that you eat meat and you're sitting down and you're biting into a juicy hamburger, and your dining companion turns to you and says, 'Elizabeth, you know that hamburger is actually not…
S13E22 Rose Patterson: What are we willing to risk when we know suffering is happening?
"I think something that I learned from doing that was that this is all in our heads, like it's all for show just because there's a security guard that even if he's right in front of you, it doesn't…
S13E21 Todd Friedman: The Pig Who Changed Everything
"You want people to stop eating these animals and the only way to do it is to showcase them in a light where people see them as individuals, and not just a sandwich in the morning, or breakfast, or a…
S13E20 Dan Shannon: How Change Happens
"There will come a time in the future where historians look back on this era of history and sort of see it as this moment of historical atrocity, which is what I think it is today. I do think that…
S13E20 Dax Dasilva: Echoes from Eden
"I really think it's a story is about the heroes, the conservation heroes. It's each one of their stories and then it's about my personal growth story of being absolutely useless in the jungle and…
S13E18 Rebecca Bose: Undoing an American Extinction
"I don't know of another animal mammal that does not protect their young. Everybody protects their young. A wolf does too if another predator came. Of course they would protect their young. But with…
S13E17 Gemunu de Silva: Industry Standard
"I grew up and I became vegetarian listening to punk albums because there was a real punk scene which talked about vegetarianism, which talked about veganism, which talked about the peace movement.…
S13E16 Gail Eisnitz: Out of Sight
"These workers were so courageous to go on camera to talk about what they were being forced to do, and we had a whistleblower attorney there to protect them. And then Dateline just killed the story.…
S13E15 Melissa Hoffman: Eat Your Ethics
A lot of people think that kosher means that animals were treated significantly better than animals that enter the non-kosher market. And largely, this is just not true, because kosher is very much…
S13E14 Brett Mitchell: The Man Who Freed the Elephants
"It just makes everything worthwhile with what we did. It just highlights how flexible elephants are and how adaptable they are from captivity to wild, and that when given the chance, they will…
S13E13 Nina Jackel and Blake Moynes: The Cruelty Behind the Selfie
"You look at these animals, and they're just so far removed from the life that I want them to have, that they should have that, we would hope that wild animals have. And they're just humiliated and…
S13E12 Amy Jones: Skin and Bones
"It was a really surreal experience because I didn't know what to expect from a tiger farm. I've been in a lot of industrial farms of other animals. I sort of thought to myself, 'surely it can't be,…
Thom Norman: How $23 a Month Could Dismantle Factory Farming
"Because we're kind of lowering the stakes. We're saying it's okay to admit to yourself that you care about factory farming and you care about animals because we're not going to try and trick you…
S13 30,000 Monkeys in Our Backyard
This week, we're doing something a little different. Instead of a conversation, we're sharing something we've been working on for the past year — our new short documentary, 30,000 Monkeys in Our…
S13E10 Melanie Kaplan: Lab Dog
"Maybe when we started doing this with animals, researching on them and studying them for human benefit hundreds of years ago, we didn't know about their sentience. We didn't know that they had…
S13E9 Annick Ireland: The Future is Immaculate
"All those kinds of brands in food and in fashion helped pave the way for where we are now. So, on the one hand, it's crushing that they no longer exist, but on the other hand, part of the reason…
S13E8 Suzanne Lee: Grown, not Extracted
"You know, you walk through a forest. Every leaf on every tree is unique. And that's what biology does. We are all unique, right? Everything about us that biology does, it's so magical. It's so…
S13E7 Alex Woodard: Ordinary Soil
"Now more than ever, a lot of farmers are caught in between this kind of industrial complex that that is difficult to pay the bills with - so you got to get subsidies, and the very real problem of…
S13E6 Amber Canavan: The Labels That Lie
"That is no life for these birds and it is definitely not what the consumer is thinking or assuming. When they see these nice labels and they think, 'oh, I'm paying so much more for this, that change…
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