Posts Tagged ‘slaughterhouse work’

Episode 252: Pop Culture and Animal Rights – Farmer Wants a Pescatarian

Posted: August 18, 2020 in Uncategorized
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Farmer Wants a Wife contestant. Image from Geelong Advertiser.

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On this episode we analyse the TV shows ‘Farmer Wants a Wife’ and ‘Killing Eve’ from an animal rights perspective, including bringing in Nick’s article ‘The Silence of the Lambs: My Interview with an Australian Slaughterhouse Worker’.

We also discuss a bunch of other random shit including: COVID aliens and intergalactic students, our latest finds from the street, The Matrix as a trans allegory, leaves are problymatic, The Chaser article “I am being silenced!” claims most published woman alive (about JK Rowling) and the movie Something Like Summer.

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Too Much and Never Enough – How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L Trump.

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, CNNNN, Frances Quinlan ‘Rare Thing’.

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Episode 159: Funnily Enough, Killing Doesn’t Help to Rehabilitate Prisoners

Posted: January 23, 2017 in Uncategorized
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Vanessa and her two co-hosts recording VeganSci podcast.

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This time Nick is joined by Vanessa, a forensic psychology doctoral student and one of the hosts of VeganSci podcast. We discuss animal activism and Vanessa’s experiences with working in prisons. Vanessa also raises the issue of prisoners working in slaughterhouses as part of their rehabilitation. This is despite the psychological harm that slaughterhouse work does to the workers and the communities in which they live. Check out Nick’s interview with an Australian slaughterhouse worker and the journal article ‘Routinized killing of animals: Going beyond dirty work and prestige to understand the well-being of slaughterhouse workers’ for more on this.

We also discuss a recent silent protest against the dairy industry that we were both involved in.

Vanessa also covers how she has cut her shopping budget in half since she has gone vegan. For more on this, you can hear Nick and Katie’s discussion on living vegan on a low income here and below.

Nick also briefly touches on some current events and updates including: Invasion Day rallies 2017, our (old) episode on Invasion Day, Chelsea Manning free 17 May, Centrelink whistle blower, prison privatisation in Australia and pedestrian deaths in Melbourne.

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Clips:

LOGIC & LAST RESORT FT. SHADIA MANSOUR, ELZ & RENEE SOUL ‘Testimony’, VeganSci podcast ‘Episode 1’, Jonathan Mann & Ivory King ‘The Truth About Dairy Cows’, Gary Murray’s speech at the 2016 Invasion Day rally in Melbourne, Akala ‘Fire in the Booth, Pt..1’.

You can listen to a short (5 minute) version of this episode, which features our discussion on prisoners working in slaughterhouses as part of their rehabilitation, here and below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 121: Black Dogs Don’t Get Adopted – Linking Human Rights and Animal Rights

Posted: December 11, 2015 in Uncategorized
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On this episode, which marks four years of the podcast, the focus is on dogs. We play Nick’s talk ‘Black Dogs Don’t Get Adopted – Linking Human Rights and Animal Rights’ (embedded below). This talk looks into some connections between animal rights and human rights issues, using the fact that black dogs are less likely to be adopted as a starting point. For links referred to throughout the talk, see the description on the Soundcloud page.

We also play an interview Nick recently did on the issue of “dangerous” dog breeds and breed specific legislation (embedded below).

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Clips:

Frozen ‘Reindeer[s] are better than people’, Nick’s interview on “dangerous” dog breeds, Nick’s talk ‘Black Dogs Don’t Get Adopted – Linking Human Rights and Animal Rights’, Martin Luther King Jr ‘I’m Black and Beautiful’, Myq Kaplan ‘Flags and Lies’ – from the album ‘Vegan Mind Meld’, Dr Jonathan Balcombe ‘On Animals Valuing Their Lives’ from Animal Voices podcast, Star Fucking Hipsters ‘Empty Lives’.

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