Animal Rights: the Debate

Martyn Ford & David Thomas
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Animal Rights: the Debate

Animal Rights: the Debate explores the issues around around our relationship with animals.

  1. 20 FEB

    Animal Welfare - a colossal waste of time?

    We continue our discussion with leading advocate for animal rights, Professor Gary Francione. In this second part, we consider whether the characteristics of consciousness, rationality and awareness in animals is what gives them a right to life, or whether sentiency alone is sufficient. We also discuss if promoting animal welfare is a waste of time and resources, and if the 'rights' approach is more coherent and likely to produce results. Finally, lab grown meat is the last item on the menu in this important interview. If you find this podcast helpful, please make a contribution, as we entirely on donations from listeners. Donate here: https://ko-fi.com/animalrightsdebate Join the WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com Find out more: https://linktr.ee/animalrightsdebate

    39 min

  2. 13 FEB

    Welfare or Rights?

    How should we approach our relationship with animals? By treating them well whilst they are alive, but using them for our own purposes? Or by giving them the same sort of moral consideration that we give to humans? Professor Gary Francione is a distinguished philosopher, and advocate for granting animals similar rights to humans, and he believes that the welfare approach has been a failure, as well as a damaging distraction from promoting a plant-based diet. Join us for this important discussion with Gary about welfare or rights, with its enormous implications for the future. Please help us, as we rely entirely on donations.  Donate here: https://ko-fi.com/animalrightsdebate Join the WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LTGteTLZkwI9XUtB1Xxfen Find out more: https://linktr.ee/animalrightsdebate

    26 min

  3. 30 JAN

    Some Good, Some Bad

    It's been a mixed few months, with the current British  Government the first ever in the U.K. to water down animal protection legislation, but with Mexico passing a law to improve the lot of animals. David and Martyn take a look at national and international developments. We receive no grants or funding from any organisations or charities, so we urge you to help us continue in our efforts to encourage informed discussion about this most important of moral issues. Donate here: https://ko-fi.com/animalrightsdebate Join the WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LTGteTLZkwI9XUtB1Xxfen Find out more: https://linktr.ee/animalrightsdebate

    30 min

  4. 2 JAN

    Reaching Out

    Animals, humans, and the planet are in deep trouble. All across the globe, people are waking up to the undeniable connections between every living being―and noticing how out of balance our world has become. Yet, awareness is not enough. The Compassion Consortium aims to provide spiritual comfort, fellowship, and reflection, for those practising or exploring a plant-based lifestyle. We talk to Rev Sarah Bowen, Executive Director of its Training Programs about the support for those who reject violence and believe in extending an ethic of care to all sentient beings . If you would like to comment on this or previous episodes, please e mail us at: animalrightsthedebate@outlook.com To carry on the debate, join our dedicated WhatsApp community https://linktr.ee/animalrightsdebate

    48 min

  5. 20/12/2024

    A Year In View

    We take a look back over a year of legal proceedings to protect the interests of animals, further evidence that livestock farming is unavoidably cruel, and some opposition in the Roman Catholic Church to the way we treat other animals. Join David and Martyn for a review of some positive news and the challenges ahead.

    33 min

  6. 28/11/2024

    Can Animals Be Persons?

    To suggest that animals are persons – with all that such a claim implies – may seem far-fetched to some. After all, the way we treat animals is usually justified on the basis that there are fundamental differences between humans and animals. In the latest episode, we are joined by Professor Mark Rowlands from the University of Miami in Florida, who makes the case that other animals meet the criteria for personhood. His books ‘Can Animals Be Persons?’ and ‘The Happiness of Dogs’ provide a fascinating insight into the lives of animals. If you would like to comment on this or previous episodes, please e mail us at: animalrightsthedebate@outlook.com To carry on the debate, join our dedicated WhatsApp community https://linktr.ee/animalrightsdebate

    45 min

  7. 07/11/2024

    Animal Equality, Undercover Investigations, and Animal Farming

    The scale of animal farming is vast, its cruelty horrific, and the environmental damage extensive. Animal Equality is an international organisation working to end the suffering caused by such farming, and to promote a plant-based diet. Its large number of undercover investigations have been instrumental in exposing the reality between farm and slaughterhouse. We talk to its Executive Director, Abigail Penny, about the challenges and the successes, and how each and everyone of us can make a real difference. If you would like to comment on this or previous episodes, please e mail us at: animalrightsthedebate@outlook.com or join our dedicated WhatsApp community https://linktr.ee/animalrightsdebate

    39 min

  8. 17/10/2024

    Genetic Engineering and the patenting of animals, animal law courses and George Bernard Shaw

    In this episode, we talk to Dr Maureen O’Sullivan who is a law lecturer at the University of Galway, and whose academic interests include intellectual property law, particularly the morality of granting patents for biotechnology ‘inventions’, including genetically altered animals. Maureen has a particular interest in vegetarianism and veganism in Ireland. At the recent summer school run by the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, of which she is a Fellow, she presented on the animal rights sympathies of Irish authors such as George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce. We also talked about her involvement in the successful campaign to ban fur farming in Ireland. If you would like to comment on this or previous episodes, please e mail us at: animalrightsthedebate@outlook.com

    35 min
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Animal Rights: the Debate explores the issues around around our relationship with animals.

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  • Creator
    Martyn Ford & David Thomas
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
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    © 2023
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