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In this episode, we talk to science journalist Sarah DeWeerdt about the uptick in orca interactions with boats in the Gibraltar Strait, the dangerous media narrative circulating that animals are "orcanzing" and what we can learn from the tragic death of the orca some call Lolita after 53 years in captivity.

In this conversation, Dr. Jacquet discusses the state of the growing octopus farming industry around the world, what life would be like for animals on the world’s first octopus factory farm proposed by Nueva Pescanova, and how this widely opposed form of intensive aquaculture can be stopped before it truly begins.

In this conversation, @moby — musician, songwriter, producer and animal rights activist — and Sentient Media’s founder, Mikko Järvenpää discuss punk rock’s tie to veganism and animal agriculture’s impact on the world around us.

In this special edition of the Sentient Media Podcast, we host our monthly series ‘The Correction’ where we correct misinformation in the media. In this episode, we welcome author, the Guardian columnist, environmental campaigner, former investigative reporter for the BBC, George Monbiot who debunks Russell Brand’s viral video against the Dutch government’s new law to reduce harmful nitrate pollution in livestock farming.

President of Mercy for Animals, Leah Garcés, shares the truth about how farming works in the United States.

From feeding cows seaweed to local vs imported food to regenerative agriculture, Nicholas Carter delivers the facts about the impact of how we eat and what we can do about it.