Night Vision

Rebecca Loviconi

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We live in a culture where animals are everywhere, yet almost completely invisible. In Episode 0, Night Vision introduces the core idea of the podcast: learning to see what has been deliberately hidden. From food systems to media, language, and everyday habits, this episode explores how animal lives are erased — and why changing that way of seeing is the first step toward real cultural change. New episodes weekly starting in January.

1D AGO

Epstein & the Animals: The Same Logic of Violence

Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of sexual assault, human trafficking, and violence toward humans and animals. Please listen with care and step away if you need to. Your well-being matters more than finishing an episode. What do factory farms and human trafficking have in common? In this episode of Night Vision, I explore the shared logic of violence that allows bodies — human and non-human — to be treated as objects for profit, pleasure, and power. From the Epstein files to the everyday violence on our plates, we look at how societies learn to dissociate, how entitlement is normalized, and how cruelty becomes a system rather than an exception. This is not about scandal. It’s about patterns: the training ground of indifference, the technologies that try to sanitize harm, and the uncomfortable truth that what we practice in daylight shapes what becomes possible in darkness. I also share a personal reflection on bearing witness, on surviving violence, and on why stepping out of animal exploitation became, for me, a refusal to participate in harm. A difficult conversation — and an invitation to choose differently.

18 min
FEB 1

Inside a Chinese Fur Farm: A Rescue I Didn’t Plan

In this episode, I share a true rescue story from a fur farm in China—how one dog reached through a cage and changed everything. From negotiating five dogs’ freedom to flying them across the world, this is a story about agency, fate, and what it really means to rescue.

12 min
JAN 25

Bearing Witness and Mental Resilience

In this episode, I explore how to bear witness to suffering without losing yourself—and how to build mental resilience in a world that often feels overwhelming. From nervous system regulation and emotional processing to boundaries, moral injury, and joy as resistance, this is a guide for sensitive, justice-oriented people who want to stay open-hearted and sustainable. The world needs witnesses. But it needs witnesses who can last.

21 min
JAN 18

So You Love Animals?

When I finally got the dog I had wanted my entire life, it was in Shanghai — rescued from being eaten. That story makes people uncomfortable, not because he was saved, but because of what it quietly exposes. In this episode, I explore how we’re taught to love animals selectively — some as individuals, others as categories — and how cultural denial allows compassion without consequence. This isn’t about guilt or perfection. It’s about honesty, and what happens when the line between “him” and “them” begins to dissolve.

13 min
JAN 11

The Climate Crisis is an Ethical Crisis

While filming SLAY in Kanpur, India, I witnessed the devastating impact of the leather industry on the Ganges, local communities, and animals. That moment marked the first time the climate crisis felt physical — not theoretical, and indissociable from ethics. This episode explores how environmental destruction, animal exploitation, and human harm are part of the same ethical failure, and why sustainability without confronting violence against animals is fundamentally incomplete.

12 min
JAN 4

Freedom of choice?

After releasing a brutal investigation into the foie gras industry, this episode takes on one of the most common defenses of animal exploitation: “freedom of choice.” It dismantles the myth of the free, informed consumer and reveals how our choices around food are shaped by invisibility, cultural conditioning, corporate power, and denial. When harm is framed as individual choice, systems escape accountability — and animals pay the price. This is a foundational episode of Night Vision, setting the lens for the season: learning to see beyond comforting narratives and questioning the systems we are taught not to notice.

11 min
12/17/2025

Introducing Night Vision

We live in a culture where animals are everywhere, yet almost completely invisible. In Episode 0, Night Vision introduces the core idea of the podcast: learning to see what has been deliberately hidden. From food systems to media, language, and everyday habits, this episode explores how animal lives are erased — and why changing that way of seeing is the first step toward real cultural change. New episodes weekly starting in January.

4 min

We live in a culture where animals are everywhere, yet almost completely invisible. In Episode 0, Night Vision introduces the core idea of the podcast: learning to see what has been deliberately hidden. From food systems to media, language, and everyday habits, this episode explores how animal lives are erased — and why changing that way of seeing is the first step toward real cultural change. New episodes weekly starting in January.

Creator

Rebecca Loviconi
Years Active

2025 - 2026
Episodes

8
Copyright

© For The Animals