When We Talk About Animals

When We Talk About Animals is a series of in-depth conversations with leading thinkers about the big questions animals raise about what it means to be human. Supported by the Law, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School and the Yale Broadcast Stu

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Ep. 36 – Rebecca Giggs on the world in the whale

Posted September 28, 202001:05:51

In 2013, a sperm whale washed up dead on Spain’s southern coast. In its ruptured digestive tract, scientists found an entire flattened greenhouse...

Ep. 35 – J. Drew Lanham on finding ourselves magnified in nature’s colored hues

Posted September 2, 202000:59:51

As Dr. Joseph Drew Lanham writes in his beautiful and deeply moving memoir, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, from...

Ep. 34 – Daniel Pauly on why overfishing is a Ponzi scheme

Posted July 20, 202000:59:23

Born in Paris to an African-American GI and a French woman at the end of World War II, Dr. Daniel Pauly rose from a difficult and extraordinarily unusual...

Ep. 33 – Valérie Courtois on Indigenous-led land and wildlife stewardship

Posted June 15, 202000:55:05

As wildlife across Canada face unprecedented pressures from climate change and industrial development, Indigenous Peoples, who have relied upon and...

Ep. 32 – Gene Baur on changing hearts, minds and laws about farm animals

Posted May 18, 202000:52:39

Amid the systematic cruelties and alienating conditions which define our factory farm system, Farm Sanctuary stands out as an exemplar of human kindness....