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Sonstein SessionsElizabeth MelampyOriginal Air Date: August 17, 2025Elizabeth Melampy is the author of “Forget The Camel: The Madcap World Of Animal Festivals & What They Say About Being Human”.
2025-08-1715 min
SentientismWhat Animal Festivals Tell Us About Being Human - "Forget The Camel" author Elizabeth MeLampy - Sentientism 232Elizabeth MeLampy is an author and a Harvard-educated lawyer, with experience in animal law and environmental law. While in law school, she worked on issues related to farmedanimals, wild animals, and captive animals with Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic. She was also in the inaugural cohort of Emerging Scholar Fellows with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, where she worked onanimal law scholarship. After two clerkships—with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Federal District Court in Arizona—Elizabeth litigated with one of the top environmental nonprofits in the country. Her firstbook, Forget The Camel...
2025-07-301h 29
The Mark Thompson ShowIran Strikes Back, U.S. Issues Worldwide Warning 6/23/25Iran is promising the U.S. that a response is on the way after Trump and team dropped three bombs on Iran’s nuclear sites. Trump claims the move called “Operation. Midnight Hammer” was successful and that damage obliterated the underground areas of the targeted sites. Whether that’s really the case is still being evaluated by the military. Meanwhile, Trump is contradicting his Vice President and Secretary of State who both deny the U.S. is after a regime change in Iran. Trump took to social media last night tearing their work on Sunday talk shows down by writing:
2025-06-232h 06
Story in the Public SquareExploring What Animal Festivals Say About Being Human with Elizabeth MeLampyHumanity is capable of great dualities. Elizabeth MeLampy explores that in the way we both venerate animals, even while we exploit them. MeLampy is an attorney with experience in animal law and environmental law. She worked on issues related to farmed animals, wild animals, and captive animals with Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic while she was in law school. She served in the inaugural cohort of Emerging Scholar Fellows with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, where I worked on animal law scholarship. After two clerkships with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Fed...
2025-05-2728 min
Jeremy LoebInside the Complicated World of Animal Festivals (with Elizabeth MeLampy)Elizabeth MeLampy's book "Forget the Camel" is unforgettable. It's a look at a world most of us know very little about: the world of animal festivals. I've come to learn animal festivals are nearly everywhere, yet most of them detailed in this book I'd never heard of. And while there are some well-known festivals like the Iditarod sled dog race and the Groundhog Day festival, even those I got a richer understanding of after reading "Forget the Camel."I have come to know Elizabeth because she plans to work on a book about the open rescue movement...
2025-05-242h 06
Give and TakeEpisode 289: Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human, with Elizabeth MelampyIn this episode of Give and Take, Scott talks with Elizabeth MeLampy, author of Forget the Camel: Animals, Symbols, and the Stories We Tell. From rattlesnake roundups in Texas to lobster boils on the Maine coast, and the curious case of a certain Pennsylvanian groundhog, MeLampy explores the surprising ways animals help us build communities, confront our fears, and make meaning in a messy world. Together, they discuss how rituals involving creatures both wild and domestic reveal our deepest cultural myths—about nature, class, history, and ourselves.
What do sled dogs say about heroism? How does killing a...
2025-05-1447 min
The Animal Control ReportForget the Camel, Animal Law Is Human Law (Episode 270)In this thought-provoking episode of Keep it Humane: The Podcast, Daniel Ettinger and Ashley Bishop sit down with Harvard-educated attorney and author Elizabeth MeLampy for a deep dive into the world of animal law, environmental justice, and the quirky cultural traditions that shape our relationships with animals. Elizabeth shares her journey from clerking for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to litigating high-impact environmental cases, and how her academic work with Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic and the Brooks Institute helped shape her interdisciplinary perspective.We also explore her debut book, FORGET THE CAMEL: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals an...
2025-05-0555 min
Keep it HumaneForget the Camel, Animal Law Is Human Law (Episode 270)In this thought-provoking episode of Keep it Humane: The Podcast, Daniel Ettinger and Ashley Bishop sit down with Harvard-educated attorney and author Elizabeth MeLampy for a deep dive into the world of animal law, environmental justice, and the quirky cultural traditions that shape our relationships with animals. Elizabeth shares her journey from clerking for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to litigating high-impact environmental cases, and how her academic work with Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic and the Brooks Institute helped shape her interdisciplinary perspective.We also explore her debut book, FORGET THE CAMEL: The Madcap World of...
2025-05-0555 min
Vegan's AlmanacApril 08, 2025National Dog Fighting Awareness Day; Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human, by Elizabeth MeLampy; A Poem for Children on Cruelty to the Irrational Creation, by Jane Cave Winscom.
2025-04-0806 min
The Animal Wellness PodcastThe Complex Forces Behind Animal Festivals | Episode 76From the running of the bulls in Spain to groundhog weather predictions in Pennsylvania, festivals featuring animals exist all over the world. Some are celebrated as cultural treasures, while others are seen as outdated, even cruel. These events often raise difficult questions: Are they harmless fun, or do they exploit animals for human entertainment? Do traditions justify practices that might otherwise be considered inhumane? And perhaps most importantly—can we honor our cultural heritage without harming the very creatures we claim to celebrate?
Our guest has explored these questions firsthand. Elizabeth MeLampy is the author of “Forget the C...
2025-03-1343 min
Species UniteElizabeth MeLampy: Forget the Camel"The basic premise of the event is that hunters hunt rattlesnakes from the surrounding environment all across West Texas, and bring them into the roundup for the weekend. And during the roundup, these snakes are kept in a pit and then, one by one, beheaded and skinned in front of in front of audiences." - Elizabeth MeLampy Elizabeth MeLampy is a lawyer dedicated to animal rights and protection, and her passion for this work shines through in her latest book, Forget the Camel, the Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say About Being Human. To r...
2025-03-1239 min
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