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Better Life for Animals025: From Cultivated Meat to Sanctuaries: Elizabeth Novogratz Shares Solutions That Save LivesMore than 70 billion land animals are raised and slaughtered every year, yet most people rarely think about the individuals behind those numbers. Elizabeth Novogratz, founder of Species Unite, is working to change that. In this conversation with Better Life for Animals Podcast host Cheryl Moss, Elizabeth shares her journey from witnessing cruelty in the global animal trade to building a nonprofit media platform that inspires global action. What you'll learn in this episode: Why 70% of Species Unite's non-vegan audience reports reducing or eliminating animal products The promise of cultivated meat and...
2025-08-1145 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...
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Species UniteCollette Adkins: They're Shooting Wolves from Helicopters in Idaho"In Montana they allow using dogs to chase down wolves, which essentially becomes like state sanctioned dog fighting. You have this horrible scenario where the packs of dogs are surrounding the wolf pack, and it just comes to a bloody end. These are blood sports. This is something that we should be way beyond as a society." - Collette Adkins Collette Adkins is the carnivore conservation director at the Center for Biological Diversity. She focuses on combating the exploitation and cruel treatment of wolves and other rare wildlife. I wanted to talk to Collette because...
2023-12-2331 min
Species UniteCatalina Lopez: Octopus Factory Farming is Set to BeginCatalina Lopez is the director of the Aquatic Animal Alliance at the Aquatic Life Institute. They're a nonprofit focused on improving the lives of aquatic animals, specifically in the food system. I wanted to talk to Catalina about octopuses. This year, we're set to see the world's first octopus factory farm open in the Canary Islands. Just when it seemed humans could not get worse, we decide to farm octopuses? This is a terrible idea for so many reasons, from animal welfare to environmental concerns. It's cruel and it's unethical and it's an enormous step i...
2023-07-2634 min
Species UniteMarielle Williamson is Suing Her School District and The US Department of Agriculture"Despite all the information that we see promoting dairy [in school], you cannot promote plant-based milk unless you also promote dairy even more. It just goes to show that there's something more to it." – Marielle Williamson Mariel Williamson recently graduated from high in Los Angeles. This past spring, while still a student, she was told by her school that she couldn't share information about plant-based milk or be critical of the dairy industry unless she provided pro dairy content as well. So, Marielle is suing - both...
2023-07-1918 min
Species UniteRose Patterson: Animal RisingRose Patterson is part of Animal Rising, the animal activist movement that's disrupting animal exploitation all over the UK. Animal Rising used to be called Animal Rebellion, that is until April. And since April, which is only a few months ago, they've exploded - they are everywhere. They have disrupted horse races and greyhound races, they've broken into labs, they've stolen beagles, they've stolen King Charles's lambs. And they've received a huge amount of press because of their actions. Much of that press has been TV time, which means that conversations about how we treat a...
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Species UniteKartick Satyanarayan: The Bear Man of India "Right from the beginning I think I was infected with this disease. It's a very, very contagious disease of not knowing how to say no to an animal in distress. So, alongside of the bears, we were rescuing everything else: crocodiles, snakes, birds, deer, foxes, jackals, you know, I mean, you name it." - Kartick Satyanarayan Kartik Satyanarayan is the co-founder and CEO of Wildlife SOS, an organization that was founded in 1995 with the mission to make lasting changes to protect and conserve India's natural heritage, forests and biodiversity. Kartick and Wildlife SOS work towards pr...
2023-06-2159 min
Species UniteElizabeth Baker: Organs on a Chip, Reconstructed Human Epidermis, Human Simulators and other Highly Effective and Seriously Ethical Methods to Replace Animals in Research and Experimentation "I think we are at the point where so many of these methods have shown in studies to be more predictive for humans that it really is an issue of human health. We need to do better for patients. We know we can and that these methods exist, so we need to use them." -Elizabeth Baker This past season, we've focused quite a bit on animal research and experimentation, and a lot of our focus has been really on just how bad it is, how bad it is for the animals, how bad it is for science, and...
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Species UniteDaniel Kaul: The Brutal Life Cycle of Captive Lions"We don't know one case where a lion which was hand fed or bottle fed was released successfully in the wild. Of course, if they see humans and they understand that humans is the connection to food, it will be always a danger to put those lions back in the wild. And many of those companies use that as an excuse why this conservation project is important, but we don't think so and we don't believe that of course. It's in my opinion, nonsense." – Daniel Kaul Daniel Kaul is the founder of Natucate, an environmental travel company tha...
2023-06-0729 minSpecies UnitePeter Singer: Animal Liberation NOW"I think to some extent it shows that we don't want to have knowledge that will make us uncomfortable or make us feel that we're doing something wrong. And I get that from people quite often, you know, that don't really know me very well, but they ask me what I'm doing and I mention something about I've written about animals and the way animals raised for food are treated. And then they'll say, 'Oh, don't tell me, you'll spoil my dinner.'" – Peter Singer In 1975, Peter Singer changed the way we talk about how we t...
2023-05-3136 minSpecies UniteAlka Chandna: Comparing Hells "It's like comparing hells - it's a different type of hell, right? It's just like one hideous place where you're neglected and you have all manner of suffering to another place where it's a different set of conditions of suffering and misery." – Dr. Alka Chandna This conversation took place a couple of weeks ago as a live event. It's with me and Dr. Alka Chandna, PETA's Vice President of Laboratory Investigations. At the time I called it, The Realities of Animal Testing, which is a pretty horrible name as nobody really wants to know the realities of an...
2023-05-2451 minSpecies UniteNatalie Deana: Bad Girls Who Do Good Things "We'd never worked in this industry. We'd not got any prior experience in fashion ourselves. But we thought, how hard could it be? Famous last words. How hard could it be to design a handbag? Turns out very hard, very hard." – Natalie Deana Natalie Deanna is the co-founder of Frida Rome, a conscious luxury brand that makes stunning vegan handbags, handbags inspired by and designed for, "bad girls who do good things." "'Bad Girls Who Do Good Things,' was a tagline we came up with even before the brand really started to flourish… And it was...
2023-05-1730 minSpecies UniteVerde Camilla Parmigiani: Vegan Hospitality "It's very disappointing when I see these menus that are from starter to main courses, all animal proteins… How can you not have like 30% of the menu be plant based? For what reason? Do you need to have animal proteins in every single dish? There's no need for it… People don't need that. The planet doesn't need that." - Verde Camilla Parmigiani Verde Camilla Parmigiani is the founder of Vegan Set. She helps hotels create successful plant-based experiences. She founded Vegan Set in 2016 with the aim of showing that a vegan lifestyle can be synonymous with luxury.
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2023-05-0822 min2023-05-0805 minSpecies UniteFeeding Tomorrow: The Future of Meat "So, if you listen to the experts, we're to be raising dramatically more animals for food in the future. The only way around that, I think, is through technologies that will render the exploitation of these animals obsolete. I mean, technologies have changed so much about how we live here on Earth today. Instead of whipping horses, we now use bikes and cars. Instead of harpooning whales, we now use electricity. You know, instead of live plucking geese for their quills, we now tap on glass screens to write messages to each other. And all of these technologies at...
2023-05-0435 minSpecies UniteLisa Jones-Engel: 1000 Monkeys"What I did not expect to see from farmed monkeys being bought and transported into the US, were monkeys who were coming in with things like Ebola like viruses, malaria, tuberculosis, simian retrovirus, herpes viruses, salmonella, Yersinia, Campylobacter, unnamed deadly diarrheal diseases. They were coming in with Tier 1 Select agents. I mean, we're talking pathogens so deadly that the government has identified them as potential bioterrorism threats." – Lisa Jones-Engel In 2022, 1000 long-tailed macaques were stolen from the wild in Cambodia. They were then illegally imported to Charles River Laboratories in Texas. Illegal because they were wild caugh...
2023-04-2654 minSpecies UniteHanne Strager: The Killer Whale Journals "I also heard the sounds of killer whales. They were calling to each other loud and clear. these melodious whistles and calls which went right into my ear pieces. I realized that even if I couldn't see them, they were there somewhere beneath me in the ocean. They were communicating with each other. They were staying in contact. It was like a big family." - Hanne Strager Hanne Strager is a biologist, whale researcher, and author. She is the co-founder of the Andenes Whale Centre in Norway and she has served as the Director of E...
2023-04-1948 minSpecies UniteMark Elbroch: The Secret Lives of Mountain Lions"Our cultures are built around stories, right? We connect through stories, we learn through stories and stories are often stronger when they have characters, characters we can connect with. And I think that that been a struggle for many, many animals, all kinds of animals, that they don't have a face or a character that people can connect with." – Mark Elbroch Before I met Mark Elbroch and read his book, The Cougar Conundrum: Sharing the World with a Successful Predator, I thought I knew at least a little bit about mountain lions. After meeting him and r...
2023-04-1235 min2023-04-0903 min2023-04-0903 minSpecies UniteParneet Pal: The Human Animal"Our bodies have co-evolved over millennia with the help of all these other beautiful animal species, with the millions of species of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live on our bodies and inside our bodies." – Parneet Pal This episode is a little bit different than what we usually do at Species Unite. We are still talking about an animal, but this time it's the human animal. Parneet Pal is an educator, science communicator and wellbeing expert working at the intersection of business, lifestyle medicine (nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, mental and emotional health) and...
2023-04-0542 min
Una Yogui en la Vida Moderna44. Frustración en el yoga: ¿Qué hacer cuando aparece la Frustración en la practica? con Dara MartínezEn este episodio del podcast de yoga hablamos sobre la frustración en la práctica, tanto como alumnos como profesores.
¿Qué hacer cuando no me sale cierta asana? ¿Qué hago cuando me parece que no avanzo lo suficiente en mi practica? Hoy junto con Dara Martínez hablamos de la frustración, de cómo lidiar con ella, trucos para luchar contra la pereza... Pero además, también hablamos de la frustración en el profesor de yoga: ¿puedo ser profe sin hacer todas las posturas? ¿Qué hacer cuándo aparece el síndrome del imp...
2023-04-011h 04Species UniteAnimal Rights Legend: Ronnie Lee"And then instead of heroes, we started being referred to as terrorists. But that made no difference to us. I mean, we kind of carried on regardless, and we started trying to do as much damage as we could to inflict economic loss on these companies." – Ronnie Lee Ronnie Lee founded the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) in 1974. The Animal Liberation Front is a global movement dedicated to the liberation of animals from human oppression. They engage in and promote non-violent direct action in protest against incidents of animal cruelty. Ronnie served three...
2023-03-2943 minSpecies UniteChristie Lagally: The Game ChangerThere's a fundamental mismatch between how we make plant-based meat and the facilities that are making it. When you're using the wrong tool, when you're trying to use a spoon to cut a piece of vegetable, it just doesn't work. It's the same kind of thing for making plant-based meat." – Christie Lagally Christie Lagally is the founder and CEO at Rebellyous Foods, a food manufacturing technology and production company. They make delicious plant-based chicken, but they also make production equipment. Up until now, almost all plant-based meat has been made in animal meat production facilities, whi...
2023-03-2227 min2023-03-2016 minSpecies UniteLaura Lee Cascada: The Only US Octopus Farm has been Temporarily Shut Down"But what the tour guide told us, was that eventually, as they grew, they now have their own octopus catchers. They called them the octopus whisperers, and they said that these people know exactly where the octopuses are going to be and when, so they know how to go get them and bring them back to the facility." – Laura Lee Cascada In October of last year, Laura Lee Cascada published an investigation into the Kanaloa Octopus Farm on the Big Island in Hawaii. The Kanaloa Octopus Farm was capturing wild Hawaiian Day octopuses and k...
2023-03-1627 min2023-03-1310 min2023-03-1304 min2023-03-1312 min2023-03-1307 minSpecies UniteRachel Fobar: Why is the USDA in Charge of Enforcing the Animal Welfare Act? And Why Won't They Enforce It?"It's almost like the Animal Welfare Act is like a safety, a security blanket, because it's like, 'Oh, we have the Animal Welfare Act to protect the animals, they're okay.' And they don't realize that it's actually not very strong and that it's not being very aggressively enforced." – Rachel Fobar In February, Eric Kleinman from the Animal Welfare Institute was on the podcast. He came on to talk about the Envigo Dogs - the 4000 beagles that were rescued last summer from a breeding facility for lab animals, and trafficked monkeys, and the many many fai...
2023-03-0826 minSpecies UniteMeena Alagappan: Teach Heart"There was a law on the books [in New York], even back in 1917, that required that every publicly funded elementary school needs to provide instruction in the humane treatment and protection of animals." - Meena Alagappan Meena Alagappan runs an organization called, Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers, otherwise known as HEART. Heart is a full service, humane education provider in New York City, Chicago and Indianapolis. I met Meena because we, Species Unite are doing a wolf education program, so I asked her for some help and for some resources. She was beyond generous with bo...
2023-03-0120 minSpecies UnitePaul Joslin: Raised By Wolves "I have often asked myself, 'why is it that wolves don't kill people?' Every year there are records of lions, tigers, bears and other large carnivores killing people. For wolves it very rarely ever happens. They are certainly quite capable of hauling down much larger prey than ourselves such as moose and bison. I think it has a lot to do with the dramatically different way that wolves raise their young compared to most other large carnivores." - Paul Joslin Dr. Paul Joslin is a wildlife biologist who has spent decades with wolves and o...
2023-02-2232 minSpecies UniteChris Wlach: The Limits of the Law and the Places Where He Finds Hope"I give a presentation to law students on animal law every now and then, and I tell them I can teach you everything you need to know about federal animal protection law in 10 seconds. I say there isn't really much. There are very few laws, especially at the federal level, protecting farmed animals." - Chris Wlach Chris is an attorney and he is an animal welfare and humane education advocate. He's a major force in New York City animal law and has advocated for many of the city's non-human animals, including the carriage horses in M...
2023-02-1536 minSpecies UniteEric Kleiman: Trafficked Monkeys, the Envigo Beagles and the Many Abject Failures of the USDA"There is this long history, and what's important about history is history informs the present. History shows this is how we got here. Fred Colston was like a villain out of central casting. I mean… it's almost like he was twirling his mustache… And he blamed me. He blamed me for bankrupting his lab. I mean, that's in documents from the federal government, not me by name, but In Defense of Animals. The thing is, at least he was honest about his viewpoints. At least he was honest to say, 'these chimpanzees, I want to raise them like cattle.' Wh...
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Species UniteAryenish Birdie: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Animal Protection"I think that when the animal protection movement really started gaining hold in the seventies... in the United States at least, I think there was a lot of harm done in the ways that we messaged the connections between humans in marginalized communities and animals. And I think that there's also a dynamic where… communities of color are often struggling for basic rights, basic needs to be met. And so, fighting for others is kind of a nice to have." - Aryenish Birdie Aryenish Birdie is founder and Executive Director of Encompass, an organization that is fighting to...
2020-12-1633 min
ManTalks PodcastSukey & Elizabeth - Understanding How Anyone Can Meditate and Why You Should Start Now
Sukey and Elizabeth Novogratz are two of the founders of the celebrated newsletter The Well Daily. Elizabeth is the co-author of Downtown Chic and Home by Novogratz, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Sukey is the executive producer of the acclaimed documentary The Hunting Ground.
Together, Elizabeth and Sukey have travelled the world to study meditation in every kind of classroom, from Lakota sweat lodges to Tibet House, from ashrams to vision quests to Oneness retreats. They have learned from many renowned teachers, including Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, Ram Dass, Amma, and the monks at One World Academy...
2018-04-2347 min
Atomic MomsThe Dazzling Elephant in The Room | Novogratz, Sukey and ElizabethUGH. Meditation. Why is it so hard to just sit? I'm chatting with Sukey and Elizabeth about the critical voices in our heads, the ways in which we underestimate ourselves, meditation, and how to get comfortable in our own skin. These sister-in-laws and former founders of the celebrated newsletter The Well Daily, are the authors of the cheeky, soulful, and playfully illustrated Just Sit: A Meditation Guide Book for People Who Know They Should But Don’t (Harper Wave). Also, I am so proud to shine a light on Sukey Novogratz’s work as vice-chair of Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart F...
2018-03-0647 min
Atomic MomsThe Dazzling Elephant in The Room | Novogratz, Sukey and ElizabethUGH. Meditation. Why is it so hard to just sit? I'm chatting with Sukey and Elizabeth about the critical voices in our heads, the ways in which we underestimate ourselves, meditation, and how to get comfortable in our own skin. These sister-in-laws and former founders of the celebrated newsletter The Well Daily, are the authors of the cheeky, soulful, and playfully illustrated Just Sit: A Meditation Guide Book for People Who Know They Should But Don’t (Harper Wave). Also, I am so proud to shine a light on Sukey Novogratz’s work as vice-chair of Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful...
2018-03-0647 min
The Terri Cole Show133 Elizabeth and Sukey Novogratz - How to Finally Start That Meditation Practice"The biggest obstacle to meditation is discipline, it's the actual showing up every day." - Elizabeth Novogratz Learn more about Hello Freedom at https://terricole.com/133 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-03-0230 min
The Public Library with Helen LittleSukey & Elizabeth Novogratz "Just Sit"Sukey & Elizabeth Novogratz wrote the life changing meditation guide book Just Sit: A Meditation Guidebook for People Who Know They Should But Don't. On this episode of The Public Library with Helen Little podcast they talk about the inspiration behind the book, as well as how meditation has changed their own lives.
2018-03-0128 min
HELP! I Suck at Dating#20 Viall to the RescueDean is out this week, but his buddy Nick Viall is happy to step in as guest host! He starts off the show by sharing what he thinks makes a good first date, and the phenomenon that is Black Panther. Then, he takes a trip to the world of meditation, when experts Sukey and Elizabeth Novogratz call in to offer advice on treating anxiety. But don’t worry, your emails are in good hands! Nick lends his opinion on getting back together with an ex, and he shares his concept of “Sour Patch Kid” relationships. Learn more abou...
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