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Hope for the AnimalsPanel Discussion: The Current Political Situation and Animal AgricultureOn this episode we are sharing the recording from the Humane Hoax Project Panel Discussion: Egg Prices Are Not the Only Crisis, The Current Political Situation and Animal Agriculture.The political climate has left many feeling frustrated as we witness the dismantling of government oversight and structure. This is further compounded by the avian flu crisis and its impact on the food system. Hope Bohanec hosts a panel of experts who will examine the current situation, navigate the political turmoil, and discuss the effects on farmed animals, our advocacy strategies, and the food industry. P...2025-07-241h 15
Podcasts – Our Hen HouseMeat’s Moral Reckoning: Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu on “The Omnivore’s Deception”In this thought-provoking episode of Our Hen House, Mariann Sullivan interviews philosopher John Sanbonmatsu about his groundbreaking book The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. With intellectual rigor and a touch of irreverence, Sanbonmatsu dismantles the cultural narratives that keep some people comfortably consuming animals while knowing better. From exposing the “humane meat” mythology popularized by Michael Pollan to examining the disturbing trend of wealthy women embracing slaughter as empowerment, this conversation cuts through our collective self-deception and offers philosophical pathways toward a more compassionate relationship with animals. Key Insights: The “h...2025-07-111h 01Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseMeat’s Moral Reckoning: Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu on “The Omnivore’s Deception”In this thought-provoking episode of Our Hen House, Mariann Sullivan interviews philosopher John Sanbonmatsu about his groundbreaking book The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. With intellectual rigor and a touch of irreverence, Sanbonmatsu dismantles the cultural narratives that keep some people comfortably consuming animals while knowing better. From exposing the “humane meat” mythology popularized by Michael Pollan to examining the disturbing trend of wealthy women embracing slaughter as empowerment, this conversation cuts through our collective self-deception and offers philosophical pathways toward a more compassionate relationship with animals. Key Insights: The “h...2025-07-111h 01Newsletter — Weekly – Our Hen HouseMeat’s Moral Reckoning: Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu on “The Omnivore’s Deception”In this thought-provoking episode of Our Hen House, Mariann Sullivan interviews philosopher John Sanbonmatsu about his groundbreaking book The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. With intellectual rigor and a touch of irreverence, Sanbonmatsu dismantles the cultural narratives that keep some people comfortably consuming animals while knowing better. From exposing the “humane meat” mythology popularized by Michael Pollan to examining the disturbing trend of wealthy women embracing slaughter as empowerment, this conversation cuts through our collective self-deception and offers philosophical pathways toward a more compassionate relationship with animals. Key Insights: The “h...2025-07-111h 01Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal LiberationMeat’s Moral Reckoning: Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu on “The Omnivore’s Deception”In this thought-provoking episode of Our Hen House, Mariann Sullivan interviews philosopher John Sanbonmatsu about his groundbreaking book The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. With intellectual rigor and a touch of irreverence, Sanbonmatsu dismantles the cultural narratives that keep some people comfortably consuming animals while knowing better. From exposing the “humane meat” mythology popularized by Michael Pollan to examining the disturbing trend of wealthy women embracing slaughter as empowerment, this conversation cuts through our collective self-deception and offers philosophical pathways toward a more compassionate relationship with animals. Key Insights: The “h...2025-07-111h 01
No-Bullsh!t VeganJohn Sanbonmatsu on The Omnivore’s Deception — the myth of ethical meat Is “ethical meat” just a comforting bedtime story for omnivores? Philosopher and author John Sanbonmatsu joins me to unpack the myths that keep animal exploitation hidden in plain sight — from the illusion of “humane” farming to the deep cultural stories we tell ourselves to feel morally innocent. Drawing from his new book The Omnivore’s Deception, John explores why confronting speciesism, and the civilizational systems built on it, is essential not just for animals, but for the future of life on Earth. This is a thought-provoking, no-B.S. conversation that doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable r2025-07-0845 min
A Public AffairYou Can’t Have Your Meat and Your Conscience Too
On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is joined by philosopher and writer, John Sanbonmatsu to talk about his book, The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, published last month from NYU Press. Sanbonmatsu says that there’s a better way to be on this planet than approaching animals with dominion and violence.
Sanbonmatsu felt compelled to write this book after studying the politics of the Left and reading works like Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, in which Singer says we have to take animal suffering into account...2025-07-0753 minA Public AffairYou Can’t Have Your Meat and Your Conscience Too
On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is joined by philosopher and writer, John Sanbonmatsu to talk about his book, The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, published last month from NYU Press. Sanbonmatsu says that there’s a better way to be on this planet than approaching animals with dominion and violence.
Sanbonmatsu felt compelled to write this book after studying the politics of the Left and reading works like Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, in which Singer says we have to take animal suffering into account...2025-07-0753 min
WORT 89.9FM MadisonYou Can’t Have Your Meat and Your Conscience TooOn today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is joined by philosopher and writer, John Sanbonmatsu to talk about his book, The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, published last month from NYU Press. Sanbonmatsu says that there’s a better way to be on this planet than approaching animals with dominion and violence.
Featured image: the cover of The Omnivore’s Deception, available from NYU Press.2025-07-0753 min
Campbell ConversationsJohn Sanbonmatsu on the Campbell Conversations John SanbonmatsuProgram transcript:Grant Reeher: Welcome to the Campbell Conversations, I’m Grant Reeher. Last week I spoke with a writer who had a new book out on the foods of upstate New York. Today, we stay with food, but we move very far from that in many respects. My guest is John Sanbonmatsu. He's a philosophy professor of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and the author of a new book titled, “The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals and Ourselves”. Professor Sanbonmatsu, welcome to the program and congratulations on thi...2025-06-2827 min
The Vegan ReportIs Cell-Based Meat Good for Animals? With Leah Garces, Bruce Friedrich, Vasile Stanescu & John Sanbonmatsu | BONUSAs you might know, this movement is a big fan of debating non-vegans. However, debates around major deciding strategy questions on how to progress forward as a movement are much less frequent.Well, for today, I am happy to present you with an exception to this rule. What you are about to listen is a clash of minds about Cultivated Meat, an industry worth billions of dollars that promises vegans a future without factory farming.I invited one of the debaters, John Sanbonmatsu, for a conversation about the behind the scenes of this debate and...2025-06-242h 03
The Vegan ReportInside the Mad World of Meatistan. With John Sanbonmatsu | Ep. 79Today, I am happy to talk with John Sanbonmatsu, the author of the new book "The Omnivore's Decepetion", which is a fascinating guide into who are the intellectual handmaiden of the animal exploitation world. To put it simply, think the carnist version of Peter Singer or Gary Francione. People like Michael Pollan - and if you don't know who Michael Pollan is, you are in for a surprise.We had the chance to discuss some really interesting passages of the book, like the myth of humane meat or how farming animals is empowering to women. But first...2025-06-241h 21
Conversations with Doug DuinJohn Sanbonmatsu - The Omnivore's deceptionJohn Sanbonmatsu, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and author of the book, THE OMNIVORE’S DECEPTION: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves joins me to talk about the impact that raising and slaughtering animals for food consumption has on us, the ecology, and the animals. He answers the question of whether or not we can ethically eat meat.2025-06-2024 min
The Spiritual ForumThe Omnivore's Deception with John Sanbonmatsu - EP 315Guest John Sanbonmatsu, philosophy professor and author of The Omnivore’s Deception, brings a frank discussion on the human-animal interface and the consequences of our reductionist/supremacist worldview. He shares many of the common deceptions that people use to justify exploiting billions of animals annually, including the myths of humane meat. We explore how society, political parties (both sides), and even spirituality reinforce this domination and we discuss the illusion of animal consent and the parallels between animal agriculture and slavery. But there’s hope! Inspired by Martin Buber’s book I and Thou, Professor Sanbonmatsu shares a new possibil...2025-06-171h 19
Hope for the AnimalsThe Omnivore’s Deception with John SanbonmatsuOn this episode Hope talks with author John Sanbonmatsu about his new book The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. This engaging book covers a variety of philosophical aspects of meat-eating culture, offers insight into our fraught relationship with farmed animal and explores the importance of incorporating love into our ethics. John and Hope discuss humanewashing and the deception around the reality of animal farming, the cognitive dissonance of loving and eating animals, and how eating meat is an aspect of the US culture wars. They also debate a pessimistic vs. optimistic view of t...2025-06-1459 min
Main Street VeganThe Omnivore's DeceptionRegenerative agriculture. Farm to table. Humane meat. These are buzzwords of a movement led by Michael Pollan, Joel Salatin, and others who believe that animal foods are fine if they come from the "right" farms. Today's guest, Professor John Sanbonmatsu, excoriates their argument in his new book The Omnivore's Deception, making an on-target and heavy-hitting case for veganism. Book: The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and OurselvesWebsite: https://www.johnsanbonmatsu.comX: https://x.com/SanbonmatsuJBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social2025-06-1459 min
OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward AbundanceThe Omnivore's Deception | John SanbonmatsuThe meat industry and its defenders promise ethical consumption and sustainable farming, but animal agriculture fuels ecological destruction, entrenches human supremacy, and masks cruelty with comforting myths. John Sanbonmatsu, philosopher and author of The Omnivore’s Deception, shatters the myths of “humane meat” and the 'naturalness' of eating meat, and explains why abolishing the animal economy is essential to living an ethical human life. Highlights include: Why growing up as the child of a Jewish mother and Japanese-American father in the U.S. sensitized John to bullying and injustice - against both human and nonhuman animals; Why the origins...2025-06-101h 19
REAL RadioJohn Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception
Call Caryn’s personal archive number to hear the most recent five episodes of It’s All About Food: 1-701-719-0885 John Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception John Sanbonmatsu is a writer, philosopher, and magician. He is author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals and Ourselves (New York University Press) and of The Postmodern…2025-05-2100 minIt’s All About FoodJohn Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception
Call Caryn’s personal archive number to hear the most recent five episodes of It’s All About Food: 1-701-719-0885 John Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception John Sanbonmatsu is a writer, philosopher, and magician. He is author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals and Ourselves (New York University Press) and of The Postmodern…2025-05-2100 minIt’s All About Food 2025John Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception
Call Caryn’s personal archive number to hear the most recent five episodes of It’s All About Food: 1-701-719-0885 John Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception John Sanbonmatsu is a writer, philosopher, and magician. He is author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals and Ourselves (New York University Press) and of The Postmodern…2025-05-2100 min
John Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception
Call Caryn’s personal archive number to hear the most recent five episodes of It’s All About Food: 1-701-719-0885 John Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception John Sanbonmatsu is a writer, philosopher, and magician. He is author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals and Ourselves (New York University Press) and of The Postmodern…2025-05-2158 min
It’s All About FoodIt’s All About Food - John Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s DeceptionJohn Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception
John Sanbonmatsu is a writer, philosopher, and magician. He is author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals and Ourselves (New York University Press) and of The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (Monthly Review Press). John received his BA from Hampshire College and his PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. John is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he teaches ethics, politics, philosophy of film, and existe...2025-05-2058 minIt’s All About FoodIt’s All About Food - John Sanbonmatsu, Our Resistance to Rethinking the Meat EconomyJohn Sanbonmatsu, Our Resistance to Rethinking the Meat Economy
John Sanbonmatsu is a writer, philosopher, and magician. He is author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals and Ourselves (New York University Press) and of The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (Monthly Review Press). John received his BA from Hampshire College and his PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. John is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he teaches ethics, politics, philosop...2025-04-0157 min
SentientismA Joyful Journey Towards an Edenic Vision - Matthew Halteman of Calvin University - Sentientism 221Matthew Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University and a fellow in theOxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He wrote Compassionate Eating as Care of Creationand co-editedPhilosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating (with Andrew Chignell and Terence Cuneo). His latest book,Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, was published in November 2024.In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?"Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversatio...2025-02-111h 39
Reductio33 - Are Animals Food?A conversation with Robert Jones of CSU, Dominguez Hills about animal welfare/rights and the ethics of food. We also touch on experimentation and captivity and the legal status of animals.WARNING: has unbleeped curses and plenty of uncomfortable topics not appropriate for kids.Robert references John Sanbonmatsu, this is his personal webpage.With the aptly named "Ranch Hand" from BlueDot Sessions. Used under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Reductio is produced by Inverted Spectrum Media, a non-profit.www.patreon.com/reductio ...2024-01-261h 27
Sentientism171: "We've made a civilizational error" - Philosopher John Sanbonmatsu - SentientismJohn is a writer, philosopher, cultural critic and magician. He is best known for his book, The Postmodern Prince, and for his more recent work in Critical Animal Studies where he edited the collection "Critical Theory and Animal Liberation". Also in that field his book "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and the Nature of Moral Life" will be published by NYU Press in 2024. He has taught at the University of Illinois Chicago, DePaul University, and the University of California Santa Cruz, and is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts...2023-09-291h 35
Current AffairsThe Moral Atrocity of Factory Farming and Why We Can't Look AwayCurrent Affairs is proud to be a publication that takes animal rights seriously. From our lighthearted looks at manatees, ants, and cats, to our more serious pieces on the Orwellian language of the factory farming industry, the reason animal communication shouldn't be the justification for animal rights, and the need for "Veticare For All," we have always believed that left politics and animal welfare go together.Today on the podcast we are joined by Marina Bolotnikova, a freelance journalist who covers factory farming and animal liberation activism. Marina has written for Current Affairs about the importance of...2022-08-1945 min
Cultured Meat and Future Food PodcastJohn Sanbonmatsu of CleanMeat-Hoax.comJohn Sanbonmatsu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he teaches ethics, political theory, and the philosophy of technology. He is author of the book, The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject, editor of the book, Critical Theory and Animal Liberation, and is the creator and curator of the www.CleanMeat-Hoax.com website. His new book, The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and the Nature of Moral Life, is expected to be released at the end of 2022.2021-11-1636 min
Plant Powered RadioJohn Sanbonmatsu: The Clean Meat HoaxDr. John Sanbonmatsu is editor of the book, Critical Theory and Animal Liberation and author of the book, The Postmodern Prince. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he teaches classes in ethics, social and political theory, and the philosophy of technology. John is the founder and main designer of https://www.cleanmeat-hoax.com ****************************** Thanks to Vox Vegana for the intro music. Plant Powered Radio broadcasts Tuesdays 11 am - noon PT at http://cfuv.ca Podcasts: PocketCasts, Breaker, Spotify, RadioPublic, Anchor, Overcast and Google ...2021-06-2446 min
Plant Powered RadioJohn Sanbonmatsu: The Clean Meat HoaxDr. John Sanbonmatsu is editor of the book, Critical Theory and Animal Liberation and author of the book, The Postmodern Prince. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he teaches classes in ethics, social and political theory, and the philosophy of technology. John is the founder and main designer of https://www.cleanmeat-hoax.com ****************************** Thanks to Vox Vegana for the intro music. Plant Powered Radio broadcasts Tuesdays 11 am - noon PT at http://cfuv.ca Podcasts: PocketCasts, Breaker, Spotify, RadioPublic, Anchor, Overcast and Google Instagram - @plantp...2021-06-2446 min
The Other AnimalsShould the animal rights movement really support "Clean Meat?"Cultured, clean, cell-based, lab-grown, whatever you'd like to call it -- the production of "real meat" without the "real animal" on the surface seems to be a promising technology offering abundant food on a global level, repair of the environment, and oh yes, reduction of animal suffering. The largest meat corporations in the world are investing heavily in it -- should we be suspicious? Dr. John Sanbonmatsu explores the issues in a candid and revealing interview. Plus, veterinarian Dr. Tom Pickard helps pet owners understand bloodwork lab results.
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