Episodes

  • Animal Law Podcast #111: A Lamb to the (Botched) Slaughter

    Animal Law Podcast #111: A Lamb to the (Botched) Slaughter
    Aug 28 2024
    Two lawyers who are at the forefront of some of the new directions in which animal law is developing join us once again on this episode. Will Lowrey of Animal Partisan and Chris Carraway of the University of Denver’s Animal Activist Legal Defense Project will join me to discuss another innovative and exciting chapter in the effort to use cruelty laws…
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    57 mins
  • Animal Law Podcast #110: Will JBS Investors Get the Truth about Animals and Climate?

    Animal Law Podcast #110: Will JBS Investors Get the Truth about Animals and Climate?
    Jul 31 2024
    Laura Fox of the Farmed Animal Advocacy Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School and Stijn van Osch of the Humane Society of the United States join us to talk about cows, chickens, pigs, securities law, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Amazon rainforest and some very, very high stakes for animals and for the planet. We’ll be chatting with them…
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Animal Law Podcast #109: The Case That Didn’t Happen

    Animal Law Podcast #109: The Case That Didn’t Happen
    Jun 26 2024
    Christopher Carraway and Steffen Seitz of the Animal Activist Legal Defense Project join us on this episode to talk about the case that didn’t happen. You may have heard about a criminal trial that was supposed to take place back in March in Wisconsin, where three activists affiliated with Direct Action Everywhere, Wayne Hsiung, Paul Picklesimer, and Eva Hamer, were charged…
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    53 mins
  • Animal Law Podcast #108: The Case of Compelled Dairy Promotion

    Animal Law Podcast #108: The Case of Compelled Dairy Promotion
    May 29 2024
    Deborah Dubow Press, an attorney with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, joins us to talk about Williamson v USDA. This case involves both the Los Angeles school system and the USDA’s school lunch program, which influences what kids are eating in virtually every school in the country. We will be looking at some of its insane rules regarding dairy, why…
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Animal Law Podcast #107: Prosecuting Cruelty

    Animal Law Podcast #107: Prosecuting Cruelty
    Apr 24 2024
    Jake Kamins joins us to talk about his groundbreaking work as an Animal Cruelty Resource Prosecutor in the Oregon Department of Justice. This position, which was created very recently, not only allows him to prosecute animal cruelty cases but, perhaps even more importantly, also allows him to act as a kind of roving resource, as his title indicates, to District Attorneys’…
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    56 mins
  • Animal Law Podcast #106: A Case Farms Case of Cruelty

    Animal Law Podcast #106: A Case Farms Case of Cruelty
    Mar 27 2024
    Sarah Gold of Legal Impact for Chickens joins us to discuss litigation against giant poultry factory Case Farms. As you may know, I am a big fan of efforts to get anti-cruelty laws to do what they were meant to do, that is, protecting animals from cruelty. What a concept! Those efforts can be extraordinarily difficult to mount, and so I…
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    40 mins
  • Animal Law Podcast #105: Breaking the Rules?: Taxpayer-Funded Animal Research Outside the US

    Animal Law Podcast #105: Breaking the Rules?: Taxpayer-Funded Animal Research Outside the US
    Feb 28 2024
    Vanessa Shakib joins me once again, and this time, we will be discussing litigation brought by her client, White Coat Waste Project, about a really extraordinary situation at the National Institutes of Health. As you probably know, the NIH funds massive, massive amounts of research on animals. What you may not know is that much of that research does not take…
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    41 mins
  • Animal Law Podcast #104: The Biogas Nightmare

    Animal Law Podcast #104: The Biogas Nightmare
    Jan 31 2024
    Christine Ball-Blakely of the Animal Legal Defense Fund joins us to discuss the work of a coalition of organizations that has filed petitions for rulemaking regarding the unbelievable subsidization, with your tax money, of “biogas,” aka factory farm gas, which, as far as I am concerned, appears to be an out and out scam to prop up factory farming, hide its…
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    54 mins