Species Unite Podcast
1) Matt Rossell: His Time Inside The Hidden Worlds of Testing Labs, Circuses, and Fur
He has spent the past two decades fighting to create a better world for animals and it all started by accident. While he was in grad school in the 90s, he worked security at a hospital at night. One n...Show More
2) Gail Eisnitz: Out of Sight
"These workers were so courageous to go on camera to talk about what they were being forced to do, and we had a whistleblower attorney there to protect them. And then Dateline just killed the story. W...Show More
3) Melissa Hoffman: Eat Your Ethics
A lot of people think that kosher means that animals were treated significantly better than animals that enter the non-kosher market. And largely, this is just not true, because kosher is very much no...Show More
4) Brett Mitchell: The Man Who Freed the Elephants
For nearly thirty years, Brett Mitchell has lived alongside elephants — first in captivity, then, eventually, in the wild. His story begins in the mid-1990s, when he managed elephant-back safaris in Z...Show More
5) Nina Jackel and Blake Moynes: The Cruelty Behind the Selfie
"You look at these animals, and they're just so far removed from the life that I want them to have, that they should have that, we would hope that wild animals have. And they're just humiliated and de...Show More
6) Amy Jones: Skin and Bones
"It was a really surreal experience because I didn't know what to expect from a tiger farm. I've been in a lot of industrial farms of other animals. I sort of thought to myself, 'surely it can't be, i...Show More
7) Thom Norman: How $23 a Month Could Dismantle Factory Farming
"Because we're kind of lowering the stakes. We're saying it's okay to admit to yourself that you care about factory farming and you care about animals because we're not going to try and trick you into...Show More
8) 30,000 Monkeys in Our Backyard
This week, we're doing something a little different. Instead of a conversation, we're sharing something we've been working on for the past year — our new short documentary, 30,000 Monkeys in Our Backy...Show More
9) Melanie Kaplan: Lab Dog
“Maybe when we started doing this with animals, researching on them and studying them for human benefit hundreds of years ago, we didn't know about their sentience. We didn't know that they had emotio...Show More
10) Annick Ireland: The Future is Immaculate
“All those kinds of brands in food and in fashion helped pave the way for where we are now. So, on the one hand, it's crushing that they no longer exist, but on the other hand, part of the reason they...Show More