Carolyn Bailey's Blog (280)

In the eyes of the animal, looking back at me, I see the stark vitality, the raw reality. Confronted with this immediacy of innocence, this essence of being, I recoil, and frightened by the reflection of my own insignificance, I strike out against her, struggling to save my self through separation and subjugation.

I am lost,…

Transcript of Rob Jackson’s Live ARZone Guest Chat

27 August 2011

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Many if not most animal advocates will be familiar with this graphic

This graphic is (graphically) ticking off the deaths of other animal by the second. Chickens die at the rate of 287 per second; pigs at almost 4 per second; and cows at more than 1 per second.

As shocking as these numbers seem, they are only the tip of the…

A recent New York Times oped was brought to my attention by a long standing friend and colleague. She situated it within the context of the debate surrounding the …

Transcript of Nick Cooney’s Live ARZone Guest Chat

20 August 2011

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Transcript of Peter Young's ARZone Live Guest Chat 

13 August 2011

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This time the ARZone team explore the ideology of speciesism and The Big C - Capitalism. Using themes from Professor David Nibert's "entanglements thesis," should we understand speciesism as rather more than simply a…

‘If the times aren’t ripe, you have to ripen the times.’ - Dorothy Height, educator and social activist (1912-2010)

This month, a humane group announced a proposal to adjust the confinement standards for some chickens – specifically, egg-laying hens. …

This time the ARZone team of Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, and Roger Yates are joined by "wildlife rehabilitator" Emma Kaczmarczyk to talk about the rehabilitation of "wildlife" and, in particular, the ethics of feeding flesh or other animal products to the recovering animals and…

Transcript of Prof. David Nibert’s Live Guest Chat

30 July 2011

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ARZone's special guest for PC7 is Ronnie "The General" Lee, longtime British animal protectionist, co-founder of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and ethical vegan since 1971.



Ronnie provides ARZone Podcast listeners with an action-packed trip down memory lane as well as a powerful…

Transcript of Katrina Fox’s Live ARZone Guest Chat

23 July 2011

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A scene from Shakespeare’s 1602 play wot I just wrote.[1]

An inn in Scotland.

Donald: Angus!

Angus: Donald! Have ye had y’tea?

Donald: I have!

Angus: Good news my man, good news. Now did ye hear the latest scandal?

Donald: Tell me more, I don’t think I have.

Angus: Well you know…

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This time the ARZone team of Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier and Roger Yates explore the difficult and complex issue about whether human beings should interfere in the lives of other animals - indeed, should we, as philosopher David Pearce suggests, micro-manage every part of the planet in the name…

Transcript of Will Potter's Live ARZone Guest Chat

9 July 2011

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This is our first podcast with a former ARZone "chat" guest. We are very pleased to have Dr. Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet, as our first podcast interviewee.



Dr. Tuttle talks about his appearance at the 2011 Vegetarian Summer Fest in the USA (yes, we…

In this podcast, the ARZone team provide a tour around the Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) website, explaining it's uses and features.

We then discuss an ARZone guest answer by Animal Equality's Jose Valle about a…

Transcript of Dr. Richard Twine’s ARZone Live Guest Chat

2 July 2011

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