ARZone Podcast 9 ~ Speciesism and Capitalism

[Carolyn Bailey]

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 prejudice held by indviduals? To what extent is capitalism a major structural impediment to the liberation of all human and other animals? Can we see a vegan capitalist future - or do we have to become anti-capitalists to be animal liberationists?

The team for this podcast are Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Jason Ward and Roger Yates. 

 

 

http://arzonepodcasts.blogspot.com/2011/08/arzone-podcast-9-species...

[Billy L]

"Let's say our goal is to improve the quality of human life across all societies. What if incrementally more economic growth, at least in the richer nations, will not help us achieve that goal? Then what should we look to? How can social and psychological well-being, on a mass scale, be enhanced?"

Interview (click here) with Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham and Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York about their book The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (http://amzn.to/od1rcm)