ARZone (Animal Rights Zone) Podcasts

ARZone's special guest for this episode 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 thought-provoking vision for a radical vegan future in which humanity returns to inhabiting the Earth

This time the ARZone team 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 of compassion and in order to prevent pain anywhere and everywhere? The New York Times website mentioned by David Pearce in this podcast can be

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 do ask him why it is not known as the Vegan Summer Fest), and issues raised in his book The World Peace Diet, including a wonderful

In this podcast, the ARZone team provide a tour around the Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) website, explaining it uses and features and then they discuss an ARZone guest answer by Animal Equality's Jose Valle about a particular style of demonstration made popular in Spain when animal advocates quietly and respectfully hold the dead bodies of the nonhuman animals they have found on Spanish farms,

After a productive ARZone guest interview, or "chat," with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau of Compassionate Cooks, the ARZone team discuss a clip from one of Colleen's podcasts in which she talks about communicating with those we disagree with - and also those we agree with. The ARZone team for podcast 3 are Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Jason Ward, and Roger Yates. Click on the

Tim Gier reads out the ARZone Mission Statement and then the ARZone team, Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, Jason Ward and Roger Yates discuss the ongoing controversy about live exports to Indonesia from Australia. Click on the embedded player above - or LISTEN HERE. At about 6 mins in, this image is the subject of the discussion. And just for fun...

ARZone hopes to begin posting soon. In the meantime, here's a great podcast from Roger Yates, featuring some of the ARZone team. The Tom Tom Club: An ARZone Tom Regan Week Podcast. In this podcast, featuring Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) administrators Carolyn Bailey, Tim Gier, Jason Ward, and myself, we informally review and assess why ARZone staged the Tom Regan Week (duh!), talk about

Episode 49 features our special guest Anthony Marr.  Anthony speaks about his recent campaigns against oil pipelines, tankers and "dirty oil"; global climate change; vegans who ride horses, speciesism and racism in the AR movement; and much more. Audio podcast, aprrox. 1 hour 50 minutes. Anthony Marr, who was honoured with the Henry Spira Grassroots Activist Award at the AR2010

Episode 48 features special guest Nick Cooney. Nick is the Compassionate Communities Campaign manager for Farm Sanctuary. He is also the author of “Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change” which VegNews named as one of its top ten books of 2011. Nick is also the founder of The Humane League, an advocacy organization that works to protect other animals through

Episode 47 features special guest Dr. Andrew Knight. Andrew talks about his book The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments, the problem of vivisection, the use of other animals in veterinary schools, vegan ultramarthons and fitness, and much more. Approx. 44 min audio podcast. Dr. Andrew Knight is an Australian bioethicist and European Veterinary Specialist in Welfare Science, Ethics and

Episode 46 episode features special guest Brad King. Brad King is the founder of Farm Animal Rescue Australia, a new sanctuary in Queensland Australia. Brad speaks with us about the needs of the rescued animals, the challenges of running a sanctuary, how connecting people with living beings is a great form of vegan outreach and education, the role of government in animal

An interview with Marc Bekoff, world renowned animal behaviorist, biologist, author (Animals Matter) and advocate for other animals. Marc talks about the need to connect hearts and minds by "rewilding" ourselves, his ideas about compassionate conservation, what we know about the minds of other animals, and how the way forward for other animals is for human advocates to stop their

In the first in a series, Ronnie Lee interviews long time UK activist Kevin White about when and why he became vegan and how he now advocates on behalf of other animals. Ronnie is then joined by ARZone founder Carolyn Bailey and admin Tim Gier in a discussion of Kevin's interview. You may also listen H E R E, or visit this webpage to subscribe using iTunes, and please remember to visit

In this episode, the ARZone admins discuss the subject of Alliance Politics.  In recent ARZone podcasts and online interviews, various members of the global social justice movement for other animals have spoken about whether those of us in the movement need to align ourselves with those in other social movements.  The question is, would our working with other movements help those

Ronnie Lee, founder of the Animal Liberation Front talks about how he is still identified with the ALF, what he thinks about the role of direct action in the movement for other animals, and how he believes that progress depends on education an political involvement. You may also listen H E R E  or visit this webpage to subscribe using iTunes, and please  remember to