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Interchange – Subjects of Captivity: Personhood Rights and Nonhuman Animals

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe begin with some “Happy” news…last week the New York Court of Appeals—one of the most influential state courts in the United States—agreed to hear the habeas corpus case Happy the elephant – an autonomous and cognitively complex nonhuman animal who has been imprisoned at the Bronx …

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Interchange – Beasts’ Burdens: On Climate Change and Non-human Animals

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 42.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn April 22nd 1970, Democratic Senator Garland Nelson, originator of the idea of Earth Day, proclaimed: Winning the environmental war is a whole lot tougher challenge by far than winning any other war in the history of Man. It will take $20 to $25 billion more a …

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