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How I Learned to Love Shrimp
How I Learned To Love Shrimp is a podcast showcasing innovative and impactful ways to help animals and build the animal advocacy movement.
We talk to experts about a variety of topics: animal rights, animal welfare, alternative proteins, the future of food, and much more. Whether it's political change, protest, technological innovation or grassroots campaigns, we aim to cover it all with deep dives we release every two weeks.
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Episodes
41 episodes
Tom Harris on the SHAC campaign and the significance of grassroots advocacy
There are not many people who have spent time in prison for their commitment to help animals, but Tom Harris is one of them. We spoke with Tom about his time in the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign (SHAC), one of the most well-known anim...
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Jakub Stencel on defining and maintaining organisational culture
Jakub Stencel is the recently appointed interim director of Anima International. A refreshingly candid conversation about organisational culture, transparency and its limits, as well as the constant journey of testing and learning that Anima un...
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1:20:34
Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl on winning the largest government investment in plant-based foods
Rune-Christoffer is an impressive person. In addition to being almost 10ft tall, he led the Vegetarian Society of Denmark’s efforts in getting the Danish government to invest over 110 million Euros in plant-based foods and develop an Action Pla...
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Giulia Malerbi on banning octopus farming globally
Giulia Malerbi is attempting to prevent octopus from being intensively farmed for food. As head of Global policy at The Aquatic Life Institute, Giulia’s important work aims to stop intensive octopus farming before it even begins and has hopeful...
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Wu Hung on how Buddhism has influenced his 30 years of activism for animals in Taiwan
Wu Hung trained as a monk before his journey into animal advocacy began and it is these teachings in the ‘inconsistencies of life’ that led him to believe he could change the future for animals in Taiwan. Through liaising with...
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Léo Le Ster on creativity in campaigning
Léo Le Ster is a campaigner at L214, a French NGO focused on helping farm animals. Léo talks to us about L214’s creative campaigning tactics and the importance of open and collaborative brainstorming when it comes to generating new ideas.
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Co-hosts Amy & James on a summary of our best bits and a brief hiatus
In this short 10 minute clip we announce a brief hiatus and use this time to chat through some episodes we want to highlight which we recommend checking out in the short break.We also have a small ask of our listeners - please could you...
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Mahi Klosterhalfen on progressive strategies for animals in Germany and the importance of sharing mistakes
Mahi Klosterhalfen from Albert Schweitzer Foundation brings us exciting progress for animals in Germany. Mahi walks us through his work on cage-free, broilers and also now fish and shrimps and why Germany seems to be one of very few countries w...
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1:24:20
Tania Luna on the importance of employee health and well being for animal advocates
Tania Luna brings us a wealth of knowledge this week as she walks us through the best working practices of organisations seeking to support animals that must integrally include the human animals that work to protect others.Tania’s team a...
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Leah Garcés and Sharon Núñez: Timeless lessons from 40+ years of animal advocacy
An absolute treat of an episode this week as we were asked to interview long-time advocates Leah Garcés and Sharon Núñez, live from the Animal and Vegan advocacy summit in Washington DC in May earlier this year.From anger in Leah’s 20’s ...
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Doug Waley on the lives of farmed fish and how we can help them
Long overdue conversation on the important topic of fish this week with the lead for fish at Eurogroup for Animals, Doug Waley. Doug’s expertise lies in working for fish at the EU level however most of the episode is filled with important infor...
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10 Years Since Veganuary: Co-founders Matthew and Jane reflecting on the past and envisioning the future
Matthew and Jane co-founded the online campaign Veganuary in 2013, which has encouraged millions of people across the globe to try being vegan for the month of January and beyond. More recently, Matthew launched Veg Capital, an organisation tha...
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Sofia Balderson on how rejection can help you grow as an advocate
Sofia Balderson is the co-founder of Hive, formerly known as Impactful Animal Advocacy, an organisation that aims to improve coordination and collaboration in the farmed animal movement through cultivating impactful, intentional, and serendipit...
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1:19:52
Ignacia Uribe on some tough decisions nonprofit leaders have to make
Short but sweet episode this week from Ignacia, author of a recently released book, CEO of a leading organisation in Latin America and mother to two small kids. We're delighted that Ignacia took time out to talk to us about her experiences righ...
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Bob Fischer: The case for including insects in our animal advocacy
Bob Fischer is the Senior Research Manager at Rethink Priorities and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University.Can insects feel pain? Should people who care about chickens, cows and pigs also care about reducing the suf...
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Kristie Middleton on why engineering breakthroughs are essential for low-cost plant-based alternatives
Kristie Middleton is vice president of business development for Rebellyous Foods where she and her team help institutions add more plant-based options to their menus. Kristie’s also the author of MeatLess: Transform the Way You Eat and Li...
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1:11:25
Jayasimha Nuggehalli on working collaboratively with the animal agriculture industry to help animals
Jaya is a seasoned operational executive with a rich history of promoting animal welfare in the food retail sector. As the Co-founder and Chief Program Officer of Global Food Partners, a Singapore-based multinational consulting firm, he helps f...
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1:36:56
Lauren Mee on the career landscape for helping animals
Lauren Mee is the CEO & Co-founder of Animal Advocacy Careers, an organisation that tries to match mission-aligned talent to opportunities that accelerate the end of factory farming.Lauren offloads all she knows about the hiring land...
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1:22:53
Aaron Ross on how to stay motivated and keep fighting for animals for 20+ years
Aaron Ross has spent over 20 years working for farmed animals. His relentless dedication to this cause has seen him co-found two major organisations, The Humane League and the Open Wing Alliance and train and advise countless others around the ...
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Tomasz Herok on working undercover in factory farms
Description: Tomasz Herok recently spent over 5 months working undercover on British factory farms, as part of an investigation by Open Cages, the UK branch of Anima International.[Trigger warning: graphic descriptions of animals suff...
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Simon Newstead on developing alternatives to animal protein
Simon Newstead, entrepreneur turned impact investor, is a founding co-partner of Better Bite Ventures who back food-tech founders in Asia.In this episode, we deep dive into the world of alt protein and the different technologies availabl...
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1:21:55
Wanyi Zeng on building the farmed animal movement in Southeast Asia
In this episode, we speak to Wanyi Zeng, Executive Director of Welfare Matters, an organisation that is focused on building capacity for the farmed animal advocacy movement in Southeast Asia.
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1:24:29
Stien Van Der Ploeg on finding the most effective animal charities
Stien is the executive director of Animal Charity Evaluators, also known as ACE. Stien, wants to help people help animals and ACE tries to do that by finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals.In this episode we speak ...
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1:14:17
Monica Chen on theories of change, collaboration and leadership within the animal advocacy movement.
Today, we speak with Monica Chen, the Executive Director of New Roots Institute, formerly Factory Farming Awareness Coalition. We speak about several big topics: Theories of change for the animal advocacy mo...
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1:09:58
Cameron Meyer Shorb making the case for wild animals and why we should care about their suffering.
Cameron is the executive director of Wild Animal Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of animals by accelerating the growth of wild animal welfare science.In this episode Cameron helps us to understand the vast topic ...
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