To care about the well-being of other sentient creatures does not make you a trader of your ‘own kind’.
Understanding what it means to be earthlings, animals and then humans is the center of this discussion with Debra Merskin and Carrie Freeman, animal rights activists and authors in the field. Non-human animals must have equal and proper representation in the media to both honor and respect, with accuracy, these other communities of species. In re-empowering the notion of animality, we are all someone, never something.
Originally aired on August 10, 2021 on KPOV’s All Things Vegan
