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Gail is the winner of the Albert Schweitzer Medal for outstanding achievement in animal welfare. She is the chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association.Her work as an investigator helped shut down some of the worst, most cruel animal‑exploitation operations in the U.S. But that's nothing compared to the impact of her first book, Slaughterhouse, which not only inspired many people to become vegan, but also shifted the focus of our entire movement toward factory farming, put pressure on regulators and lawmakers to enforce animal welfare laws, and became a template and inspiration for new generations of animal‑rights investigators.Now Gail is back with a new book, Out of Sight. I highly recommend the book. Visit the episode notes to get it now.In addition to talking about her book, we discussed the mysterious force for good that has guided Gail throughout her life, but also the evil she has confronted; how her life was threatened in this line of work, her thoughts on the welfarism vs. abolitionism debate, more specifically the cage-free standard, and much more.Follow or subscribe to the show now. You don't want to miss next week's episode — a special group conversation with 3 other animal rights heroes: Captain Paul Watson, Gary Yourofsky, and Dr. Jerry Vlasak. Share this episode with the vegans you know. Gail deserves so much praise for all she has done and is still doing for the animals. We should know her name and story. Leave a five‑star review — it makes a difference. Thank you.Get the book now: https://www.gaileisnitz.com/outofsightSupport the Humane Farming Association: https://hfa.orgFollow Gail on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaileisnitz/Follow Gail on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576167325070Follow Gail on https://www.linkedin.com/in/gail-eisnitz-20a9889b/If you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by AtlasAudio from Pixabay

The content provided is entertainment, commentary, and informational purposes only. It does not constitute any legal, medical, or professional advice, and all views expressed our opinions, while based in part on publicly available information.No representations are made as to completeness or accuracy. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental, unless explicitly stated. It is not intended to assert definitive claims about any individual or organizations and viewers should conduct their own independent verification.If you are experiencing distress, please take this episode as your cue to open about your pain. Don't wait. FIND A HELPLINE: https://findahelpline.com/Join Dr. Heath in her fight. Visit Our Honor's website now: https://www.ourhonor.org/Email Dr. Heath: [email protected] or [email protected] help? Learn about CANHAD: https://www.canhad.org/Read the Farmed Animal Movement by Jeff Thomas: https://lanternpm.org/book/the-farm-animal-movement/Read Oppressive Liberation by Lisa Kemmerer: https://www.lisakemmerer.com/publications/books/oppressive-liberationVeterinarians Are Not The Villains. With Dr. Heath, Dr. Zamzow & Dr. Gianni | Ep. 48 https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/1650328/The Shocking Reason Why Veterinarians Eat Their Patients. With Dr. Heath | Ep. 12 https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/1141846/If you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Viacheslav Starostin from Pixabay

Animetrics is a women-led research and capacity-building organization, founded in 2023 by two economists from Türkiye, Gülbike Mirzaoğlu & Sueda Evirgen. They specialize in economics, impact evaluation, and research tailored to local contexts. They help animal advocates, especially in the Majority World (also called the ‘Global South') and Muslim communities, use evidence to strengthen their work. Most of the world’s farmed animals live in these regions, yet resources for advocacy are limited. Animetrics is here to change that.Visit Animetrics Now: https://www.animetrics.org/Follow Animetrics on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animetrics.research/Follow Animetrics on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/animetrics-research/Email Animetrics: [email protected] you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Alisia from Pixabay

Victoria Moran (Main Street Vegan Podcast): Everybody knows that the future is vegan, but it can also be a grand adventure right now. On her show, bestselling author and vegan OG Victoria Moran invites you into conversations with the best and brightest in this space. https://mainstreetvegan.com/category/podcast/Jane Velez‑Mitchell (Truth Files): Jane Velez‑Mitchell is the founder and content editor of UNCHAINEDTV, a free global streaming network focused on the plant‑based lifestyle. UNCHAINEDTV offers documentaries, cooking shows, talk shows, and more — all aimed at benefiting animals, people, and the planet. You can also access her content on the Truth Files podcast. https://watch.unchainedtv.com/unchainedtv-video-podcast?html=1&page=3&sort=release_dateHope Bohanec (Hope for the Animals): On this podcast, longtime animal advocate and author Hope Bohanec covers farmed‑animal issues — the ethical, environmental, spiritual, heartbreaking, and heartwarming sides of living vegan. https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/Glen Merzer (Glen Merzer Show): Glen Merzer, author of books advocating the plant‑exclusive diet, hosts freewheeling discussions on nutrition, health, diet, medicine, and whatever else comes up. https://www.realmeneatplants.com/the-glen-merzer-showAnitha Robinson (Kindness is Everything): This podcast features stories of people of all ages sharing their amazing acts of kindness. Each episode is truly inspiring. Always remember, there is no act of kindness that is too small — for the person or animal receiving it, it means everything! https://anitharobinson.com/kindness-is-everything-podcasts/If you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Dmitrii Kolesnikov from Pixabay

Ella Wong is an experienced project manager in user research and stakeholder engagement. She has led stakeholder and market research projects related to the alt protein industry in China, as well as the animal advocacy movement in Asia. She is also in charge of the distribution of research insights and general operations for Good Growth.Connect with the Good Growth: https://www.goodgrowth.io/Email: [email protected] Connect with Ella on LinkedIn: https://th.linkedin.com/in/ellaykwongIf you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Alisia from Pixabay

Today, we’re asking a fun—and maybe slightly provocative—question: are vegans smarter than most people? You’ve probably seen those articles listing brilliant minds who were vegetarian for ethical reasons—people like Einstein, Tolstoy, Mary Shelley, or Leonardo da Vinci. And if you’ve been with us for a while, you might remember episode 37, where we talked about one of those great minds: the literary genius Al‑Ma’arri, often considered the first vegan in recorded history.So today we’re wondering: did their intellect lead them to the ethical principles we hold? And beyond these outliers, do we see the same pattern in the general population?To explore this, I’m joined by Chris Bryant. Chris is a social scientist and an expert on meat reduction and alternative proteins. He leads Bryant Research, and he’s also a prolific creator on YouTube. I actually joined him during one of his livestreams to record this episode—it was my first time doing a livestream, so that was an adventure in itself.You can find links to connect with Chris in the episode notes.In our conversation, we talk about the relationship between intelligence and veganism, but we also get into psychopaths, the dangers of animal activism, cannibalism, his experiences debating the “meat heads” of the internet, and a whole lot more.Connect with Chris: https://www.youtube.com/@chrisbryantphdLearn more about Bryant Research: https://bryantresearch.co.uk/Al-Ma‘arri: The World's First Vegan. With Dr. Kevin Blankinship | Ep. 37 https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/1427038/Donate to Dharma Voices for Animals: https://www.dharmavoicesforanimals.org/donateSign Up to MapYourHealth: https://mapyourhealth.info/If you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Yurii Semchyshyn from Pixabay

Have you ever considered what it would mean if global religions echoed and supported our fight for animals?To explore this question, I have the honor of welcoming a true hero of the movement: Joyce D'Silva. Joyce has been vegan for 52 years—longer than I’ve been alive—and her contributions to animals are extraordinary. She wrote one of the first-ever vegan cookbooks, lead the adoption of major animal welfare legislation in the UK and Europe, and continues her work, to this day as Ambassador Emeritus for Compassion in World Farming and Patron of the Animal Interfaith Alliance.She is also the author of Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice. I highly recommend getting multiple copies —one for yourself and your enjoyment, and others to share with the religious leaders of your town.Beyond religion, Joyce and I discuss the nature of evil, the idea of publicly naming wealthy factory farm and slaughterhouse owners, the most surreal moment of her life, and much more.Get the book Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice now https://www.routledge.com/Animal-Welfare-in-World-Religion-Teaching-and-Practice/DSilva/p/book/9781032273990Learn more about Compassion in World Farming: https://www.ciwf.com/Learn more about the Animal Interfaith Alliance: https://animal-interfaith-alliance.com/Read Animals and Islam: https://lanternpm.org/book/animals-in-islam/Read Gandhi autobiography: https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/An-Autobiography.pdfIf you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by FreeMusicForVideo from Pixabay

Sign Up to MapYourHealth now: https://mapyourhealth.info/A pipe collapse outside Washington, D.C., has spilled nearly 300 million tons of sewage into the Potomac River. In its wake, researchers have discovered high levels of harmful pathogens like E. coli and antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/potential-health-impacts-of-the-potomac-river-sewage-spill#:~:text=A%20pipe%20collapse%20outside%20Washington,resistant%20Staphylococcus%20aureus%20(MRSA)Big Poultry Owns Your Backyard. With Liz, Juliane & Haidy | Ep. 92 https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/2257921/Uh Oh Canada! Animals Need Your Vote. With Liz White | Ep. 72 https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/1987257/The End of the Antibiotic Era. With Cóilín Nunan | Ep. 55 https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/1735697/If you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshow

Do you think ending factory farming is possible? If yes, what form of activism do you believe will stop factory farming for good? Institutional change? Street protests? Legal reforms?Well, our guest today, Bruce Friedrich, founder of the Good Food Institute, thinks ending factory farming is possible — but activism is not the answer. For him, the solution to this issue is cultivated meat: the perfect replacement for regular meat, because it would taste the same, cost the same, but with no health risks, environmental damage and certainly no animal suffering.In this episode, we discussed the new McVeggie that has launched in Canada, the consolidation of power in the hands of a few big food corporations, the Campbell Soup 3D printed lab-grown chicken debacle, and the opposition to cultivated meat by some animal advocates. Many of them have appeared on the show. I will add links in the description to all those episodes, including an amazing debate hosted by United Poultry Concerns featuring Bruce.Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity's Favorite Food — and Our Future https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235992470-meatIs Cell-Based Meat Good for Animals? With Leah Garces, Bruce Friedrich, Vasile Stanescu & John Sanbonmatsu | BONUS https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/2018735/Inside the Mad World of Meatistan. With John Sanbonmatsu | Ep. 79 https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/2063993/Veganism is Not Capitalism. With Miyoko Schinner | Ep. 65 https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/1898355/If you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Dmitrii Kolesnikov from Pixabay

Sandro Jenni is a researcher at the University of Zurich's Psychology Personality Lab. He is studying the political psychology of sustainable plant -based food system change.My LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sandro-jenniEmail: [email protected] to my research group: https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/sob/perspsy/team.htmlLinks to my published papers from the episode:First study: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fufo.2025.100825Commentary paper: https://doi.org/10.5964/phair.19613Follow The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Alisia from Pixabay

Prevent Bhutan from establishing its first slaughterhouse: https://www.change.org/p/prevent-bhutan-from-establishing-its-first-slaughterhouseFor today's episode, we explore the hidden face of vegan entrepreneurship. We often see vegan products mysteriously appear and disappear on the shelves of grocery stores, but how often do we stop to wonder what's happening behind the scenes? How did those products find themselves there? Well, today you will get some answers, and they won't make you look at vegan products the same way again.To guide us through this topic, I have with me five amazing entrepreneurs.Miyoko Schinner, of course, who describes herself as an Epicurean activist out to create justice for animals, people, and the planet. She is the founder of the Rancho Compasión (https://www.ranchocompasion.org/) animal sanctuary and author of The Vegan Creamery, her latest book (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752115/the-vegan-creamery-by-miyoko-schinner/).An Pham, the entrepreneur behind Bodhi Gourmet (https://bodhigourmet.com/) vegan Asian sauces and Boida Outerwear (www.boidaouterwear.com) with its collection of Vegagooz winter outerwear. Also, the organizer of the Vegan Christmas Market of Montreal.Meg Kelly, who co-founded the Veganic Agriculture Network (https://goveganic.net/). She also teaches the Learn Veganic (https://learnveganic.com/) online gardening course to empower people around the world to grow their own fruits and veggies at home.Sandra Nomoto is a book whisperer for authors with impact. She herself authored two books, including the world's first vegan marketing book, Vegan Marketing Success Stories (https://www.sandranomoto.com/products/). She also co-founded VEG Networking Canada, Canada's only vegan networking group.And finally, Brett Christoffel, the founder of All Y'alls Foods (https://allyallsfoods.com/), plant-based proteins such as plant-based jerky. A portion of All Y’alls Foods’ profits supports the Ranchers Advocacy Program, an initiative of the Rowdy Girl Sanctuary.If you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshow

Today, we travel to Denmark to explore the amazing work of the Vegetarian Society of Denmark.I welcomed their Secretary-General, Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl, to discuss why the Vegetarian Society of Denmark, despite its support of veganism, is not called the Vegan Society of Denmark, the art of building coalitions with people you disagree with, what if the annexation of Greenland into the US could be beneficial for stopping whale hunting?, Rune-Christoffer's secret to not burning out and much more.If you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] Connect with the Vegetarian Society of Denmark: https://vegetarisk.dk/english/Learn about Animal Charity Evaluators top 10 charities: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/recommended-charities/If you have any comment or question regarding the show, send a message to [email protected] Follow The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Oleksandr Stepanov from Pixabay

Today, we travel to Europe where there is a fierce political fight taking place for the animals.And to address this topic, I have with me José Luis Murillo, the General Director of Animal Welfare Observatory. Jose and I discussed how Animal Welfare Observatory was able to make it a policy to have cameras in Spanish slaughterhouses and their plans to make it happen everywhere else in Europe, the clash his organization has with big Ag lobbyists, how his team convinced corporations that animal welfare reforms were lucrative, if there is hope for animal rights activists to get between animal and plant farmers and much more.Connect with the Animal Welfare Observatory: https://animalwelfareobservatory.org/Learn about Animal Charity Evaluators top 10 charities: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/recommended-charities/Follow The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Rockot from Pixabay

Have you ever watched a nature documentary in which a wild animal was filmed struggling for survival? Maybe running from a predator, desperately foraging for food or braving bad weather. What if I told you that we had a moral imperative to help that animal? To help all wildlife creatures. To play an active role in their welfare, even when their sufferings are not traced back to us.There is an organization called Wild Animal Initiative that studies this very question. Their communication director, Cat Kerr, joined me to talk about the implications of that revolutionary idea. We discussed how Wild Animal Initiative's work could be a cure for vegan misanthropy, the deadly risks of feeding birds, my awesome story of squirrel rescue, contraception for rodents, and much more.Wild Animal Initiative is one of the ten Animal Charity Evaluators recommended charities. I committed to interviewing every charity on that golden list, because I am really curious to learn who is behind the most effective efforts to advance the cause of animal rights.Connect with Wild Animal Initiative: https://www.wildanimalinitiative.org/Learn about Animal Charity Evaluators top 10 charities: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/recommended-charities/Follow The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Sergii Pavkin from Pixabay

For today, a group conversation with two research scientists from Stanford University's Humane and Sustainable Food Lab: Seth Ariel-Greene and Jacob PeacockWe discussed some of 2025 news and trends that affected animal advocacy, such as, artificial intelligence, the election of Donald Trump, the rise of the MAHA movement, the popularity of the vegan nudges concept among researchers, cultivated meat and much more. Seth and Jacob also tried to convince me to start a cult - don't miss that piece of the conversation.Humane and Sustainable Food Lab: https://www.foodlabstanford.com/Subscribe to Regression to the Meat: https://regressiontothemeat.substack.com/p/welcome-to-regression-to-the-meatFollow Jacob Peacock's work: https://www.jacobpeacock.com/Nothing Seems to Work | Science of Activism https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/2256400/CORRECTION: the organization interested in the sentience of AI is called Sentient Futures and not Science Futures.Follow The Vegan Report on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganreportpodcast/Follow The Vegan Report on X: https://x.com/veganreportshowMusic by Alisia from Pixabay