Gina Song Lopez, researching vegan movements in Taiwan and China through the lens of local culture and social media, and Taylor Jobling, a law lecturer unpacking how Australia’s legislation categorises animals, come on to the show to discuss the main themes and tensions to emerge in Season 8, Animals and Media

Date Recorded: 8 December 2025

Featured:

What Comes After Entanglement by Eva Giraud
The Birth of Korean Cool by Euny Hong
The Omnivore’s Deception by John Sanbonmatsu
Animals and the Rights to Politics by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka
An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals by Claudia Hirtenfelder
Black Fish
Finding Nemo
Flow
The Cove
Cowspiracy
Earthlings

A.P.P.L.E
Animals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.

iROAR Network
iROAR brings together podcasts that aim is to make the world a better place for animals.

Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Modern Language, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, & Commun

Pollination Project
The Pollination Project empowers volunteers across by providing the funding they need.

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