Ep 9 ¾ (Part 2): Animal Rights in the Wizarding World

Jan 17, 2018

The podcast explores topics such as freeing house-elves without traumatizing them, vegan wand cores, unfair portrayal of dragons, Dark Lord being vegan, and the Fantastic Beasts Foundation. They also discuss house-elves' self-worth, creating a task force for magical creature rights, veganism in the Triwizard Tournament, and exploiting phoenixes. The hosts question if Newt is a secret vegan and discuss making a snake a horcrux. They also address listener questions on house elf ethics, conditioning of animals, spiritual leaders in non-human species, career progression in the magical world, marine invertebrate protection, and scarcity and zoos in animal rights.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Conditioning and Free Will: Animals and House Elves

01:34 • 6min

Exploring the Notion of Spiritual Leaders in Other Species

07:40 • 2min

Animal Rights Advocacy and Career Progression

10:03 • 13min

Recognition and Protection of Marine Invertebrates

22:44 • 19min

Scarcity, Zoos, and the Role of Love in Animal Rights

42:01 • 3min

The Concept of Animal Importance

44:54 • 17min

Founding a Charity and Giving a Voice to Silenced Animals

01:02:22 • 10min

Demand for Vegan Wizarding World: Campaign Plans

01:12:03 • 9min

Exciting Vegan Options at Wizarding World

01:21:16 • 5min

Welcome to the second instalment of our meandering exploration of animal rights in the Wizarding World: Episode 9 3/4 part 2! Evy, Robbie and Tylor jump right back in where we left off last week to discuss how to handle handle the delicate task of freeing all house-elves from slavery without traumatizing them, which wand cores are vegan, and the unfair portrayal of dragons as vicious beasts. We listen in awe as Tylor presents a shocking though not unconvincing case for the Dark Lord being vegan, and we also have the pleasure of interviewing Tylor and his co-founder Kathryn on their Harry Potter-inspired animal right’s charity, The Fantastic Beasts Foundation. Also on this week’s episode...

House-elves, and what if they don’t want to be freed?
‘They gauge their self worth not by who they are but by what they can bring to wizards’.
Tylor’s big dreams to create a task force at the Ministry of Magic that champions the rights of magical creatures.
Dragons: the sharks of the magical world?
We share how we would win the first task of the Triwizard Tournament in the most vegan way possible.
The CP’s first fanfic: A beautiful cross-species romance for one of our co-hosts...
Coral: Flora or fauna?
Can vegan wand cores be as powerful?
Can phoenixes be exploited or are they in a different category to other magical beasts?
Is Newt a secret vegan?
Tylor makes the bold and very questionable suggestion that making your snake a horcrux is ‘the ultimate vegan thing to do’.
‘Did someone just cast Incendio cos it got hot in here?!’ 🔥✨
We interview Tylor and Kathryn of the Fantastic Beasts Foundation to discuss the parallel animal rights issues in the muggle and magical worlds and how apply the lessons the books teach us.
Tylor and Kathryn share details of their campaigns and how listeners can get involved.

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