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Tania Luna shares insights on prioritizing employee health in animal advocacy. Topics include optimal team size, organizational efficiency, employee well-being, and creating a positive work culture. She emphasizes the importance of sustainable practices to avoid burnout and enhance effectiveness within organizations.

Leah Garcés and Sharon Núñez share their 20 years of animal advocacy experiences, discussing changing approaches, key challenges, lessons learned, and remaining optimistic. They emphasize unity, strategic lessons, character building, progress in animal rights, supporting organizations, and self-care for activists. The podcast delves into legislative changes, bold tactics, and the push for a more compassionate world for animals.

Doug Waley from Eurogroup for Animals discusses fish farming challenges, importance of water quality, confinement issues, and priorities for improving fish welfare. The podcast explores the global impact on farmed fish, differences between wild-caught and farmed fish, and recommendations to enhance fish welfare standards.

Matthew and Jane, co-founders of Veganuary, reflect on the past 10 years and discuss the growth of the movement. They explore challenges, mainstream acceptance, working dynamics, and transitioning into new ventures like Veg Capital and VFC. The episode highlights strategies for advancing animal liberation movements, measuring impact, and the importance of collaboration and risk-taking in the plant-based food sector.

Sofia Balderson, co-founder of Hive, discusses the value of rejection for personal growth, lessons in starting new projects, importance of philanthropic funders, measuring project value, and building impactful communities in the farmed animal movement. The conversation offers insights on facing rejection, seeking community support, navigating personal and professional development, embracing rejection for growth, enhancing productivity for effective advocacy work, and Hive's rebranding focus on unity and collaboration in animal advocacy.

Author, CEO, and mother Ignacia Uribe discusses tough decisions in nonprofit leadership, scaling down her organization, importance of country context in campaigning, and challenges in Latin American animal welfare. The episode also covers technical difficulties, veganism pioneers, book writing, nonprofit growth, major victories for animals, and strategies in the Latin American animal rights movement.

Guest Bob Fischer discusses the moral case for considering insect welfare, challenges in measuring insect pain, the rise of insect farming for protein production, welfare concerns in insect slaughter, and the importance of advocating for insect well-being despite their size or perceived intelligence. The podcast explores societal attitudes towards insects, sanctuary workers' impact, insect sentience, and the need for more research and awareness in the animal advocacy movement.

Kristie Middleton, VP of Business Development for Rebellyous Foods, discusses how engineering breakthroughs make affordable plant-based alternatives a reality. They tackle challenges in scaling plant-based meats for mass consumption, targeting institutions like universities. The episode is a must-listen for those interested in plant-based meats and company scaling in this market.

Exploring the benefits of collaborating with the animal agriculture industry to promote animal welfare in Asia. Discussing challenges, insights from cage-free work, and forecasting the Asian animal movement. Insights from Jayasimha Nuggehalli on the strategic approach to improving animal welfare standards.

The CEO of Animal Advocacy Careers shares hiring insights and career progression strategies in the animal advocacy movement. Topics include talent acquisition challenges, diverse funding sources, and transitioning between sectors. Discussions on books, animal welfare legislation, and the impact of a potential meat tax are also highlighted.