Podcasts by NYK Experts Uncut
The NYK Experts Uncut podcast is a series of in-depth interviews with world-known experts in animal science, animal welfare and wildlife conservation. The podcast provides listeners with unprecedented access to the latest information about animal welfare issues from the incisive viewpoints of the people pioneering change on controversial and important animal topics. It covers issues across the breadth of human usage of animals and animals in the wild, and the challenges they face due to climate change, habitat destruction, poaching, and other causes.
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Attending an Animal Vigil Will Change Your Life: The Transformative Power of The Save Movement and the Link Between Animal Agriculture and Climate Change with Anita Krajnc from 2020-03-04T05:01:17
Did you know that a single slaughterhouse in Canada kills about 10,000 pigs a day? Are you aware that, on average, two hundred pigs are crammed into each animal transport vehicle as they are moved...
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Still Wearing Animals? Why We Should Be Kinder To Our Kin, with PETA founder and Animalkind author, Ingrid Newkirk from 2020-02-19T05:01:57
Did you know that sheep are far from mindless creatures? In fact, they have remarkable memory and recognition skills – they can recognize over twenty other human beings and other sheep from ...
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Is Ethical Fashion on Your Radar? Why It Should Be! with New York’s acclaimed Fashion Designer, Joshua Katcher from 2020-02-05T04:59:23
Did you know that entire species have gone extinct due to the fashion industry, and that the leather shoe industry is one of the main drivers of climate change? Have you heard that it is leather, n...
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Ex Dolphin Trainer Jeff Ventre’s Wild Transformation: A Necrotic Tail and A Human Revelation from 2019-12-18T05:01:51
In this episode of NYK Experts Uncut, Dr. Jeff Ventre, former marine mammal trainer at SeaWorld explains how after seeing killer whales in the wild, he had a profound and life-changing revelation: ...
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Behind the Smile: We’ve Banned it at Home, Let’s Not Do it Abroad – with Melissa Matlow from 2019-12-04T15:16:42
In this episode of Now You Know, Kathryn Sussman talks with Melissa Matlow, campaign director at World Animal Protection, about WAP’s WildLife. Not Entertainers campaign, which aims to get travel c...
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Why We’re Sending Orangutans to School: How We are Hurting and Helping One of Our Nearest Relatives with Primatologist Dr. Anne Russon from 2019-11-30T16:45:35
In this special edition of Now You Know, Kathryn Sussman talks with Primatologist and Professor of Psychology at York University, Glendon College, Dr. Anne Russon. With over 30 years experience stu...
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Think climate change is the polar bear’s greatest threat? Think again – Morten Jorgensen from 2019-11-06T17:15:57
Is climate change the polar bear’s greatest threat? In this jaw-dropping interview, author and conservationist Morten Jorgensen explains how all risks to wild polar bear populations are human...
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“The Ocean Is The Planet” – Capt. Paul Watson from 2019-06-24T19:02:08
Award-winning Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace, and founder, president and executive director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society talks about a wide gamut of marine conservation i...
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Dissection Part 2: The Amazing Benefits of Non-Animal Alternatives to Classroom Dissection – Elisabeth Ormandy from 2019-06-17T15:11:09
In this interview, co-founder and executive director of the BC- based Animals in Science Policy Institute Dr. Elisabeth Ormandy, details all of the phenomenal benefits of switching to non-animal al...
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Why Bats Shouldn’t Get a Bad Rap – Rob Laidlaw from 2019-06-17T14:56:27
Did you know? Bats are mammals and the only mammals that are capable of true flight. They comprise one fifth of all the mammal species in the world, are intelligent, have social lives, and contrary...
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The Massive Industry that is the Exotic Pet Trade – Rob Laidlaw from 2019-06-06T14:25:54
In this episode founder and director of Zoocheck, Rob Laidlaw, outlines which animals comprise exotic versus domesticated species. Rob shocks us with the numbers involved in the massive exotic pet ...
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Animal Welfare in Canada – a System We Need to Fix! – Rob Laidlaw from 2019-06-06T14:23:50
In this podcast, listen as founder and director of Zoocheck, Rob Laidlaw, takes us through the complexities that are the patchwork of laws and regulations that comprise Canada’s insufficient and qu...
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Let’s Keep Polar Bears Where They Belong: In the Wild – Rob Laidlaw from 2019-06-06T14:21:35
In this episode, Rob Laidlaw of Zoocheck highlights how this magnificent species, fascinating to people the world over, is one of the most prized and, therefore, most in demand at zoos around the g...
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Yes! Canada has Wild Horses! – Julie Woodyer from 2019-06-06T14:19:09
Did you know that Canada has several populations of wild free-roaming horses? Listen as Julie Woodyer, Campaigns Director, Zoocheck, and one of the most competent animal advocates working in Canada...
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How We Unwittingly Let Our Dogs Down – Rob Laidlaw from 2019-06-06T14:16:54
Ever wonder if there are ways you can spruce up your doggie’s life experience? Ever think that that one walk a day may be boring your pooch as much as it feels like a chore to you? In this expert i...
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Where Should We Be Getting Our Pets? – Liz White from 2019-06-06T14:13:16
In this practical and informative expert interview, listen as Liz White, founder of the Animal Alliance of Canada and leader of the Animal Protection Party of Canada, gives us insightful and useful...
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Dissection Part 1: The Amazing Benefits of Non-Animal Alternatives to Classroom Dissection – Lori Marino from 2019-06-01T00:07:48
In this episode, listen as Dr. Lori Marino, neuroscientist, expert in animal behaviour and intelligence brings to light the ubiquitous and unnecessary waste of life in routine school dissections. I...
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Is Captivity Ethical? – Andrew Fenton and Letitia Meynell from 2019-06-01T00:05:19
In this episode, Kathryn interviews Dr. Andrew Fenton and Dr. Letitia Meynell, philosophy professors at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia with specialties in bioethics, epistemology and ...
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The little Known Zoo Technique that is Framing – Rob Laidlaw from 2019-06-01T00:02:41
In this episode, Kathryn speaks with Rob Laidlaw, founder and director of the Canadian animal protection charity Zoocheck. Listen as Rob describes the little known zoo approach of framing, which fu...
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What’s Inside Your Winter Coat – Camille Labchuk from 2019-05-31T23:34:13
In this episode, listen as Kathryn interviews powerhouse animal rights lawyer Camille Labchuk of Animal Justice, on the topic of the inhumane treatment of coyotes and geese used in the making of wi...
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The unfair persecution of the cormorant – Liz White from 2019-05-31T14:51:55
Join Liz White, founder of Animal Alliance of Canada and leader of the Animal Protection Party of Canada, as she dispels the myths and misconceptions about cormorants in the Great Lakes Basin and e...
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Elephants Don’t Belong In Captivity – Dr. Winnie Kiiru from 2019-05-31T14:37:27
Keeping elephants in Canadian zoos only perpetuates the suffering of these highly intelligent, social animals and provides an inaccurate view of natural elephant behavior, social activities and eve...
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Cetaceans in Captivity – Dr. Naomi Rose from 2019-05-27T02:10:11
Listen as Dr. Naomi Rose, marine mammal scientist at the Animal Welfare Institute and member of the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee, outlines the impact of captivity on cetace...
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