How I Learned to Love Shrimp

Nina Friedrich on why (and how) you should transition your career to high-impact animal advocacy

My guest today is Nina Friedrich, the Executive Director of High Impact Professionals (HIP). HIP helps experienced professionals move into work tackling some of the world

Jiri Krupa (& Jesse Marks) on using fundraising to win campaigns

This is a new kind of episode! I am trialling something where I am asking other people to be the interview host, rather than me. This has many benefits, one of them being

Anne Hilhorst on hitting companies where it hurts

My guest for today is Anne Hilhorst, CEO of Wakker Dier, a Dutch animal welfare organisation. She joined Wakker Dier when she left university 15 years ago and plans to be

Toby Schiønning on "fair cop" and a new model for corporate campaigning

My guest today is Thorbjørn Schiønning, also known as Toby, who is the Director of Communications and Campaigns, and co-founder of Anima International. He’s been involved

Seth Green on why reducing meat consumption is hard and what actually works

This episode, I spoke with Seth Ariel Green, a research scientist at the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab at Stanford university. He recently published a meta-analysis cal

2025 Highlights: All the best bits from How I Learned To Love Shrimp

Today, we’re bringing you a special highlights episode! It’s a roundup of some of the most interesting conversations we had in 2025. They include: Vicky Bond (Madre Brav

Dawn Neo on the 4+ billion hens in cages in Asia and how we can help them

Dawn was one of the first people in Asia working on cage-free reforms  – she started working on Asian farm animal welfare 10 years ago, often as one of the few individual

Vicky Bond on what it’s really like to lead in animal advocacy

Vicky Bond has done lots of impressive stuff in her career – she started working as a vet and later ended up running a 100+ person organisation, The Humane League (THL),

Sjir Hoeijmakers on a small commitment that will help millions of animals

Today we're talking about a topic that's really important to me personally: donating and effective giving. Specifically, why donating 10% of your income to the

David Cole on what we can learn from the marriage equality and gun rights movements

David Cole is a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, a former national legal director of the A

Penny Tehilah on uniting “welfarists” and “abolitionists” through pressure campaigns

Penny, the Executive Director of Animal Activism Collective, has helped bring hundreds of new activists into the grassroots animal movement, as well as supporting dozens

Lewis Bollard on the strategies that win, the traps to avoid, and why.

Lewis Bollard should be a familiar name for those trying to improve the lives of farmed animals. For almost 10 years, he’s been running the farm animal welfare program at

Cass Sunstein on why people self-silence about animal welfare

Cass Sunstein has one of the most impressive track records out there. He’s the author of the social change books Nudge and How Change Happens, a Harvard Law professor and

Thom Norman on whether diet change is a counterproductive ask (and what we could do instead)

There are never-ending conversations in the animal advocacy movement about whether diet change is an effective ask for the public. Today, we speak with Thom from FarmKind

Alice Di Concetto on why EU animal welfare reforms failed (and what we can do next)

The EU is one of the most important institutions in the world. They had amazingly ambitious plans to transform the lives of the billions of farmed animals in the EU which

James on Changed My Mind, talking about disruptive protests and social movements

Today, we’re sharing a different kind of episode. Not an episode of How I Learned to Love Shrimp but an appearance that I, James, made on another podcast, Changed My Mind

Katie Cantrell on shifting millions of meals to plant-based

There is an age-old debate within animal advocacy on the importance of educating the public. Is it simply enough to tell people about the harms of industrial animal agric

50th Episode Special: 5 leaders on key changes and opportunities in the animal movement

To mark our 50th episode, we're bringing you something special: Five movement leaders talking about some of the biggest developments for animals in the past two year

Kelvey Vander Hart on appealing to wide range of political and religious beliefs

Kelvey Vander Hart from the Wilberforce Institute joins us to share her approach to animal advocacy from a politically right-of-center view and how her Christian faith gu

David Kay on the emerging cultivated meat industry

David Kay shares his experience as the first employee at Upside Foods, offering a deep dive into the cultivated meat industry's challenges, successes, and political