Species Unite

Arash Yomtobian: The Problem with All or Nothing

"Everything is a story. Every belief that we have, every entity or institution is a story that we've told ourselves and each other. And so really identifying ways on how

Ana Paula Tavares: Save the Chimps

"As I stood about six feet away from him, looking at his beautiful little brown eyes, and Tuffy looked right back into my eyes and actually through my soul. And at that m

Michael Schneider: Pilots to the Rescue

"We do own and operate aircraft, but we also put a lot of energy into telling the story and that's really important because that's what's going to provide transformation

Kevin Sherwin: How do you Milk an Almond?

"His argument against almond milk is that you can't call almond milk milk because you can't physically milk an almond." – Kevin Sherwin Kevin Sherwin is a composer, mus

Jamie Logan and Justina Adorno: Green Goddesses Take New York

"We had to start asking how are we sustainable with the activism in the long run? I think that using humor, using confrontation will get people to look at the things that

Cameron Meyer Shorb: Nature Was Never Eden

"So before I encountered these ideas, whenever I thought about human's relationship to animals, I only thought about the negative parts. I thought the best we could ever

Dr. Melanie Joy: Why good people don't want to know

"Let's say that you eat meat and you're sitting down and you're biting into a juicy hamburger, and your dining companion turns to you and says, 'Elizabeth, you know that

Rose Patterson: What are we willing to risk when we know suffering is happening?

"I think something that I learned from doing that was that this is all in our heads, like it's all for show just because there's a security guard that even if he's right

Todd Friedman: The Pig Who Changed Everything

"You want people to stop eating these animals and the only way to do it is to showcase them in a light where people see them as individuals, and not just a sandwich in th

Dan Shannon: How Change Happens

"There will come a time in the future where historians look back on this era of history and sort of see it as this moment of historical atrocity, which is what I think it

Dax Dasilva: Echoes from Eden

"I really think it's a story is about the heroes, the conservation heroes. It's each one of their stories and then it's about my personal growth story of being absolutely

Rebecca Bose: Undoing an American Extinction

"I don't know of another animal mammal that does not protect their young. Everybody protects their young. A wolf does too if another predator came. Of course they would p

Gemunu de Silva: Industry Standard

"I grew up and I became vegetarian listening to punk albums because there was a real punk scene which talked about vegetarianism, which talked about veganism, which talke

Gail Eisnitz: Out of Sight

"These workers were so courageous to go on camera to talk about what they were being forced to do, and we had a whistleblower attorney there to protect them. And then Dat

Melissa Hoffman: Eat Your Ethics

A lot of people think that kosher means that animals were treated significantly better than animals that enter the non-kosher market. And largely, this is just not true,

Brett Mitchell: The Man Who Freed the Elephants

"It  just makes everything worthwhile with what we did. It just highlights how flexible elephants are and how adaptable they are from captivity to wild, and that when giv

Nina Jackel and Blake Moynes: The Cruelty Behind the Selfie

"You look at these animals, and they're just so far removed from the life that I want them to have, that they should have that, we would hope that wild animals have. And

Amy Jones: Skin and Bones

"It was a really surreal experience because I didn't know what to expect from a tiger farm. I've been in a lot of industrial farms of other animals. I sort of thought to

Thom Norman: How $23 a Month Could Dismantle Factory Farming

"Because we're kind of lowering the stakes. We're saying it's okay to admit to yourself that you care about factory farming and you care about animals because we're not g

30,000 Monkeys in Our Backyard

This week, we're doing something a little different. Instead of a conversation, we're sharing something we've been working on for the past year — our new short documentar