Animal Voices

On this show we talk to Hope Bohanec, who has been active in animal protection and environmental activism for over 20 years and is a nationally recognized leader and speaker in the animal protection movement. She is currently serving as Projects Manager for United Poultry Concerns as well as the Executive Director of Compassionate Living, a Sonoma County, California based vegan outreach organization. Hope has been fighting against industrial and local “humane” industries, where she has researched and written in The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?. We talk about being an educator in the animal protection movement, the history of domesticated animals, including fowl, and the “humane” myths pervading popular discourse. It is important to understand construction of certain animals as food and longstanding cultural beliefs. Chickens have been a part of human culture for thousands of years, through language, literature, and entertainment. The species has been predominately constructe