<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Animal Turn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Animal Turn]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:26:38 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Forget Veganuary, Buy an Indulgence: How to Eat Meat, Pay Cash, and Call It Ethics]]></title><description><![CDATA[FarmKind’s  new campaign, charmingly titled  “ Forget Veganuary, ”  arrives with the air of a bold realist crashing an idealist party. The message is disarmingly soothing: relax, nobody is asking you to stop eating meat. Just keep doing what you’re doing, send some money to animal welfare charities, and voilà—moral crisis resolved. Veganism, we are told, is too demanding, too alienating, too pure. What we really need is a pragmatic compromise, one that allows us to care deeply about animals...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/forget-veganuary-buy-an-indulgence-how-to-eat-meat-pay-cash-and-call-it-ethics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69543d0f4158de223fa305b8</guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:24:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_381cc7de97a644ac97b3083ec18cb757~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Carlo Salzani </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inclusive Understandings of Street Dogs and Health]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Season 7 of The Animal Turn podcast, focused on Animals and Health , the lives of free-roaming dogs in India was often used as a fulcrum around which to think about multispecies health and questions of justice. Many of the interviewees who appeared on the show challenged established conceptions of how humans and dogs interact and advocated for more inclusive understandings of how street dogs shape the geography, history, and ecology of Indian cities. Through analyzing British documents in...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/inclusive-understandings-of-street-dogs-and-health</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ffa6dfc6c41f853f1f35ad</guid><category><![CDATA[Episode Description]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:12:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_8f8480a1dc4b4fe3b6181f65713a45f8~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Complex Relationship Between Humans and Baboons]]></title><description><![CDATA[In preparation for an upcoming episode on The Animal Turn , I have just finished reading The Lion’s Historian . This brilliant book by Sandra Swart traces the trajectories of animals’ histories in South Africa. She discusses the myths around lions, the extinction of the quagga, and the making of police dogs. In her final chapter, she discusses baboons and the long entanglement of human-baboon relations. Swart notes the tightly knit relations between humans and baboons in southern Africa....]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-loss-of-12</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6889e1e7785ea520b89bf99b</guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:26:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_58dc9ddceb5e4b81b17edada14c5f974~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_665,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Claudia Hirtenfelder</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Matter of Leashed Concern: Dogs' Health with Jessica Pierce]]></title><description><![CDATA[What started out as a difficult conversation about the inevitability of a dog’s death gradually turned into a discussion on how dogs and humans can live better. In the last interview episode of season 7, Claudia talks with philosopher and bioethicist Jessica Pierce about their experiences of living with dogs and how to give meaning to multispecies cohabitation]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/a-matter-of-leashed-concern-dogs-health-with-jessica-pierce</link><guid isPermaLink="false">687f60f083d12f900615ce57</guid><category><![CDATA[Episode Description]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 05:01:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_74e1b230fa1a466d9fb43312dd622431~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Voice for Animals: The Social Movement that Provides Dignity and Compassion for Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suzana Gartner unpacks the contours of her recently published book "A Voice for Animals" ]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/a-voice-for-animals-the-social-movement-that-provides-dignity-and-compassion-for-animals</link><guid isPermaLink="false">680b80b06be0a2b59f0907d5</guid><category><![CDATA[Books]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:41:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_56394138962b4d26a5b6f51b5f26d0d6~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_827,h_916,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Suzana Gartner</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jacksons' Debate: Shifting Speciesist Perspectives]]></title><description><![CDATA[In December 2024 I released a speculative fiction novella called   The Jacksons’ Debate , published by a THRIVE Publishing’s initiative,...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-jacksons-debate-shifting-speciesist-perspectives</link><guid isPermaLink="false">678ef3960837e35d1b7dc54a</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Books]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 09:11:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_183a710ea07d40baad2142a7926cba68~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_850,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Marcus Vinicius Neves</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Ambivalent Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claudia reflects on The Animal Turn Merch Store: I have to admit in many ways this The Animal Turn Merch store is an ambivalent place for me]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/an-ambivalent-store</link><guid isPermaLink="false">674ff85acf5a08407170cea3</guid><category><![CDATA[Merch]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:50:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_936e2abb906f43caab7d61d36973f654~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Claudia Hirtenfelder</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild Boars' Nuclear Turf War]]></title><description><![CDATA[If I were to say  ‘mutant’, what would come to mind? Perhaps you imagine something scary from a science-fiction film, emerging from a...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/wild-boars-nuclear-turf-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66572fc5a9cf5c8ae9454131</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:40:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/59b5c0_84ce3507c5064e3f81f31b0833546a38~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_600,h_475,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metropolitan Macaques as Nifty Neighbours]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last December, I had the opportunity to escape the cold, wet London winter and stay in Singapore for three weeks. 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So for this episode I wanted to take a dive  into the world of...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/turtles-plastic-saga</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65a16be8fcada9560a3820fb</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:59:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5d636af53d214c9782d6576bcd7eff95.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiddler Crabs as Ecosystem Engineers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let’s go on a journey! Imagine a place where the ocean meets the sea. From a boat on the water, trees seem to have surfaced straight out...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/fiddler-crabs-as-ecosystem-engineers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65a12860e44982a077b81dce</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:41:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/59b5c0_032a5c0a4fef4b4da3e029bf643ea28e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Questionable Habits of Mexico's House Finches]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently watched a documentary called ‘ All That Breathes ’ , which depicts two brothers in New Delhi who dedicate every waking hour to...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-questionable-habits-of-mexico-s-house-finches</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65a00dcbd4728497d6e2c484</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:06:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_b491c14cc12349428066f73b56b6dbf7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worms and Compost Collaborations]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week I found myself thinking about the relationship between worms and what we think of as food waste. I was reminded about my...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/worms-and-compost-collaborations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">659ffd7b043ef2888afbfe08</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:26:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/59b5c0_2b199ee7451b46f791d2a4497357fad3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pigeons' Trashed Feet ]]></title><description><![CDATA[While most people focus on how pigeons create waste in the city, I want to instead focus on how urban waste impacts pigeons.  When I was...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/pigeons-trashed-feet</link><guid isPermaLink="false">659ea8573e50915c03c5795f</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 05:27:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_534c6830336b7541723530~mv2_d_2560_1704_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Herre de Bondt</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Imperiled Pangolins]]></title><description><![CDATA[I really appreciate how in season 5, episode 9 of The Animal Turn Nina Jamal offered important context regarding the framework of One...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/imperiled-pangolins</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6734f3f917c29fb84545b38e</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_c8bd0f70242b41628bb134c7653c3e99~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Amanda Bunten-Walberg </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmed Bears]]></title><description><![CDATA[In S5E8 of The Animal Turn, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka  discussed how the well-being of humans and animals are interconnected and how both...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/harmed-bears</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66ec2941d5b583d92d0fc30c</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:06:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8c9529487169431d97ee8af97ac166d1.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Amanda Bunten-Walberg </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transgressive Jellyfish]]></title><description><![CDATA[I want to highlight jellyfish because I think it is important to direct our attention and empathy towards beings who don’t immediately...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/transgressive-jellyfish</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67436531c07b513641719909</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f6d2a51c5a7943e68c5c97ca69059a7d.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Amanda Bunten-Walberg </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Navigating Salmon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salmon are increasingly factory-farmed in aquaculture operations.  Escapee salmon from these farms are often painted as infectious...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/navigating-salmon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66e7b600776bed4af15d8230</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:07:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_39766b4a50666839416e77~mv2_d_4718_2846_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Amanda Bunten-Walberg </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lily and Lizzie ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2022, two pigs pigs named Lily and Lizzie were at the center of a significant legal case in the animal liberation movement .  In this...]]></description><link>https://www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/lily-and-lizzie</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66e1c6f6fff7775090a0d34a</guid><category><![CDATA[Animal Highlights]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:33:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/164de4_52287e73be594ac5813a94013dfb9264~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Amanda Bunten-Walberg </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resourceful, Respectable Rats]]></title><description><![CDATA[I want to revisit rats, who were highlighted I the first season of The Animal Highlight . 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