As Iowa legislators consider House File 589 and Senate File 431, bills that could make it a criminal act to take video or photographs of abuse and cruelty at farms and other animal facilities, Animal Air reporter Katerina Lorenzatos Makris talks with Iowa State Rep. Jim Lykam. (Interviewed March 24, 2011)
As Iowa legislators consider House File 589, a bill that could make it a criminal act to take video or photographs of abuse and cruelty at farms and other animal facilities, Animal Air reporter Katerina Lorenzatos Makris talks with Tom Colvin, executive director of Animal Rescue League of Iowa and president of the Iowa Federation of Humane Societies.
Tom Colvin and Friends
DR. ALEX HERSHAFT segment #1 Did you know that if you
skip eating meat on just one day a week, you can spare the lives and
suffering of about five animals per year? And that if you do that every
week, you can save some 300 to 400 animals during your lifetime? Dr.
Alex Hershaft, founder of Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) and Great American Meatout, offers these and other thoughts on how even small changes in our diets can accomplish big changes for critters.
DR. ALEX HERSHAFT segment #2 “Who
are the real terrorists?” asks Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM)
founder Dr. Alex Hershaft. Are they the activists who fight to protect
animals, or those who abuse them?
DR. ALEX HERSHAFT segment #3 Think
the gargantuan BP oil spill is bad? Wait till you hear about the Gulf
of Mexico dead zone that Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) founder Dr.
Alex Hershaft says is created by factory farm effluent (nice word for
really nasty stuff.
On ANIMAL AIR: What keeps Hot in Cleveland 'glamour puss' Wendie Malick up at night? The federal government's ongoing roundups of wild horses. At a Washington, D.C. Lobby Day rally organized by The Humane Society of the United States, the actor talks about her 'sister' (a collie named Bonnie), her horses, and her man as she spurs a crowd of citizen lobbyists to 'take action for animals.'
On ANIMAL AIR: Gulf Coast oil slick will impact not only wildlife but "all elements of people's lives across the U. S.," predicts
Dr. Robert A. Thomas, professor & director of the Center for
Environmental Communication, Loyola University of New Orleans (Part One) Interviewer: Katerina Lorenzatos Makris
