by Now You Know | Mar 4, 2020 | featured, Uncut Interviews
Did you know that a single slaughterhouse in Canada kills about 10,000 pigs a day? Are you aware that, on average, two hundred pigs are crammed into each animal transport vehicle as they are moved to slaughterhouses? Have you heard why ending animal agriculture will...
by Now You Know | Feb 19, 2020 | featured, Uncut Interviews
Did you know that sheep are far from mindless creatures? In fact, they have remarkable memory and recognition skills – they can recognize over twenty other human beings and other sheep from photographs. Have you heard how sheep in Asia have learnt through...
by Now You Know | Feb 4, 2020 | featured, Uncut Interviews
Did you know that entire species have gone extinct due to the fashion industry, and that the leather shoe industry is one of the main drivers of climate change? Have you heard that it is leather, not meat, that is by far the most profitable element of factory farming...
by Now You Know | Jan 15, 2020 | Animals in Canada, Animals in the Wild, featured, Uncut Interviews
This week on Now You Know, Kathryn Sussman talks with author & conservationist Morten Jorgensen about polar bears – the charismatic icons that exemplify global warming for humans around the world. Part of this month’s topic on Canadian animals in danger,...
by Now You Know | Jan 1, 2020 | Animals in the Wild, featured, Uncut Interviews
Award-winning Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace, and founder, president and executive director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society talks about a wide gamut of marine conservation issues. Everything from the current state of wild whale populations, to...
by Now You Know | Dec 18, 2019 | Animals in Captivity, Exotic and Domestic Pets, featured, Uncut Interviews
In this episode of NYK Experts Uncut, Dr. Jeff Ventre, former marine mammal trainer at SeaWorld explains how after seeing killer whales in the wild, he had a profound and life-changing revelation: he could no longer condone cetacean captivity. Jeff, co-founder of the...