AR-News: on-line animal shows today

[Mary Finelli]

2 shows:


***Animal Voices, Toronto’s only animal rights/liberation radio program, 
airs live every Tuesday 11 am –12 pm EST (4 p.m. Greenwich) at CIUT 89.5 FM 
or http://www.ciut.fm Tune in for a weekly update and editorial on 
animal-related news, as well as engaging interviews with activists and 
academics.***

This week’s Animal Voices will look at fat oppression and animal rights.  
The animal rights movement has at times attempted to promote vegetarianism 
and veganism on the basis of losing weight and becoming healthy.  The 
strategy closely ties health with weight, and often denies the possibility 
that one could both be fat and healthy.  Some vegetarians and vegans who are 
committed to animal rights and who would be considered fat by mainstream 
society have felt frustrated by this association. So have their allies.  It 
is often assumed that someone who is fat could not be vegetarian or vegan, 
and therefore the visibility and legitimacy of these activists is obscured.  
The promotion of veganism on the basis of losing weight occurs within a 
larger cultural context that vilifies fat and associates fat with negative 
qualities. This approach does not challenge cultural assumptions about what 
bodies are acceptable and beautiful, and does not celebrate those who do not 
fit within the ideal mould. Within our society, fat people continue to be 
acceptable targets of public scrutiny and disapproval.

Is it ever okay to oppress humans to advocate for animals? Are 
pro-vegetarian campaigns fat phobic?

Tune in this week 11am-12pm EST on CIUT 89.5 FM for a conversation about 
these ideas with Lamia, veteran fat activist and vegan.  Lamia writes, “With 
a deep commitment to challenge oppression in all of its forms, I have been 
involved in active resistance for most of my life.  I believe in beauty, 
passion, true justice, and the power of one which is the power of many.”

Hope you can join us!




Today at 1:06 p.m. EST (6 p.m. Greenwich) - RATS
The Kojo Nnamdi Show (not an animal rights program)
http://www.wamu.org/kojo/index.html


Rats are great swimmers, have teeth tougher than steel, and will eat 
virtually anything to survive - even other rats. Delve into the equally 
fascinating and creepy world of rodents, and hear what DC is doing to quell 
its rat population.

Peggy Keller, Chief of Animal Disease Prevention, DC Department of Health
Robert Sullivan, author of "Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of 
the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants"

http://www.wamu.org/real/index.html

call-in: 800-433-8850
e-mail comments: http://www.wamu.org/kojo/contact.html

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