A.F.A.R.
Wednesday May 20th, 2020 with Carolyn
Professor Natalie Khazaal discusses her research on both crude and camouflaged speciesism in mainstream news media, and she explains how journalists can report on stories concerning nonhuman animals more responsibly.

Welcome to Episode 26 of Always for Animal Rights! This week’s show features my recent interview with Dr. Natalie Khazaal. Natalie is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, and she is an American Council of Learned Societies fellow for her work on Arab atheists. Her work in the field of Critical Animal Studies includes academic articles on speciesism in the media and the EU’s vivisection policies; she is also the co-editor of the book “Like an Animal”: Critical Animal Studies Perspectives on Borders, Displacement, and Othering, which will be published later this year. In this interview, Natalie explains how the mainstream media reinforces speciesist ideology in news stories regarding nonhuman animals. She also tells me how journalists can reject speciesism, and instead report on nonhuman animals’ stories more responsibly and ethically. The article we discuss in this interview is the 2016 academic journal article, ““An Angry Cow Is Not A Good Eating Experience”: How US and Spanish media are shifting from crude to camouflaged speciesism in concealing nonhuman perspectives”, which Natalie co-authored with Nuria Almiron. You can read the journal article at https://repositori.upf.edu/bitstream/handle/10230/33239/Almiron_stu_angr.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y In the podcast/on-demand version of this episode, after speaking about speciesism in the media, Natalie tells me about her upcoming co-edited book about human and nonhuman refugees and migrants. This is a really interesting interview, and I hope you’ll listen in!