Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (01-09-2023) #813C: Jeff Flocken, President of the Humane Society International (HSI) reports to Tracie about his recent trip to Panama for the CITES meeting, where decisions are made by multiple countries about what creatures will be put on the endangered species list this year. Jeff discusses the “politics” of elephant […]
Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (11-28-2022) #807A: Sangkyung Lee, dog meat campaigner for Humane Society International in South Korea, talks about the government having agreed to a task force a year ago to evaluate this part of the economy but nothing has been done. Tracie asks who has a stake in maintaining the dog meat […]
Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (11-21-2022) #806B: Jeff Flocken, the head of Humane Society International (HSI), discusses the conundrum that there are one million dogs being farmed for the South Korean meat market, yet 85% of the populace say they have never eaten dog meat. Flocken talks about the 34 dogs that HSI brought to […]
Humane Talk (11-02-2015) #8051: Wayne discusses The National Institutes of Health decision to discontinue research on chimpanzees and retire them to sanctuaries; half of the world’s population of dogs live on the street and struggle for survival, but the Humane Society International (HSI) has an innovative spay/neuter program to reduce the number of street dogs […]
Tails From China (11-24-2014) #4106: Peter Li from the Humane Society International discusses the rescue operation in China when animal welfare groups intercepted 27 trucks on the highway, each one crammed with 500 to 900 dogs stacked in cages and crates that had gone 9 days of travel without food or water, many of them […]
Dog Talk (7/26/2014) #381: Dr. Peter Li from Humane Society International describes his recent trip to bear witness to the “dog meat festival” in Yulin, China — which is not part of some ancient cultural Chinese tradition but a commercial enterprise only practiced since 2009, attracting many Chinese demonstrators opposed to this barbaric practice in […]
Humane Talk (2/17/2014) #8006: Choosing Kindness over Commerce. Dr. Andrew Rowan, President and CEO of Humane Society International (HSI) and Chief International Officer and Chief Scientific Officer of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) joins Tracie to discuss the cycle of animal rights campaigns, going back to the successful campaign vs. Revlon in […]
