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How I Learned to Love Shrimp
How I Learned To Love Shrimp is a podcast showcasing innovative and impactful ways to help animals and build the animal advocacy movement. We talk to experts about a variety of topics: animal rights, animal welfare, alternative proteins, the future of food, and much more. Whether it's political change, protest, technological innovation or grassroots campaigns, we aim to cover it all with deep dives we release every 2-4 weeks.Subscribe and please do share with any interested folks! You can also leave feedback and suggestions by contacting us directly through our website. Language: en-us Genres: Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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2025 Highlights: All the best bits from How I Learned To Love Shrimp
Monday, 26 January, 2026
Today, we’re bringing you a special highlights episode! It’s a roundup of some of the most interesting conversations we had in 2025. They include:Vicky Bond (Madre Brava) on what it's really like to lead in animal advocacy Lewis Bollard (Coefficient Giving) on the strategies that win and traps to avoid Dawn Neo (Global Food Partners) on the 4+ billion hens in cages in Asia and how we can help themDavid Cole (author of Engines of Liberty) on what we can learn from the marriage equality and gun rights movements Carley Betts (Open Wing Alliance), 50th episode special: 5 leaders on key challenges and opportunitiesDavid Coman-Hidy (The Navigation Fund), 50th episode special: 5 leaders on key challenges and opportunitiesKarolina Sarek (EA Animal Welfare Fund), 50th episode special: 5 leaders on key challenges and opportunitiesHaven King-Nobles (Fish Welfare Initiative) on why high agency is critical for entrepreneurship Penny Tehlilah (Animal Activism Collective) on uniting "welfarists" and "abolitionists" through pressure campaignsDavid Kay (now at Kraft Heinz) on the emerging cultivated meat industry Chapters:(00:00:00) Cold Open(00:01:55) Lewis Bollard on what advocates commonly get wrong.(00:05:34) Vicky Bond on overcoming self-limiting beliefs and imposter syndrome (00:09:07) Haven King Nobles on how to help new projects succeed and supporting new founders(00:15:48) Penimah Tehilah on how pressure campaigns can unite the movement. (00:29:37) David Kay on the importance of centering animals in our advocacy. (00:33:34) Dawn Neo on changing informal markets and production in low income countries(00:36:00) David Cole on the importance of incrementalism in past social movements(00:52:25) Carley Betts on moving past good cop and bad cop binaries in campaigning (00:57:17) David Coman-Hidy on the importance of political advocacy(01:01:19) Karolina Sarek on progress for shrimps For those who miss Amy as a co-host, you’ll be very happy to know that a bunch of these snippets include her too.Hope you enjoy the episode! With thanks to Tom Felbar (Ambedo Media) for amazing video and audio editing! If you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review us - it means a lot to us!
