Evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings
Jessica Pierce is a bioethicist, philosopher and writer. Her work focuses on human-animal relationships & interconnections between ecosystems & health.
This was great fun. Mariann Sullivan interviewed me about Sentientism for the wonderful Our Hen House podcast. Listen to the episode on the OHH web site or all the usual platforms. Our Hen House is a nonprofit dedicated to effectively mainstreaming the movement to end the exploitation of animals. Mariann and I talk about naturalism, sentience and the Sentientism movement. […]
In this video, Jamie talks to Better Meat CEO, Animal Rights Hall of Famer, TED talker, Business for Good podcast host and Clean Meat author, Paul Shapiro.We talk about Paul’s animal advocacy journey (he co-founded Compassion over Killing, now Animal Outlook, while still at school) and the potential for new technologies to render animal farming obselete.
We discuss how Naomi’s personal philosophy has evolved, including her experience of religious sectarianism in Northern Ireland, being excluded from a religious education class and feeling a deep affinity for non-human animals from an early age.
We’ve launched a Sentientism podcast! You’ll hear from celebrities, academics and activists about “what’s real?” and “what matters?”.
“The aim is to convince 8 billion people to use evidence & reason & extend universal compassion to all sentient beings, thereby solving all the world’s problems.” New podcast interview!
Annika van den Born from Future Based and I discuss how naturalism and sentiocentrism come together in Sentientism. We discuss how “higher power” systems of thinking tend to warp compassionate ethics. We talk about the risks of environmental movements extending their moral circles too far (biocentrism, ecocentrism or holism) while often ignoring sentient non-human animals. We also talk about what a Sentientist utopia might look and how we might move towards it.
I had a great conversation about Sentientism with Ben Cattaneo of the All Things Risk podcast. You can listen to the episode on the All Things Risk website, via Apple, Soundcloud or all the usual platforms. The All Things Risk podcast explores the themes of risk, uncertainty and resilience in every aspect of life. Have a look a some of their other episodes and […]
A fascinating Beyond Species podcast conversation focused on Sentientism and animal advocacy. We talked about how anti-speciesists and vegans generally are sentientist, in that they grant meaningful moral consideration to all sentient beings.