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Greta Thunberg

Greta is an environmental activist who has gained international recognition for promoting the view that humanity is facing an existential crisis arising from climate change. Her views on naturalism/supernaturalism aren't […]
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Joel Okwemba

Joel is Managing Director of the Centre for International and Security Affairs (CISA), a think tank and consulting organisation working to improve international relations and foreign policy capability in Africa. […]
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Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan is a novelist who teaches creative writing at New York University. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Here I Am. […]
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Richard Ryder

Richard is a writer, psychologist, and animal rights advocate. He coined the term "speciesism" in 1970 and was one of the first to use the term "Sentientism" in a positive […]
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Mary Shelley

Mary was a novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy […]
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Al-Ma'arri

Al-Ma'arri, also known under his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis (973 – 1057) was a blind Arab philosopher, poet, and writer. Despite holding a controversially irreligious worldview, he is regarded as […]
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Brigid Brophy

Brigid was a novelist, critic, and campaigner for social reforms, including the rights of authors and animal rights. Her 1965 Sunday Times article is credited by psychologist Richard D. Ryder […]
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Michael Woodruff

Michael is an academic specialising in the philosophy of mind from a naturalistic perspective and in comparative consciousness. He is professor emeritus of Biomedical Sciences, Quillen College of Medicine. Michael […]
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Leilani Munter

Leilani is a professional racing driver and an activist for animal and environmental causes. She has been vegan since 2011 and seems to have a naturalistic, non-religious worldview. Leilani on […]
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Ricky Gervais

Ricky is a comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is an advocate for animal rights and for atheism, secularism and humanism. He is vegan. He has said "It’s awful […]
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Madelaine Petsch

Madelaine is an actress and YouTuber. She is a vegan and is non-religious. Madelaine on Wikipedia @madelainepetsch
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Natalie Portman

Natalie is an actress, filmmaker and activist. She is vegan. She has said "Three times a day I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause […]
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Peter Dinklage

Peter is an actor, producer and animal rights activist. He is an atheist (lapsed Catholic) and a vegan. While working on the "Face Your Food" film, he said: “The images […]
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Élisée Reclus

Élisée was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He was an atheist and an ethical vegetarian. He said “The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the […]
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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict is an actor. He is vegan and, as someone who is "at least philosophically" Buddhist, it is unclear whether he holds supernatural beliefs. He has said "No, I’m quite […]
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Liz Ross

Liz is an activist who co-founded and runs the Vegan Advocacy Initiative. She is vegan and a secular humanist. @Lizveg
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Angela Davis

Angela is a political activist, philosopher, academic professor and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A feminist and a Marxist, Davis was a longtime […]
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Michaela Coel

Michaela is an actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and singer, best known for creating and starring in "Chewing Gum" and "I May Destroy You". She is vegan and an atheist (ex-Pentecostal […]
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Robin Quivers

Robin is a radio personality, author, and actress. She is vegan (she has written a book about her vegan diet) and an atheist. Robin on Wikipedia @rqui
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Bryan Adams

Bryan is a singer, guitarist, composer, record producer, photographer, philanthropist, and activist. He has been vegan since 1989 and is an atheist. Bryan on Wikipedia @bryanadams
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Elliot Page

Elliot is an actor and producer. He is vegan and an atheist. Elliot on religion: "Religion has always been used for beautiful things, and also as a way to justify […]
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Hemant Mehta

Hemant is an author, blogger, and atheist activist. He is either vegetarian or vegan for ethical reasons. Hemant on Wikipedia @hemantmehta
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Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval is a public intellectual, a historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is vegan and an atheist (secular Jewish). He […]
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Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne is a fashion designer and businesswoman. She is an atheist and either vegetarian or vegan. Vivienne on Wikipedia @FollowWestwood
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Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin is an actor, environmentalist, animal rights activist, and producer. He is vegan and an atheist. Joaquin on Wikipedia
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Rooney Mara

Rooney is an actress, philanthropist and founder of a vegan clothing business. She is vegan and has been reported to be an atheist. Rooney on Wikipedia
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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary was a writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. She was an advocate of non-human animal ethics and was an inspiration for the satire "A Vindication Of The Rights […]
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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. He was an atheist and an early advocate for granting moral consideration and […]
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Kristen Bell

Kristen is an actress, singer, producer, and voice actress. She is vegan and a non-religious humanist. Kristen on Wikipedia @KristenBell
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Jon Stewart

Jon is a comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and television host (e.g. The Daily Show). He is non-religious (Jewish heritage) and vegan. He and his wife, Tracey, run […]
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Peter Tatchell

Peter is a human rights campaigner, best known for his work with LGBT social movements. The Netflix movie, "Hating Peter Tatchell", tells the story of his life and work to […]
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James Cameron

James Cameron is a filmmaker and environmentalist. He is vegan and an atheist. James on Wikipedia @JimCameron
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Naomi Smith

Naomi is the CEO of Best for Britain, the UK's leading non-partisan advocacy group upholding internationalist values. Before her campaigning and political career she worked in the corporate world and […]
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Jose Gonzalez

Jose Gonzalez is an Argentinian-Swedish musician. He is an atheist, a vegetarian/vegan and an effective altruist. Jose on Wikipedia @_JoseGonzalez_
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Stephen Fry

Stephen is an actor, comedian and writer. He is a prominent secular humanist and atheist and is vegetarian or maybe more recently, vegan. Stephen on Wikipedia @stephenfry
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Thandiwe Newton

Thandiwe is an English actor. She is vegan and an atheist. Thandiwe on Wikipedia @thandiwenewton
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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley was one of the major English romantic poets. He was a naturalistic atheist per his pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism" and an advocate of non-violent resistance. Shelly was an […]
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Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca is an atheist and secular humanist who grants moral consideration to all beings capable of suffering (sentient). See this Twitter conversation  and this podcast interview. Rebecca on Wikipedia @platobooktour
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Floris van den Berg

"I am a sentientist because: Suffering matters to those who suffer. Sentientism means having compassion for all those who suffer – both human and nonhuman. Sentientism means emancipating all sentient […]
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Stijn Bruers

"Sentientism means that we should take into account all and everyone's positive and negative feelings, without arbitrary exceptions. No-one and nothing can consistently or reasonably object to sentientism, because disagreeing […]
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Could animal farming be good for the animals?

Episode 186 of the Sentientism podcast (Apple link here) is a bonus cross-post of my discussion with Nick Pendergrast, co-host of 3CR's Freedom of Species radio show and podcast, about "the logic of the larder" - an argument that animal farming could be a good thing for farmed animals.
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"Making the kind choice becomes this gift" - Molly Elwood - Elwoods Dog Meat CEO - Sentientism Ep: 175

Molly is a writer, copywriter, editor, creative strategist and an animal rights activist. She is Founder and CEO of the non-existent farm, Elwoods Organic Dog Meat.
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"Law is a reflection of the people that make it" - Dr. Iyan Offor - Sentientism Ep:174

Dr Iyan Offor is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University. A conversation about Sentientism - and what's real, who matters and how we can make a better world.
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"Welfare protections have failed animals" - Legal Academic Dr Jane Kotzmann - Sentientism Ep:173

Dr. Jane Kotzmann is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Deakin Law School. A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how we can make a better world.
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