@gzed777

Marcus is a professional tennis player. He is a philanthropist and an advocate for effective altruism through his work as the founder of High Impact Athletes and as a member of Giving What We Can. He is veg*an and has a naturalistic worldview.

Marcus’ Sentientist Conversation with me is here on YouTube and Podcast.

Marcus on Wikipedia
@MarcusDaniell

Although sceptical about the capacities of human reason – and the notion of “reason” itself – it appears evident that, alongside humans, nonhuman animals are sentient. Based on this belief, coupled with a rejection of (or ongoing attempt to reject) delusional and destructive anthropocentrism, I feel the least we can do as human beings is behave benignly and with humility toward our fellow animals (nonhuman and human) and the environments in which they and we live. The practice of veganism is indispensable in this connection.

Louis via Email

“I’m concerned with oppression in all its forms.”

Joey is assistant professor of philosophy at McNeese State University & programme coordinator for the nonprofits Farm Forward & Better Food Foundation (See also the Default Veg campaign). His research covers philosophies of food, medicine, animals & environment. He teaches biomedical ethics & sections of ethical theory & existentialism.

He is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

Watch his Sentientist Conversation with me here on YouTube or Podcast.

Joey on Academia.edu

I’m a sentientist as excluding anyone’s suffering from moral consideration will always be arbitrary. Hence, the interests of all sentient beings deserve equal consideration.

@JosephLabour

As someone who is personally against bigotry, speciesism seems like a combination of racism, sexism, and ableism combined. I see no reason why someone that has the mental capabilities of a 3-5 year old (ex, pigs) should be treated the way they are simply because they have a body that does not look like a monkey, as ours does. If monkeys (homo sapiens) deserve rights and to live (as I believe they do) free of discrimination despite mental or physical differences, then why is someone to be judged on their worth for having feathers or hooves when we’ve already determined that judging someone on their bodily abilities and appearance is not justification for denying them personhood rights? It would be ethically inconsistent to be speciesist while claiming to be antiracist, antisexist, and/or antiableist.

@NorthyHunter

Kristof Dhont is a social psychologist & senior lecturer at the university of Kent where he runs SHARKLab (Study of Human InterGroup & Animal Relations​). He is the author of “Why We Love & Exploit Animals“. Kristof is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

Kristof’s Sentientist Conversation with me is on the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast.

@kristof_dhont
SHARKLab at Kent University

See the famous Bentham quote. What matters is can they feel.

@DavidCMcLean1

Ethical reason, cannot justify speciesism.

Because the needs of sentient beings, their freedom and the continued existence of sentient life are the are the only aspects one can build a reasonable framework of ethics upon.

Love and compassion for all sentient beings.

Kishan on LinkedIn

Everything that lives is holy.

Sharing Animal Activism on Facebook

Harm Not for All

I care deeply about both rationality and ethics. My ethical foundation is exactly identical to the fundamental tenants of Sentientism. My conclusions and my ethics as a whole seem to differ slightly, but we start from a very similar set of principles.

Carrie Poppy is an American journalist, atheist, vegan, creator, and host of the popular podcast “Oh No! Ross and Carrie” which describes itself as “the show where we don’t just report on spirituality, fringe science and claims of the paranormal, but take part ourselves.” The show itself comes from a skeptical perspective (both hosts are atheists) but also approaches the topics with genuine curiosity, warmth, and interest. She’s not a fan of labels, but shares the Sentientist commitments to naturalism and sentiocentrism.

OhNoPodcast.com  and OhNoPodcast on Wikipedia
carriepoppy.horse
@CarriePoppyYES

Evidence. Reason. Compassion.

Critical thinking and compassion are both essential for a more nurturing world, and Sentientism brings those two things together.

Paul on Facebook

“I do not want to contribute to suffering.”

Jonina is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and a Co-Founder of Lancaster Farm Sanctuary. She is involved in the collective liberation movement and identifies as an ecofeminist and a Sentientist.

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast.

Lancasterfarmsanctuary.org
@joninaturzi

I hate bricks

I’m a Sentientist because: ethics.
@JacksoneraMaria

I have one challenge as a moral being, to draw a line, in pencil, between what is a someone and what is a something. Along that messy line, the more certain I am that another is a someone, the less like an object, and the more like an equal subject I must treat them.

@EightTwo

Jessica Pierce (born October 21, 1965) is an American bioethicist and writer. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School. She has been writing and lecturing about the moral contours of human-animal relationships for over 15 years and is a leading scholar in animal ethics and environmental bioethics. She has published 11 books, including The Last Walk and Run, Spot, Run, as well as hundreds of scholarly and popular articles. Her work has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. She writes a regular blog for Psychology Today called All Dogs Go to Heaven. You can find out more about Jessica at jessicapierce.net. Her most recent book, co-authored with Marc Bekoff, is A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without People (Princeton University Press) will be released in October of 2021.

Jessica is vegan and has a naturalistic world-view, although remains open minded about and is influenced by eastern philosophy.  

In Jessica’s Sentientist Conversation with me (also here on podcast), she says “Compassion needs to be grounded in reality”.

jessicapierce.net
Jessica on Wikipedia

I hold to a moral framework that considers desires the basic unit of moral consideration. All sentient beings have desires, so it’s a natural fit for my moral theory.

Because Humanism isn’t good enough when it tolerates the tremendous moral injustices caused by speciesism today.

Lynda is an anthrozoologist, sociologist and philosopher who teaches sociology in Scottish Further Education. She is also a musician, songwriter, writer and artist. Lynda is Editor-in-Chief of the Student Journal of Vegan Sociology. She is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview.

Lynda’s Sentientist Conversation with me on the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast.

Lynda’s recent paper in the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, “The Peppa Pig Paradox”
@LMKorimboccus
korimboccus.com

Love the belief that ALL sentient beings have emotions.

Those who are able to suffer ought be granted moral consideration.

@aokellermann

Colleen on Instagram