Crystal is a veterinary practitioner, a journalist and an activist. She is the co-founder of Our Honor, a charity aiming to create an organized network of veterinary professionals who are able to challenge unethical institutionalised systems and amplify the voices of those who have been marginalised.
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “who matters?”
Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube.
We discuss:
00:00 Welcome
- "I'd love for these sorts of conversations to be had in #veterinary schools"
- "Should all vets maybe adopt a #Sentientism philosophy?"
03:21 Crystal's Intro
- "A veterinarian who kind of recently joined the animal rights movement"
- "This movement has kind of taken over my whole life"
- Full-time veterinary practice & founding Our Honor
- Empowering vets to "speak their conscience & confront systems of violence"
- Countering bullying & retaliation
- Compassionate Bay working on Californian legislation
- The California fur ban & global impact
- "It's quite astonishing - the resistance in the veterinary community to animal rights"
- The founding of veterinary practice in animal exploitation
- "They actively keep out anybody with an animal rights agenda from entering the profession"
06:36 What's Real?
- Growing up in an agnostic family on a farm
- Celebrating Christmas
- "What are you, Christian or Jewish?... like those were the only two options"
- Asking what happens when chicks die... "their soul goes to heaven"
- Young people's encounters with death "shocking & terrifying" "but I don't have that same sense of trauma from it... they're being released from this faulty body"
- "I have a very scientific mindset"
- Reading the Bible... being fascinated
- Arguing about organ donation
- Weddings: "the wife had to obey & submit... that didn't seem like something I could jump on board with"
- @ellendegeneres #ellendegeneres coming out & being attacked by religious homophobes
- Religion: maintaining hierarchy & power structures vs. people treating each other better
- "What if agnostics & atheists organised themselves - would they end up trying to oppress others?"
- "There are some big unanswered questions... why am I here... where does consciousness come from? Once you die, lights out... really?"
- "...consciousness is a supernatural thing? I don't know"
- Ontological & methodological / epistemological #naturalism
- "All models are wrong but some are useful"
- Sentience vs. consciousness
- Panpsychism & Luke Roelofs episode...
...and much more. Full show notes at Sentientism.info.
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"Reductionism is well-named. It reduces what you can do." - Michael Levin - Sentientism 199
"We need to imagine a different world" - Emilia Leese - author and host of Think Like a Vegan - Sentientism 198
Hip Hop is Going Green - Keith Tucker of Hip Hop is Green - Sentientism 197
Nigerian Food Revolution - Hakeem Jimo of Veggie Victory and ProVeg Nigeria - Sentientism 196
Consciousness Live! - with skateboarding philosopher Richard Brown - Sentientism 195
A Truly Humane Education - Laura Chepner - The Vegan Society's Education Officer - Sentientism 194
Imagining Ethical Schools - Sentientism 193
Is Veganic the Future of Farming? "We grow plants using plants" - Jimmy Videle - Sentientism 192
Half-Earth Socialism - Troy Vettese - Sentientism 191
"Your Neighbour Kills Puppies" - Tom Harris - Activist, Artist & Author - Sentientism 190
"A new world of animal justice" - Sabine Brels of World Animal Justice - Sentientism 189
Talking to Humanists about Sentientism - Cross-post bonus from Podcast for Inquiry - Sentientism 188
"What if we saw ourselves as species diplomats?" - David Peña-Guzmán of Overthink and SFSU - Sentientism 187
Could animal farming be good for the animals? The Logic of the Larder - with Nick Pendergrast - Cross-post bonus episode from 3CR's Freedom of Species radio show and podcast - Sentientism 186
"If you combine rationality and compassion you have the essence" - Jonathan Leighton of OPIS - Sentientism 185
Is veganism a moral obligation? Ghostless Machine cross-post bonus - Sentientism 184
Don't underestimate your influence! - Chris Bryant of Bryant Research - Sentientism 183
160: "Mother Cow, Mother India" - Yamini Narayanan - International Development A/Prof - Sentientism
Waking Cosmos - a cross-post bonus episode - Sentientism 182
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