Do slaughterhouse videos influence you?

Do slaughterhouse videos change your opinion of how animals should be treated? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about undercover investigations into how animals are slaughtered for food. Have you been influenced by amateur videos and how? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. There have been efforts in many states to make these videos illegal. What do these videos reveal about how we treat animals? And should they be legislated? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Tom Laskawy, a contributing writer on food and agriculture for Grist Magazine

Nathan Runkle, the founder and executive director of Mercy For Animals

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Are animals organizing resistance to humans?

When confined animals trample their trainers or escape from their cages, are they accidents? Or are they resisting? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Jason Hribal, author of Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance. He argues that confined animals rebel with intent and purpose on a daily basis. Chimps escape their cages, circus elephants attack their trainers, tigers refuse to perform. Is this evidence of organized resistance? Is there a difference between human and animal resistance? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Jason Hribal, author of Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance

Colleen Kinzey, general curator at the Oakland Zoo

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How can we keep California's oceans safe for whales?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the struggles whales are facing on the Pacific coast. At least five dead whales have been sighted or have washed ashore on Northern California beaches since late July. Researchers say abundant swarms of krill and an increase in ship strikes are to blame. What can we do to reduce ship collisions and prevent more deaths? Join us live at 11 or send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How do we raise public consciousness about the threats to these remarkable mammals? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jackie Dragon, director of the Marine Sanctuaries Program with Pacific Environment

John Calambokidis, marine mammal biologist with Cascadia Research

Jodi Frediani, wildlife photographer

Roger Bland, professor of physics at SF State and whale communications researcher

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How can we save our planet's animal species from extinction?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about which of the world's animals are endangered and why, and whether we can do anything to pull them back from the brink. One in four mammals, one in eight birds, and one third of all amphibians are at risk of extinction. How many animals have we already lost? How is that affecting the food chain, and ultimately, us? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Are extinctions inevitable? What are we doing to stop them? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Caroline Fraser, author of Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution

Noah Greenwald, director of the Endangered Species Program with the Center for Biological Diversity

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What Can Polar Bears Tell Us?

What does the rapidly transforming world of the polar bear tell us about the state of the earth? On the next Your Call, we'll air a conversation Rose Aguilar had with Richard Ellis, author of On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear. In the past twenty years alone, the world population of polar bears has shrunk by half. Today they number just 22,000. What can we do to safeguard their future? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Richard Ellis, one of America's leading marine conservationists, is generally recognized as the foremost painter of marine natural history subjects in the world.

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Your Call 080509 Can a documentary save thousands of dolphins from slaughter?

Can a documentary save thousands of dolphins from slaughter? On the next Your Call we will speak with Louie Psihoyos, director of the new documentary The Cove. The Cove reveals an annual slaughter of tens of thousands of dolphins in a small town in Japan. It won the audience award at Sundance in 2009 and followed Psihoyos' extreme efforts to film a slaughter the Japanese government wanted to keep hidden. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you doing to save dolphins? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Louie Psihoyos

Director of the Cove, winner of the audience award at Sundance in 2009. Psihoyos was a photographer for National Geographic for 18 years and his photography has appeared in Fortune, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine and Rock and Ice.

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Your Call 061608 Rough times at the S.F. Zoo

What is happening at the San Francisco Zoo? On the Next Your Call, well have a conversation about future plans for the Zoo. The San Francisco Zoological Society oversees zoo operations for the city and San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly recently introduced a resolution to turn the 100-acre facility into a rescue house for domestic and exotic animals. What changes would you like to see? And what do you want from the zoo? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:

Les Schobert worked in zoos for more than 30 years, including as General Curator of the Los Angeles Zoo and the North Carolina Zoo.

Deniz Bolbol, spokesperson for In Defense of Animals.

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Your Call 022708 Puppy Love -- Is The Bay Area's Love For Our Pets A Sign Of A Just Society Or A Decadent One?

Is the Bay Area's love for their pets a sign that we're moving towards a better society? Where are the limits of our love affair with our furred, feathered and scaled friends. Is $3,000 for Fido's chemotherapy defensible when so many people could be saved with that same money spent on anti-malarial pills or mosquito nets? When we take on the responsibility for the life of a living being, where should we draw the line on what we owe them and how do we know if we've gone too far? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Chris Bobonich in Stanford
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University where he teaches courses on ethics. Prof. Bobonich is also proud owner/guardian of two dogs.

Claudia Kawczynska in San Francisco
Editor of the Berkeley based The Bark magazine, which touts itself as the voice of modern dog culture. She joins us in our San Francisco studio.

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