How I Learned to Love Shrimp
Episodes
Toby Schiønning on "fair cop" and a new model for corporate campaigning
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Thorbjørn Schiønning, also known as Toby, who is the Director of Communications and Campaigns, and co-founder of Anima Internation...
Seth Green on why reducing meat consumption is hard and what actually works
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, I spoke with Seth Ariel Green, a research scientist at the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab at Stanford university. He recently published...
2025 Highlights: All the best bits from How I Learned To Love Shrimp
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re bringing you a special highlights episode! It’s a roundup of some of the most interesting conversations we had in 2025. They include:...
Dawn Neo on the 4+ billion hens in cages in Asia and how we can help them
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn was one of the first people in Asia working on cage-free reforms – she started working on Asian farm animal welfare 10 years ago, often as on...
Vicky Bond on what it’s really like to lead in animal advocacy
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vicky Bond has done lots of impressive stuff in her career – she started working as a vet and later ended up running a 100+ person organisation, The...
Sjir Hoeijmakers on a small commitment that will help millions of animals
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're talking about a topic that's really important to me personally: donating and effective giving. Specifically, why donating 10% of...
David Cole on what we can learn from the marriage equality and gun rights movements
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Cole is a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, a former national leg...
Penny Tehilah on uniting “welfarists” and “abolitionists” through pressure campaigns
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Penny, the Executive Director of Animal Activism Collective, has helped bring hundreds of new activists into the grassroots animal movement, as well a...
Lewis Bollard on the strategies that win, the traps to avoid, and why.
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lewis Bollard should be a familiar name for those trying to improve the lives of farmed animals. For almost 10 years, he’s been running the farm ani...
Cass Sunstein on why people self-silence about animal welfare
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cass Sunstein has one of the most impressive track records out there. He’s the author of the social change books Nudge and How Change Happens, a Har...
Thom Norman on whether diet change is a counterproductive ask (and what we could do instead)
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are never-ending conversations in the animal advocacy movement about whether diet change is an effective ask for the public. Today, we speak wit...
Alice Di Concetto on why EU animal welfare reforms failed (and what we can do next)
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The EU is one of the most important institutions in the world. They had amazingly ambitious plans to transform the lives of the billions of farmed ani...
James on Changed My Mind, talking about disruptive protests and social movements
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re sharing a different kind of episode. Not an episode of How I Learned to Love Shrimp but an appearance that I, James, made on another po...
Katie Cantrell on shifting millions of meals to plant-based
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is an age-old debate within animal advocacy on the importance of educating the public. Is it simply enough to tell people about the harms of ind...
50th Episode Special: 5 leaders on key changes and opportunities in the animal movement
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To mark our 50th episode, we're bringing you something special: Five movement leaders talking about some of the biggest developments for animals ...
Kelvey Vander Hart on appealing to wide range of political and religious beliefs
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kelvey Vander Hart from the Wilberforce Institute joins us to share her approach to animal advocacy from a politically right-of-center view and how he...
David Kay on the emerging cultivated meat industry
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Kay shares his experience as the first employee at Upside Foods, offering a deep dive into the cultivated meat industry's challenges, succe...
Julia Reinelt on why supporting parents is integral to the success and sustainability of our work
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A critical look at the entwined relationship between parenthood and the animal advocacy movement. Julia Reinelt shares her insights on how organisatio...
Aarti Bhavana on mental health and keeping companies accountable to their commitments
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses the intersection of mental health and animal advocacy, highlighting the critical need for self-care among advocates. Aarti Bhav...
Haven King-Nobles on why high agency is critical for entrepreneurship
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Haven King Nobles brings us a really refreshing topic this week as we explore high agency and the importance of this particular trait when it comes to...
Ben Newman on campaigning against the RSPCA and the role of welfare labels
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Newman has had a colourful past few years, being one of Animal Rising’s co-directors and being arrested multiple times for various bits of direc...
Almira Tanner & Aidan Kankyoku on their grassroots ballot initiatives and how to lose forward
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an enlightening conversation with Aidan from Pro Animal Future and Almira from Direct Action Everywhere. A really interesting episode abo...
Jesse Marks on becoming a major grant maker, The Navigation Fund and corporate campaigning
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Marks is the newly appointed Farm Animal Welfare Program Officer for The Navigation Fund, a new major funder in the anti-factory farming space. ...
Joyce Tischler: 45 years in animal law
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Known affectionately as the mother of animal law, this weeks guest Joyce Tischler has over 45 years of experience advocating for animal rights through...
Tom Harris on the SHAC campaign and the significance of grassroots advocacy
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are not many people who have spent time in prison for their commitment to help animals, but Tom Harris is one of them. We spoke with Tom about h...
Jakub Stencel on defining and maintaining organisational culture
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jakub Stencel is the recently appointed interim director of Anima International. A refreshingly candid conversation about organisational culture, tran...
Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl on winning the largest government investment in plant-based foods
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rune-Christoffer is an impressive person. In addition to being almost 10ft tall, he led the Vegetarian Society of Denmark’s efforts in getting the D...
Giulia Malerbi on banning octopus farming globally
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Giulia Malerbi is attempting to prevent octopus from being intensively farmed for food. As head of Global policy at The Aquatic Life Institute, Giulia...
Wu Hung on how Buddhism has influenced his 30 years of activism for animals in Taiwan
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wu Hung trained as a monk before his journey into animal advocacy began and it is these teachings in the ‘inconsistencies of life’ that led him ...
Léo Le Ster on creativity in campaigning
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Léo Le Ster is a campaigner at L214, a French NGO focused on helping farm animals. Léo talks to us about L214’s creative campaigning tactics and t...
Co-hosts Amy & James on a summary of our best bits and a brief hiatus
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this short 10 minute clip we announce a brief hiatus and use this time to chat through some episodes we want to highlight which we recommend checki...
Mahi Klosterhalfen on progressive strategies for animals in Germany and the importance of sharing mistakes
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mahi Klosterhalfen from Albert Schweitzer Foundation brings us exciting progress for animals in Germany. Mahi walks us through his work on cage-free, ...
Tania Luna on the importance of employee health and well being for animal advocates
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tania Luna brings us a wealth of knowledge this week as she walks us through the best working practices of organisations seeking to support animals th...
Leah Garcés and Sharon Núñez: Timeless lessons from 40+ years of animal advocacy
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An absolute treat of an episode this week as we were asked to interview long-time advocates Leah Garcés and Sharon Núñez, live from the Animal and ...
Doug Waley on the lives of farmed fish and how we can help them
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Long overdue conversation on the important topic of fish this week with the lead for fish at Eurogroup for Animals, Doug Waley. Doug’s expertise lie...
10 Years Since Veganuary: Co-founders Matthew and Jane reflecting on the past and envisioning the future
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew and Jane co-founded the online campaign Veganuary in 2013, which has encouraged millions of people across the globe to try being vegan for the...
Sofia Balderson on how rejection can help you grow as an advocate
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sofia Balderson is the co-founder of Hive, formerly known as Impactful Animal Advocacy, an organisation that aims to improve coordination and collabor...
Ignacia Uribe on some tough decisions nonprofit leaders have to make
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Short but sweet episode this week from Ignacia, author of a recently released book, CEO of a leading organisation in Latin America and mother to two s...
Bob Fischer: The case for including insects in our animal advocacy
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Fischer is the Senior Research Manager at Rethink Priorities and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University.Can insects feel pain...
Kristie Middleton on why engineering breakthroughs are essential for low-cost plant-based alternatives
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kristie Middleton is vice president of business development for Rebellyous Foods where she and her team help institutions add more plant-based optio...
Jayasimha Nuggehalli on working collaboratively with the animal agriculture industry to help animals
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jaya is a seasoned operational executive with a rich history of promoting animal welfare in the food retail sector. As the Co-founder and Chief Progra...
Lauren Mee on the career landscape for helping animals
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Mee is the CEO & Co-founder of Animal Advocacy Careers, an organisation that tries to match mission-aligned talent to opportunities that ac...
Aaron Ross on how to stay motivated and keep fighting for animals for 20+ years
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Ross has spent over 20 years working for farmed animals. His relentless dedication to this cause has seen him co-found two major organisations, ...
Tomasz Herok on working undercover in factory farms
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Description: Tomasz Herok recently spent over 5 months working undercover on British factory farms, as part of an investigation by Open Cages, the UK ...
Simon Newstead on developing alternatives to animal protein
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Newstead, entrepreneur turned impact investor, is a founding co-partner of Better Bite Ventures who back food-tech founders in Asia.In this epis...
Wanyi Zeng on building the farmed animal movement in Southeast Asia
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Wanyi Zeng, Executive Director of Welfare Matters, an organisation that is focused on building capacity for the farmed an...
Stien Van Der Ploeg on finding the most effective animal charities
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stien is the executive director of Animal Charity Evaluators, also known as ACE. Stien, wants to help people help animals and ACE tries to do that by ...
Monica Chen on theories of change, collaboration and leadership within the animal advocacy movement.
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we speak with Monica Chen, the Executive Director of New Roots Institute, formerly Factory Farming Awareness Coalition. We speak about several...
Cameron Meyer Shorb making the case for wild animals and why we should care about their suffering.
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron is the executive director of Wild Animal Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of animals by accelerating the growth of wil...
Josh Balk on using shareholder activism to win change from the world’s largest food companies
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Josh Balk who is the co-founder and CEO of The Accountability Board. Previously, he was vice president of farm animal p...
Aurelia Adhiambo on the animal advocacy landscape in Africa
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aurelia is the Africa co-ordinator for the Open Wing Alliance where she supports African organisations with their cage-free campaigning efforts. In t...
Ines Kostic on using politics to help animals
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Give us feedback on the podcast via this form! It should take just a few minutes and it would really help us improve the show. Thank you in advance, w...
Neil Dullaghan on the importance of influencing EU policy and other important research topics
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Dullaghan is a Senior Research Manager in the animal welfare department at Rethink Priorities. Neil also holds a PhD in Political Science and is ...
Karolina Sarek on why you should start a new charity to help animals, and how Charity Entrepreneurship can help you do it
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we spoke to Karolina from Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) about the new animal charities they want to incubate in their next program (s...
Amanda Hungerford on Open Philanthropy's funding for farmed animal welfare
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We interviewed Amanda Hungerford, Farm Animal Welfare Program Officer at Open Philanthropy. Open Philanthropy is one of the largest funders of farmed ...
Andrés Jimenez Zorilla on Shrimp Welfare Project and why we should care about shrimp
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are celebrating our 10th podcast episode - Yay! To celebrate, we interviewed Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla from the Shrimp Welfare Initiative who inspi...
Nikunj Sharma on the animal advocacy movement in India and how to successfully expand organisations internationally
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Nikunj Sharma, the CEO of Mercy for Animals India. We spoke about:The work of Mercy for Animals in India, and their victo...
Carolina Galvani on growing Sinergia Animal in The Global South and the optimism and self compassion that drives her work.
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Carolina is the founder and Executive Director of Sinergia Animal, an Animal Charity Evaluators’ StandOut charity working in nine countries of...
karol orzechowski on animal research and the importance of effectively communicating data to support your goals.
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
karol is the Content Director for Faunalytics who are dedicated to helping animal advocates improve the effectiveness and impact of their work through...
Emre Kaplan on starting the first farmed animal focussed organisation in Turkey
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emre Kaplan is the Executive Director at Farmed Animal Protection Association in Turkey, the first farmed animal focussed charity in Turkey. In this ...
Edie Bowles on utilising the law to support the protection of animals
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Edie is the Managing Director and a Solicitor at Advocates for Animals, the first UK law firm dedicated to animal protection.In this episode, we chat ...
Eva Hamer on how the animal advocacy movement can improve its messaging and win over the public
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eva is a co-founder and Operations Lead of Pax Fauna, a nonprofit that seeks to revitalize the grassroots animal advocacy movement through conducting ...
Silvano Lieger on a nationwide ballot initiative to end factory farming
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Silvano Lieger is the Co-Managing Director of Sentience, a political animal rights and animal welfare organisation based in Switzerland. In September ...
David Coman-Hidy on welfare vs abolitionism and promising strategies to help animals
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Coman-Hidy is former President of The Humane League, one of the largest farm animal advocacy organisations in the world. He now works as a Partn...
Introducing: How I Learned to Love Shrimp
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to How I Learned to Love Shrimp, a podcast about (potentially) effective ways to help animals!In the episode, we (Amy and James) introduce the...