Carrie Packwood Freeman How We Talk About Animals
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
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🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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"We're all just participating in a culture that really isn't of our choice… we just grew up in this culture, but we can start questioning things and just not be afraid to say that we love other animals that they're astounding, and that we care about the environment and we want to be less impactful… you just have to be willing to say things that maybe other people haven't heard you say yet."
-Carrie P. Freeman
Carrie Packwood Freeman is an associate professor of communications at Georgia State University. She's a critical cultural studies media researcher and has published in over 20 scholarly books and journals.
She's also the co-author of Animals and Media, a style guideline web resource for media professionals.
Animals and Media and In Defense of Animals recently partnered to call for an update to the Associated Press Stylebook's recommendation on the use of personal pronouns for nonhuman animals, so that animals in news stories would be identified as, "she/her/hers and he/him/his when their sex is known, regardless of species, and the gender-neutral they, or he/she, or his/hers when their sex is unknown."
The letter is signed by Jane Goodall as well as 80 other leaders, scholars, and advocates fighting for a better world for animals.
Carrie is here to talk about why it's so important that we change the way that we talk about animals in the media, in entertainment and in regular everyday conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Species, Tonight, species unite. |
| 0:15.0 | If there's some reality TV show where like, |
| 0:18.0 | there's a bunch of people trying to survive on an island, |
| 0:21.0 | you don't want to be the vegan on that island because you're definitely going to get kicked off probably in the second episode because everyone's going to be like nope because you won't take one for the team because you're not going to kill that possum. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is species unite. We have a favor to ask. With Novograt's, this is Species Unite. |
| 0:43.6 | We have a favor to ask. |
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| 1:02.1 | This conversation is with Carrie Packard Freeman. |
| 1:05.0 | Carrie is an associate professor of communications at Georgia State University. |
| 1:10.0 | She's a critical cultural studies media researcher and is published in over 20 scholarly books and journals. |
| 1:17.0 | And she is co-author of Animals and Media, a style guideline web resource for media professionals. |
| 1:24.0 | Carrie and I met because we're part of a group calling for an update |
| 1:28.0 | to the Associated Press Style Book, recommending the use of personal pronouns for non-human animals. |
| 1:35.0 | Carrie is here today to talk about what that means, |
| 1:38.0 | why it's so important that we change the way that we talk about animals in the press, in the media, |
| 1:44.5 | and in regular everyday conversation. Carrie, thank you so much for being here today. |
| 2:05.0 | Thanks for having me. I'm really pleased to be here. I love this podcast. |
| 2:09.0 | There's so many things I want to talk about, but before we get there, I would like to go back and learn a little bit about you because you've |
| 2:17.2 | been in animal rights movement since the 90s you've been you're old school and like how did this start did you grow up around animals to were you |
| 2:27.7 | vegan young all of that sounds awesome and I wish I was one of those children that you hear about that tells their parents like forget it we're not eating meat anymore because we're not putting animals in the oven |
| 2:38.0 | But I know I wasn't that nice as a kid I mean I liked animals, but I didn't make the connection and my parents |
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