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The Disclosure Podcast

Inside the Legal Fight Against Animal Farming. An Animal Law Solicitor Explains How the Law Is Being Used Against Animal Farming | In conversation with Edie Bowles

The Disclosure Podcast

Ed Winters

Ethics, Politics, Whole Foods, Society & Culture, Education, Animals, Morality, Veganism, Philosophy, Vegan, Plant Based Diet

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Since recording this episode, the UK government has presented its new Animal Welfare Strategy. One of the things that is set to be banned is the boiling alive of lobsters and crabs. This an issue that Edie Bowles and her team have been campaigning on, taking the legal fight to the UK government and compelling them to change the welfare laws around crustaceans. Can the law take on animal farming? In this episode, I sit down with animal law solicitor Edie Bowles who explains how the law i...

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The Welcome to the Disclosure podcast. If you enjoy this episode and the work that I'm doing here,

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I hope you find this episode interesting and informative and thank you for listening.

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Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of The Disclosure Podcast.

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On today's episode, I'm thrilled to be joined by Edie Bulls.

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Edie is the co-founder of Advocates for Animals, which is the UK's first animal protection

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law firm, and is the founder of the Animal Law Foundation,

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which is a charity that advocates and researchers for better enforcement and interpretation

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of animal protection laws. Edie started her career in intellectual property law before

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marrying her passion for law with her passion for animal protection and before working

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in the current organisations that she currently works for, EDI was a solicitor for several years

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with cruelty free international. So, Edie, thank you so much for joining me today on the podcast.

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Thank you very much for having me. Yeah, my absolute pleasure. We've known each other for

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a number of years. I think we met Baddick in 2018, was it? Yeah, I absolute pleasure. We've known each other for for a number of years. I think

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we met Badak in 2018, was it? Yeah, I mean, you're always to be very kind of instrumental in

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the journey because we had, of course, our launch party for one of my ventures advocates for

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