Dr Josh Milburn

Josh Milburn is a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy. He is an expert on animals in ethics and politics, including questions about food and questions about warfare. He is the author of the 2022 book Just Fodder: The Ethics of Feeding Animals and the 2023 book Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully. He is currently researching, among other things, the ethics of our treatment of animals in war. He is also the host of the animal studies podcast Knowing Animals.

Josh is happy to speak to the media about the ethics and politics of the way we treat animals and the impacts of our activities on animals, especially in relation to food and war. Previous media interviews and their topics include appearances in the New York Times discussing legally protected identities, The Guardian on the impact of war on wild animals, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service on the legal protection of whales, BBC Radio 5 on the military use of dolphins, New Scientist on milk made without cows, HuffPost on veganism in politics, and Newsweek on de-extinction technologies.