The ACLU wants Chicago to stop installing new cameras to the city’s surveillance network because it’s an invasion of privacy and there is a  potential for wrongful conduct. Adam Schwartz with the ACLU joins us. Then later, Mike Mease with the Buffalo Field Campaign tells us why a judge’s ruling  to continue the slaughter of Bison who roam Yellowstone is not welcomed.

The Smithsonian’s Mark Moffett has been called the  “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” and he takes us on an exciting  journey in which we find that ants have invented highways and infrastructure, traffic rules, voting and market economies, livestock domestication and large-scale agriculture, slavery, warfare and terrorism, and even smart public health policies years before humans came on the scene in Adventure Among Ants.

All people who love animals can agree with author, Wesley J. Smith that human beings owe animals respect, kindness, and humane care. But he argues in A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy, that our obligation to humanity matters more, and that granting rights to animals would inevitably diminish human dignity.

CAL State University professor and author James William Gibson talks about environmental conflicts in A Reenchanted World.

Ex-vegan, Lierre Keith gets hit with pies for writing The Vegan Myth and later Randy Serraglio talks about the endangered species condoms campaign and how it’s going.