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Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “Based On Fact” | Free Luna the Pig, Ghent Goes Plant-Based & Cracking Down on Dog Fighting
In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin and Mariann cover a packed slate of animal advocacy news and community stories. Jasmin shares highlights from…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseAnimal Politics and AI | Rising Anxieties
This week, we cover a parasitic worm inching through Texas via a dead elk on a game ranch, ChatGPT’s suspicious habit of painting factory farms as…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseAnimal Rescue and Storytelling as Activism: Michelle Lerner on Her New Book, “A Series of Opinionated Animals”
In this episode of the Our Hen House interview, Jasmin and Mariann sit down with animal lawyer, rescuer, and activist Michelle Lerner to discuss her new book A…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “The Gateway Species” | Ridglan Beagle Rescue, No-Kill States & Farmed Animals
In this episode of The Hen Report from Our Hen House, Jasmin and Mariann cover major developments in animal welfare and the vegan movement, including the…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Meat Industry Loses Its DC Friends, Gen Z Ghosts Pork, and Big Beef’s Climate Cover-Up | Rising Anxieties
This week, Mariann finds herself in a suspiciously good mood despite a roster of horrors: ag-friendly lawmakers are departing Washington, Western states are…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseGrassroots Win for Animals: How Southampton Animal Action Stopped Brittany Ferries’ Live Animal Exports
In this episode of Our Hen House, Mariann Sullivan speaks with Cat Phipps of Southampton Animal Action about their remarkable grassroots campaign that…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “This Is Big” | NYC Bans Horse Carriages
In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin and Mariann discuss groundbreaking news: New York City’s horse-drawn carriage industry may finally be coming to…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseGrassroots Vegan Activism That Works: Inside Vegan Outreach’s Vegan Chef Challenge
In this episode of Our Hen House, Mariann and Jasmin sit down with Alex Bury, Vice President of Development at Vegan Outreach, and Stacy Shepanek, Director of…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “Do Something Substantive” | Why Anti-Factory Farming Needs Diet Change
In this episode of The Hen Report from Our Hen House, Jasmin and Mariann dig into the tension within the animal protection movement over anti-factory farming…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseFarm Action, Dairy’s Beef Hustle, H-2A Visas, and Dead Wolves | Rising Anxieties
Mariann Sullivan breaks down why the meat industry is panicking about animal rights groups making common cause with small farmers, how dairy operations turned…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen House“Marshmallows Are Their Favorite”: Inside a Primate Lab with Undercover Investigator Lindsay Oliver
Award-winning undercover investigator Lindsay Oliver joins Jasmin and Mariann to discuss her groundbreaking work inside a national primate research center and…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: Inside the 207-Mile March to Abolish Animal Testing
In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin and Mariann sit down with Gretchen Primack and Ella Magers to debrief the historic March to Abolish Animal Testing…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseWool, Wealth, and Walking Out: Why the Animal Industry Is Having a Terrible Week | Rising Anxieties
Marshall BioResources is big mad about Our Hen House, the Animal Agriculture Alliance thinks animal activists are secretly swimming in a billion dollars, and a…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Trump Administration Is Dismantling the Endangered Species Act
In this episode of The Animal Law Podcast, Mariann Sullivan speaks with Eric Glitzenstein, Director of Litigation at the Center for Biological Diversity, about…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “The Ultimate Goal” | Vegan Advocacy, Factory Farming & the Future of “The Movement”
In this episode of The Hen Report from Our Hen House, hosts Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan unpack the growing differences in approaches within the animal…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseAssault at the Runway: PETA, Drones, and Other Things the Industry Hates | Rising Anxieties
This week, Mariann Sullivan is in a mood — and who can blame her? A fashion industry executive body-slams PETA protesters at a runway show, and The New York…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseVeriBark’s Marie Gibbons on Decoding Dog Body Language — And What’s Next for Farmed Animals
Marie Gibbons, co-founder and CEO of VeriBark, joins Our Hen House to explain how her AI-powered app analyzes over 130 dog body signals and vocalizations to…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “Give Us That Last Mile” | March to Abolish Animal Testing
This week on The Hen Report, we talk with poet and activist Gretchen Primack and Sexy Fit Vegan founder Ella Magers about the March to Abolish Animal Testing —…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseBillion-Dollar Bacon Panic: Big Meat’s Paranoid New Enemies List | Rising Anxieties
Rising Anxieties digs into the pork lobby’s freshly inflated “$1.07 billion animal rights conspiracy” report , the Gallup poll agribusiness…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseSanctuaries as “Movement Infrastructure”: Simone Scampoli on Building Multispecies Community at Capra Libera Tutti
In this Our Hen House interview, Mariann Sullivan sits down with Simone Scampoli, executive director of Capra Libera Tutti animal sanctuary near Rome, Italy…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “It’s Horror” | Inside UW-Madison’s Secret Pig Gas Chamber
On this episode of The Hen Report, Mariann talks with recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Ryan Blum about his solo, year-in-the-making undercover…
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Theater as Activism: Dr. Ben Hunt on Performance, Puppetry, and Animal Liberation
In this episode of the Our Hen House Interview, Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan sit down with performance researcher and theater maker Dr. Ben Hunt, founder…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “More Than Infrastructure” | Animal Rights Movement, Vegan Sanctuaries & Legal Wins
On this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan dig into a mix of movement news and reflection. They share encouraging data on the growth…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThis Week in Animal Ag Spin: Prices, Politics, and Propaganda | Rising Anxieties
Turns out when food prices spike, the animal ag industry’s solution is just cheaper spin. This episode digs into the meat lobby’s sudden…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseRescuing Baby Goats is a Felony?: Attorney Taj Uppal on Facing Prison for Saving Two Lives
This month’s Animal Law Podcast features attorney Taj Uppal, who was arrested and charged with felony grand theft after rescuing two sick baby goats from…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “Total Blind Spot” | Calling Out Anti-Vegan Bias
In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin Singer is joined by Marielle Vigneau-Britt of Totally Forkable to unpack a viral video from The Financial…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseFactory Farms Are Fine, Says Industry That Created Factory Farms | Rising Anxieties
The pork lobby thinks conferences make activists scary, the dairy industry wants everyone drinking more milk they didn’t ask for, and chicken gets a…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseUncovering Miranda’s Rescue: Jennifer Raymond on the Humboldt County Dog “Rescue” Scandal
This week on Our Hen House, Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan sit down with longtime animal activist Jennifer Raymond — founder of Humboldt Critters Without…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “Giant Mainstream Numbers” | Animal Rights Weekly News
This episode covers the Save Our Bacon Act getting shut down (again) in the Farm Bill, the delightfully weird strange-bedfellows saga around the Ridglan Farms…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseUndercover Videos, Vegan Supermarket Fantasies, and A Water Fight Nobody Asked For | Rising Anxieties
Animal abuse industry PR groups are suddenly very worried about undercover investigations targeting retailers instead of farms, a Brazilian trade show imagined…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseBeyond Factory Farming: Björn Ólafsson on the Psychology of Meat Reduction and Plant-Based Nudges
Animal advocacy researcher Björn Ólafsson (More Than Meats The Eye, Better Food Foundation, Spain’s Animal Welfare Observatory) joins Jasmin and Mariann…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseThe Hen Report: “I Don’t Want To” | Vegan Allies, Factory Farming & Animal Advocacy
This week’s Hen Report dives into what makes an ally “natural” for animal advocacy, questioning whether meat reducers, cruelty-free (but…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseShopKind, Temple Grandin’s PR Spin, and the Industry’s Never-Ending Excuses | Rising Anxieties
This week’s Rising Anxieties discusses ASPCA’s “humane” shopping guide which has the industry in quite a tizzy, dismantles Temple…
Newsletter — Daily – Our Hen HouseBuilding the Field: Inside the Animal Law Practice Association with Cheryl Leahy
This week, Mariann Sullivan sits down with Cheryl Leahy, director of the newly launched Animal Law Practice Association (ALPA) at the Brooks Institute for…