Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation
By Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan
Categories: Society & Culture, Documentary, Education, Self-Improvement, News, News Commentary
Join hosts Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan for intimate conversations with leading vegan activists, animal rights advocates, and changemakers transforming our world. Each week, Our Hen House brings you inspiring stories from the frontlines of animal liberation, practical activism strategies, and the latest developments in the fight for animal rights. Whether you’re a seasoned activist or newly vegan, discover how to make a difference for animals through engaging interviews and actionable insights.
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Recent episodes
- Our Hen House 1,000th Episode Special: 17 Years of Animal Rights Predictions, Language Shifts, and Activist Reflections
This special edition of Our Hen House celebrates an extraordinary milestone — 1,000 episodes and nearly 17 years of chronicling the animal protection movement. Hosts Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan take a walk down memory lane, with help from Tom Conger of Stray Dog, who analyzed nearly the…
- The Hen Report: “It’s a Big Deal” | Foie Gras Bans, Pit Bull Reform & the Fight Against Marshall BioResources
In this episode of The Hen Report, hosts Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan celebrate post-election results and discuss what the political shift could mean for animal advocacy and public policy. They break down major animal rights wins, including foie gras bans in Denver and Washington, D.C…
- Rising Anxieties in Animal Politics and Industry
The meat industry is sweating, and honestly, it’s about time. This week we cover a staggering array of stories showing just how rattled animal agriculture has become — from a desperate columnist panicking over $400 million in animal rights funding, to the USDA casually funneling $5.5 billion in…
- The Federal Government vs. Prop 12: Can the Egg Products Inspection Act Preempt Cage-Free Egg Laws?
In this episode of The Animal Law Podcast, Mariann Sullivan speaks with Rebecca Cary and Melissa Alpert, attorneys at Humane World for Animals, about the federal government’s unprecedented lawsuits challenging California’s Proposition 12 and Michigan’s cage-free egg law. The government argues that…
- The 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 emceeing a fundraiser for My Dog Is My Home—an organization helping people experiencing houselessness keep their companion animals—and reflects on…
- Animal 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 pastoral paradises, a Tyson mobile barn designed to gaslight children, the UK’s surprising willingness to ditch meat for food security, and a New York…
- Animal 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 Series of Opinionated Animals (Bancroft Press). Michelle shares how a childhood bond with a rescue horse named Shire set her on the path…
- The 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 Ridglan Farms beagle rescue court updates, Wyoming becoming the sixth no-kill state, the Trump administration’s animal welfare agenda (and its…
- The 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 busy “euthanizing” wolves in the most creative misuse of that word yet, and 2,400 pigs died in a barn fire that somehow produced “no…
- Grassroots 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 convinced Brittany Ferries to end live animal exports between Ireland and France. Cat breaks down the history of live export protests in the UK…
- The 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 an end under Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration. They trace the decades-long grassroots fight to ban carriage horses in NYC—from protest…
- Grassroots 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 Communications at Vegan Outreach and co-lead of Knox Vegan, to talk about grassroots vegan activism that works. They dig into Vegan…
- The 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 messaging that stops short of asking people to eat fewer animals. Inspired by Mariann’s Substack piece Expanding the Tent and Jasmin’s…
- Farm 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 their unwanted male calves into a billion-dollar beef sideline (20% of the US beef supply and counting), and why the H-2A visa program is a…
- “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 her new memoir, Marshmallows Are Their Favorite: Undercover at a Primate Lab. Over a two-decade career spanning more than 100…
- The 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 (MAAT) — a 207-mile trek from Albany to Marshall Bioresources, the country’s largest breeder of dogs for animal experimentation. The…
- Wool, 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 UK newspaper is very upset that PETA has the audacity to care about sheep. Meanwhile, a Smithfield plant worker becomes the fourth death…
- The 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 what he calls the most extreme attack on the Endangered Species Act in its history. They break down two unprecedented actions by the Trump…
- The 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 protection movement between some large organizations and some grassroots activists. They examine how some major groups are currently framing…
- Assault 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 Post wants you to feel bad about a foie gras ban. The FAA is investigating the drone pilots who keep catching ranchers in the act of abusing…
- VeriBark’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 help pet parents understand what their dogs are really communicating. The conversation digs into the science behind animal body language, the…
- The 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 — a 207-mile trek across upstate New York from Albany to Marshall BioResources, the country’s largest breeder of dogs, cats, ferrets, and…
- Billion-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 loves to misquote, and a meat-trade columnist practically begging Big Beef to invent lab-grown protein before someone beats them to it. The $1.07 billion…
- Sanctuaries 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, to explore how sanctuaries function as spaces of transformation. Simone shares the sanctuary’s origin story, its evolving relationship with…
- 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 of the Performing Animal Rights podcast and newsletter, to explore how theater, puppetry, drag, and creative practice can break through…
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