Attorneys Will Lowrey (Animal Partisan) and Jessica Blome (Greenfire Law) join Mariann to discuss their battle to use California’s century-old animal protection laws to help dairy calves confined in tiny hutches. Despite having clear evidence that a dairy farm was violating Penal Code Section 597t by denying calves adequate exercise, they encountered a frustrating maze of procedural obstacles that prevented them from obtaining a search warrant under Section 599a.

This episode explores:

• How a 120-year-old California law requiring exercise for confined animals, including farmed animals, is being systematically unenforced
• The procedural barriers that prevent animal advocates from using existing legal tools to help farmed animals
• How courts effectively nullify animal protection laws without legislative input
• How the dairy industry confines calves in violation of California law with impunity
• The creative legal strategies being developed to overcome institutional resistance to animal protection cases

Will Lowrey is the founder and Legal Counsel for Animal Partisan, a legal advocacy organization focused on challenging unlawful conduct in animal agriculture and experimentation. Will has engaged in numerous lawsuits, as well as criminal and administrative enforcement actions against the government, industrial agriculture, and research laboratories, including cases involving federal slaughter laws, public records, false advertising, public nuisance, animal cruelty, and others. Prior to his current role, Will worked for another animal protection nonprofit where he divided his time between civil litigation and providing counsel for undercover investigations. Will currently teaches Animal Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and has also taught at Vermont Law and Graduate School and the University of St. Thomas School of Law.

Jessica Blome, a Shareholder of Greenfire Law, P.C. in Berkeley, California, is an animal, environmental, open government, and land use attorney with nearly 20 years of experience in complex litigation. Jessica represents a wide range of clients from individuals to grassroots organizations to national non-profit organizations in cases involving the status of animals, protection of wildlife, or conservation of the environment under state, federal, and tribal law.

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In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin (celebrating her birthday) and Mariann deliver a delightfully chaotic news roundup featuring animals who seem to be staging their own revolution. From escaped lab monkeys to surfboard-stealing sea otters in Santa Cruz, the duo explores these wild and emotional stories alongside significant animal rights victories. Between Broadway tangents and birthday celebrations, they share genuine excitement about California’s ban on cat declawing and Vogue’s groundbreaking decision to eliminate fur from all editorial content and advertising.

This episode explores:

• The concerning story of lab monkeys escaping after a Tulane transport truck crash, highlighting the troubling normalization of animal experimentation and ownership
• The return of bird flu affecting millions of farmed birds and spreading to wild populations and dairy cows, demonstrating the ongoing risks of industrial animal agriculture
• A celebratory look at six animal rights activists being cleared of charges after protesting at the UK’s Grand National horse race
• California’s progressive move to ban cat declawing statewide, following cities like West Hollywood in protecting feline welfare
• Vogue’s landmark decision to stop featuring fur in all content, reflecting an 85% global drop in fur production over the past decade

• • • Lab monkeys from Tulane University escape after truck crashes on I-59; 3 still on the loose
    • Escaped monkeys ‘destroyed’ after Mississippi police are mistakenly told they’re a danger
    • Bird Flu Is Back
    • Six animal rights activists cleared over Grand National protests
    • California Officially Bans Cat Declawing Unless Medically Necessary
    • Vogue To Stop Featuring Fur In All Editorial Content And Advertising
    • Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 7th-9th, 2025. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

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Thank you for listening to the Our Hen House podcast! If you enjoy our podcasts, believe in our mission to effectively mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals, find community and solace in our shows and resources, and would like to show your support for vegan indie media, please make a donation today. Contributions of any amount will go towards our fundraising goal and are hugely appreciated. Our Hen House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so it’s tax-deductible. Thank you for helping us create quality content!

Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

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This week on Rising Anxieties, Mariann Sullivan dives headfirst into the media’s convenient climate amnesia, where apparently animal agriculture’s massive emissions are just too spicy for mainstream coverage. A mere 3.8% of climate articles dare mention meat production—shocking absolutely no one who’s been paying attention. Meanwhile, the agricultural industry clutches its pearls at being called out, with one writer genuinely suggesting farmers are being unfairly “scapegoated.” Yes, really. The episode rounds out with a peek into the dairy industry’s labor woes (turns out people don’t want to work in dangerous conditions for terrible pay—who knew?) and a listeria outbreak mysteriously attributed to “pasta” despite chicken being the obvious culprit. The mental gymnastics are truly Olympic-level.

• New analysis reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture despite it contributing approximately 60% of food sector emissions
• Agricultural industry pushback claims farming is unfairly scapegoated for environmental issues while downplaying its significant climate impact
• Dairy industry faces labor shortages as workers reject demanding conditions, leading to increased push for immigrant labor solutions
• Deadly listeria outbreak linked to prepared pasta meals containing chicken has caused 20 illnesses, 19 hospitalizations, 4 deaths, and 1 fetal loss

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 7th-9th, 2025. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

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Thank you for listening to the Our Hen House podcast! If you enjoy our podcasts, believe in our mission to effectively mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals, find community and solace in our shows and resources, and would like to show your support for vegan indie media, please make a donation today. Our Hen House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so it’s tax-deductible. Thank you for helping us create quality content!

Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

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The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.

In this enlightening conversation, Mariann Sullivan speaks with Jessica Culpepper, Executive Director of FarmSTAND, about their unique approach to dismantling industrial animal agriculture through legal advocacy that unites multiple stakeholders. Culpepper shares how FarmSTAND strategically challenges the systems that enable animal exploitation by representing workers, communities, and animals simultaneously—creating powerful coalitions against corporate interests that typically divide these groups. Rather than focusing solely on the worst abuses or single issues, FarmSTAND targets the structural conditions that allow animal agriculture to operate with impunity, from corporate deception around “climate-friendly” meat to the dangerous proliferation of factory farm gas as a false climate solution.

This episode explores:

• How FarmSTAND builds collective power by bringing together animal advocates, workers, farmers, and communities to challenge the shared systems that exploit them all
• Why challenging corporate methane capture schemes (marketed as “green energy”) is crucial for preventing the entrenchment of factory farming
• The strategic approach of challenging corporate greenwashing through litigation that exposes deceptive climate claims from companies like Tyson
• How worker justice and animal protection are intrinsically linked, with worker exploitation and animal abuse being parallel outcomes of the same structural conditions
• Why transformative change requires targeting the systemic scaffolding of industrial agriculture rather than just its most visible abuses

Jessica Culpepper is the Executive Director of FarmSTAND, leading the organization’s staff and board to fight for a fair food system in courtrooms and communities. Jessica’s 16 year career has been entirely focused on legal advocacy on behalf of farmed animals and communities harmed by industrial animal agribusiness. Her fight for a fair food system began at her alma mater, Warren Wilson College, a work college with a sustainable working farm and garden. Most recently, she was the Director of the Public Justice Food Project where she grew the program from a single staff attorney to a team of eleven organizers, lawyers, and paralegals. As a lawyer, Jessica worked primarily on fighting pollution from factory farms with fenceline communities and advocating for federal and state policy reform to advance fair food systems. Jessica stays deeply tied to the fight for a fair food system in her personal life as well as chair of the board of Socially Responsible Agriculture Project and board member of Warren Wilson College. She loves cooking food from her garden and has a top secret recipe for the world’s best pumpkin pie.

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 7th-9th, 2025. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

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Thank you for listening to the Our Hen House podcast! If you enjoy our podcasts, believe in our mission to effectively mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals, find community and solace in our shows and resources, and would like to show your support for vegan indie media, please make a donation today. Our Hen House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so it’s tax-deductible. Thank you for helping us create quality content!

Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

Follow us on social media! You can find Our Hen House on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, or Bluesky.

The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.

In this thought-provoking interview, Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan speak with Liv Baker and Kristin Stewart from PAN Works about their groundbreaking “animal trusteeship” framework – a new approach that transforms how we advocate for wild animals in decision-making processes that affect their lives.

Key Points:

• Wildlife Representation Framework: Pan Works has developed an innovative animal trusteeship model that gives wild animals direct representation in environmental decision-making processes
• Legal Innovation for Animal Rights: This framework builds on pet trust statutes that created the legal precedent for animals to be recognized as trust beneficiaries rather than merely property
• Decentering Human Interests: Unlike traditional conservation approaches that prioritize human needs, animal trustees focus exclusively on representing the wellbeing and interests of specific animal populations
• Practical Application in Conservation: The National Wolf Conversation demonstrated how animal trustees can effectively represent wildlife interests in major policy discussions
• Advocacy Tool for Environmental Decision-Making: The animal trusteeship approach provides a structured, transparent method for ensuring animal perspectives are considered in public hearings and policy development

Kristin L. Stewart, JD, PhD, is an attorney, scholar, and founding board member of PAN Works, an independent think-tank dedicated to the wellbeing of animals. Her work bridges legal practice and ethical theory, with a focus on how we care for and represent animals in law and policy. Kris’s teaching includes graduate and undergraduate courses in animal law, policy, and ethics, and her writing on animal law appears in both scholarly and popular publications. She has also practiced animal law in a variety of contexts, alongside broader work in environmental law and government litigation. Her legal experience—including estate planning with pet trusts and a deep understanding of the limits of the Public Trust Doctrine—informed the co-authored article In Trust: A Framework for Animal Representation.

Dr. Liv Baker is a conservation behaviorist and expert in wild animal wellbeing. She is Chair of the Board of PAN Works, Research Director at Mahouts Elephant Foundation, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work focuses on compassionate conservation and the ways animals shape their own lives and communities.

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 7th-9th, 2025. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

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Thank you for listening to the Our Hen House podcast! If you enjoy our podcasts, believe in our mission to effectively mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals, find community and solace in our shows and resources, and would like to show your support for vegan indie media, please make a donation today. Our Hen House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so it’s tax-deductible. Thank you for helping us create quality content!

Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

Follow us on social media! You can find Our Hen House on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, or Bluesky.

The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.

In this week’s episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin and Mariann balance the melancholy of fall with a lively rundown of animal rights news. Between linguistic deep dives and Jasmin’s theatrical preparations (complete with “lozengers” of questionable etymology), the duo delivers updates that actually matter for animals. They discuss the USDA’s increasingly toothless enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act, celebrate the long-overdue closure of the notorious Miami Seaquarium, and explore promising developments in cultivated meat cat food. The hosts also reflect on how everyday institutions normalize animal exploitation for children, reminding us that the fight for animal rights extends far beyond the obvious battlegrounds.

This episode explores:

• How the USDA’s enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act has deteriorated, with warnings replacing actual penalties for violators
• The encouraging shift away from animal testing at NIH, proving that even strange political bedfellows can deliver positive outcomes
• The long-awaited closure of the Miami Seaquarium after decades of animal rights activism
• Promising developments in cultivated meat technology specifically designed for carnivorous companion animals
• How cultural institutions subtly normalize animal exploitation through children’s exhibits and displays

• • • Animal abusers are getting let off the hook. Trump and his Supreme Court are partly to blame.
    • Can Trump End This Impossibly Cruel Practice?
    • The Miami Seaquarium was once beloved. It’s shutting down after accusations of neglect.
    • Omni Pet Files First Patent for Cat Food That Blends Cultivated Meat and Plant Proteins
    • Flock members and activists extraordinaire Goose and Silvia Rodriguez have written a bilingual (English/Spanish) vegan-themed children’s book called Someone, Not Something: ALGUIEN, NO ALGO

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 7th-9th, 2025. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

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Thank you for listening to the Our Hen House podcast! If you enjoy our podcasts, believe in our mission to effectively mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals, find community and solace in our shows and resources, and would like to show your support for vegan indie media, please make a donation today. Contributions of any amount will go towards our fundraising goal and are hugely appreciated. Our Hen House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so it’s tax-deductible. Thank you for helping us create quality content!

Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

Follow us on social media! You can find Our Hen House on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or Bluesky.

The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.

In this week’s sardonic serving of Rising Anxieties, Mariann dives into the absurdist theater that is animal agriculture PR. From a tone-deaf defense of “necessary” mutilations (apparently clipping animals’ teeth is just like childproofing your home—who knew?), to some flattering paranoia about our movement’s supposed wealth and power, to the truly disturbing footage uncovered by Animal Partisan showing law enforcement conspiring with industry to shield the public from seeing dead piglets. All this plus a peek at the EU’s linguistic gymnastics to protect meat terminology from the terrifying threat of… plant-based burgers.

This episode explores:

• How the industry’s own justifications for “weird but necessary animal care practices” inadvertently make the case for abolishing animal agriculture altogether
• The revealing police body cam footage showing state troopers actively blocking journalists from documenting livestock truck crashes to protect industry interests
• The latest claims about the animal rights movement’s growing influence and coordination (we’ll take the compliment!)
• The ongoing EU battle over plant-based product terminology, with lawmakers voting to ban terms like “burger” and “sausage” for vegan alternatives
• A New York Post article calling animal advocates “loons” for supporting legislation banning retail sales of dogs, cats, and rabbits

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Thank you for listening to the Our Hen House podcast! If you enjoy our podcasts, believe in our mission to effectively mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals, find community and solace in our shows and resources, and would like to show your support for vegan indie media, please make a donation today. Our Hen House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so it’s tax-deductible. Thank you for helping us create quality content!

Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

Follow us on social media! You can find Our Hen House on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, or Bluesky.

The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.

In this powerful episode, we speak with legendary investigator Gail Eisnitz about her new memoir, Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival. Eisnitz shares her remarkable journey from HSUS writer to becoming their only female national investigator, and ultimately chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association, all while battling an undiagnosed visual processing disorder. With unflinching honesty, she recounts her decades-long fight to expose the horrors of factory farming and slaughterhouses, the challenges of getting media attention for animal suffering, and the profound personal toll this work has taken. Despite countless obstacles from industry, media gatekeepers, and law enforcement, Eisnitz’s investigations have created tangible change—including the story of Bitsy, a neglected racehorse whose photograph sparked the creation of Virginia’s first equine sanctuary.

This episode explores:

• How Eisnitz became involved in investigating slaughterhouses after responding to a whistleblower’s complaint that other organizations ignored
• The emotional repression required to document animal suffering and the personal health consequences of this work
• Why slaughterhouse workers were willing to share their experiences of being forced to commit horrific acts against animals
• The systemic failures of law enforcement and media to address factory farming abuses despite overwhelming evidence
• How litigation may be the most promising path forward for creating meaningful change for farmed animals

Gail A. Eisnitz, winner of the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Medal for outstanding achievement in animal welfare, has been working for decades to document and expose the shocking underbelly of the U.S. meat industry. She is chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association and author of the memoir, Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival. Eisnitz and her first book, Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment inside the U.S. Meat Industry, were the driving force behind a front-page exposé in the Washington Post that resulted in an annual multimillion dollar Congressional appropriation for enforcement of the Humane Slaughter Act – the first funding ever allocated for a law that had been on the books for more than forty years. Eisnitz’s work has resulted in exposés by ABC’s Good Morning America, ABC’s PrimeTime Live, and Dateline NBC, has been featured in such newspapers as the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, Texas Monthly, Denver Business Journal, Los Angeles Times, and U.S. News & World Report, and her interviews have been heard on more than 1,600 radio stations. In her new memoir, Eisnitz takes readers on a journey of self-discovery as she fights to document and expose scandalous animal abuse, all in the face of a rare visual processing disorder that she has grappled with since childhood. The disease, which was only identified in the scientific literature a mere ten years ago– was diagnosed after she began writing her memoir– and is revealed at the book’s climax.

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 7th-9th, 2025. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

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Thank you for listening to the Our Hen House podcast! If you enjoy our podcasts, believe in our mission to effectively mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals, find community and solace in our shows and resources, and would like to show your support for vegan indie media, please make a donation today. Our Hen House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so it’s tax-deductible. Thank you for helping us create quality content!

Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

Follow us on social media! You can find Our Hen House on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, or Bluesky.

The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.

In this episode of The Hen Report, Jimmy Videle joins the hens to discuss veganic farming at his Québec farm where he grows food without animal inputs, introduces his new book “Preserving Our Sacred Lands,” and shares details about the upcoming Veganic Summit (November 7-9). The hosts also cover Zoe Rosenberg’s animal rescue trial receiving coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s surprising push to phase out animal testing in government agencies.

This episode explores:

• The principles of veganic farming, which uses “plants to grow plants” instead of animal-derived fertilizers while promoting biodiversity
• Details about the free online Veganic Summit featuring 14+ presenters from around the world sharing techniques for beginners and experienced growers
• Jimmy’s naturalist work and efforts to protect biodiversity through his writing and land conservation
• Zoe Rosenberg’s trial and the legal questions surrounding animal rescue from cruelty and death
• The potential political implications of RFK Jr.’s animal testing phase-out initiative at HHS

• • • Veganic Summit Online event coming November 7-9, 2025
    • North American Veganic Certification Standard
    • Berkeley grad’s chicken ‘rescue’ trial begins in Sonoma County with question of intent vs. crime
    • Animal welfare meets MAHA

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 7th-9th, 2025. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

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Thank you for listening to the Our Hen House podcast! If you enjoy our podcasts, believe in our mission to effectively mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals, find community and solace in our shows and resources, and would like to show your support for vegan indie media, please make a donation today. Contributions of any amount will go towards our fundraising goal and are hugely appreciated. Our Hen House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so it’s tax-deductible. Thank you for helping us create quality content!

Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

Follow us on social media! You can find Our Hen House on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or Bluesky.

The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.

In this revealing episode of Rising Anxieties, Mariann Sullivan peels back the paper-thin veneer of PR to expose what’s really making Big Meat break into a sweat. From industry giants simultaneously fighting and adopting plant-based alternatives to the hilariously transparent attempts to convince consumers that dairy cows don’t actually care about their calves (spoiler alert: they absolutely do), we’re treated to a masterclass in cognitive dissonance that would make George Orwell slow-clap in appreciation. When farmers earnestly declare “bye boys” to the steers they’re shipping to slaughter while claiming deep love for these animals, you can almost hear the industry’s collective anxiety rising to a fever pitch.

This episode explores:

• How corporate animal welfare campaigns are making meaningful progress despite industry pushback and denial
• Why meat giant JBS is launching plant-based brands in Europe while abandoning similar efforts in the US
• How weight-loss drugs like Ozempic represent an existential threat to meat consumption patterns
• The increasingly desperate industry narratives attempting to justify separating dairy calves from their mothers
• The revealing language farmers use when discussing animals destined for slaughter, exposing the disconnect between claimed care and actual practice

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Thank you for listening to the Our Hen House podcast! If you enjoy our podcasts, believe in our mission to effectively mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals, find community and solace in our shows and resources, and would like to show your support for vegan indie media, please make a donation today. Our Hen House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so it’s tax-deductible. Thank you for helping us create quality content!

Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

Follow us on social media! You can find Our Hen House on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, or Bluesky.

The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.