Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan · ourhenhouse.org

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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Rescuing Baby Goats is a Felony?: Attorney Taj Uppal on Facing Prison for Saving Two Lives
2d ago · 53:08
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 Vera Goat Dairy, a California factory farm supplying Meyenberg Goat Milk to retailers like Whole Foods and Walmart. Uppal walks through the investigation that preceded the rescue, his arrest by Kings County Sheriff’s deputies, and the…
The Hen Report: “Total Blind Spot” | Calling Out Anti-Vegan Bias
3d ago · 41:55
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 Diet’s Chelsea Fagan, who took aim at vegans while discussing consumerism in France versus the US. Together they dig into why comment sections don’t represent an entire community, how veganism keeps getting conflated with extreme “purity…
Factory Farms Are Fine, Says Industry That Created Factory Farms | Rising Anxieties
5d ago · 29:12
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 chlorine bath nobody has to disclose — welcome to another week of animal agriculture explaining itself to itself. Industry playbook, exposed by industry: A pork trade publication frets that animal rights groups are getting “sophisticated” at litigation…
Uncovering Miranda’s Rescue: Jennifer Raymond on the Humboldt County Dog “Rescue” Scandal
9d ago · 44:40
This week on Our Hen House, Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan sit down with longtime animal activist Jennifer Raymond — founder of Humboldt Critters Without Litters and author of The Peaceful Palette — to hear the harrowing, firsthand account of how she helped expose Miranda’s Rescue, a Humboldt County, California “rescue” that took in hundreds of shelter dogs each year while…
The Hen Report: “Giant Mainstream Numbers” | Animal Rights Weekly News
10d ago · 33:03
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 beagle rescue, and the growing bipartisan side-eye toward animal testing — plus a Nonhuman Rights Project update and a preview of the next Animal Law Podcast episode. The pork industry tried (again) to torch state animal…
Undercover Videos, Vegan Supermarket Fantasies, and A Water Fight Nobody Asked For | Rising Anxieties
12d ago · 27:38
Animal abuse industry PR groups are suddenly very worried about undercover investigations targeting retailers instead of farms, a Brazilian trade show imagined a vegan supermarket with no bread (checks notes: vegan bread abounds), and a Wisconsin dairy program is teaching kids about cows via “virtual escape rooms.” Also: Congress “fixed” school milk access, USDA quietly un-fixed it, and somehow bird flu…
Beyond Factory Farming: Björn Ólafsson on the Psychology of Meat Reduction and Plant-Based Nudges
23d ago · 1:06:56
Animal advocacy researcher Björn Ólafsson (More Than Meats The Eye, Better Food Foundation, Spain’s Animal Welfare Observatory) joins Jasmin and Mariann to unpack new UK survey data on public attitudes toward factory farming, why cognitive dissonance keeps animal lovers eating meat, and the behavioral science tactics — from “tasty titles” to plant-based defaults — that are quietly reshaping what people order.…
The Hen Report: “I Don’t Want To” | Vegan Allies, Factory Farming & Animal Advocacy
24d ago · 40:18
This week’s Hen Report dives into what makes an ally “natural” for animal advocacy, questioning whether meat reducers, cruelty-free (but non-vegan) consumers, or regenerative farmers truly share the movement’s goals. Jasmin and Mariann also break down troubling news about organic chicken production, the slow progress of cultivated meat, and the power of language in shifting public perception of animal agriculture. Are…
ShopKind, Temple Grandin’s PR Spin, and the Industry’s Never-Ending Excuses | Rising Anxieties
26d ago · 20:48
This week’s Rising Anxieties discusses ASPCA’s “humane” shopping guide which has the industry in quite a tizzy, dismantles Temple Grandin’s feel-good slaughterhouse “culture” story, exposes the industry squeezing yet another product out of exploited cows, shreds the myth that farmers are the real victims of subsidy policy, and tracks the fights against factory farming still being waged in the Senate and…
Building the Field: Inside the Animal Law Practice Association with Cheryl Leahy
1mo ago · 1:11:16
This week, Mariann Sullivan sits down with Cheryl Leahy, director of the newly launched Animal Law Practice Association (ALPA) at the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, to unpack how the free program is training and connecting lawyers who want to build careers protecting animals. Cheryl explains ALPA’s two core pillars — a growing library of practical, topic-specific legal…
The Hen Report: “Is There Anything Left To Say?” | Octopus Farm Canceled, Brazil Bans Foie Gras & More Animal Rights News
1mo ago · 28:06
This week, Jasmin and Mariann dig into a wave of encouraging news for the plant-based movement alongside a sobering look at threats to wildlife protections. They cover new data showing plant-based sales climbing across Europe as prices and taste improve, the FDA’s struggle to define “ultra-processed foods” (and its decision not to ban them), a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s rollback…
No More Goat Snuggles: Animal Ag’s Week of Bad-Faith Excuses | Rising Anxieties
1mo ago · 24:49
The industry’s talking points are getting more absurd by the week: a farm blames “vegan extremists” for ending baby goat cuddling sessions, a horse-carriage op-ed acts like $65K/year is a job worth preserving at all costs, and the EU touts a “protein plan” that funnels plant protein straight back into animal feed. On this episode of Rising Anxieties, we call out…
The Korean Vegan on Culture, Compassion, and Cooking: Joanne Molinaro’s Path to Success
1mo ago · 58:41
Bestselling author and James Beard Award winner Joanne Molinaro, AKA The Korean Vegan, joins Our Hen House to discuss her new book, Korean Vegan: Homemade. She traces her journey from a health-driven plant-based diet to animal-centered veganism, and unpacks how she navigates preserving Korean culinary tradition while reshaping it around compassion. The conversation ranges from confronting cultural assumptions about meat to…
The Hen Report: “Animal Activism Matters” | Vegan News, Animal Welfare & Factory Farming Updates
1mo ago · 34:11
This week, Jasmin and Mariann dig into a wave of encouraging news for the plant-based movement alongside a sobering look at threats to wildlife protections. They cover new data showing plant-based sales climbing across Europe as prices and taste improve, the FDA’s struggle to define “ultra-processed foods” (and its decision not to ban them), a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s rollback…
Litigation Anxiety, Oregon’s IP 28, and Cattle That Are Bred to Shut Up | Rising Anxieties
1mo ago · 28:00
This week Mariann tears through the industry press so you don’t have to: an Animal Ag Alliance exec frets about “brand-busting” without ever explaining what it means, Oregon’s IP 28 gets branded an extremist plot for daring to remove cruelty-law loopholes, a horse vet insists carriage horses basically drive themselves, and ranchers wax poetic about breeding cattle too docile to complain.…
Rocky Road to Redemption: Rowdy Girl’s Renee King-Sonnen on Faith, Sobriety, and Going Vegan
1mo ago · 53:38
Renee King-Sonnen, founder of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary and author of the new memoir Rowdy Girl: Confessions of a Vegan Cattle Rancher, returns to Our Hen House to share the unlikely journey behind her long-awaited book. From battling addiction to falling in love with a rescued calf named Rowdy Girl, Renee opens up about the spiritual awakening that transformed her from a…
Cow Trip: How a Dairy Calf Rescue Road Trip Became a Viral Documentary
1mo ago · 51:51
In this episode of Our Hen House, filmmaker Joanna Zelman and her father, retired emergency medicine physician Dr. Jared Zelman, join hosts Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan to discuss their viral short documentary Cow Trip, which follows a chaotic road trip rescuing two dairy calves from Vermont to a Maryland farm sanctuary. The conversation dives into life inside the dairy industry,…
The Hen Report: “Everything Changes, Yet Nothing Changes” | Horse Carriage Ban, Vegan Food Policy & Animal Testing News
1mo ago · 34:15
Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan catch up on New York City happenings and dig into major animal advocacy news, from a vegan appointee shaping the city’s food policy to the fight to finally end horse-drawn carriages after a tragic event. They also cover a legal win for student activists, RFK Jr.’s surprisingly bipartisan push to reduce animal testing, and a call…
Lawfare, Loopholes, and Landed Gentry: The Ag Industry’s Anxiety Playbook | Rising Anxieties
1mo ago · 24:16
This episode dives into the Ridglan Farms activist prosecutions, USDA’s new “lawfare portal” (yes, the federal government apparently needs help fighting itself), CAFO propaganda dressed up as science, and fresh data showing just how misled the public really is about caged hens and industry-funded meat studies. Wisconsin prosecutors pile more charges on Ridglan Farms activists, while the actual documented animal cruelty…
Protecting the Porcupine Mountains: Artists Sol Anzorena and Tom Grotewohl on Fighting the Copperwood Mine
1mo ago · 59:49
Artists, authors, and activists Sol Anzorena and Tom Grotewohl join Our Hen House to discuss their grassroots campaign, Protect the Porkies, fighting a proposed copper mine that threatens Michigan’s Porcupine Mountains, Lake Superior, and the North Country Trail. They break down the ecological risks of toxic mine waste, light and noise pollution on wildlife, and how their small local movement grew…
The Hen Report: “It Doesn’t Seem Fair” | Animal Cruelty Laws, SCOTUS & Constitutional Rights for Animals
1mo ago · 42:50
This episode of The Hen Report features Mariann Sullivan and constitutional law professor Michael Dorf, filling in for Jasmin, for a wide-ranging conversation connecting Supreme Court doctrine to the fight for animal rights. Dorf draws sharp parallels between the catch-22 legal standards trapping activists like Wayne Hsiung and the contradictory hoops required for habeas corpus relief, arguing both function as reassuring…
Chickens Sue Back, Canada Fumbles, and Cows Are Overheating | Rising Anxieties
2mo ago · 18:11
This week on Rising Anxieties, Mariann Sullivan digs into a genuinely encouraging legal development (yes, really), some deeply depressing policy news from our neighbors to the north, a dairy industry propaganda machine that apparently involves a live cow, and a livestock industry reminder that “precious cargo” has nothing to do with feelings. The usual cocktail of outrage, dark humor, and the…
Wayne Hsiung’s Landmark Animal Rescue Appeal Wins Some, Loses Some: What It Means for the Right to Rescue
2mo ago · 1:20:34
Animal law attorney and activist Wayne Hsiung joins host Mariann Sullivan along with attorneys Chris Carraway and Steffen Seitz of the University of Denver’s Animal Activist Legal Defense Project to break down the California Court of Appeals decision in Hsiung’s criminal case—a pivotal ruling that overturned two of three trespass convictions stemming from actions at Sunrise Farms and Reichardt Duck Farm,…
The Hen Report: “Depending on Who You Ask” | NAMs, Animal-Free Science & the Future of Lab Research
2mo ago · 53:45
In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan welcome flock member and postdoctoral researcher Neha Nataraj from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Neha attended the Johns Hopkins/PCRM Summer Immersion on Innovative Approaches in Science — a free, four-day conference focused on reducing and replacing animal use in biomedical research and toxicology —…
Eggs, Ballots, and Manure Pits: Animal Agriculture’s Worst Week (Again) | Rising Anxieties
2mo ago · 22:13
In this episode of Rising Anxieties, Mariann Sullivan tears through the week’s most revealing industry news — from egg producers finally grasping that animal advocates want them gone, to Oregon’s audacious PEACE Act inching toward the ballot, to the toxic gas hazards quietly killing dairy workers. She also covers the Cargill lockout rocking Colorado’s beef industry, the federal government’s creative reinterpretation…

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Episodes 300

Rescuing Baby Goats is a Felony?: Attorney Taj Uppal on Facing Prison for Saving Two Lives

The Hen Report: “Total Blind Spot” | Calling Out Anti-Vegan Bias

Factory Farms Are Fine, Says Industry That Created Factory Farms | Rising Anxieties

Uncovering Miranda’s Rescue: Jennifer Raymond on the Humboldt County Dog “Rescue” Scandal

The Hen Report: “Giant Mainstream Numbers” | Animal Rights Weekly News

Undercover Videos, Vegan Supermarket Fantasies, and A Water Fight Nobody Asked For | Rising Anxieties

Beyond Factory Farming: Björn Ólafsson on the Psychology of Meat Reduction and Plant-Based Nudges

The Hen Report: “I Don’t Want To” | Vegan Allies, Factory Farming & Animal Advocacy

ShopKind, Temple Grandin’s PR Spin, and the Industry’s Never-Ending Excuses | Rising Anxieties

Building the Field: Inside the Animal Law Practice Association with Cheryl Leahy

The Hen Report: “Is There Anything Left To Say?” | Octopus Farm Canceled, Brazil Bans Foie Gras & More Animal Rights News

No More Goat Snuggles: Animal Ag’s Week of Bad-Faith Excuses | Rising Anxieties

The Korean Vegan on Culture, Compassion, and Cooking: Joanne Molinaro’s Path to Success

The Hen Report: “Animal Activism Matters” | Vegan News, Animal Welfare & Factory Farming Updates

Litigation Anxiety, Oregon’s IP 28, and Cattle That Are Bred to Shut Up | Rising Anxieties

Rocky Road to Redemption: Rowdy Girl’s Renee King-Sonnen on Faith, Sobriety, and Going Vegan

Cow Trip: How a Dairy Calf Rescue Road Trip Became a Viral Documentary

The Hen Report: “Everything Changes, Yet Nothing Changes” | Horse Carriage Ban, Vegan Food Policy & Animal Testing News

Lawfare, Loopholes, and Landed Gentry: The Ag Industry’s Anxiety Playbook | Rising Anxieties

Protecting the Porcupine Mountains: Artists Sol Anzorena and Tom Grotewohl on Fighting the Copperwood Mine

The Hen Report: “It Doesn’t Seem Fair” | Animal Cruelty Laws, SCOTUS & Constitutional Rights for Animals

Chickens Sue Back, Canada Fumbles, and Cows Are Overheating | Rising Anxieties

Wayne Hsiung’s Landmark Animal Rescue Appeal Wins Some, Loses Some: What It Means for the Right to Rescue

The Hen Report: “Depending on Who You Ask” | NAMs, Animal-Free Science & the Future of Lab Research

Eggs, Ballots, and Manure Pits: Animal Agriculture’s Worst Week (Again) | Rising Anxieties

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The Hen Report: “Total Blind Spot” | Calling Out Anti-Vegan Bias

Factory Farms Are Fine, Says Industry That Created Factory Farms | Rising Anxieties

Uncovering Miranda’s Rescue: Jennifer Raymond on the Humboldt County Dog “Rescue” Scandal

The Hen Report: “Giant Mainstream Numbers” | Animal Rights Weekly News

Undercover Videos, Vegan Supermarket Fantasies, and A Water Fight Nobody Asked For | Rising Anxieties

Beyond Factory Farming: Björn Ólafsson on the Psychology of Meat Reduction and Plant-Based Nudges

The Hen Report: “I Don’t Want To” | Vegan Allies, Factory Farming & Animal Advocacy

ShopKind, Temple Grandin’s PR Spin, and the Industry’s Never-Ending Excuses | Rising Anxieties

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The Korean Vegan on Culture, Compassion, and Cooking: Joanne Molinaro’s Path to Success

The Hen Report: “Animal Activism Matters” | Vegan News, Animal Welfare & Factory Farming Updates

Litigation Anxiety, Oregon’s IP 28, and Cattle That Are Bred to Shut Up | Rising Anxieties

Rocky Road to Redemption: Rowdy Girl’s Renee King-Sonnen on Faith, Sobriety, and Going Vegan

Cow Trip: How a Dairy Calf Rescue Road Trip Became a Viral Documentary

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Chickens Sue Back, Canada Fumbles, and Cows Are Overheating | Rising Anxieties

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