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

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

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.

  1. Age Like a Yogi with Victoria Moran: Veganism, Spirituality, and Animal Rights

    2 DAYS AGO

    Age Like a Yogi with Victoria Moran: Veganism, Spirituality, and Animal Rights

    Vegan pioneer Victoria Moran discusses her new book “Age Like a Yogi” and explores how yoga’s principle of non-violence (ahimsa) connects with animal advocacy. Drawing from 40 years of activism, Victoria shares how spiritual practices can sustain long-term advocacy while preventing burnout. Key topics include: Why yoga philosophy naturally leads to veganism Using meditation to process activist trauma Connecting animal rights…

    1h 42m
  2. Animal Rights in Europe with Benny Andersson

    NOV 28

    Animal Rights in Europe with Benny Andersson

    Join Our Hen House for an illuminating conversation with Benny Andersson, CEO of Project 1882 (aka Djurens Rätt), Sweden's largest animal rights organization. Learn how this groundbreaking organization combines grassroots vegan activism with corporate outreach and legislative advocacy to create meaningful change for animals across Europe. Benny Andersson is the CEO of Project 1882, an animal rights organization based in Sweden. He became involved in the animal rights movement in the late 1990s and joined Project 1882 as a volunteer in 1997. After more than a decade of working with campaigns, vegan outreach, digital communication and fundraising, he became the CEO of Project 1882 in 2010. Before joining Project 1882 Benny worked within the banking sector and had moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, the melodic death metal capital of the world, to study history. That’s where he and a dedicated team began to reform an old and somewhat dysfunctional organization to align with the new millennium. Project 1882 has since 2013 doubled its number of donors and staff. He's also currently on the boards of Eurogroup for Animals and World Federation for Animals. Fun or not, but a fact; he daily macrodoses coffee and energy drinks and eats vegan tacos every Friday. Thanks for tuning in! If you enjoy the Our Hen House podcast, please leave us a positive review! To view the show notes with resources, visit the website at https://www.ourhenhouse.org/ep777/

    1h 24m
  3. Thanksgiving Special - Sanctuary: A Radio Play

    NOV 26

    Thanksgiving Special - Sanctuary: A Radio Play

    We are thrilled to present this very special holiday episode of Sanctuary: A Radio Play, an annual Thanksgiving tradition at Our Hen House! This special performance marks the world premiere of John Yunker’s Sanctuary at New York City’s Symphony Space during the Culture & Animals Foundation’s Compassion Arts Festival. A dark comedy by John Yunker, Sanctuary tells the story of Richard (John Frusciante) and Lisa (Mariann Sullivan), a happily married couple whose blissful retirement to small-town Oregon is thrown into disarray when Lisa suddenly decides to go vegan and insists on celebrating Thanksgiving without a turkey AND alongside her new friend and animal activist, Meg (Jasmin Singer). Husband Richard invites his unsuspecting buddy Charley (Michael Harren), who also happens to be the local exterminator, in the hopes of forcing Lisa to stick with the traditional meal. The resulting tensions soon push relationships over the edge. Sanctuary tells the story behind the struggles and joys of navigating vegan ethics around loved ones who don’t quite understand. (Sound effects are by Emmy winner Eric Milano.) Thanks for tuning in! If you enjoy the Our Hen House podcast, please leave us a positive review! To view the show notes with resources, visit the website at https://www.ourhenhouse.org/ep776-5/

    43 min
  4. Combatting Misinformation w/ Robbie Lockie

    NOV 22

    Combatting Misinformation w/ Robbie Lockie

    Misinformation, disinformation, fake news, outright lies. When it comes to the horrific harms caused by factory farms, the truth can be hard to come by. This week, we are joined by Robbie Lockie to discuss The Freedom Food Alliance, which is helping both consumers and policymakers get the real story. Robbie Lockie is the Founder and CEO of The Freedom Food Alliance, where they spearhead initiatives to combat misinformation in the food system. Through the Alliance’s flagship platform, foodfacts.org, the volunteer-led team empowers consumers with fact-checked insights on nutrition, environmental sustainability, and ethics, countering deceptive narratives in both social and mainstream media. Robbie is also the co-founder of Plant Based News, one of the most influential platforms for plant-based and sustainable living, with a community of nearly 4 million followers across social platforms and a monthly reach of 85 million people, and has also been one of the hosts of the Plant Based News Podcast. Thanks for tuning in! If you enjoy the Our Hen House podcast, please leave us a positive review! To view the show notes with resources, visit the website at https://www.ourhenhouse.org/ep776/

    1h 42m
  5. Hungry, Beautiful Animals w/ Matthew Halteman

    NOV 15

    Hungry, Beautiful Animals w/ Matthew Halteman

    Is the key to reaching more people with a vegan message to stop talking about the horrors that we want to end and start talking more about what we want to create? That’s what Matthew Halteman is aiming for with his new book Hungry, Beautiful Animals, and he joins us this week to discuss details of the book and his theory of change. Matthew C. Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. He is the author of the just-released Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, as well as Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation, and the co-editor of Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Thanks for tuning in! If you enjoy the Our Hen House podcast, please leave us a positive review! To view the show notes with resources, visit the website at https://www.ourhenhouse.org/ep775/

    1h 48m
  6. Lady Freethinker Combats Cruelty w/ Nina Jackel

    NOV 8

    Lady Freethinker Combats Cruelty w/ Nina Jackel

    From unmasking fake “rescues” on social media to getting stories placed in major media outlets, the work of Lady Freethinker tells people all over the world about some of the worst things that are happening to animals and, crucially, what they can do about it. This week we are joined by Nina Jackel to hear about her work publicizing and fighting to shut down cruelty to animals. Nina Jackel is a global activist and journalist effecting change for animals through her nonprofit media organization, Lady Freethinker, which has published thousands of news articles and petitions against animal cruelty. Nina’s work has been covered in major media outlets including The New York Times, People, Newsweek, National Geographic, The Guardian, Salon, The Daily Mail, and many others. She believes that humans can evolve for the better through reason and compassion, and feels that animal protection is among the most important social justice issues of our time. Thanks for tuning in! If you enjoy the Our Hen House podcast, please leave us a positive review! To view the show notes with resources, visit the website at https://www.ourhenhouse.org/ep774/

    1h 13m
  7. The Hen Report: "Don't ask me that. You're not going to like the answer."

    NOV 1

    The Hen Report: "Don't ask me that. You're not going to like the answer."

    Join us this week as Jasmin and Mariann discuss the latest news from the world of animal rights. Plus, we share Jasmin’s keynote address to the Rochester UN as a special treat. Thanks for tuning in! If you enjoy the Our Hen House podcast, please leave us a positive review! To view the show notes with resources, visit the website at https://www.ourhenhouse.org/ep773/

    1h 18m
  8. The Goat Conspiracy w/ Nicole Schonemann

    OCT 25

    The Goat Conspiracy w/ Nicole Schonemann

    Turning a goat dairy farm into a goat sanctuary isn’t something that happens every day. But that’s exactly what just happened in Bloomington, Indiana, and Nicole Schonemann is here to share the whole beautiful story. Nicole Schonemann is one of the four original founders of the Goat Conspiracy, a former goat dairy farm in Bloomington, Indiana, that is now a goat sanctuary. She began this journey with a very naive understanding of dairy, and, as a result, she learned that dairy, even when done as well as possible, leaves sustainability and animal welfare gaps that are impossible to close.  She and her partner thus began their own journey towards veganism, away from dairy farming, and helped to start the Goat Conspiracy Sanctuary.  In the fall of 2023, they started Planted Bloomington (a plant-based food truck and catering biz) and are now immersed in their current project of converting the former creamery into a vegan commercial kitchen. Thanks for tuning in! If you enjoy the Our Hen House podcast, please leave us a positive review! To view the show notes with resources, visit the website at https://www.ourhenhouse.org/ep772/

    1h 19m
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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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