Welcome to a very special episode of Our Henhouse.

This is Jasmine Singer.

And this is Marianne Sullivan.

And in today's episode in which we have gathered together,

interviews and chats that we've had from our

many years on the air with our very dear friend and passionate animal advocate Sherry Colb,

who as you may know died last month. Yeah, these interviews range from our first encounter with Sherry when she came on

to talk about her book, Mind if I Order the Cheeseburger and other questions, people ask

vegans, to an interview along with Michael Dorf on their book, Beating Hearts, Abortion, and Animal

Rights, to a discussion I had with her on the Animal Law podcast about her choice to teach a law school class in animal rights rather than animal law.

And a few shorter appearances to enlighten us on specific issues.

They are all characterized by her incisive thinking, her clarity of thought, her sometimes biting sense of humor,

and fundamentally, her unrelenting advocacy for animals.

I'm not going to say that I always agreed with Sherry about everything, but I never came away

from a conversation with her without thinking more deeply and with more nuance about the topic at hand.

It's very well put. We should mention that Sherry was an extraordinary thinker and theorists on many levels.

She was valedictorian of her high school class and then valedictorian of her class at Columbia College.

After Harvard Law School, she clerked with Second Circuit Judge Wilfred Feinberg and then Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackman. She won a bunch of

teaching awards, was frequently quoted in the New York Times and elsewhere, and was a prolific

writer, including on her regular columns on verdict and Dorf on law. She was also just a really

wonderful person. In spite of her extraordinary

intelligence and accomplishments, she never talked down to anyone, and she had a truly amazing

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