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

AI, Slaughterhouse Shenanigans, and Legal Victories | Rising Anxieties

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

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Documentary, Education, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Rising Anxieties, we go on a whirlwind tour through the meat industry’s latest absurdities. From a meat industry writer’s hilariously misguided claim about “the first real science fiction movie” to the EPA’s disturbing rollback of slaughterhouse waste regulations (because nothing says “unleashing prosperity” like animal blood in the water supply), Mariann doesn’t hold back. The episode culminates…

Transcript

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0:00.0

Anxieties are rising.

0:09.0

Crazy stories this week, I have to say, and perhaps the craziest.

0:17.0

Oh, I think I'm supposed to explain what rising anxieties is.

0:25.8

You probably watch it, or listen to it before, but it's weird.

0:32.1

It used to be my reports on things of why the industry's anxieties were rising and we were winning.

0:34.4

Okay, I got a little bit more realistic.

0:40.3

And now I include things about why my anxiety is rising. And one of the things that has made my anxieties rise or my ire rise this week is this comment, which is nothing

0:47.8

to do with animals. I'm just going to start off this comment on this story. It's from this article

0:53.0

on Meeting Place by Matt Graves,

0:55.3

Artificial Intelligence Amines to an End or the End? All right, before he gets to any discussion

1:00.5

of the media history, he says that the first real, most of you are too young to remember

1:06.7

the first real science fiction movie, Stanley Kubrick's 1968 release of 2001 A Space Odyssey.

1:12.6

I am definitely not too young to remember that. But that was the first real science fiction movie.

1:19.2

Are you crazy? Oh my God. What about the day the earth stood still. Like, what about Godzilla?

1:30.0

King Kong.

1:31.9

All right, I'm looking on Google.

1:35.0

On the beach.

1:36.1

On the beach is technically, on the beach.

1:37.8

If you haven't seen it on the beach, you have to see on the beach.

1:40.2

It's about us.

1:42.4

There's millions of them.

1:47.6

They were huge in the 50s. The fly, like,

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