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

Bird Flu Bonanza and Beef in the Classroom | Rising Anxieties

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

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

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

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rising Anxieties, Mariann Sullivan dives beak-first into the taxpayer-funded fever dream that is the animal agriculture industry’s response to bird flu. From senators begging for vaccine handouts to pork producers suddenly discovering biosecurity (better late than never!), it’s a masterclass in how industrial farming turns every crisis into a government funding opportunity. Meanwhile, the beef industry is busy…

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0:00.0

Anxieties are rising. You know, an awful lot of my rising anxieties

0:11.6

articles this week, and I guess every week is about our tax money at work. And, you know,

0:19.7

it makes my anxieties rise probably more than theirs, too.

0:23.7

But the fact that they want tax money spent is a sign that, you know, they have problems

0:30.1

and that they are completely dependent. It's just a welfare industry. Wellfare industry.

0:36.2

Anyway, my first article today is from Ag Daily.

0:39.7

Senators urge USDA to prepare HPA vaccine plan for cattle.

0:45.4

A lot of what's going on right now continues to be bird flu, which we call bird flu,

0:50.4

but let's face it, everybody's got it.

0:52.1

This is about cows.

0:53.5

They're getting increasingly

0:54.6

worried. U.S. senators Mike Rounds and Martin Heinrich sent a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture

1:01.0

Brooks Rollins. You know, if I sent a letter, it might not get read, but I bet there's will.

1:06.7

Urging her to develop an emergency plan to vaccinate cattle against highly pathogenic avian influenza.

1:14.3

It's not like the industry would develop such a plan.

1:17.3

No, of course, it's the government that has to do that.

1:20.5

Nationwide, the virus has affected, what do they mean by affected, over 166 billion birds

1:26.8

across 50 states in Puerto Rico and in 671 countries affected.

1:32.0

That means it's killed them.

1:33.2

That's a fairly big effect.

1:35.0

Also, of course, now it's pretty widespread in dairy cattle herds.

1:38.9

And over 1,000 detections have occurred in 17 states.

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