Happy New Year, everybody.

Welcome to the Our Henhouse interview.

I'm Mary Ann Sullivan.

Jasmine isn't here today.

But I am so pleased to welcome Matthew Dominguez.

He's the U.S. Director of Compassion in World Farming.

And we're going to, I'm really hoping for a good

conversation here about some fundamental issues, like strategies to end factory farming, strategies

to end all animal consumption, strategies for us to save the world. What works and what doesn't?

I'm assuming that Matthew has all the answers to these.

So listen up.

Well, it's wonderful to be on.

Oh, thank you. It's wonderful to have you. And just a quick reminder, before I get to that, about the Our Head Nass podcast.

Rising Anxies comes out on Tuesdays, the hand report on Thursdays, and this, the long-form interview on Fridays. The bonus for flock members comes out on Mondays, and we're a podcast and we're on YouTube, which we say every week, but you know, maybe some of you aren't paying attention, so I'm saying it again. But please, wherever you listen, please subscribe and hit like. As you know, from everybody you listen to in any space, it really does make a difference. Matthew, welcome. Well, thank you for having me. It's a real honor to be on the show. I've been a listener for many, many years, and it's great to be here. Well, that is, that is thrilling to hear. I can't tell you how often. I mean, it's not all the time. I don't want to make it sound like that. As soon as we stop recording, people say, oh, I'm on Avid Lister. So thank you for saying it right up front. Of course. Actually, I'm sure all of our, a lot of things that people come on to talk about, a lot of our listeners are pretty familiar with because they're pretty savvy about the movement, but I'm not sure they are that familiar with the work of compassion and world farming because, of course, it's been a huge force in the UK for many years and made a lot of progress there, but it's not as well known in the U.S. So can you just start with a summary of what it is and what it does internationally, but also, of course,

specifically in the U.S. where you're now heading up the deal.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah, it's compassionate world farming is, a lot of folks don't know that it is the largest and

the oldest farm animal organization on the planet.

Started in 1967 by a farmer who had a choice. It is the largest and the oldest farm animal organization on the planet.

Started in 1967 by a farmer who had a choice to either go down the path of becoming a factory farmer himself or to go and fight for animals. And he and his wife chose to fight for animals, which is I can't think of a better mission than to have an organization that they actually came

from the roots of a farmer who chose to do the right thing.

And at Compassion, the U.S. office has been open for roughly 10 years, a little more than 10 years.

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