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

Defending Animal Protection Laws: Legislative Strategies Against Big Ag Pushback

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

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this collaborative episode with Animal Policy Alliance, Our Hen House explores the critical defensive battles being waged in state legislatures to protect animals from harmful agricultural industry bills. From blocking anti-drone legislation in Missouri to defeating rabbit farming expansion in Connecticut, our guests share their strategies for legislative success despite being outspent and outmaneuvered by powerful industry interests. Successfully blocked…

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0:00.0

Welcome to our henhouse.

0:08.1

I'm Jasmine Singer.

0:09.6

I'm Marianne Sullivan.

0:11.1

We're both wearing orange today, which is kind of weird.

0:14.6

I don't feel like we ever wear orange, actually.

0:17.1

I have very few orange things.

0:19.0

Yeah.

0:19.4

No, I'm, I just quickly put the sun because I got cherries on the white shirt. Well, thank you.

0:25.9

But I'm wearing a white shirt and I ate cherries. So that was dumb. But the rest of this interview will be the opposite of dumb because we have a really exciting interview today. Before we get to that and

0:38.7

introduce our guests, just a reminder that our hen house has now been split up into multiple

0:44.1

podcasts throughout the week. So rising anxieties comes out on Tuesdays, the hen report on

0:49.5

Thursdays, and the long form interview that's this on most Fridays and the Animal Law podcast on the last

0:56.0

Friday of the month. If you quiz me about that, I will fail. So don't. And bonus content for flock

1:02.6

members comes out on Monday. So they're all on the same feed. So if that's too confusing, just

1:08.5

subscribe to the feed and you'll get them all. That's how I learned. You don't have to listen to them on those days. I actually walk into my wife's

1:14.9

office and see her watching and I'm like, oh, I guess that's the day this came out. That's how I know.

1:19.7

Are you nicer on the podcast than you actually are? 100%. You know, I also have, if you are confused, you can sign up for the feed or you could just walk into Moore's office and see what she's watching that day.

1:35.7

Yeah. Okay. Anyway, we're a podcast and we're on YouTube. Please subscribe and like wherever you listen, even though this is what we've been talking about thus far i promise it'll get

1:44.5

better and uh don't forget we're going to have a booth at tafa in new orleans this weekend

1:49.5

august first to the third so stop by and say hi to vicky there's a really cute like face circle

1:55.2

thing you can hold up over your face and it has like a fake microphone pointing to you and it says

2:00.6

change the world for animals our henhouse and you could take a fake microphone pointing to you and it says change the world for

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