Descent Into Hogwood with Juliet Gellatley

Species

Macken Murphy

Anthropology, Social Sciences, Species, Science, Animals, Nature

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Juliet Gellatley is the founder and director of Viva!, one of the most effective animal rights charities in the world. In this conversation, she sat down with Macken to speak about her organization’s new film, “Hogwood,” an exposé of a British pig farm that put the corruption of related institutions on full display. In this conversation, Juliet details the heroism and horrors of her experiences with Hogwood, outlines the greatest joys and worst miseries in a pig’s life, and explains the state of farming in the 21st century.

Hogwood is available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and Google Play. You can find Viva! here: https://www.viva.org.uk/

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0:00.0	You'll notice that today's episode is marked explicit.
0:05.0	And this isn't because of explicit language, but because in this conversation, we openly discuss scenes of evil, so despicable, that I want to make sure I give as much warning as possible.
0:20.5	Seriously, if you're a kid who listens to this show, please do not listen to this episode
0:27.9	without parental permission.
0:31.1	However bad you think this is going to get, it's worse.
0:37.7	If you choose to stay with us, you'll hear about cruelty to animals so awful it makes dogfighting
0:46.3	look like fetch.
0:48.7	You'll hear about violence so gruesome that if it were put into a horror movie, the film would be
0:57.4	banned from theaters. But today's episode isn't about a horror movie. It's about a documentary.
1:08.6	Hogwood is a film about the triumph of activists in a years-long fight against a farm named Hogwood,
1:17.7	which was backed by the media, the industry, and in name only, welfare organizations.
1:23.9	It won the British documentary film festival and the London Independent Film Awards.
1:29.7	And today I spoke with the head of the organization that created this film,
1:34.7	Juliet Galatly, the founder of Viva, one of the world's largest and most effective animal rights organizations.
1:42.5	You definitely don't need to have seen the documentary in order to
1:46.1	listen to this conversation, which is wider ranging, but you can find where to watch by going
1:51.5	to hogwoodmovie.com, linked along with Viva, in the show description. And now, into
1:57.9	Hogwood with Juliet Galatley. Good luck.
2:05.5	Are you ready to get started? Yeah, I'm ready when you are.
2:08.9	Excellent. So I guess the first thing that I would want you to do for my listeners is describe
2:15.9	what your experience was and the experience of your volunteers
2:20.7	and activists when you walked on to Hogwood.
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