Ep 28: Undercover Activism with Rich Hardy

The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast

Evanna Lynch

Chickpeeps, Lynch, Health & Fitness, Animals, Veganism, Vegan, Lovegood, Luna, Harrypotter, Plantbased, Evanna, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What’s it like to go behind the barbed wire fence and and see what happens within the walls of a factory farm? How does it feel to witness a lone raccoon caught in a trap and not be able to rescue it? This week Momo and Evy get to chat with passionate and prolific undercover activist, Rich Hardy, about his career exposing animal cruelty in 28 countries that has changed minds and laws for animals all over the world. Rich speaks frankly, and for the time time publicly, about the personal sacrifices he’s made to undertake such difficult work and about the changes he’s noticed in public opinion and the vegan movement in his 33 years as a vegan. Also on this episode…

Rich explains how he gave up his dreams of becoming a football player to be a full-time activist.
How changing public opinion is worrying the factory farming system.
The personal compromises activists make when they go undercover to infiltrate the system.
Rich describes his experience working as an undercover fur trapper for two winters and the suffering of one lone raccoon he witnessed that stays with him today.
Does undercover activism make you cynical about humanity or more compassionate? Rich weighs in about what he’s seen of human nature.
Longevity as an undercover activist: we ask Rich what qualities an individual most possess to withstand this gruelling but vital work.
“We can all tell the story of animal suffering”. How there is room for every personality type in the animal rights movement.
Where does Rich think the vegan movement will be in 5 years.
Listener, Ari’s post about healing her relationship with food.
Read more about the issues discussed in Ari’s email about the environment: here and here.

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0:00.0	Do do, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.
0:09.3	Eat your veggies, not your friends. It's not hard to be begin.
0:14.6	The chickpeepie.
0:18.4	Hello, chickpeeps. Welcome to episode 28. Momoko here, I will be hosting today and I am joined by
0:25.0	Evie. Hi. So this week we are going to be interviewing an undercover investigator. So this topic
0:31.6	may seem a little bit heavy for some of our listeners, but we really believe it's important to cover
0:36.6	since there is so much
0:38.0	positivity being generated from this kind of activism. And we also know that so many of you are
0:43.2	interested in getting more involved with hands on activism, where you're able to directly work
0:48.2	with the animals. And lots of you are curious about what this kind of work involves. So we are going
0:53.8	to be interviewing
0:54.7	my friend Rich Hardy. Rich, thank you so much for coming on to speak to us. That's great. Yeah,
1:00.4	looking forward to having a chat. Absolutely. So listeners, Rich Hardy has been going undercover for
1:05.9	animals since 1999. He's undertaken covert film assignments in 28 countries, helping to support the work
1:13.5	of 20 international animal protection organisations.
1:17.3	His animal cruelty exposés have helped launch campaigns, write news headlines, change laws and
1:23.1	inspire people to take action for animals.
1:26.3	A vegan of 33 years, he stays sane with the help of his
1:29.8	girlfriend, a fellow campaigner for farm animals, caring for the 17 animals they've rescued together
1:35.9	from shelters, factory farms and slaughterhouses. This is the first time that Rich has been in a
1:41.6	position to be able to speak about his work publicly. So we are very,
1:45.3	very lucky to have him here on the pod this week. So Rich, you've been vegan. As I said, for 33 years,
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