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

Episode 541: Merissa Underwood, the Vegan Miss Montana

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

🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

-Mariann examines the animal rights themes in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and Jasmin tries to get a question about veganism answered by Tara Brach. We also continue our Supporting Vegan Businesses program by shouting out The Striped Cat Metalworks, All Y'alls Foods, and Bitchin' Sauce. -Jasmin interviews Merissa Underwood, who was named Miss Montana 2020 and caused a stir when she used her platform to talk about veganism and environmentalism. Merissa tells the story of how she introduced these topics into the Miss Montana competition, the campaign of social media harrassment waged against her because of her outspoken veganism, and how her experience in Future Farmers of America shaped her views about animals (23:20) -Mariann brings us the latest Rising Anxieties from the industrial animal ag world. (1:01:20)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Marianne Sullivan. And this is Jasmine Singer. We're so thrilled that you're joining us this week because we're so bored. And now we get to talk to you guys. Jasmine also will be speaking with not other than Miss Montana, USA.

0:24.3

Very fancy, Jasmine.

0:26.0

She's also known as Marissa Underwood.

0:28.0

And she really is Miss Montana and she's vegan and an animal rights advocate.

0:33.6

And that's pretty strange, Montana and vegan and animal rights advocate.

0:36.8

It just shows you that I am naive about the state of the world because I have trouble putting those things together.

0:42.6

Very cool interview.

0:44.2

Yeah, it's really cool.

0:45.2

It's very different.

0:46.4

And there's going to be some things that will pop up that people will want to continue to discuss because Marissa has an interesting background of why she came into

0:55.2

veganism and let's just say it wasn't the same path as a lot of people. This week on the

1:00.9

bonus segment, which is available to all flock members, Marissa will be joining me again, but this

1:06.1

time for a little up close and personal extra. So if you're a member, you will get an email that the Tuesday

1:12.9

after this podcast episode goes up with a link or you can find it on the flock Facebook group.

1:17.4

And if you're not a member of the flock, and if you can afford it, you can join for $10 a month

1:22.0

at our henhouse.org slash donate. And also as a special thank you to our flock and community, we're doing these

1:29.2

really cool flock Friday Zoom calls at 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific on Fridays. They're

1:35.4

Zoom calls that allow us to get really personal with the flock members and also discuss some of the

1:40.7

topics we're struggling with or want to know more about. So this past week,

1:44.8

we talked about vegan baking, vegan kids, and a lot more with Veducated filmmaker, Marisa Miller-Wilfson.

1:51.9

So if you're a member of the flock, check out the flock Facebook group for updates or write to us at

1:56.0

info at our henhouse.org. And if you're not a member of the flock yet, we already said, you can join at our henhouse.org slash donate. So before we get to the interview, we were discussing what to chat about. And we had, I think, in 10 and a half years, the worst ideas of what to discuss. Like, nothing my life, my life is always boring, but now it's

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