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

Episode 560: Food is a Tool ft. Olympia Auset

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

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

News Commentary, Self-improvement, Documentary, News, Society & Culture, Education

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Jasmin and Mariann are all fired up about a recent New York Times article that discusses the new book, The Secret Life of Groceries, by Benjamin Lorr. In exploring the ethical dilemmas regarding the food we buy at grocery stores, it not only comes to some pretty weak conclusions regarding animal agriculture, but conveniently fails to come up with satisfactory (or…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Head House. This is Jasmine Singer. And this is Marianne Sullivan.

0:11.5

Thank you so much for joining us this week. Marianne has a truly epic interview this week. And I am completely jealous because Olympia Osset is a woman with a plan and a woman after my own heart.

0:26.1

I can't believe you got to do this interview, but I'm excited about it.

0:30.1

She actually has not just one plan, but like a lot of plans, all focused on getting people who live in poor neighborhoods, the opportunity to eat good food.

0:39.3

So Marianne will be exploring with her how she plans to do that and so much more, including how she came to be vegan

0:45.0

for herself, for her community, and of course, for the animals. And this week on the bonus segment,

0:51.1

you'll be hearing more of my conversation with olympia which i have to say i

0:54.9

really love this conversation as always if you're a flock member you'll get a link to the bonus segment

0:59.4

in your email on the tuesday after this podcast goes up you can always find it on the flock facebook group

1:04.6

if like me you're you have emails like coming out of your ears and you can't keep track of them

1:09.7

don't worry we got you

1:11.1

covered. It's on the flock Facebook group. And if you're not a member of the flock and you could afford

1:16.3

it, you can join for $10 a month at our handhouse.org slash donate. Also, we're doing our flock Friday

1:22.5

Zoom calls at 4 p.m. Eastern on Fridays, which is an extra COVID time feature for us. Sometimes it's just the

1:29.4

flock and sometimes we feature special guests. Recently, we welcomed vegan investment advisor

1:34.6

Brenda Morris. So if you're a member of the flock, check out the flock Facebook group for

1:38.8

updates or write to us at info at our henhouse.org. When you just said we've got you covered, I thought of that video

1:46.1

we made, which was like New York City vegan weekend on a budget. Yeah. Yeah. Remember that?

1:52.1

That was a great video. Yeah, that was. And I, unfortunately, I think that a lot of the places are

1:57.4

not around anymore because it was like over a decade ago.

2:01.2

I mean,

2:01.9

that's not a, that's not a reflection on veganism. It's more a reflection of, yeah, which of the restaurant is is. Yeah, but, but yeah, it was a lot of fun making that. I just remember saying, we've got you covered. Yeah, I, you're totally right. Every time I hear that turn of phrase, I think of that video and how we shot it in like one day, one like 13 hour day. And I brought it. We pretended we were on different days. And I brought like costume changes. That's right. That's right. That was awesome. Oh, no, I want to watch it. Yeah, people can watch. People can watch it, right? Like, it's available somewhere.

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