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

Episode 567: Living Future ft Melissa Hoffman and Shawn Smith

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

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re pleased to feature Shawn Smith and Melissa Hoffman of LivingFuture Foundation. The two live on SHO Farm, a 1300-acre regenerative vegan farm in Vermont, where they farm and steward the land so that all occupants can coexist in harmony. Shawn and Melissa are passionate about the long-term viability of food-medicine agriculture and the ecosystems that support life on…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Jasmine Singer.

0:09.8

This is Marianne Sullivan.

0:11.4

Thank you so much for joining us this week.

0:13.9

Marianne will be speaking with Sean Smith and Melissa Hoffman.

0:17.8

They are the co-directors of the Living Future Foundation, which is a 1,300-acre home to

0:22.9

veganic wildlife-integrated agriculture, a duck sanctuary, and so much more, located in Huntington,

0:30.8

Vermont. This interview is mind-blowing with its possibilities of what agriculture and eating

0:36.4

could look like if we just do it right.

0:39.2

Yeah, do it right. That's a good idea. Why don't we do a few more things right? Why don't we do anything right?

0:44.4

It's crazy. We live in a crazy world. Are you all aware of that anyway? I digress.

0:49.7

So this week on the bonus segment, we'll be hearing more of my conversation with Sean and Melissa.

0:54.0

As always, if you're a flock member, you'll get that link to the bonus segment in your email. On the Tuesday after the podcast goes up, you can always find it on the flock Facebook group. If you're not a member of the flock and you can afford it, you can join for $10 a month at our henhouse.org slash donate or $100 a year and it's a good time to do that $100 a

1:12.7

year donation if you can manage it. Why is that, Jasmine? Because we're in our end of year fundraising

1:18.7

campaign right now, which means that thanks to our barnyard benefactors and an anonymous donor who

1:24.8

matched the barnyard benefactors, every dollar that you donate becomes tripled.

1:30.5

So up to $20,000, your donations will be matched by our barnyard benefactors

1:37.9

who will throw in $20,000 as well and an anonymous donor who will throw in another $20,000.

1:43.5

We do the vast majority of our fundraising

1:46.6

for the year at our end of year. So if you believe in pro-animal responsible vegan media,

1:54.9

then support our henhouse by going to our henhouse.org slash donate and your dollars will be

2:00.1

tripled.

2:01.7

It is a great time to donate.

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