Welcome to Our Hen House.

This is Jasmine Singer.

And this is Marianne Sullivan.

And I am so excited that you joined us today.

Because this week we have such a spectacular guest, Katie Contrell, who is one of my favorite people.

She's kind of one of everybody's favorite people, isn't she?

Yes. And she's been on before, but not for many years. And she will be telling us all about

her new position with the Better Food Foundation. And they're basically seeking to make

veganism the default option. So I'm down with that. Katie will also catch us up on what's happening

at the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition and in her personal life, which in a year of ups and downs

for everyone has had some really big ones for her. She is just such a delightful person. I loved

this conversation. Okay, on the flock bonus this week, I'll be

continuing my conversation with Katie. And 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. And you can

always find it on the flock Facebook group, which I hope you have joined. And if you are not a member

of the flock and you can afford it,

you can join for $10 a month at our henhouse.org slash donate.

And if you're a flock member,

please also join us for our first Flock Friday Zoom calls,

which are once a month on you guessed it,

the first Friday of the month at 4 p.m. Eastern or 8 p.m. Greenwich meantime,

where we focus on how to be better activists and how to

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