Exposing Aquaculture’s Cruelty with Laura Lee Cascada

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

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

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

4.9 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This episode explores the hidden realities of fish farming with Laura Lee Cascada, founder of the Aquaculture Accountability Project. Despite being marketed as an environmentally friendly solution to overfishing, aquaculture has created factory farms on water that cause widespread suffering to sea animals, contribute to environmental degradation, and pose serious human health risks. Cascada debunks the industry’s greenwashing tactics and reveals…

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Our Head House interview. I'm Jasmine Singer. I'm Mary Ann Sullivan. And we're so pleased
0:12.1	today that we're going to be welcoming back to the show, Laura Lee Cascada, to talk about
0:17.6	sea life and the brand new organization, which she founded, called the Aquaculture Accountability Project.
0:24.7	I can't wait to talk to her because this is, you know, as we'll talk about, a topic that's for some reason still not nearly explored enough.
0:33.8	So thankfully, Laura exists and is exploring it to say the very least. Before we get to that,
0:39.5	just a quick reminder about the Our Hen House podcasts. Rising Anxieties comes out on Tuesdays,
0:45.0	the hen report on Thursdays, and the long-form interview that's this on Fridays, and bonus for
0:50.2	flock members comes out on Mondays. Or a a podcast. We're also on YouTube. So subscribe
0:54.8	and hit like wherever you listen. So without further ado, welcome back to the Our Henhouse
1:00.2	podcast, Laura Lee. Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here again. I am too. This is like,
1:07.3	this is a topic that I am endlessly intrigued by and fascinated by the fact that like
1:13.2	you know I've been working in animal rights for decades and it's still something that there's
1:18.5	just not enough attention put on it so I imagine that most people listening are somewhat
1:23.7	familiar with aquaculture but I imagine like me a lot of them are not fully familiar with aquaculture, but I imagine like me, a lot of them are not fully familiar
1:30.7	with what's happening and the speed with which it is happening. So can you just start by giving us
1:36.0	the sky high picture of what aquaculture is and its current size and status? And then we'll get
1:43.0	into details.
1:45.6	Sure.
1:46.2	Yeah.
1:58.7	So back in around the late, I would say, 1960s, 1970s, when overfishing started to become really a huge problem on the global scale. The agriculture industry, which is basically the
2:03.7	idea of raising animals in a confined area for food, started to grow. And the whole supposed
2:13.0	goal was that they would replace overfishing by growing animals like salmon and tilapia in these cages or in these pens
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