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

Factory Farming’s Hidden Link: Investigating Livestock Auctions with Pete Paxton and Cailen LaBarge

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

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Undercover investigator Pete Paxton and attorney Cailen LaBarge from Strategies for Ethical and Environmental Development (SEED) discuss their groundbreaking investigation of livestock auctions across America. After infiltrating 17 auctions in 10 states, they reveal how these largely overlooked facilities serve as crucial links in industrial animal agriculture while fostering systematic abuse. The conversation explores how cultural dynamics perpetuate cruelty, SEED’s innovative…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House.

0:07.0

This is Jasmine Singer.

0:09.0

This is Mary Ann Sullivan.

0:10.0

And on this week's very special episode, we're joined once again, along with our audience of flock members,

0:17.0

by undercover investigator Pete Paxton, who will be telling us all about his recent

0:23.9

extended investigation of farmed animal auctions and about the crucial and really truly brutal

0:33.0

role that they play in animal agriculture. And also by Kaylin Labarge, who is a lawyer and the founder and executive director of Seed,

0:43.3

that's Strategies for Ethical and Environmental Development,

0:47.7

and who's doing some crucially important work,

0:50.6

working on the background investigation and legal work in order to tee up cases involving

0:57.6

factory farming for litigation. This was part of our flock Friday where we invite flock members

1:05.9

to be part of the discussion and basically be there live as we do our interview and there's a

1:14.0

Q&A afterwards which flock members get as their weekly bonus content. So if you were there

1:20.1

and you're in the flock, thanks for being there. If this is new information to you, then we hope you

1:24.9

can consider joining us as a flock member.

1:32.4

Our henhouse.org slash support is the easiest way to find out about that.

1:35.2

And yeah, this was fantastic.

1:36.8

This was really a good one.

1:37.7

Yeah.

1:39.8

There's some tough information in there.

1:43.4

I don't think really a lot, but some other people thought it was a lot.

2:02.2

So I guess maybe I'm more used to brutality than some people. But it was tough. Oh, my God, you do not want to miss this because both of them are just really, really good communicators. And you don't get bogged down in the horror. You hear about the horror. Then you move on to think about what they're doing,

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