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

From A Vegan Dinner to Jail Time: Adam Durand on His Groundbreaking Open Rescue Case

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

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a casual vegan dinner leads to one of the most significant open rescue cases in US animal rights history? This week, we’re joined by Adam Durand, who went from rule-following citizen to jailbird activist after exposing conditions at Wegmans Egg Farm back in 2004. Adam shares the wild journey of sneaking into a factory farm with a ragtag…

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Our Hunt House interview.

0:08.2

I'm Jasmine Singer.

0:10.6

I'm Marianne.

0:11.0

So, Marian, do you feel like if we just, like, went out to the grocery store or a coffee shop

0:17.8

and I said, I'm Jasmine Singer, you would just immediately, I'm Mary Ann Sullivan. Like,

0:22.5

because I feel like you just say it. Uh, no. It's like a call and response. Okay. I don't think I would do

0:29.0

that. All right. Okay. Well, I also don't. I think I know when I'm on Zoom and when I'm not.

0:34.7

I don't know. I frequently don't go into grocery stores and say,

0:38.1

I'm Jasmine St. Well, speaking of which, if we were to go into a grocery store near where we live,

0:44.5

and we weren't paying attention to where, it would likely be a Wegmans, which is the primary grocery

0:50.1

store in the area where we live, which brings us to. Yes, we are so excited for this

0:55.6

flock Friday. We're so excited to welcome Adam Durand. Adam is a videographer and an animal

1:03.4

rights activist with over two decades of history in the movement. And he first gained recognition

1:09.1

in 2005. I can't believe it was that long

1:11.6

now. I am so old for exposing cruelty at Wegmans. And this is, it was specifically at the

1:19.5

Wegman's egg farm, I think, in a case where he spent 35 days in jail before being released

1:24.7

by an appellate court. And Adam's advocacy has included so much, it's hard to put into a sentence, but open rescues

1:32.7

and strategic campaigns and support for farm animal sanctuaries such as Mockingbird Farm Sanctuary,

1:39.1

where he serves as the lead caregiver.

1:41.8

A lead caregiver.

1:43.2

I'm sorry.

1:43.8

A.

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