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

From Pardoning Turkeys to Pushing Milk: What’s Making Big Ag Nervous? | Rising Anxieties

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

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this irreverent episode of Rising Anxieties, Mariann Sullivan unpacks the latest worries keeping animal agriculture executives up at night—from avian influenza contingency plans to the surprising alliance between premium meat brands and animal advocates. With her trademark wit, Mariann dissects the absurdity of turkey “pardoning” ceremonies, exposes the dairy industry’s push to flood schools with whole milk (while conveniently excluding…

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0:00.0

Welcome to rising anxieties.

0:07.3

This is where we unpack what's worrying the animal abuse industry.

0:11.2

Unpack what's worrying me.

0:14.0

That's a lot, always.

0:16.3

Things don't seem to worry them as much as me for some reason. And maybe we'll get to a little bit of what's worrying you.

0:23.5

If we're all worrying about the same thing, don't forget that we are a podcast and we're

0:28.6

on YouTube.

0:29.5

So please subscribe and like.

0:31.9

Wherever you listen, it really, really helps us out.

0:34.6

I know everybody tells you that.

0:36.2

They tell you that because it's true.

0:38.4

And yeah, let's see what's going on this week. Our first story is from Hord's Derry,

0:43.8

preparing for the unexpected. And by unexpected, they mean things that they actually expect,

0:51.4

but our hoping won't happen. That's mostly, they're talking about disease here,

0:55.8

and they're talking specifically about a discussion

0:57.9

at the World Dairy Expo, aren't you? Sorry, you missed it,

1:01.4

where a panel explored the potential impact of emerging diseases

1:05.4

on the dairy industry. Some of them aren't really just emerging.

1:08.7

Some of them have been around for a while. They're just

1:11.0

getting worse. Formerly, there's been a lot of focus on foot and mouth disease, which is a

1:18.4

completely horrific animal disease. They call it foreign, but it's kind of in most countries. I don't

1:24.6

know where it started. And cattle, it affects cattle. And there have always been

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