From Slaughterhouse to Out of Sight: Gail Eisnitz’s Lifelong Mission to Document Animal Suffering

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

4.9 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this powerful episode, we speak with legendary investigator Gail Eisnitz about her new memoir, Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival. Eisnitz shares her remarkable journey from HSUS writer to becoming their only female national investigator, and ultimately chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association, all while battling an undiagnosed visual processing disorder.…

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Our Henhouse Interview.
0:08.4	This is Jasmine Singer.
0:10.0	This is Marianne Sullivan.
0:12.0	And in just a moment, we are going to be joined by the one and only Gail Eisnitz.
0:17.0	Oh, I'm so excited.
0:19.0	The Chief Investigator for the Humane Farming Association,
0:23.2	author of the recently published memoir,
0:25.9	Out of Sight in undercover investigators' Fight for Animal Rights
0:29.4	and her own survival.
0:31.6	And, of course, you know, the iconic slaughterhouse,
0:35.9	the shocking story of greed, neglect, and inhumane treatment
0:39.2	inside the U.S. meat industry. And also, she's the driving force behind so many news stories
0:45.0	on the horrors of factory farming in the Washington Post, The New York Times, my goodness,
0:50.4	Good Morning America, ABC's Primetime Live, so many others. Gail is a recipient of the
0:56.7	Albert Schweitzer Medal for outstanding achievement in animal welfare. And I'm so excited about this
1:02.8	interview. But before we get to Gail, just a quick reminder that we're a podcast and a YouTube.
1:09.4	A YouTube. We're a podcast and a YouTube, a YouTube.
1:11.7	Whatever.
1:15.9	We're a podcast and a YouTube and we're on YouTube.
1:20.6	So make sure you hit like and subscribe wherever you can.
1:22.4	Thank you in advance for that.
1:25.1	Gail, welcome to our henhouse.
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