Part Two: SHAC and Modern Protest Tactics
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
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Summary
Margaret continues her talk with Shuli Branson about the international campaign to end a notorious animal testing lab
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff. |
| 0:11.7 | Your weekly reminder that we all like animals, just to different degrees. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy. |
| 0:17.8 | And with me today is my guest, Shulie. |
| 0:20.7 | Hi, I'm here. Hi, I'm doing it all right. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm really happy to be here, even though there is some bad stuff in this. That's true, |
| 0:28.6 | and there's going to be more bad stuff in this, and it's going to be fun. Our producer is Sophie, |
| 0:34.8 | hi, Sophie. Hi, Sophie. Hi. And this is part two of a two-parter that probably should have been like an eight-parter. |
| 0:42.7 | This is the kind of thing that honestly, like, one day I'm just going to switch for a true crime format and shack and animal rights stuff at the turn of the century. |
| 0:50.4 | Easily a whole season of all kinds of ins and outs of things. But that's not what I'm doing here. |
| 0:56.3 | It's a two-parter. We're on part two. So where we last left our plucky heroes and anti-heroes |
| 1:03.4 | and various combinations, they had just shut down a dog breeding facility that mistreated dogs |
| 1:09.6 | and sold them to animal rights place that had an animal rights place, an animal testing place, |
| 1:15.6 | that has had a lot of evidence against it being very bad to animals. |
| 1:18.6 | And then they went and did a very similar thing to a cat. |
| 1:20.6 | And they did that partly by doing something that I don't think is great. |
| 1:23.6 | And I was thinking about this while we were on break. |
| 1:26.6 | I mean, while two days passed, because it's obviously two days later, here we are on Wednesday. |
| 1:30.9 | You're listening to this live, no matter what time you're listening to this, no matter what year. |
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