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

Rising Anxieties: Shareholder Activism, Cultivated Meat, and Media Bias

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

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of Rising Anxieties, Mariann Sullivan examines several developments causing concern within the meat industry. From evolving shareholder activism tactics to questionable comparisons between cultivated meat and lab-grown diamonds, the episode reveals how animal agriculture interests are responding to various challenges while continuing to rely on government support and biased media coverage. This episode explores: The evolution of…

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0:00.0

Anxiety Surprising.

0:08.0

As always, ours, mine.

0:13.5

And hopefully, occasionally the meat industries.

0:18.3

All right, so Meeting Place totally revamped their website.

0:22.1

So it took me a little time to find where they're hiding their reports of anxiety,

0:27.7

but I finally did.

0:28.9

And I found an article by Hannah Thompson-Weanman, one of my favorites.

0:32.5

She is the president of the Animal Agriculture Alliance.

0:36.1

New twists on activist shareholder pressure for 2025.

0:40.3

And, you know, this has been an ongoing effort within the movement to try to get shareholders

0:47.3

to do something decent and maybe related to profit even when they vote for how the

0:58.4

companies that they own a piece of should be used.

1:02.0

And of course, activists have bought some shares in companies so that they can be

1:05.9

part of these meetings.

1:07.7

And according to Hannah, their report reveals that while these groups are vocal and persistent,

1:14.6

investors are overwhelmingly unconvinced.

1:18.6

So you're wondering why I'm talking about this since it's pretty much nothing but bad news for us.

1:26.6

But she also adds that this has led to

1:29.0

some new tactics to watch out for. So they continue to be nervous about this effort. As always,

1:36.4

you know, the only people who know or want to know what's going on in animal ag or the people who own it, animal ag, and us.

1:47.5

And everybody else would apparently, including shareholders, would like to be in the dark.

1:52.2

And she's mainly talking about Humane World for Animals, or HSUS, as it used to be called,

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