Welcome to Our Hen House.

This is Jasmine Singer.

This is Mary Ann Sullivan.

And this week, Marianne will be speaking with Sneha Shresta, who runs an amazing nonprofit in Nepal,

which focuses on community dogs and farmed animals and veganism.

I particularly love interviews that prove what we'd already know,

that caring for animals and not eating them are worldwide movements.

It is so strange to me that people eat animals. I just want to throw that

out there. That is a bizarre reality. I agree with the sentiment that I really love it when we

interview somebody. And it's just a reminder that we are everywhere. I mean, we're not all exactly

the same. And we have come from different cultures. and I'm sure some approaches are different, but really, the general impulse, it's everywhere, and we're part of an important movement.

But it is bizarre that the thing we're fighting is, like, eating animals.

Yeah.

Who thought it up?

Well, I have to tell you, you're making me think of this book that I'm reading when.

I know I was talking to you about it.

I need to talk about it, even though I am not done with it yet, but it is currently

boggling my mind.

And I told you you have to read it it and if you're listening to this.

Yeah, no, I had already bought it and now I buy many books that I don't read. I admit it. I have a

problem. But I really do intend to read this one. Okay. So this is called The Vegan and it is a novel by Andrew Lipstein. And we first heard about it because

I think the New York Times did a review of it, an excellent review. Yeah, this is not a nothing

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