Welcome to Our Hen House.

This is Jasmine Singer.

And this is Marianne Sullivan.

And on this week's show,

Marianne will be speaking once again with Rachel McChrystal,

the executive director of Woodstock Farm Sanctuary, and she'll also be

joined by Ervei, the shelter director at Woodstock. And they'll be telling us about a very

important effort that has recently been launched by a coalition of sanctuaries to expose the cruelty

and exploitation that takes place at state and county fairs.

This is such an important topic.

And I know that there are some folks who definitely focus on this, but you don't hear it too often.

No, I love the idea that sanctuaries are getting together to do something that they're peculiarly,

I mean, and they'll go into this

in the interview, but they're in a peculiarly good position to comment on what happens to these

animals at these fairs because they care for animals and because they live in rural areas.

I think it's a great campaign. And another thing that that was mentioned during the interview that I kind of hadn't thought

of, but I think it's so compelling, is that this is kind of the only place where animal

agriculture kind of surfaces and says, look at us.

Normally, they don't want anybody to look at them except for their nonsensical PR or like slices of dead animals.

They like people to look at that. But here they really do kind of surface above ground and talk

about what we do to take care of animals. Of course, a lot of it is bullshit, ha-ha, so to speak.

But, you know, a lot of it is pretty obviously brutal and demeaning and horrible, just as it is on factory farms.

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