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

The Foster Farms Rescue and Trial, with Alexandra Paul and Alicia Santurio

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

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Society & Culture, Documentary, News, News Commentary, Self-improvement, Education

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In September of 2021, Alicia Santurio and Baywatch actor Alexandra Paul rescued Jax and Ethan, two gravely ill chickens, from a transport truck heading for a slaughterhouse owned by Foster Farms. The activists faced misdemeanor charges for petty theft, and this March, they stood before a 12-person jury as part of a nine-day trial, previously unheard of for such charges.  Alexandra…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Jasmine Singer.

0:12.2

And this is Mary Ann Sullivan.

0:13.9

And this week, Marianne will be speaking with Alexandra Paul and Alicia Centario about their recent acquittal of stealing two chickens, Ethan and Jacks,

0:23.9

in the Foster Farms' right to rescue case. You are not going to want to miss this interview.

0:30.2

What a powerhouse group you've got there. Yeah, this was great. And I'm so excited we were

0:35.7

able to get them on the show fairly quickly after their acquittal in that case. I mean, I kind of can't believe what's going on with these cases that there have now been two of them, full acquittals. Like something is really in the air. These are two really amazing, amazing women who, you know, put their freedom

0:56.8

on the line. And I feel, I felt so privileged to be able to have this conversation with them.

1:03.4

Oh, that's so great. I love it. I'm so excited for our listeners that they get to hear it too.

1:08.0

So before I say this next thing, I just want to confirm to our listeners

1:13.2

that this is indeed our henhouse. There, now that I've said that, let me say, we have some good

1:18.6

news to report.

1:21.9

What?

1:22.4

So it is not backwards day. Yeah, and also the interview is good news.

1:29.5

I love this episode.

1:31.5

So we wanted to talk about, well, what's going on at the New York Times?

1:35.4

Because when we were chatting about what to chat about today, three articles came to mind for us, all from the Times, all positive.

1:43.6

What?

1:45.8

Yeah, no, it's pretty crazy.

1:51.5

Yeah. So the New York Times, this one, this was so cool. You found this and we're going to put all of these in the show notes and you have to click on this just to see these photos. It's called

1:57.2

When the Kitten Lady met the cat photographer, which by the way, sounds like a children's book. Maybe they should turn it into a children's book. Oh, I'm sure they will. They seem like exactly the type of will. Yeah. And it'll have beautiful, beautiful pictures. This is a wedding article. You know, the New York Times features, does these featured weddings from time to time. And all right, this is a absolutely beautiful couple. They're animal

2:18.7

rescue. Well, she's an animal rescuer. She's known as the kitten lady. Apparently she has a

2:22.8

big following on Instagram. And she gives advice on, you know, on really on not just stray cats,

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