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

The Goat Conspiracy with Nicole Schonemann

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

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

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

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Turning a goat dairy farm into a goat sanctuary isn’t something that happens every day. But that’s exactly what just happened in Bloomington, Indiana, and Nicole Schonemann is here to share the whole beautiful story. ABOUT OUR GUEST Nicole Schonemann is one of the four original founders of the Goat Conspiracy, a former goat dairy farm in Bloomington, Indiana, that is…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Jasmine Singer.

0:09.3

This is Marianne Sullivan.

0:10.6

And this week's fabulous guest is Nicole Shahneman, who has such a great story to tell about turning a goat farm into a goat sanctuary.

0:21.2

This was such a cool interview.

0:23.7

I'm really excited.

0:25.7

It was a really great story.

0:27.8

Yeah.

0:28.2

And she told it well.

0:30.1

And I just find it very inspiring.

0:32.0

I mean, we talk about this a lot during the interview,

0:34.1

but it's just, I feel like, she did not necessarily agree with this,

0:38.8

but I feel like it's just kind of unusual to see a transformation, as they call them,

0:45.4

among the group of people who are into, like, more sustainable, small farm, local

0:52.5

or animal agriculture. And maybe I'm just not hearing the stories

0:56.8

because she says that, you know, she's not unique. And she did bring up the one about the pigs.

1:02.3

The last pig, was that the name of the movie? And that was true. That was a similar story. And she

1:07.3

said they just don't get the attention. It seems like these people have a lot in common

1:12.4

with animal activists. You know, they're worried about the food system. They're trying to fix the food

1:18.1

system and go down what we consider the wrong road. I find it very seldom. I hear a story of

1:24.2

somebody turning around and saying, no, this isn't the way forward. And that's exactly what they did there at the goat conspiracy, which is just a great name.

1:31.9

Such a good name. Yeah, totally. Well, I'm excited.

1:35.1

It's in Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana. Also, I don't know if this is too boring for people to know about process-wise, but I feel like it's worth saying that for like a very

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