The Hen Report: “It’s Not All About the Food” | Shrimp Welfare, AVA Summit, and Wildlife Crossings

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

4.9 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this thought-provoking episode, Jasmin and Mariann welcome back Our Hen House’s “wingman” Michael Dorf to discuss a recent Daily Show segment that mockingly covered efforts to improve shrimp welfare. The conversation delves into the challenges of advocating for less charismatic animals, the complexities of welfare reforms, and the surprising effectiveness of humor in introducing animal suffering to mainstream audiences. Later,…

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0:00.0	Welcome to Our Hen House.
0:07.9	I'm Jasmine Singer.
0:09.7	I'm Mary Ann Sullivan.
0:11.8	I'm Mike Dorf.
0:12.8	Glad to be back with you guys.
0:14.9	And this is Murray.
0:17.1	Yeah, no, Michael, we're so happy you're with us.
0:20.0	Michael is our resident rooster. Is that weird?
0:23.9	It's creepy, I think.
0:25.5	I object to that term. Okay. The term I want to use is wingman.
0:30.5	Oh, okay. That's a lot better. Yeah, actually, he is kind of our wingman.
0:35.3	I love roosters, and I think that, you know, it's really, really great that there's this, like,
0:40.1	really unequal sex differentiation in the chicken world.
0:45.3	All power to them, but I don't want to reiterate that.
0:49.2	Okay.
0:49.8	I mean, Henhouse has a kind of feminist vibe.
0:53.2	Like, that was partly where we were coming from back in 1839 when we started the podcast.
0:58.3	I'm happy to be an honorary hen.
1:00.2	Okay.
1:00.9	You know what?
1:01.4	Let's go with that.
1:02.5	So you join us every now and then to talk about what's on your mind.
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