The Hen Report: “Learning what’s really going on is a way not to give up” – Fighting for Animals in Challenging Times

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

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This Hen Report episode explores the disturbing parallels between systems of oppression, from ICE operations to the meat industry, and the looming threats to public health from factory farming. Jasmin and Mariann deliver a sobering Hen Report that examines: How the meat industry and immigration enforcement share similar dehumanizing tactics, with both systems relying on workers who must carry out brutal…

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0:00.0	Welcome to our hen house.
0:07.0	This is Jasmine Singer.
0:09.0	And this is Mary Ann Sullivan.
0:11.0	And this week, we're here with a hen report.
0:14.0	Every activist needs to know the news, and we're here to deliver it.
0:19.0	They want to know what's happening to animals and how that fits into the rest of the world. And we try to keep you up with at least some of what's happening with animals and with animal activism. And Marian, I know this is something that is very, very close to your heart. Well, I'm kind of a news junkie, so I just assume everybody else is too, which isn't to say that we could
0:37.7	possibly cover all the news, but, you know, try to like come up with stuff that other people
0:43.5	are reporting on and reliable outfits are reporting on and let people know about it because it's
0:48.5	really hard to follow it all. It's not like there's one place where you can collect all the news
0:53.1	about it's not really, you know, I was thinking before, I'm not sure our beat is animal rights.
0:57.8	Our beat is animal activism.
0:59.9	Both what animal activists are doing.
1:03.0	We want to report on that.
1:04.1	And also, what are the stories out in the world that people who want to do animal activism, people who just want to talk about animals to other people, which is animal activism after all, a form of it, it should be up on so that they can horrify everybody.
1:19.7	Yeah. And there's plenty. There's just plenty of that. So you said you are a, oh wait, let me actually say that we are going to have someone drop in
1:29.3	during our hen report today, which is a little unusual for our hen reports, but she might
1:36.8	just drop in in the middle of us talking, which I think is awesome. We're just going to go with it,
1:42.2	but just know, we might have a visitor. We're not going to say with it. But just know, we might have a visitor.
1:44.7	We're not going to say who it is. Oh, yeah. Now I'm worried that people are going to think it's
1:49.4	tiny chef and they'll inevitably be disappointed. Oh, poor Kathy. She's important too. Yeah, no,
1:56.0	it's Kathy Stevens from Catskill Animal Sanctuary who has definitely been on the show in the past.
2:02.4	She has some big news on a personal level that she's going to be sharing, but also I think we're
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