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

The Hen Report: “Strange Bedfellows” | Navigating Alliances in Animal Rights Advocacy

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

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this thought-provoking episode of The Hen Report, Mariann Sullivan is joined by Cornell Law professor and animal advocate Michael Dorf to explore the complex phenomenon of “strange bedfellows” in the animal rights movement. They examine how activists navigate situations where they find themselves aligned with unexpected allies on animal issues, while potentially disagreeing on other social and political matters. This…

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Henry Port. This is Marianne Sullivan. Jasmine won't be with us this week. She's a bit under the weather, but she is doing great. She's fine. So not to worry. And she'll be back soon. But I am so excited that we're going to be joined once again by our regular wingman, Michael Dorf, who is, of course, a professor at Cornell Law School and is also a very prestigious constitutional law scholar.

0:28.6

But most importantly, is a passionate vegan and animal advocate.

0:32.8

And welcome back, Michael.

0:34.3

Thanks so much.

0:35.1

This is a great honor.

0:36.2

It's a very big shoes I'm trying to fill in for

0:38.7

with Jasmine, but I'll do my best. I have a lot of confidence, but I agree. It's a stretch.

0:44.6

It's a stretch. And happy birthday. Thank you very much. Yeah, we're recording this on my actual

0:49.7

birthday. By the time you're listening to it, I will be a day older or so. But yeah,

0:54.0

it's very exciting. Today's my birthday. Yeah. What a wonderful way listening to it, I will be a day older or so, but yeah, it's very exciting.

0:54.9

Today's my birthday.

0:55.8

Yeah.

0:56.4

What a wonderful way to celebrate it by coming out to the R&S podcast.

1:00.6

Hey, hey, no, it's a promotion.

1:02.7

I mean, I guess I'm now like, you know, whatever you are when you're even more than a wing for today.

1:09.5

I'm a little worried about that wingman designation because I noticed that now it's constantly

1:14.4

used to describe the relationship between Epstein and Trump.

1:17.8

So I don't want it to turn into an insult.

1:20.3

No, I get that.

1:21.8

I will, I didn't take it that way.

1:24.8

So for my birthday, of course, I have to do something. So my daughter, Amelia, who I think was on the show as like a very, very little kid. You're right. You're absolutely right. Yeah. She's a home still for break from college. She's a senior at Smith College. She's a senior? Holy moly. Yeah. But she's making me vegan Shukha.

1:47.2

And she baked bagels yesterday. So I'm going to have one of the bagels with that. I've already

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