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

The Hen Report: “That’s Not How The Law Works” | Legal Battles for Animal Rights

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

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode of The Hen Report, Mariann Sullivan and Jasmin Singer speak with Steffen Seitz, a Yale Law School graduate and fellow with the Animal Activist Legal Defense Project at the University of Denver, about critical legal developments affecting animal rights activism across the United States. This episode explores: The recent conviction of activist Zoe Rosenberg on felony and…

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Henn Report. This is Jasmine Singer.

0:09.0

This is Mary Ann Sullivan. We have kind of a special deal today because a lot has been going on with direct action everywhere.

0:15.0

And I'm sure most of you already know that. We've kind of touched on it.

0:19.0

But, um, and of, there has been the absolutely outrageous

0:21.6

conviction of Zoe Rosenberg, a true heroin to almost all of us. And there's this important

0:27.9

news about the Richland Dog case, and there's the upcoming appeal in Wayne Chung's appeal. And I

0:32.2

tried to mention it a little bit, but, you know, I don't know that much about it. So today we are

0:36.1

lucky enough to have a wingman

0:37.9

with us to clarify things for us. And that's Stefan Sites. And he is a recent graduate, well,

0:45.2

not that reason anymore, but pretty recent graduate of Yale Law School and a fellow with the

0:49.8

Animal Activist Legal Defense Project at the University of Denver. He has been intimately involved with all of these cases.

0:56.0

He promises he will not use a lot of legalese in talking about them.

0:59.0

But I thought it would be great to have him here to kind of try to clarify things for us about what the hell is going on.

1:05.0

Thanks so much for joining us.

1:06.0

Thanks so much for having me.

1:07.0

It is a pleasure to welcome you.

1:09.0

I like that Marianne just called you super old. She was

1:12.6

like recent, but not that reason. I realize, what was it? 2023 you graduated? It was 2023. I did have a

1:21.8

client recently say that I looked 20 years old, which is tough when you're walking to court

1:26.3

and you're trying to pee a little bit more. Oh, yeah.

1:27.7

Yeah.

1:29.1

Yeah.

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