The Hen Report: “The World Should Be Very Different” | Animal Rights, Ethical Awakenings, 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

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin and Mariann reflect on the peculiar psychology behind our collective blind spots to animal suffering, inspired by a thought-provoking Carl Sagan quote about the painful process of acknowledging when we’ve been “bamboozled.” From unexpected wildlife encounters to groundbreaking animal testing reforms, the duo navigates the latest developments in animal rights with their signature…

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Hen Report.
0:07.7	This is Jasmine Singer.
0:09.4	And this is Marianne Sullivan.
0:12.2	And we are here from Our Hen House, which is your henhouse, too.
0:18.4	Remember that theme song we used to have?
0:22.1	Our Hen house.
0:22.9	Oh, yeah.
0:25.0	I had totally forgotten that.
0:26.3	By Michael Heron.
0:28.6	Yeah.
0:30.7	We were doing this a long time.
0:32.9	I know, I know. We had something before that, too, didn't we?
0:35.9	Because that was like the new thing when we got it I remember
0:40.0	yeah do do do do do I can't do it but yeah it was something like this tune that we bought
0:47.0	talk music yeah yeah I was just thinking the other day because we we were talking about Animal Place in California,
0:56.4	and I tried to come up with that video we made there, which I couldn't open, but we're going to try to get that fixed.
1:02.8	Remember that?
1:03.4	It was like a million years ago.
1:06.1	And it was Christmas time.
1:07.2	We made a Christmas video with video of all the animals at Animal Place, and Farm Sanctuary. They were both. They were not too far from each other in California, obviously.
1:18.8	I was just strolling down memory lane. No, if our henhouse was a human being, that human being would be driving now.
1:31.4	Right off a cliff.
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