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

The Hen Report: “There Are A Lot of Parallels” | Fascism, Animal Rights, and Finding Hope in Uncertain 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

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this candid episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin and Mariann explore the striking parallels between fascism and animal exploitation while navigating our current political climate. The hosts share their struggles with maintaining focus during times of political upheaval, discussing how the same mechanisms that enable factory farming—othering, dehumanization, and secrecy—mirror tactics used by authoritarian regimes. Despite the heaviness of these…

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Henn Report.

0:07.0

This is Jasmine Singer.

0:09.0

This is Marianne Sullivan.

0:10.0

Do you ever leave messages for people when you call them and like the voicemail picks up and you're like,

0:16.0

Hi, it's Marianne or like, hi, it's me. Do you do that do that because when I do that I feel like I'm dating

0:22.8

myself I don't I don't call people and lead messages like I text people and say do you want to talk

0:29.2

I say and then they don't gonna call well like what what are you in the 1990s I kind of in a lot

0:35.3

of ways including my outfits in, I guess you do more

0:39.7

business calls, but this, but it's not even just that. No, like, I'll call and be like,

0:43.6

hey, it's Jasmine, just saying, and it's like, it, it makes me feel so old. I started re-watching

0:50.9

Veronica Mars. Why does that make you? I don't even understand this whole conversation. Because people would get, they'd see that it was Jasmine on their phone. Oh, like they'd know it was me. Yeah, no, I think it's totally normal to say who it is, you know. I'm re-watching Veronica Mars. But, you know, then I'm old, so I don't know. And Veronica Mars was made in like the aughts. And's so dated like in this hilarious way. And honestly,

1:15.6

I long for those days. And the aughts are are differently dated than the 90s and the late

1:22.4

aughts are probably differently dated. Yeah, this is early to mid. Things just changed too fast. Yeah, well, and I wish they would

1:29.2

That's my opinion. I wish they would change. I wish they would change faster. But before we get into that,

1:35.2

just a quick reminder about the Arhan House podcast. Rising Anxieties comes out on Tuesdays. The Henn Report on

1:41.0

Thursdays, the Longform interview on Fridays. Bonus for flock members comes out on Mondays.

1:46.4

We're a podcast.

1:47.1

We're on YouTube.

1:48.0

Hit like, hit subscribe.

1:50.1

Tell your friends about us.

1:51.3

Tell your enemies about us.

1:53.4

Tell the 90s about us.

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