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

Undercover Investigations Have Changed Everything with Gemunu De Silva

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

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The trailblazing Gemunu De Silva, a United Kingdom-based undercover investigator of animal exploitation, joins us this week on Our Hen House. Gem, one of the first and longest-serving investigators of the worldwide hidden mistreatment of animals, tell us about his path into the world of animal activism and the animal rights movement. It was his very first factory farm investigation in…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Henn House.

0:10.7

This is Jasmine Singer.

0:12.5

And this is Marianne Sullivan.

0:14.0

And on this week's show, Marianne will be interviewing someone who may well be the most important person in the animal rights movement

0:21.9

whom you have never heard of. I love this episode. Gamunu de Silva, more or less invented undercover

0:28.7

investigations and has been carrying them out for a variety of organizations and in a variety

0:34.5

of hellholes, really, for years. Most recently, he has been operating under

0:40.1

his own company, tracks investigations, and the work they're doing, it just could not possibly

0:47.3

be more important. I'm so looking forward to hearing this chat. Oh, I love this guy. I love

0:53.3

this interview. And I'm one of those

0:55.4

people who never heard of him. I mean, he's British. So it's not like he's, I mean, he's done

1:00.7

investigations all over the world, but he's centered in the UK. And so that might be something of

1:06.5

an excuse for why I've never heard of him. But I think he just not, just hasn't promoted himself.

1:11.2

And I'm so thankful to hear his stories. They're amazing on the flock bonus segment for this

1:17.2

week. I will be continuing my conversation with Gem. And if you are a flock member, you will get a

1:22.5

link to the bonus segment in your email on the Tuesday after this podcast episode goes up.

1:28.9

Or you can always find it on the flock Facebook group. And if you're not a member of the flock and you can afford it, you can

1:32.5

join for $10 a month at our henhouse.org slash donate. Also, if you're a flock member, please

1:38.5

join us for our flock first Friday, Zoom calls, which are once a month on the first Friday of the

1:42.8

month at 4 p.m. Eastern, where we have some very inspiring guests and some really cool conversations about

1:48.6

activism and about life. So if you're a member of the flock, check out the flock Facebook

1:53.1

group for updates or write to us at info at our henhouse.org. You can also set up one-on-one

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