Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation
Join hosts Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan for intimate conversations with leading vegan activists, animal rights advocates, and changemakers transforming our world. Each week, Our Hen House brings you inspiring stori...
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Also: Jordi Casamitjana, Lindsey Soffes, Matthew Dominguez, Amal Bouhabib, Tim Woodward, Gretchen Primack, Andrea Diaz, Amber Canavan, Liliana Pacheco, Gregg Tully, Dr. Liz Tyson, Renee King-Sonnen, Joanna Zelman, Dr. Jared Zelman, Sol Anzorena, Tom Grotewohl, Michael Dorf
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/23/26 |  Animal Rescue and Storytelling as Activism: Michelle Lerner on Her New Book, “A Series of Opinionated Animals” | In this episode of the Our Hen House interview, Jasmin and Mariann sit down with animal lawyer, rescuer, and activist Michelle Lerner to discuss her new book A Series of Opinionated Animals (Bancroft Press). Michelle shares how a childhood bond with a rescue horse named Shire set her on the path to Harvard Law School, where she co-founded the Student Animal… | 1h 04m 39s | ||||||
| 10/22/26 |  The Hen Report: “The Gateway Species” | Ridglan Beagle Rescue, No-Kill States & Farmed Animals | In this episode of The Hen Report from Our Hen House, Jasmin and Mariann cover major developments in animal welfare and the vegan movement, including the Ridglan Farms beagle rescue court updates, Wyoming becoming the sixth no-kill state, the Trump administration’s animal welfare agenda (and its exclusion of farm animals), the upcoming free Veganic Summit, and a heartwarming story of a… | 24m 07s | ||||||
| 10/20/26 |  The Meat Industry Loses Its DC Friends, Gen Z Ghosts Pork, and Big Beef’s Climate Cover-Up | Rising Anxieties | This week, Mariann finds herself in a suspiciously good mood despite a roster of horrors: ag-friendly lawmakers are departing Washington, Western states are busy “euthanizing” wolves in the most creative misuse of that word yet, and 2,400 pigs died in a barn fire that somehow produced “no injuries.” On the bright side, Gen Z is apparently ghosting pork, the hog market… | 22m 52s | ||||||
| 10/16/26 |  Grassroots Win for Animals: How Southampton Animal Action Stopped Brittany Ferries’ Live Animal Exports | In this episode of Our Hen House, Mariann Sullivan speaks with Cat Phipps of Southampton Animal Action about their remarkable grassroots campaign that convinced Brittany Ferries to end live animal exports between Ireland and France. Cat breaks down the history of live export protests in the UK, how a small local group used consistent, legal, and disruptive tactics over more than… | 59m 24s | ||||||
| 10/15/26 |  The Hen Report: “This Is Big” | NYC Bans Horse Carriages | In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin and Mariann discuss groundbreaking news: New York City’s horse-drawn carriage industry may finally be coming to an end under Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration. They trace the decades-long grassroots fight to ban carriage horses in NYC—from protest carols at Columbus Circle to the strategic political organizing that made this moment possible—while highlighting the activists… | 26m 51s | ||||||
| 10/9/26 |  Grassroots Vegan Activism That Works: Inside Vegan Outreach’s Vegan Chef Challenge | In this episode of Our Hen House, Mariann and Jasmin sit down with Alex Bury, Vice President of Development at Vegan Outreach, and Stacy Shepanek, Director of Communications at Vegan Outreach and co-lead of Knox Vegan, to talk about grassroots vegan activism that works. They dig into Vegan Outreach’s massive leafleting legacy (22 million booklets and counting), their 10 Weeks to… | 57m 28s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 |  The Hen Report: “Do Something Substantive” | Why Anti-Factory Farming Needs Diet Change | In this episode of The Hen Report from Our Hen House, Jasmin and Mariann dig into the tension within the animal protection movement over anti-factory farming messaging that stops short of asking people to eat fewer animals. Inspired by Mariann’s Substack piece Expanding the Tent and Jasmin’s experience at an op-ed writing workshop, the two trace this strategic issue through historical… | 36m 41s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 |  Farm Action, Dairy’s Beef Hustle, H-2A Visas, and Dead Wolves | Rising Anxieties | Mariann Sullivan breaks down why the meat industry is panicking about animal rights groups making common cause with small farmers, how dairy operations turned their unwanted male calves into a billion-dollar beef sideline (20% of the US beef supply and counting), and why the H-2A visa program is a legal nightmare for an industry that runs on exploited labor. Plus: Colorado… | 26m 13s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 |  “Marshmallows Are Their Favoriteâ€: Inside a Primate Lab with Undercover Investigator Lindsay Oliver | Award-winning undercover investigator Lindsay Oliver joins Jasmin and Mariann to discuss her groundbreaking work inside a national primate research center and her new memoir, Marshmallows Are Their Favorite: Undercover at a Primate Lab. Over a two-decade career spanning more than 100 investigations across factory farms, research labs, zoos, and circuses, Lindsay shares what it’s really like to go undercover in facilities… | 56m 22s | ||||||
| 10/1/26 |  The Hen Report: Inside the 207-Mile March to Abolish Animal Testing | In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin and Mariann sit down with Gretchen Primack and Ella Magers to debrief the historic March to Abolish Animal Testing (MAAT) — a 207-mile trek from Albany to Marshall Bioresources, the country’s largest breeder of dogs for animal experimentation. The organizers share what it took to mobilize over 1,000 people in just three and… | 42m 37s | ||||||
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| 9/29/26 |  Wool, Wealth, and Walking Out: Why the Animal Industry Is Having a Terrible Week | Rising Anxieties | Marshall BioResources is big mad about Our Hen House, the Animal Agriculture Alliance thinks animal activists are secretly swimming in a billion dollars, and a UK newspaper is very upset that PETA has the audacity to care about sheep. Meanwhile, a Smithfield plant worker becomes the fourth death on the job, a rancher writes a whole essay pretending climate change isn’t… | 19m 37s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 |  The Trump Administration Is Dismantling the Endangered Species Act | In this episode of The Animal Law Podcast, Mariann Sullivan speaks with Eric Glitzenstein, Director of Litigation at the Center for Biological Diversity, about what he calls the most extreme attack on the Endangered Species Act in its history. They break down two unprecedented actions by the Trump administration: the elimination of the long-standing regulatory definition of “harm” that protected endangered… | 1h 07m 57s | ||||||
| 9/24/26 |  The Hen Report: “The Ultimate Goal” | Vegan Advocacy, Factory Farming & the Future of “The Movement” | In this episode of The Hen Report from Our Hen House, hosts Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan unpack the growing differences in approaches within the animal protection movement between some large organizations and some grassroots activists. They examine how some major groups are currently framing their “end factory farming” missions — often without naming a clear end state or using the… | 39m 10s | ||||||
| 9/22/26 |  Assault at the Runway: PETA, Drones, and Other Things the Industry Hates | Rising Anxieties | This week, Mariann Sullivan is in a mood — and who can blame her? A fashion industry executive body-slams PETA protesters at a runway show, and The New York Post wants you to feel bad about a foie gras ban. The FAA is investigating the drone pilots who keep catching ranchers in the act of abusing animals. Plus: screwworm makes a… | 20m 44s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 |  VeriBark’s Marie Gibbons on Decoding Dog Body Language — And What’s Next for Farmed Animals | Marie Gibbons, co-founder and CEO of VeriBark, joins Our Hen House to explain how her AI-powered app analyzes over 130 dog body signals and vocalizations to help pet parents understand what their dogs are really communicating. The conversation digs into the science behind animal body language, the ethics of using AI in animal advocacy, and VeriBark’s ambitious roadmap to expand beyond… | 52m 02s | ||||||
| 9/17/26 |  The Hen Report: “Give Us That Last Mile” | March to Abolish Animal Testing | This week on The Hen Report, we talk with poet and activist Gretchen Primack and Sexy Fit Vegan founder Ella Magers about the March to Abolish Animal Testing — a 207-mile trek across upstate New York from Albany to Marshall BioResources, the country’s largest breeder of dogs, cats, ferrets, and pigs for animal experimentation. They dig into the logistics of supporting… | 42m 00s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 |  Billion-Dollar Bacon Panic: Big Meat’s Paranoid New Enemies List | Rising Anxieties | Rising Anxieties digs into the pork lobby’s freshly inflated “$1.07 billion animal rights conspiracy” report , the Gallup poll agribusiness loves to misquote, and a meat-trade columnist practically begging Big Beef to invent lab-grown protein before someone beats them to it. The $1.07 billion “animal rights” funding illusion Prop 12 fallout and the 2026 Farm Bill — why California’s cage-free law… | 15m 03s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 |  Sanctuaries as “Movement Infrastructure”: Simone Scampoli on Building Multispecies Community at Capra Libera Tutti | In this Our Hen House interview, Mariann Sullivan sits down with Simone Scampoli, executive director of Capra Libera Tutti animal sanctuary near Rome, Italy, to explore how sanctuaries function as spaces of transformation. Simone shares the sanctuary’s origin story, its evolving relationship with a once-exploited mountain landscape, and the philosophy of consent and animal agency that shapes every visitor interaction —… | 58m 01s | ||||||
| 9/10/26 |  The Hen Report: “It’s Horror†| Inside UW-Madison’s Secret Pig Gas Chamber | On this episode of The Hen Report, Mariann talks with recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Ryan Blum about his solo, year-in-the-making undercover investigation into the campus’s Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery building, where he captured rare footage of pigs being stunned using CO2 gas chambers. Ryan breaks down how the process works, why it directly contradicts the university’s own claims… | 40m 20s | ||||||
| 9/4/26 | theateractivism+4 | Dr. Ben Hunt | Performing Animal Rights | — | theateractivism+4 | — | 1h 01m 51s | ||
| 9/3/26 | animal rightsvegan sanctuaries+3 | — | Meyenberg | — | animal rightsvegan+3 | — | 44m 09s | ||
| 9/1/26 | animal agriculturefood prices+5 | — | animal ag industrymeat lobby+1 | — | animal agriculturefood prices+5 | — | 26m 16s | ||
| 8/28/26 | animal lawanimal rescue+4 | Taj Uppal | Vera Goat DairyMeyenberg Goat Milk+2 | CaliforniaKings County | animal lawbaby goats+6 | — | 53m 08s | ||
| 8/27/26 | veganismconsumerism+3 | Marielle Vigneau-Britt | Totally ForkableThe Financial Diet | — | veganconsumerism+3 | — | 41m 55s | ||
| 8/25/26 | animal agriculturefactory farms+4 | — | pork lobbydairy industry+2 | — | factory farmsanimal rights+5 | — | 29m 12s | ||
| 8/21/26 | animal rightsdog rescue+3 | Jennifer Raymond | Humboldt Critters Without LittersMiranda’s Rescue | Humboldt CountyCalifornia | animal activismdog rescue scandal+3 | — | 44m 40s | ||
| 8/20/26 | animal rightslegislation+4 | — | Save Our Bacon ActRidglan Farms+3 | — | animal rightslegislation+5 | — | 33m 03s | ||
| 8/18/26 | animal rightsveganism+5 | — | CongressUSDA | WisconsinBrazil | undercover videosvegan supermarket+5 | — | 27m 38s | ||
| 8/7/26 | animal advocacyfactory farming+4 | Björn Ólafsson | More Than Meats The EyeBetter Food Foundation+1 | — | animal rightsmeat reduction+4 | — | 1h 06m 56s | ||
| 7/21/26 | animal rightslitigation+4 | — | Animal Ag Alliance | Oregon | litigation anxietyOregon IP 28+4 | — | 28m 00s | ||
| 7/17/26 | veganismanimal rights+5 | Renee King-Sonnen | Rowdy Girl SanctuaryRowdy Girl: Confessions of a Vegan Cattle Rancher | — | vegananimal rights+5 | — | 53m 38s | ||
| 7/10/26 | animal rescuedairy industry+4 | Joanna ZelmanDr. Jared Zelman | Cow TripMaryland farm sanctuary+1 | — | dairy calvesanimal rescue+5 | — | 51m 51s | ||
| 7/9/26 | animal advocacyvegan food policy+3 | — | RFK Jr. | New York City | animal rightsveganism+3 | — | 34m 15s | ||
| 7/7/26 | animal rightsactivism+4 | — | Ridglan FarmsUSDA+1 | — | Ridglan FarmsUSDA+6 | — | 24m 16s | ||
| 7/3/26 | environmental activismcopper mining+3 | Sol AnzorenaTom Grotewohl | Protect the Porkies | Porcupine MountainsLake Superior+2 | copper minePorcupine Mountains+3 | — | 59m 49s | ||
| 7/2/26 | animal rightsconstitutional law+4 | Michael Dorf | Supreme Court | — | animal rightsSupreme Court+5 | — | 42m 50s | ||
| 6/30/26 | legal developmentspolicy news+5 | — | dairy industrylivestock industry | Canada | chickensCanada+6 | — | 18m 11s | ||
| 6/26/26 | animal lawanimal rights+4 | Wayne HsiungChris Carraway+1 | University of Denver’s Animal Activist Legal Defense Project | CaliforniaSunrise Farms+1 | animal lawWayne Hsiung+5 | — | 1h 20m 34s | ||
| 6/25/26 | animal rightsbiomedical research+3 | Neha Nataraj | Perelman School of MedicineJohns Hopkins+1 | — | animal rightslab research+4 | — | 53m 45s | ||
| 6/12/26 | animal rightscrisis intervention+4 | Liliana PachecoGregg Tully | Animals Unbound | — | Animals Unboundanimal crisis+5 | — | 52m 48s | ||
| 6/11/26 | animal rightslegislative victories+3 | — | PortlandNew York State+1 | — | animal rightslegislation+3 | — | 28m 19s | ||
| 6/9/26 | animal rightsmeat industry+4 | — | Oregonmeat industry | Texas | Screwwormmeat industry+6 | — | 23m 27s | ||
| 6/5/26 | animal captivityzoos+3 | Dr. Liz Tyson | Born Free USA | Bronx Zoo | animal captivityzoos+3 | — | 59m 27s | ||
| 6/4/26 | animal advocacyveganism+4 | — | LA TimesGoverning Bodies | — | animal rightsveganism+3 | — | 36m 09s | ||
| 6/2/26 | animal agricultureveganism+4 | — | screw wormmeat industry | — | animal agricultureveganism+5 | — | 21m 44s | ||
| 5/29/26 | labor rightsfarmworker exploitation+4 | Amal Bouhabib | FarmSTAND | GuatemalaU.S. | J-1 visalabor trafficking+5 | — | 57m 54s | ||
| 5/28/26 | animal rightsveganism+4 | — | Oregon IP28meat industry+1 | — | animal rightsvegan+4 | — | 29m 07s | ||
| 5/22/26 | animal rescueanimal rights+3 | Tim Woodward | Animal Rescue Corps | — | animal rescueTim Woodward+6 | — | 1h 02m 21s | ||
| 5/21/26 | animal activismemotional sustainability+3 | Gretchen Primack | Ridglan FarmsMarshall BioResources | — | animal advocacyemotional support+4 | — | 47m 05s | ||
| 5/19/26 | animal agricultureanimal rights+4 | — | North Carolina State UniversityUSDA | — | animal agriculturesuffocation+3 | — | 19m 06s | ||
| 5/15/26 | Buddhismanimal advocacy+4 | Andrea Diaz | Dharma Voices for Animals | Sri LankaVietnam+2 | Buddhismanimal rights+5 | — | 37m 08s | ||
| 5/14/26 | cage-free eggshumane washing+3 | Amber Canavan | PETA | — | cage-free eggshumane washing+4 | — | 28m 11s | ||
| 5/12/26 | animal agriculturemeat industry+4 | — | Big BeefBig Egg | — | animal agricultureBillie Eilish+5 | — | 20m 20s | ||
| 5/8/26 | animal experimentationanimal rights+4 | Lindsey Soffes | Rise for AnimalsRidglan Farms | — | animal experimentationanimal rights+5 | — | 59m 05s | ||
| 5/7/26 | animal rightslegislation+3 | Matthew Dominguez | Compassion in World FarmingSave Our Bacon Act+1 | — | Save Our Bacon Actfarm animal protection+3 | — | 47m 08s | ||
| 5/5/26 | animal lawplant-based alternatives+3 | — | plant-based alternativesHarvard Law School+2 | — | Harvard Law SchoolAnimal Law Clinic+3 | — | 18m 46s | ||
| 5/1/26 | documentary activismanimal rights+3 | Ray Cruzzola | World Change Media | — | documentaryanimal rights+4 | — | 29m 35s | ||
| 4/30/26 | animal rightsveganism+3 | — | — | — | animal liberationvegan+3 | — | 33m 33s | ||
| 4/28/26 | animal rightsfactory farming+3 | — | — | — | anti-factory farminganimal rights movement+3 | — | 15m 08s | ||
| 4/24/26 | Endangered Species Actlegal ruling+3 | Noah Greenwald | Center for Biological DiversityEndangered Species Act | Northern District of California | Endangered Species Actcourt ruling+4 | — | 1h 07m 37s | ||
| 4/23/26 | animal advocacyveganism+3 | Julia Reinelt | AVA International | Toronto | AVA Summitanimal rights+3 | — | 34m 57s | ||
| 4/21/26 | factory farminganimal rights+4 | — | Ridglandairy+3 | — | factory farmanimal liberation+4 | — | 17m 28s | ||
| 4/17/26 | ethical veganismlegal protection+4 | Jordi Casamitjana | UK | — | ethical veganismlegal protection+5 | — | 55m 44s | ||
| 4/16/26 | animal rightsactivism+3 | — | Ridglan Farms | — | animal activismbeagle liberation+4 | — | 34m 34s | ||
| 4/14/26 | animal agricultureOregon ballot initiative+3 | — | Oregonegg board | — | animal agricultureOregon+3 | — | 23m 24s | ||
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Chart history for Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation
Peaked at #124 in PL, currently #124 in PL.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL | — | #124 | #124 | — |
| Canada | — | #128 | #128 | — |
| VN | — | #142 | #142 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #161 | #161 | — |
| CZ | — | #177 | #177 | — |
| Brazil | — | #180 | #180 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #193 | #193 | — |
Chart Positions
7 placements across 7 markets.
Chart Positions
7 placements across 7 markets.