Is the key to reaching more people with a vegan message to stop talking about the horrors that we want to end and start talking more about what we want to create? That’s what Matthew Halteman is aiming for with his new book Hungry, Beautiful Animals, and he joins us this week to discuss details of the book and his theory of change.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Matthew C. Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. He is the author of the just-released Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, as well as Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation, and the co-editor of Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

• Hungry, Beautiful Animals website
• Matthew C Halteman on Facebook
• Matthew Halteman on LinkedIn
• Hungry, Beautiful Animals on Hachette Books

RESOURCES

• • Trump’s Con
  • Squirrels, whales, bears: why is the road to the White House strewn with dead animals?
  • Starbucks won’t charge extra for plant-based milk. Other companies should follow.
  • California County to Pay $300,000 Over Butchering of Girl’s Goat
  • 43 lab monkeys escaped in South Carolina. They have a legal claim to freedom.
  • Scarlet Spark website
  • Scarlet Spark’s Skill Sparks landing page
  • Scarlet Spark’s free leadership skills workshops
  • Scarlet Spark’s leadership tools

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From unmasking fake “rescues” on social media to getting stories placed in major media outlets, the work of Lady Freethinker tells people all over the world about some of the worst things that are happening to animals and, crucially, what they can do about it. This week, we are joined by Nina Jackel to hear about her work publicizing and fighting to shut down cruelty to animals.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

 

Nina Jackel is a global activist and journalist effecting change for animals through her nonprofit media organization, Lady Freethinker, which has published thousands of news articles and petitions against animal cruelty. Nina’s work has been covered in major media outlets, including The New York Times, People, Newsweek, National Geographic, The Guardian, Salon, The Daily Mail, and many others. She believes that humans can evolve for the better through reason and compassion and feels that animal protection is among the most important social justice issues of our time.

 

RESOURCES

• • Why are people still moving to high-risk climate areas?
  • Rescued cows inspire S. Korean village’s vegan move to draw younger residents
  • Landmark Victory In Romania After Fur Farming Ban Is Approved By Parliament
  • Lady Freethinker website
  • Lady Freethinker on Instagram
  • Lady Freethinker on Facebook
  • Lady Freethinker on X (formerly Twitter)

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 8th to 10th, 2024. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

 

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Join us this week as Jasmin and Mariann discuss the latest news from the world of animal rights. Plus, we share Jasmin’s keynote address to the Rochester UN as a special treat.

RESOURCES

• • Vegan Posse podcast on Youtube
  • Animal Law Podcast #113
  • Tracking the U.S. bird flu outbreak has been hard. It’s about to get harder
  • Exclusive: State and industry input led US farm agency to relax bird flu testing order for cows
  • Fish farming was supposed to be sustainable. But there’s a giant catch.
  • Why celebrities like Lizzo are ditching the vegan diet
  • Do Not Pin Your Hopes for Guilt-Free Hamburgers on Seaweed
  • Can an elephant sue to leave a zoo? Colorado’s top court must now decide
  • Fluffy Feeling Ill? N.Y.C. Workers May Get Sick Leave to Care for Pets.
  • Current and former CPW commissioners endorse Prop 127
  • THE FBI’S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PROGRAM HAS A NEW TARGET: ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

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Turning a goat dairy farm into a goat sanctuary isn’t something that happens every day. But that’s exactly what just happened in Bloomington, Indiana, and Nicole Schonemann is here to share the whole beautiful story.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Nicole Schonemann is one of the four original founders of the Goat Conspiracy, a former goat dairy farm in Bloomington, Indiana, that is now a goat sanctuary. She began this journey with a very naive understanding of dairy, and, as a result, she learned that dairy, even when done as well as possible, leaves sustainability and animal welfare gaps that are impossible to close.  She and her partner thus began their own journey towards veganism, away from dairy farming, and helped to start the Goat Conspiracy Sanctuary.  In the fall of 2023, they started Planted Bloomington (a plant-based food truck and catering biz) and are now immersed in their current project of converting the former creamery into a vegan commercial kitchen.

 

RESOURCES

• • ‘The Sting’ Oscar Winner David S. Ward to Direct Biopic on Plant-Based Nutrition Pioneer Dr. T. Colin Campbell (EXCLUSIVE)
  • Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health
  • Watermelon Seed Milk Is The Latest Dairy-Free Innovation
  • SECRET RECORDINGS SHOW UGLY CONDITIONS AHEAD OF DENVER’S SLAUGHTERHOUSE BAN REFERENDUM
  • The Goat Conspiracy website
  • The Goat Conspiracy on Instagram
  • The Goat Conspiracy on Facebook
  • Planted Bloomington website
  • Planted Bloomington on Instagram
  • Planted Bloomington on Facebook

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 8th to 10th, 2024. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

 

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More vegan options for everybody? Yes, please!!! Britty Mann of Planted Society joins us to tell us about their Plant Based for the Planet Initiative, which encourages local restaurants to put delicious plant-based options on the menu.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

 

Britty Mann is the Founder & Executive Director of Planted Society, a nonprofit whose mission is making plant-based eating more accessible to ensure a better future for the planet and all living beings. Planted Society manages the Plant Based for the Planet initiative, which works closely with climate offices, small businesses, and local governments to help cities reduce their environmental impact. Britty believes that we all have the capacity to help improve the food system, starting with fostering change in our own small networks and local communities, and affirming our instinctive connection with animals.

 

RESOURCES

• • Therisina on X (formerly Twitter)
  • Dr Crystal Heath on X (formerly Twitter)
  • Online course: The science behind alternative proteins
  • ‘Shocking’: Bird-Flu Infected Cattle Dumped at California Roadside
  • Physicians Committee Survey Finds Most Americans Favor Ending Animal Research
  • Tim Spector, Chris Packham, And Health Experts Urge NHS To Go Plant-Based
  • Italian Meat Giant Gruppo Tonazzo Stops Selling Meat
  • Planted Society website
  • Planted Society on Instagram
  • Planted Society on Facebook

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 8th to 10th, 2024. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

 

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Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

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Interested in keeping chicken poop out of your garden? If we want to overhaul the food system, we are going to have to start from the ground up, literally. This week, Meg Kelly of the Veganic Summit joins us to share her tips and tricks for converting your garden, or your farm, to a veganic wonderland.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

 

An avid gardener, Meg Kelly has been growing food veganically for 15 years in backyards, on balconies, and in the countryside and is an outspoken advocate for veganic growing. In 2008, she co-founded the Veganic Agriculture Network to promote organic food production that uses fully plant-based fertilizers without any animal byproducts. She also teaches the Learn Veganic online gardening course to empower people to grow their own fruits and vegetables at home using sustainable vegan techniques. Meg is organizing the upcoming Veganic Summit, a free 3-day online event about veganic gardening and farming happening from November 8th-10th, 2024.

 

RESOURCES

• • Animal Rights Are Women’s Rights: Why British Suffragettes Went Vegetarian
  • First Human Cases of Bird Flu in California Confirmed
  • Are plant burgers better than beef? Here’s how to decide.
  • Veganic Summit website
  • Learn Veganic gardening course
  • Free veganic gardening guide
  • Learn Veganic on Facebook
  • Learn Veganic Instagram
  • Veganic Agriculture Network
  • Scarlet Spark website
  • Scarlet Spark’s Skill Sparks landing page
  • Scarlet Spark’s free leadership skills workshops
  • Scarlet Spark’s leadership tools

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 8th to 10th, 2024. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

 

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We are joined this week by Tom Harris to discuss his new book, Your Neighbour Kills Puppies: Inside the Animal Liberation Movement, which tells the story of the legendary SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty) campaign, which not only forever changed how the animal rights movement was viewed by the powers that be but also ended up with Tom, along with many others on both sides of the Atlantic, serving years in prison.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

 

Described as ‘a firebrand’ by the Daily Mail and ‘highly successful’ by Hampshire Police, Tom Harris (author of Your Neighbour Kills Puppies) has twenty years of experience in the animal liberation movement. He has launched and coordinated numerous pressure campaigns, successfully closing puppy farms, shuttering chicken units, and ending military diving experiments on goats. He was a prominent organizer of the infamous SHAC campaign, for which he was set up by the state and spent several years in prison.

 

 

RESOURCES

• • VICTORY! Rat Birth Control Trial Passes Unanimously in New York City Council
  • BioCraft’s cultivated mouse meat reaches price parity with premium pet food
  • Our Taste for Flesh Has Exhausted the Earth
  • Is Meat Eating a Religion? What is the role of motivated ignorance in what we believe?
  • Microplastics in the human body: the hidden threat
  • SHAC Justice website
  • Your Neighbor Kills Puppies from Pluto Press

 

 

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The Veganic Summit is a free online event from November 8th to 10th, 2024. You’ll learn how plant foods can be grown using techniques that are both vegan and organic, without any chemical fertilizers or any animal byproducts like manure or bonemeal. If you’d like to start your own veganic garden or learn about sustainable plant-based farming, sign up for the Veganic Summit today at https://veganicsummit.com/

 

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Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

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The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.

California’s ban on the sale of puppies in pet stores solved the puppy mill issue for the state, right? Not so fast! LA Times’ investigative reporters Melody Gutierrez and Alene Tchekmedyian join us this week to discuss all they uncovered in their deep dive into the dark underbelly of the puppy trade in California. Also, Midge Raymond and John Yunker of Eco-Lit books tell us about their latest mystery-thriller, Devil’s Island.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Melody Gutierrez and Alene Tchekmedyian are investigative reporters at the Los Angeles Times. They recently co-authored an investigation into California’s brutal underground market for puppies.

• Inside California’s brutal underground market for puppies: Neglected dogs, deceived owners, big profits
• Did your dog come from the puppy pipeline?
• California’s underground puppy trade ‘raises serious alarms’ and demands for state action

 

 

RESOURCES

• • Our Taste for Flesh Has Exhausted the Earth
  • Pro-Animal Awards website
  • EcoLit Books website
  • Midge Raymond & John Yunker’s website
  • Devil’s Island on bookshop.org
  • photo © 2024 Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times

 

 

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Sanctuaries play a vital role in connecting people to the victims of animal agriculture. This week, we are joined by Sarah Salluzo & Jonina Turzi, co-founders of Lancaster Farm Sanctuary, to discuss the sanctuary, its residents, and the challenges that come along with running a refuge.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Sarah Salluzzo co-founded Lancaster Farm Sanctuary (LFS) in 2017. She holds an MSW and MA in media studies and previously worked in substance abuse rehabilitation. She now works full-time at LFS as the Executive Director and is the board president.

Jonina co-founded Lancaster Farm Sanctuary in 2017 to advance the well-being of humans and animals. She previously founded a yoga studio and led yoga classes and teacher trainings. She holds a Doctorate of Physical Therapy and owns a private PT practice in Lancaster City.

 

RESOURCES

• • Macrophysiological System’s post on X (formerly Twitter)
  • Confessions of a Former Carnivore
  • Lancaster Farm Sanctuary website
  • Lancaster Farm Sanctuary on Patreon
  • Lancaster Farm Sanctuary on Instagram
  • Lancaster Farm Sanctuary on Facebook
  • Scarlet Spark website
  • Scarlet Spark’s Skill Sparks landing page
  • Scarlet Spark’s free leadership skills workshops
  • Scarlet Spark’s leadership tools

 

 

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Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

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Without slaughterhouses, animal agriculture is over. So let’s do it! This week, we are joined by Shannon Blair and Malaina Watts, who both worked tirelessly to block the creation of two new slaughterhouses in Florida and helped put an end to an illegal slaughter operation as well.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Shannon Blair’s journey toward animal liberation began at age nine after she saw footage of animals suffering for food and became an activist on the spot. After years as a vegetarian, she went vegan on the same day as her son, VeganEvan, and since 2017, Shannon and her family have been on a mission to advocate, educate, and activate, traveling across the country to support animal rights. She is a Certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach & Educator, President of Solutionary Species, co-founder of Animal Activism Mentorship, a co-organizer for Plant Based Treaty Florida, and the Plant Based Community Coordinator for Solid Rock Community School. 

Malaina Watts has been dedicated to creating a more compassionate and sustainable world since 2016. A committed vegan, Malaina has also journeyed across the country, immersing herself in activism that bridges the gap between grassroots movements and large-scale institutional change, including pressure campaigns, protests, food giveaways, council meetings, workshops, livestreams, marches, vigils, disruptions, educational events, and more. As a Mentor with Animal Activism Mentorship, Malaina has nurtured the next generation of activists,  and she is also the U.S. Liaison and Campaigner with the Plant Based Treaty, advocating for policies prioritizing sustainability, animal rights, and environmental stewardship.

RESOURCES

• • Ellie CG on X (formerly Twitter)
  • Effects of increasing the availability of vegetarian options on main meal choices, meal offer satisfaction and liking: a pre-post analysis in a French university cafeteria
  • No Evidence Haitian Immigrants Are Eating Ducks, Geese or Pets in Springfield, Ohio
  • Plant Based Treaty Florida on Facebook
  • Plant Based Treaty Florida on Instagram
  • Solutionary Species on Facebook
  • Solutionary Species on Instagram
  • Watts Vegan Living on Instagram
  • Malaina Watts on Facebook
  • Shannon Blair on Instagram
  • Shannon Blair on Facebook

 

 

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The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.

Don’t you wish you could vote on whether you want a slaughterhouse in your city? Well, this year, in Denver, you can. Aidan Kankyoku of Pro-Animal Future joins us this week to tell us about the ever-growing movement to use citizens’ initiatives to put animals on the ballot.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Aidan Kankyoku is a researcher focused on developing new strategies for the social movement wing of the farmed animal advocacy space. He co-founded Pax Fauna for that purpose in 2021, which led in 2023 to the launch of Pro-Animal Future, marrying the mass grassroots energy of the animal rights movement with a sober political strategy. Since getting started as a community organizer with Direct Action Everywhere in Colorado in 2015, Aidan has been immersed in studying the craft of disruptive mass movements. Besides spending years organizing in the animal freedom movement, Aidan has gained a broad perspective on mass movement building through hands-on experience at the Standing Rock #NoDAPL protests in South Dakota, Extinction Rebellion in London, and elsewhere. He has spent years seeking out new tools and methods for organizing, from better digital communication platforms to organizational governance systems like Holacracy, in order to lay the groundwork for Pax Fauna and a new mass movement for animal freedom.

RESOURCES

• How climate change is disrupting wildlife and displacing animal sanctuaries
• Namibia plans to kill more than 700 animals including elephants and hippos — and distribute the meat
• Pro-Animal Future website
• Pax Fauna website
• Pro-Animal Future on X (formerly Twitter)
• Pro-Animal Future on Instagram
• Pro-Animal Future on Facebook
• Scarlet Spark website
• Scarlet Spark’s Skill Sparks landing page
• Scarlet Spark’s free leadership skills workshops
• Scarlet Spark’s leadership tools

 

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Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcatcher, and don’t forget to leave a 5-star review!

Check out Our Hen House’s other podcasts: The Animal Law Podcast, The Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, and the Antiracism in Animal Advocacy Audio Series.

Follow us on social media! You can find Our Hen House on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or X (formerly Twitter).

The Our Hen House theme song is written and performed by Michael Harren.