Episodes

  • Grassroots Vegan Activism That Works: Inside Vegan Outreach’s Vegan Chef Challenge

    Grassroots Vegan Activism That Works: Inside Vegan Outreach’s Vegan Chef Challenge
    Oct 9 2026
    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…
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    57 mins
  • Wool, Wealth, and Walking Out: Why the Animal Industry Is Having a Terrible Week | Rising Anxieties

    Wool, Wealth, and Walking Out: Why the Animal Industry Is Having a Terrible Week | Rising Anxieties
    Sep 29 2026
    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…
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    20 mins
  • The Hen Report: Inside the 207-Mile March to Abolish Animal Testing

    The Hen Report: Inside the 207-Mile March to Abolish Animal Testing
    Oct 1 2026
    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…
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    43 mins
  • “Marshmallows Are Their Favorite”: Inside a Primate Lab with Undercover Investigator Lindsay Oliver

    “Marshmallows Are Their Favorite”: Inside a Primate Lab with Undercover Investigator Lindsay Oliver
    Oct 2 2026
    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…
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    56 mins
  • Farm Action, Dairy’s Beef Hustle, H-2A Visas, and Dead Wolves | Rising Anxieties

    Farm Action, Dairy’s Beef Hustle, H-2A Visas, and Dead Wolves | Rising Anxieties
    Oct 6 2026
    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…
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    26 mins
  • The Hen Report: “Do Something Substantive” | Why Anti-Factory Farming Needs Diet Change

    The Hen Report: “Do Something Substantive” | Why Anti-Factory Farming Needs Diet Change
    Oct 8 2026
    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…
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    37 mins
  • The Hen Report: “This Is Big” | NYC Bans Horse Carriages

    The Hen Report: “This Is Big” | NYC Bans Horse Carriages
    Oct 15 2026
    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…
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    27 mins
  • Animal Politics and AI | Rising Anxieties

    Animal Politics and AI | Rising Anxieties
    Oct 27 2026
    This week, we cover a parasitic worm inching through Texas via a dead elk on a game ranch, ChatGPT’s suspicious habit of painting factory farms as pastoral paradises, a Tyson mobile barn designed to gaslight children, the UK’s surprising willingness to ditch meat for food security, and a New York Post columnist who thinks banning carriage horses is socialism. Also: factory…
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    23 mins