Our Hen House

Episode 107: “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

Posted on28. Jan, 2012 by Jasmin and Mariann.

 Welcome to the 107^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Matt Rossell from Animal Defenders International. 

In today’s episode, we will tell you about the animal rights character we learned about in The Canterbury Tales, and why we…

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Episode 106: “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.”

Posted on21. Jan, 2012 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 106^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Erik Marcus from Vegan.com. 

In today’s episode, we gripe about the recent NYC subway ads that center around reducing your portion size as a way to reduce disease.…

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Episode 105: “When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

Posted on14. Jan, 2012 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 105^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Lori Gruen. 

In today’s episode, we discuss our foray into Brooklyn to visit the new all-vegan establishment that’s garnering tons of buzz, Dunwell Doughnuts. We’ll also…

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Episode 104: “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”

Posted on07. Jan, 2012 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 104^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Bruce Friedrich from Farm Sanctuary. 

In today’s episode, we will discuss what makes some people act in unethical ways. This topic was inspired by a couple we passed…

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Episode 103: “Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.”

Posted on31. Dec, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 103^rd episode of Our Hen House, featuring Gena Hamshaw from Choosing Raw.

In today’s episode, we are putting aside our stomach virus and sharing with you – not our virus – but our feelings about…

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Episode 102: “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

Posted on24. Dec, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 102^nd episode of Our Hen House, featuring Jamie Kilstein from Citizen Radio. 

In today’s episode, as Christmas approaches, we are doing our best to be nice and not naughty… but we’re failing miserably. We will…

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Episode 101: “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

Posted on17. Dec, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 101^st episode of Our Hen House, featuring Liuba Grechen from Sweet Cheeks Vegan Bakery, with a special appearance by vegan artist extraordinaire, Sue Coe. 

In today’s episode, we discuss our recent foray into…

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Episode 100: “This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals.”

Posted on10. Dec, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 100^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Peter Singer and Isa Chandra Moskowitz.

In today’s monumental episode, we will talk about the Food Activism for the Holidays workshop we gave last…

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Episode 99: “Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”

Posted on03. Dec, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 99^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Miriam Jones of VINE Sanctuary and Debra Kowalski of For the Animals Sanctuary. 

In today’s episode, we will discuss the label “activist.” We’ll talk…

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Episode 98: “…find the common ground that will bring us together in our efforts.”

Posted on26. Nov, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 98^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis from Maple Farm Sanctuary and Bill Crain from Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary. 

In today’s episode, we will tell you about everything from our excursion…

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Episode 97: “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

Posted on19. Nov, 2011 by Jasmin Singer.

Welcome to the 97^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Kim Stallwood.

In today’s episode, Jasmin will tell you about her vegan whirlwind trip to San Francisco, including the food, the rad, and smugly. Meanwhile, back in New…

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Episode 96: “If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.”

Posted on12. Nov, 2011 by Jasmin Singer.

Welcome to the 96^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Elizabeth Hess.

In today’s episode, we will tell you about our trip to Jersey, including the activism talk we gave in Montclair, and the vegan restaurants…

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Episode 95: “You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.”

Posted on05. Nov, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 95^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Will Potter from Green is the New Red. 

In today’s episode, we will tell you all about our trips to New Orleans and Boston – both of which…

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Episode 94: “Compassion is the basis of all morality.”

Posted on29. Oct, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 94^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Dr. Michael Greger and Sally Tamarkin. 

In today’s episode, we share our thoughts on everything from the woman who won a contest with the reward of…

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Episode 93: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

Posted on22. Oct, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 93^rd episode of Our Hen House, featuring Maneesha Deckha, Bruce Wagman, Jaclyn Leeds, Peter Sankoff, Sarah Baeckler, Kristen Stilt, and Joyce Tischler. 

In…

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Episode 92: “There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

Posted on15. Oct, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 92^nd episode of Our Hen House, featuring musician Kirsti Gholson, and  Australian activist, Leigh-Chantelle. 

In today’s episode, we discuss everything from black bean brownies, to our thoughts on the importance of finding synergy…

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Episode 91: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Posted on08. Oct, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 91^st episode of Our Hen House, featuring Liz Marshall from The Ghosts in Our Machine.

In today’s episode, we’ll give our thoughts on Occupy Wall Street – a quickly growing movement aimed to…

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Episode 90: “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

Posted on01. Oct, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 90^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring vegan bodybuilder Robert Cheeke. 

In today’s episode, we’ll give you our thoughts on an event we attended that featured Frances Moore Lappe. (Let’s just say that…

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Episode 89: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

Posted on24. Sep, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 89^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Carolyn Merino Mullin from the National Museum of Animals & Society. 

In today’s episode, we give you our thoughts about a vegan art show we attended,…

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Episode 88: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

Posted on17. Sep, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 88^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Danielle Konya of Vegan Treats. 

In today’s episode, we tell you all about our vegan adventures in Bethlehem, PA, where we were speaking at the Bethlehem…

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Episode 87: “This is winter wheat we’re sowing, and other hands will harvest.”

Posted on10. Sep, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 87th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Ben Grossblatt from Suicide Food. 

In today’s episode, we will ruminate on everything from the use of anger in our activism, to our fascination with growing…

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Episode 86: “We cannot believe that if we refuse to look at what we do not wish to see, it will not exist.”

Posted on03. Sep, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 86th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Jess Scone (of Vida Vegan Con, Get Sconed, and Stumptown Vegans), Chelsea Lincoln (of Flavor Vegan), and 6 1/2 year old lifelong…

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Episode 85: “Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”

Posted on27. Aug, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 85^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Carol J. Adams. 

In today’s episode, we explore vegan mentions in non-vegan-specific books, examine our I-just-don’t-get-it attitude towards avant garde art and how we’d much rather look at…

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Episode 84: “Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”

Posted on20. Aug, 2011 by Jasmin Singer.

Welcome to the 84^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, with a special appearance from Jasmin’s 87-year-old veg grandma, Sherrey Glickman. 

In today’s episode, we will ruminate on everything from animal rights poetry to an offensive…

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Episode 83: “Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.”

Posted on13. Aug, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 83^rd episode of Our Hen House, featuring Jo-Anne McArthur of We Animals, Karol Orzechowski of Maximum Tolerated Dose, with special guests Jessica Almy of VegBooks, and our very own Hollywood correspondent,…

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Episode 82: “If the times aren’t ripe, you have to ripen the times.”

Posted on06. Aug, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 82^nd episode of Our Hen House, featuring Farm Sanctuary‘s National Shelter Director, Susie Coston. 

In today’s episode, we tell you about our vegan happenings back here in New York City, including a frolic uptown to…

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Episode 81: “When no one else cared, I can tell you, the little old ladies cared.”

Posted on30. Jul, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 81^st episode of Our Hen House, featuring Jackie Horrick of Alternative Outfitters, and Ari Solomon of A Scent of Scandal Candles. 

In today’s episode, we come to you from Los Angeles, California, where…

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Episode 80: “…extend to the whole creation.”

Posted on23. Jul, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 80th episode of Our Hen House, featuring filmmaker Marisa Miller Wolfson, powerhouse behind the new movie Vegucated. 

In today’s episode, we will talk about the new vegan item at Starbucks and the backlash…

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Episode 79: “… All things are connected.”

Posted on16. Jul, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 79^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring bestselling author of Skinny Bitch, powerhouse Rory Freedman. 

In today’s episode, we give you the skinny on our trip to Rockaway Beach here in NYC, and all the amazing, mindblowing…

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Episode 78: “…the end of the beginning.”

Posted on09. Jul, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 78^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Kelly Peloza and David Wolfson. 

In today’s episode, we talk about everything from the vegan ice cream we found at the Jersey Shore (Eddie Confetti), to the long-debated…

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Episode 77: “…take out of our desires and our visions a template or a pattern for the future.”

Posted on02. Jul, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 77^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Beth Gallie, Susan Rooker, and Betsy Carson.

In today’s episode, we come to you from Portland, Maine, where we are speaking at the Maine Vegetarian Festival and experiencing…

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Episode 76: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Posted on25. Jun, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 76^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring vegan cookbook author Terry Hope Romero, and Mad City Vegan Fest co-organizer, Courtney Mayhew.

In today’s special expanded episode, we come to you from Madison,…

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Episode 75: “A time comes when silence is betrayal.”

Posted on18. Jun, 2011 by Jasmin and Mariann.

Welcome to the 75^th episode of Our Hen House, featuring Myq Kaplan.

In today’s episode, we will tell you about Mariann’s talk on farm animal law for the activist, Jasmin’s new article on the connections between…

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