Hi everyone. Jasmin Singer here, once again! The kitchen (of Vegucated writer, director, and editor Marisa Miller Wolfson) was still standing after Episode 4, so I joined Chef Laura Delhauer there again for Episode 5 of the Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast ! Today, we’ll cook up some lentils and make some mashed potatoes. You can put the two over or under – or keep them on …
Hi everyone. Jasmin Singer here, once again! I initiated a new chef and hazed a new kitchen on Episode 4 of the Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast ! I go nuts with Chef Laura Delhauer (in the kitchen of Vegucated writer, director, and editor Marisa Miller Wolfson) and make some love-filled delights for February. We’ll start with dessert (or breakfast) Peanut Butter Cups, turn …
Hi friends, I’m excited to announce that my memoir, Always Too Much and Never Enough, has come out today through Penguin Random House’s Berkley. From the extra pounds and unrelenting bullies that left her eating lunch alone in a bathroom stall at school to the low self-esteem that left her both physically and emotionally vulnerable to abuse, Jasmin Singer’s struggle with weight defined …
Hi everyone. Jasmin Singer here, once again! I learned so much on Episode 1 and Episode 2 of the Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast with the incredibly talented Michael Suchman of Vegan Mos, and I was thrilled he agreed to be the first chef of 2016! Recharge with his healthy recipes and keep your New Year’s resolutions another day! In Episode 3, we’ll be making Black Bean Tomato …
Thank you from the bottom of our hen hearts!! Because of you, Our Hen House reached our goal of matching the Barnyard Benefactors’ $37,500 pool!! We’ll put $75,000 to work to change the world for animals in 2016! Huge thanks to our 2015 Barnyard Benefactors for leveraging their contributions in this way to create the largest matching pool ever for our end-of-year …
Because of you, 2015 has been our biggest and best yet! You share our deep passion and our commitment to the animals. You enable OHH to reach more people. You change the world! Before 2015 ends, I have one very important favor to ask you: Please take just a moment and click to make one last special donation today. You can …
Dear Santa, You are hugely busy these days, of course, and every day, you are being bombarded by pleas for support and donations. But if you could give us just a few minutes of your time, I’d be hugely grateful! As you might know, we were recently on a panel with Peter Singer, talking about how to have the biggest possible …
Trust me, I understand how easy it is to expect media for free. I admit that I do it too sometimes, without always realizing it. There are times when I listen to a podcast or read an article online where there are “tip jars” or pleas for donations, and I somehow manage to skim over those parts. That’s why my own personal resolution for 2016 …
Hi everyone. Jasmin Singer here, once again! I had so much fun on Episode 1 of the Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan Podcast, in which the incredibly talented Michael Suchman of Vegan Mos helped me to finally (begin to) learn how to cook, after twelve years as a vegan and eighteen as a vegetarian. Lucky for all of us, Michael …
Dear Flock, Thank you so much for taking part in the OHH flock survey in October! I want you to know how much we value your input! We really, really do! When we surveyed you in 2014, so many of your requests and suggestions were implemented into our 2015 programming and planning, and the same holds true now. I wanted to pull …
Roadkill by Jasmin Singer When I pass you I shield my eyes, avert my gaze, change my footing, gasp, wretch. What’s it all for? You’re discarded. Disregarded as nothing, as gross. As guts. You are bloody disgusting. Your tossed apart body pieces, track marks intended through you, maroon guts spilling onto the pavement like a splattered 1980s paint design, like …
Hi everyone. Jasmin Singer here. I have been vegan for 12 glorious years; vegetarian for 18. And yet, for lunch today, I had a microwaved can of peas. It’s not as though I’m a terrible cook; I have a few dishes (all of which I can prepare on the stovetop or in my high-speed blender) that I think are quite good, …
I am not quite sure what I put in my coffee the morning I decided it was appropriate to accept my fourth speaking engagement in one week, but here we are! I am very excited and honored to be speaking at a number of events next week, and I thought I’d tell you about them! And speaking of coffee, I’d better …
For the love of bunny! I’m turning 36 in one month! Your donations to my birthday fundraiser this year will be MATCHED — as will all donations made to Our Hen House between now and the end of the year — thanks to the generosity of our Barnyard Benefactors (an incredible group who we will be squawking about a bit more in the coming days and …
National Coming Out Day is coming up on October 11, which is the perfect day to spread the word about Our Hen House’s new video, Coming Out for Animals — in which a great group of passionate activists from the LGBT world talk about how they personally connected the dots and came out for animals, too. We signed up for a …
We have been looking forward to this video for a long time. All social justice movements are about extending the circle of compassion. In this new short film from Our Hen House, a great group of passionate activists from the LGBT world talk about how they personally connected the dots and came out for the animals, too. “Coming out for Animals” …
It was exciting enough when the media hub that is Our Hen House expanded its landscape once more and introduced The Animal Law Podcast, hosted by Mariann Sullivan. Add to that excitement the fact that the first guest on The Animal Law Podcast was none other than Steve Wise, of the Nonhuman Rights Project, who squawked with Mariann all about the groundbreaking …
June 30, 2015 Today would have been my beloved grandma’s 91st birthday. I had always told her that she had to live until she was 100, but, at 89 — a year and a half ago — she lost her battle with a benign but aggressive brain tumor. In honor of Grandma’s 91st birthday, I am rerunning my very favorite piece …
I already told you about the party that the Vegan Mos are throwing for Our Hen House on 6/26 in Brooklyn (we are bringing in Pride the vegan way!), and now I’m here to tell you that the tickets are going fast, so you need to get yours pronto, because — trust me — you don’t want to miss this soiree! …
Back in 2010 when we first published this spotlight on the fabulous Ella Nemcova, her company The Regal Vegan had only just launched with a couple of animal-free pates, including her infamous Faux Gras. Since then, Ella has expanded her product line, begun to offer catering and nutrition workshops, and even appeared on the very first episode of the Our Hen …
I very much hope you can come join us at this fabulous party benefiting Our Hen House’s efforts to change the world for animals, hosted by the amazing guys behind Vegan Mos, on 6/26 in Brooklyn. We are bringing in Pride the vegan way, complete with delicious food from GustOrganics (a restaurant that recently became totally vegan thanks to the incredible advocacy …
Season 3 of the Our Hen House TV show — a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media — is here, and we’re going on the road throughout Brooklyn, visiting the very best vegan spots in the borough, and speaking with some incredible changemakers. Kicking us off is Dan Dunbar, co-owner of the award-winning doughnut shop, Dunwell Doughnuts, located in Bushwick. If, as …
Dear Flock, The party of the century is coming to NYC, and its goal is to celebrate and support Our Hen House! And, let me tell you, the very best party-givers on earth are throwing it — Ethan Ciment and Michael Suchman of Vegan Mos. We wanted to give you darling flock members the first glimpse at the party, and an …
Hello Everyone! This has been quite a week for Our Hen House! First of all, our podcast was named an official Webby Award Honoree for the second time! We’re alongside much bigger (and more funded) podcasts, like HBO’s. So high fives all around to our darling flock and listeners for being so passionate about keeping vegan indie media alive, and for …
So much for thinking that animal rights and vegan media aren’t in the mainstream. Not only can I not keep up with my Google alerts for those search words, it seems that we are now flirting a bit with swimming in that very mainstream. I’m gobsmacked, and plain old thrilled to announce that for the second time, the Our Hen House …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. We are excited that today marks Season 2, Episode 31 — featuring Isha Datar, Brett Levitzke, and Erica Kubersky. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of …
Do you listen to the Our Hen House podcast? (We hope so!) Do you dig it? (WE HOPE SO!) Well, now’s your chance to help expand our listening audience by bringing a bit of mainstream attention onto our show — which, by the way, is 270 episodes in and going strong! NPR’s #projectpodcast is searching for your favorite podcasts, and more …
It was kind of surreal, to say the least, the first time I rounded the corner of Flatbush and 7th in Park Slope, only to see my own giant face, alongside my wife Mariann’s, staring back at me. It’s not as though I didn’t know that a bus ad was going to be there at some point soon, advertising the Our …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. We are excited that today marks Season 2, Episode 29 — featuring David Coman-Hidy and Michelle Carrera! Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a …
It was so thrilling for us to recently feature photographer, vegan cheese-maker, ukelele player (who knew?), and Jivamukti yoga expert Derek Goodwin on the Our Hen House TV show (a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media). I have been a fan of Derek’s work for a long time now. Few others can capture the beauty and power of the animal world, the …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. We are excited that today marks Season 2, Episode 26 — featuring media mavens Jane Velez-Mitchell and Ingrid Jungermann! Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of …
With more and more animal-centric movies coming onto the big screen these days (especially according to vegan film critic Noah Gittell on the Our Hen House TV show), thinking about non-human animals’ role in film continues to be of the utmost relevance. So let’s continue to think about it on this #ThrowbackThursday, shall we? This article originally appeared on Our Hen House …
We have three days left to raise $6,982. I am writing to ask you to please help us reach our goal, so that our movement to end the exploitation of animals can grow even stronger in the New Year, and so that the media hub that we have created and fostered for the past five years can expand even more as …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. We are excited that today marks Season 2, Episode 24 — featuring the Candle Cafe empire co-owner Joy Pierson, NY Coalition for Healthy School Food‘s Kelley Wind, and former undercover investigator and current day animal rights lawyer Cody Carlson. Our Hen House’s TV show, a …
Have you ever prefaced your request for animal-free options with: “Sorry, I’m vegan”? To encourage the non-vegans around us to view veganism not as a sacrifice or burden, we need to stop apologizing for our ethical actions. We’re happy to bring back this reminder for #ThrowbackThursday. This article originally appeared on Our Hen House on September 20, 2012. If you’d like to see …
The age-old question: what should I do with my life? We at Our Hen House suspect that the (rather vague) answer for many of us lies in a combination of something self-fulfilling yet concurrently altruistic – and for many OHH followers specifically, something on behalf of animals. Discovering one’s true calling is certainly a long, shaky process, but in honor of the weekly …
Whether you identify as an activist or not, there’s a world of ways to change the world for animals. It doesn’t really matter what you call yourself as long as you’re doing at least one of them. With our recent publishing of our exciting new page – “100 Ways to Change the World for Animals” – we’d like to underscore this point with the article …
We all know that feeling; the one when you get asked, “where do you get your protein?” or “what if you were on a desert island?” and you contemplate your response. We suspect this is still a prevalent feeling among vegans, and that’s why we’re re-publishing this article on how to respond to those questions and more: listen. This article originally appeared on …
Dear Flock, I refuse to begin this post with something as trite as, “HOW DID IT BECOME FALL ALREADY?!” But I guess I just did. The cooler weather here in Brooklyn is a bit eery, kind of melancholy, and making me maybe a hair too self-reflective for my current taste. If I’m going to be honest, I’ll tell you that it’s …
Our love and devotion for vegan drag queen extraordinaire Honey LaBronx has not waned one bit since we recorded this cooking video way back in 2012. Given her latest campaign known as Veganize My Town (that you should totally check out), what better time to remind the OHH community about the wonders of Miss Honey and her astounding massaging (of kale, that …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Dear Flock, What do you think about rules? Do you think they’re made to be broken, or do you think they’re there to be followed? Is not following rules a sacrilege, or does following them mean you’re simply assimilating? Is assimilating always a bad thing? #PRIVATE# When I first went vegan, I had a button on my bag (who didn’t, right?) …
We love this piece. Covering important topics like body image, the many meanings of health, determination, and the connections between running and veganism, this article will live on for years to come, which makes it perfect for #ThrowbackThursday! Speaking of that last topic, have you yet ordered your copy of the new anthology Running, Eating, Thinking (Lantern, 2014), for which Jasmin is a contributor? This …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Dear Flock, Happy Pride Week. Have you noticed the gay pride related posts that are all over Facebook, Twitter, and the media? I feel like Pride is bigger this year than ever before — or am I just more tuned into it? Two nights ago, I was walking across Christopher Street in the West Village, and even though it was evening, …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
I wrote this poem on the subway the other day. Mariann told me I should publish it here, so I am. *** Let’s… by Jasmin Singer Let’s eat the birdsong Let’s savor the feast Let’s drool for the marrow Let’s fatten the beast Let’s poison the sparrow Let’s stomp out his will Let’s strangle the babies Let’s go for the kill …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Happy OHH #ThrowbackThursday! Today’s article was originally posted on August 17, 2012, and I still hear from people who used the tips in it to land their dream job working in animal rights. Most recently, I heard from OHH reader Jordan, who said this: Hi Jasmin, I’m not sure if you will remember me (I bet you get A LOT of …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Happy OHH #ThrowbackThursday! Today I’m excited to breathe new life into this piece, originally published on February 4, 2010 (dang! we’ve been doing this for a long time!). I was inspired to repost this by someone who recently emailed me and asked the question all animal rights advocates just adore — don’t you care about people too? Activist Lisa Shannon proves …
Surely you know by now. The Our Hen House TV show officially launched in March 2014 as a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Our Hen House’s TV show, a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media, ventures into the under-explored world of animals rights with a sense of humor, a passionate heart, and more than a few opinions on the state of animal …
Dear Flock, It’s halfway through my 10-year veganversary month, and I’ve been thinking of how much the animal rights movement has changed since I joined it as a tadpole activist back in 2004. I was in my mid-twenties then, and had long been involved with AIDS-awareness activism, so the idea of speaking up for the maligned was not a new concept to …