Animal Rising
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Sep 29, 2026
JamesHOST
We also discuss when civil disobedience is most likely to work, why it should often come after other campaigning methods have been used and maybe even exhausted, and the legal, practical, and community infrastructure that's needed to support people taking these higher kinds of risks.
JamesHOST
And Taj even reverses the roles a little bit and asks me some questions and interviews me about my experiences within Extinction Rebellion and Animal Rebellion for those who are curious about that.
JamesHOST
And yeah, this is a big part of how I got involved in animal advocacy.
JamesHOST
So it's a topic that's very close to my heart.
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JamesHOST
Yeah.
JamesHOST
Yeah.
JamesHOST
And I mean like maybe anecdotally as well, at least some groups have been involved in the UK extinction rebellion and just support and, and animal rebellion.
JamesHOST
Sorry.
Marion EricksonHOST
The RSPCA Assured label, for example, from the British charity the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, RSPCA, is supposed to guarantee high standards of animal welfare.
Marion EricksonHOST
But in 2024, an investigation by Animal Rising into more than 45 RSPCA Assured farms revealed found overcrowding, filthy conditions, and dehydrated animals.
Marion EricksonHOST
In 2021, PETA investigators visited RSPCA-assured suppliers of the Happy Egg Company.
Marion EricksonHOST
They found chickens with their beaks cut off, their wounds untreated.
Charlotte AshleyHOST
But I don't find it's not worse in my book.
Rebecca WilsonHOST
I think, well, we'll get into that more in a bit, but when you look on what Animal Rising say, they almost just describe it as... an overarching intensive system of producing food and producing meat.
Rebecca WilsonHOST
They don't actually have any numbers behind it as to what constitutes a factory farm.
Rebecca WilsonHOST
This is kind of from their website and how they define it.
Rebecca WilsonHOST
Large numbers of animals are confined in intensive systems... um animals are denied opportunities to express what animal rising considers their natural behaviors animals are treated as units of production not individual animals production is prioritized over animal well-being and the system causes what they regard as large-scale suffering and they also associate factory farming with environmental impacts such as pollution biodiversity loss and climate impacts i've got two bits to to pick up on out of those points Production is prioritised over animal wellbeing.
Charlotte AshleyHOST
Yeah, I was just about to pick up on that.
Rebecca WilsonHOST
And we did talk to them about this and I said, what you're missing is that if animals are not treated well, they're not productive, they're not going to be maximising production.
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Let's get back into it.
SteveHOST
So
LorraineHOST
this is, just so as the listeners know, this is Animal Rising and Michelle is in a farrowing crate.
LorraineHOST
She is in a farrowing crate.
LorraineHOST
Three weeks to... highlight what sows have to go through in the farrowing crates when their piglets are feeding from them from maybe I think it's more than a three week period.
DominicHOST
Throughout a three-day trial, Rosa Sharkey, 26, Sarah Foy, 26, and Rose Paterson, 37, insisted they rescued the animals in 2023.
DominicHOST
The members of campaign group Animal Rising also said they believed that the King would have consented to their rescue due to being an environmentalist.
DominicHOST
In more positive legal news, six animal rights campaigners have been cleared of all charges in relation to blockades of the dairy giant Muller, In 2022, the campaigners who are members of Animal Rising took part in the Stop the Supply campaign, which saw hundreds of people take action against dairy companies such as Muller.
DominicHOST
Actions included blockades of dairy distribution sites, resulting in disruption to milk supplies across parts of England.
DominicHOST
We've got something that our listeners might want to get involved in.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
Well, thank you for that.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
In a campaign group called Animal Rising.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
And they said, look, we believe that the king who owned these sheep would have actually consented to their rescue.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
due to being an environmentalist but the jury was unanimous in saying what a lot of rubbish and finding all three guilty of theft the three incidentally posted a video of them stealing the sheep um on the animal rising group uh website so it was you know bit bang to rights for these three um and sentencing them the judge said their actions highlighted sensitive and important matters of public interest They are intelligent and capable women who can make a valuable contribution to society.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
And that may be why they got let off with what some would say is a remarkably light sentence.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
12-month community orders of 150 hours of unpaid work each and have to pay towards prosecution costs.
Leila KassamGUEST
So I think the biggest thing for us at Project Phoenix is we can be bolder with our asks and we can be asking government to end factory farming within the next 15 years.
Leila KassamGUEST
And there are already groups who are who are using this messaging like Project Slingshot, Animal Rising, even Compassion and World Farming.
Leila KassamGUEST
All of these groups want to end factory farming by 2040.
Leila KassamGUEST
So it's not either or.
Pat PanettaHOST
Number seven.
Pat PanettaHOST
Members of a campaign group called Animal Rising, so three women from the UK, were accused of stealing three blanks from a farm on a royal estate.
Pat PanettaHOST
They told police that they believed King Charles would have consented.
Pat PanettaHOST
Now, they've stolen three blanks from this royal estate.
Wayne HsiungGUEST
And your friend is a great example of this because I think that if I didn't have amazing friends and now my wife, I'm literally here in the United States working on the Ridgeland and Marshall cases because my wife is back home in London taking care of our dogs.
Wayne HsiungGUEST
And when neither of us is available, which happens very regularly because she's a very committed activist as well and leads an organization called Animal Rising, we have other friends to step in because there's a great community in London to support activists when they have to step out of their homes for a bit to do something good for all animals and, well, hopefully not abandoning the animals in their own homes.
Wayne HsiungGUEST
So I think we have to build more... social, physical, spiritual infrastructure to support activists in whatever ways they want to challenge themselves.
Wayne HsiungGUEST
And that's actually one of my big missions in life, just to build the infrastructure and ecosystem that allows people to be their best selves.
SteveHOST
But we're excited to go home because when we get home, we're planning to go up to London to support Michelle.
LorraineHOST
Yeah, so Animal Rising did an expose investigation on Red Court Farm.
SteveHOST
So now Michelle is spending 21 days in a farrowing crate.
LorraineHOST
In Trafalgar Square.
SteveHOST
And hopefully this expose and the horrible treatment, plus the stuff that's standard practice...
SteveHOST
What's happening in Trafalgar Square will highlight hundreds, if not thousands of people who will then look into it.
SteveHOST
And if you want to look into it, you can go on to Animal Rising's website where they've got information about their expose and also about what Michelle is doing.
LorraineHOST
Yeah, absolutely.
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