Get Veducated With A New Park Slope Centered Vegan TV Show

Image via Our Hen HouseOur Hen House is a new Brooklyn-based TV show for animal lovers….real animal lovers, not just you folks who eat Dinosaur Bar-B-Que delivery while sitting on your bear skin rug watching back-to-back episodes of Animal Planet’s Too Cute. Isn’t the one where the baby sloth gets potty trained just way too cute?!

The show is on a new 24/7 television channel that’s all Brooklyn, all the time. The hosts are Park Slope residents Jasmine Singer and Mariann Sullivan. Jasmin is a writer and activist and the funny, tattooed hen of the house. Mariann Sullivan is a law professor who keeps the show on topic, and that topic is always animal rights. The two aren’t particularly the stereotype vegan — pale and angry — but rather funny, entertaining and informative. Well, maybe a little pale but who isn’t after this winter!?

The main focus is on the vegan and animal rights happenings right here in Park Slope. They’ll certainly have a lot of sloped ground to cover with the:

• Park Slope dogs that are forced to wear canine Cosby sweaters and tiny booties
• Roaches that enter little cardboard hotels in neighborhood apartments…they check in, but they don’t check out.
• Rats that are tricked into ingesting pellets that make them infertile in a recent $1,000,000 contract the MTA has with ContraPest (this would be sure to upset the ProLifers as well).
• Ants that I finger flick when they dare to crawl near my organic salad greens at Celebrate Brooklyn concerts.

The first episode’s guest was vegan Park Slope comic, Myq Kaplan. He’s got some funny vegan material.

A lot of people in their arguments against gay marriage in Massachusetts argue “you can marry a gay person, what’s next, you marry an animal?” If that makes sense I’ll use that argument as a vegetarian: “You guys eat animals, the next thing you know you’ll be eating gay people.”

Another guest was Ella Nemcova of Brooklyn’s Regal Vegan who says things like “All Hail Kale people” and shows off her Faux Gras™.

Most of the show’s topics are ripped from recent headlines and make you think a bit and say, “WTF?!” After commenting on a recent NY Times article about Ag-gag laws (laws that prevent people from finding out what is happening on factory farms by prohibiting undercover filming) they mentioned that cows in a Midwest factory were being sexually abused. Um, what?! The fine and jail time for abusing these animals is les than the punishment for filming the bovine brutality! I hope those cow rape workers come away with Mad Cow VD.

Will you tune in while chomping on a possibly raped cow? I’m not a vegan (but a vegetarian since age 15) and I learned, laughed and got grossed out by episode 1. Those are my top three reasons for tuning in to any show or doing anything, really.