Name: A lesson in turning adversaries into allies | Leah Garcés
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T20:14:09.000Z
Duration: 13 min 34 s
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Transcriber: Ivana Korom Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz

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My career is devoted to protecting farmed animals

standing up against everything this man stood for,

he had been raising chickens for 22 years

the fourth largest chicken company in the entire country.

he had yearned for this way to stay on the land

in one of the poorest counties in the state.

So when the chicken industry came to town,

He took a quarter of a million dollar loan out,

Perdue would give him a flock, he'd raise them,

and then he'd pay off in small increments that loan,

living on their own feces, breathing ammonia-laden air.

And when chickens get sick, some of them die.

And you don't get paid for dead chickens,

and Craig started to struggle to pay off his loan,

but he was all but an indentured servant at this stage.

When I met him, he was at a breaking point.

Now, if we humans tried to think of some super unjust,

we could not have thought of anything worse than factory farming.

Eighty billion farmed animals around the world annually

They're stuffed in cages and warehouses never to see the light of day.

And that's not just a problem for those farmed animals.

it accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions

than all of the planes, trains and automobiles put together.

to grow feed to feed factory-farmed animals,

And all that land is sprayed with immeasurable chemicals.

all so we can feed and house farmed animals.

the number of birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals has halved.

is our global appetite for meat, dairy and eggs.

my fear and my anger turned into something else.

we walked towards one of these long, gray houses.

and we were hit with this overpowering smell

I was too overwhelmed by my own physical discomfort,

Tens of thousands of newly hatched chicks

Over the next few months, I returned many times,

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A lesson in turning adversaries into allies | Leah Garcés

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