By Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch
Watch executive director, Wenonah Hauter, talk at TEDx Manhattan about the abuses suffered by poultry farmers like Valerie Ruddle — and why we need to continue the fight for a fair farm bill.
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I wrote a paper about factory farming for college. We need to stop this. I have seen videos of horrific abuse of farm animals. We need to solve poverty and need to teach the world to grow their own organic food, locally sourced, and not feed animals with hormones or antibiotics – and not to spray with pesticides like our imported food is! All the trucks, planes and ships contribute to global warming and pollution is killing our ecosystems.
I tend to agree with this person. We also need to stop feeding our children these chemicals and dyes that are found in our soda’s and candies but until someone higher up as to say our politicians does anything this will continue because it is big business.
I’m so glad Wenonah is so devoted to this cause. We need an educated citizenry AND people who will speak truth to power.
And yet, as a small farmer we face FDA gun drawn invasions on our farms. Unsubstantiated claims of food contamination from using composted animals manures from our own livestock on closed systems that have NOTHING to do with the factory farm E coli breakouts yet the Food Safety laws have no scale for small farms. The unprecedented seek and find missions of state food safety agencies seeking out small producers who sell freezer beef, pork, and lamb and creating unbelievable standards of processing (meaning we cannot use a USDA inspected custom mobile butcher for selling of our livestock) we must use a USDA inspected meat slaughter and or/Cut and wrap facility. However, how many states have these small cost intensive USDA inspected facilities available for the small producer. Raw milk is considered a crime while our entire food supply is in jeopardy from Corporate giants like Monsanto, Cargill, and Sygenta – really this issue is a disaster on the scale of oil crisis and yet Americans have not quite taken up the demand to make Washington – Obama included – wake up and realize food is the MOST important issue the human race faces. Period.