27. The Fight to Save Sonoma Farms from Measure J with Dayna Ghirardelli
Whiskey and Lace
Erika Altes
2.5 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
If you live in Sonoma County, you've probably heard of Measure J, but what is it? Today, Erika chats with Dayna Ghirardelli, the Executive Director of the Sonoma Country Farm Bureau, to discuss the ins and outs of what's really behind this campaign. They unpack the potential impacts, from rising food costs to the fate of local farmers, and how you can get involved to stop this from happening. From animal welfare, transparency, and legal activism, buckle up for an insightful and eye-opening episode.
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In this episode, we cover the following:
- How Dayna became the Executive Director of the Sonoma County Farm Bureau
- What Measure J, aka the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Ban, is
- Intentions of Measure J
- The subjectivity of a "factory farm"
- Who's behind Measure J
- Transparency and animal treatment
- The ripple effect of the ban on farmers and community
- How YOU can get involved
- How it could set the precedent
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Resources:
- Support your local farms with No On Measure J
- Email Dayna at [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | Are you someone who doesn't take life too seriously? Do you sometimes find that a shot of whiskey |
| 0:08.1 | isn't only deserved but needed? If you said yes to either of those, welcome to the Whiskey and Lace |
| 0:13.2 | podcast, where we have honest chats with everyday people, shit shows, and all. I'm your host, Erica |
| 0:18.8 | Althus, and I'm here to empower you to be the best |
| 0:21.4 | version of yourself and perhaps share in a shot of whiskey. Now pour yourself a glass of wine |
| 0:26.1 | and let's go. Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the Whiskey and Lace |
| 0:32.8 | podcast. Today's guest is someone I just met and truthfully don't know too much about. I decided |
| 0:37.4 | to interview this woman based on so many of your recommendations after I shared my thoughts on a local measure that is trying to be passed in Sonoma County that infuriates me. |
| 0:45.0 | She is the Sonoma County Farm Bureau and is here to answer all the questions you guys have submitted a few weeks ago around Measure J, which could have a huge impact not only on our local agriculture, |
| 0:55.1 | but potentially a national impact on our agriculture as well. |
| 0:58.4 | Everyone, please welcome Dana Geradelli to the podcast. |
| 1:01.4 | Hi, Dana. |
| 1:01.8 | How are you? |
| 1:02.3 | I'm great. |
| 1:02.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:03.7 | Thank you for being here. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.1 | You guys truthfully, Dana and I just met like three minutes ago. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm really excited to have you here. When I submitted, I was like, |
| 1:11.6 | I need to interview somebody about this topic. Your name was hands down, like, coming from so many |
| 1:17.5 | people like you're reputable and, you know, like you have a wealth of knowledge. You are very, |
| 1:23.3 | like, educated around the farms in this area. And so can you tell us like a little bit about |
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