Monica Chen: Teaching Your Children Well

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Philosophy, Society & Culture

5.0 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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"So, you really want the kids to drink the cow's milk because that's the liquid that's available to them if they're thirsty. And we were also told that yeah, you really should be having the kids open up their cow's milk. I went down through all the tables and said, "open up your milk, open up your milk."

Or, I was told, we just won't get our funding because this was a school that was a turnaround school, all the kids are on free lunch. And, so this is how we got our funding as a school. – Monica Chen

Monica Chen is the executive director of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition, an organization that educates and empowers individuals and communities to support just and sustainable food systems. Meaning they go into schools, colleges and universities and the truth about where their food comes from.

By educating young people about factory farming and equipping them with the tools to oppose it, Factory Farming Awareness Coalition builds both an inclusive consumer base as well as an informed citizenry that supports cultural and legislative change for the benefit of all. To date, FFAC has reached over 220,000 students are building an army of kids with a mission to change food systems all over the country.

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0:00.0	Species, unite, unites.
0:03.0	Species unite.
0:07.0	Species unite.
0:11.0	Species unite. You might. So you really want the kids to drink the cow's milk because that's the liquid that's available to them if they're thirsty.
0:20.0	And we were also told that yeah, you really should be having the kids open up their
0:24.2	cow's milk. You know I went down the aisles of all the tables and said open up your
0:28.2	milk open up your milk or I was told we just won't get our funding because this again
0:32.3	was a school again was a
0:32.8	school that was a turnaround school all the kids are on free lunch
0:35.6	and so there's this is how Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like today's episode and you have a spare minute
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1:12.0	This conversation is with Monica Chen.
1:15.0	Monica is the executive director of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition.
1:19.0	They educate and empower individuals and communities to support just and sustainable food systems.
1:26.5	They go into schools and universities and tell the truth about where their food comes from. Monica, thank you so much. It's really good to have you here today. It is such a pleasure to be here, Beth.
1:52.0	I want to get into everything, clearly. It is such a pleasure to be here Beth.
1:52.6	I want to get into everything clearly, but let's actually start with your really, like how you grew up around
1:59.7	food and when food and you know animal products and all of that when the awareness of all that came
2:07.4	into your life. Yeah I grew up in a Chinese American family I was born in New York
2:12.1	but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and we were
2:16.4	eating what I thought were traditional Chinese foods. I didn't really think that
2:20.6	much about where my food was coming from until I was 8 years old and I had my very first pet a guinea pig
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