REFORMING A BROKEN FOOD SYSTEM
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
As thousands of animals are being suffocated, drowned, or shot as many Covid-infected slaughterhouses grind to a halt, Leah Garces of Mercy for Animals joins Thom to consider the morality of a food system that treats both animals and workers as disposable.
Even as emissions drop during lockdown, what are the larger consequences of the huge portion of total carbon emissions that result from feeding and raising animals? And what is the latest science telling us about the intelligence of animals?- PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk joins Thom to talk about her latest book on the subject.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome back. |
| 0:17.0 | Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:18.0 | On the line with us is Leah Garces, the president of Mercy for Animals. |
| 0:22.6 | Mercy for Animals. |
| 0:23.4 | Or the website. |
| 0:25.2 | Twitter handle is Mercy for Animals or Leah |
| 0:27.4 | L-E-A-H- Underscore-S. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome to the program and thank you for joining us today. |
| 0:34.2 | I see this article millions of U.S farm animals |
| 0:36.4 | to be culled by suffocation, drowning, and shooting. |
| 0:39.8 | And I think most people think that this is really a story about how the coronavirus is disrupting our supply |
| 0:45.8 | chains and people getting it in meat packing plants are slowing down the rate at which |
| 0:50.2 | they can move animals through this factory farm system. |
| 0:54.0 | But I see this, and I'm guessing you do, as more of an indictment of the way that we are producing our food supply than it is. |
| 1:05.0 | Your thoughts on this, Leah. |
| 1:07.0 | Factory farming and these industrial slaughterhouses |
| 1:10.0 | are being exposed. |
| 1:12.0 | It's like the emperor has no clothes and they're being exposed. It's like the emperor has no clothes and they're being exposed as a vulnerable system |
| 1:16.5 | that treats both workers as expendable and farmed animals is something to be thrown |
| 1:20.9 | away. |
| 1:21.9 | So what's happening across the country right now is workers are standing is |
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