Farms: Using the legal system to fight factory farms | Michele Merkel | TEDxManhattan
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Michele Merkel is co-director of Food & Water Justice, the legal arm of Food & Water Watch. Food & Water Justice uses the court system to advocate for positive change and provides legal support for Food & Water Watch’s mission to ensure that the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. Michele Merkel is co-director of Food & Water Justice, the legal arm of Food & Water Watch. Michele was formerly the Chesapeake Regional Coordinator for Waterkeeper Alliance. At Waterkeeper, Michele helped to develop and implement campaigns that protect the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays. Prior to joining the Waterkeeper, Michele was co-founder and Senior Counsel of the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). At EIP, she was responsible for developing and implementing legal campaigns under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, focusing on industrial livestock production and municipal sewage issues. Michele previously served as an attorney in the Enforcement Division of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where she worked closely with the Department of Justice to develop and bring actions for violations of federal environmental laws. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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Thank you Michele Merkel. We have a right to know this info, so Thank You for standing up & doing what you are doing to help. I shared.
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a warning to those selling out humanity because u fear lucy or madam butterflies she we be on humanity side and not barabas or Judas soon and corrections are coming to all reptilians be warned to restore all healthy living and oxygen to planet earth is coming
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and it's not just what we eat
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Wake up Israel wake up Zion wake up Canada wake up all nations your governments are selling u out but not all willingly they need our voices to stop this
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eating any animal products is unsustainable and unhealthy a strictly whole foods plant based diet is the healthiest and most sustainable way to eat
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Simply stunning! Every day more Bush and Cheney crimes against America! How much more will we put up with before they are charged and tried for their crimes against this country? I am an organic farmer or I was before fracking destroyed my life, ruined my business, and laid waste to virtually everything I worked my entire adult life for! Before fracking, the fight was Monsanto and GMOs! Talk about huge agribusinesses! Great job Michele! thanks for all you do!
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I like eating meat but I really think that people should get rid of factory farms and replace them with normal farms you know so animals don't get abused or killed when alive and also that way more jobs will be available for people ( working on a farm)
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Keep up the good fight to end corporate farming. The fight is the right.
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Mucho thanks for putting your feet to a vote! Best of luck and thx for standing up when the EPA (corrupted by Bush et al. and left in place by Obama--ugh) wouldn't.
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I shared this with a Facebook friend that is going through this fight with a factory farm in Fredericktown, Ohio. He is sharing this also, and contacted the organizations she mentioned in his state. If you want to give support to those in Frederick, Ohio that are trying to keep a factory farm from being built, please look it up.
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www.MoveToAmend.org
a major answer
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One of the best and important speeches I have seen!!!! Yes, we need to do something to get back our country!!!
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Thank you Michele for your courage to stand up against the corporations that treat animals so cruelly , The world need more people like you . Everything i have heard about factory farming is horrific , and now we punish the whistle blowers. You talk was very inspirational . Eugene Daub
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No disrespect intended to the great men in this world, but she is the reason many men don't want a woman at the table. It's beautiful to watch more and more people believe that business should have a conscience. Yes, we are evolving to become more civilized and caring humans. I just wish the millionaire and billionaire moguls would catch up.
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8:35- You know shit's bad when corporations are behaving like mafiosos, leaving dead raccoons in your mailbox. People must unite and fight back against the corporatization of America!
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Only way to satisfy the selfish wish for animal products is factory farming. Family farms can not do it. Even if the switch was made, how is that going to mitigate the waste problem. Animals no matter where they are raised will create the same amount of waste.
Even if all the animals were treated like pets until they were slaughtered, their lives would still be a fraction of the length of their normal lives and there is no such thing as humane slaughter.
Family farms are just as brutal as factory farms. There is much undercover footage to prove it.
Only sustainable way to eat is a plant based one. Of course this issue is not brought up here. If you can live a healthy life without harming anyone....why wouldn't you. Peace. -
You go, girl~!! You inspire me and give back my faith in humanity, you really do.
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Thank you Michele!
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Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Excellent work.