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Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.75,0:00:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where's Papa going with that axe?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.50,0:00:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said Fearne to her mother
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.78,0:00:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as they were setting \Nthe table for breakfast.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.96,0:00:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fearne's mother explains\Nthat a piglet was born a runt
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.63,0:00:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is unlikely to survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.25,0:00:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fearne's father intends to kill him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.22,0:00:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fearne runs outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.78,0:00:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Please don't kill him. It's unfair!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.99,0:00:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He couldn't help\Nbeing born small, could he?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.10,0:00:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I had been very small at birth,\Nwould you have killed me?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.43,0:00:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Certainly not. A little girl is\None thing, a runty little pig is another."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.87,0:00:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I see no difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.90,0:00:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the most terrible case\Nof injustice I've ever heard of."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.60,0:00:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it was those lines\Nfrom "Charlotte's Web"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.30,0:00:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that made an impact on me as child.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.78,0:00:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as Charlotte's web\Nwas woven to save Wilbur's life,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.01,0:01:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my mind started to think about\Nhow we're all connected.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.51,0:01:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or maybe it was Disney's fault\Nfor helping me see and hear
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.48,0:01:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bambi's fear after losing\Nhis mother to a hunter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.18,0:01:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the tears\Nstreaming down Dumbo's face
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.38,0:01:15.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as his mother caressed him with her trunk\Nwhen she was chained in a circus car.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.23,0:01:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It could have been growing up in Texas\Nand seeing the cows in the fields
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.67,0:01:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and imagining, "What would it be like\Nif one of them didn't come home
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.96,0:01:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of my hamburger?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.99,0:01:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The worry, the fear\Nthe others would experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.99,0:01:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or perhaps it was my parents' divorce.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.41,0:01:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't say that it was just one thing\Nthat started me thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.41,0:01:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the families of all sentient beings,\Nbut it is a part of who I am
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.94,0:01:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and helps form the choices\Nthat I make in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.02,0:01:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thought of losing my mum\Nor one of my sisters
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.94,0:01:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a real fear for me growing up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.08,0:01:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was even hurt when my sisters\Nwent away to college.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.68,0:01:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.28,0:01:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want us to be separated.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.28,0:01:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever the cause,\NI decided at a young age
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.38,0:01:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I would help make choices\Nthat would minimize
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.76,0:02:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the suffering of sentient beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.34,0:02:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such as wearing non leather boots.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.07,0:02:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you remember one thing\Nfrom my talk today let it be this:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.30,0:02:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uninformed food choices can contribute\Nto the suffering of sentient beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.84,0:02:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, your food choices\Ncan change the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.50,0:02:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went vegetarian for the first time\Nwhen I was young.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.38,0:02:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother told me that the chicken\NI was eating was, well, a chicken.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.09,0:02:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember being in line\Nin elementary school in the cafeteria
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.10,0:02:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and asking the server not to put meat\Non my cheese enchiladas.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.96,0:02:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She asked if I was a vegetarian.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.92,0:02:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my young mind, I wondered
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.41,0:02:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why she thought I was old enough\Nto take care of sick dogs and cats.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.69,0:02:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.90,0:02:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told her no.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.54,0:02:46.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a teenager, I was able\Nto stick with my commitment better.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.89,0:02:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mum would make me a separate meal\Nsuch as enchiladas with corn inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.07,0:02:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was in high school,\Nshe just learned to make quiche.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.15,0:02:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, I went vegan.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.48,0:02:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "I give up."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.36,0:03:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told her, I'll eat peanut butter\Nand jelly sandwiches every day
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.50,0:03:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I have to to stick\Nwith my commitment to go vegan.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.91,0:03:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over time, I've learned more\Nabout the tragedy of the separation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.96,0:03:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these animals and the bonds \Nthat exist when they're together.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.60,0:03:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've adjusted my choices\Nnot to contribute to this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.47,0:03:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mother cows, used in the dairy industry,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.98,0:03:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have their babies\Ntaken away from them after birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.82,0:03:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because these large, magnificent mothers\Nwill fight to be with their babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.35,0:03:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Southern Georgia,\NI had the heartbreaking opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.30,0:03:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to videotape a mother cow crying\Nafter she'd been separated from her baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.11,0:03:36.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her calf would bellow,\Nand she would respond.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.91,0:03:39.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Cow laments)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.85,0:03:43.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sat in the meeting\Nwith a small dairy farmer
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.18,0:03:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Washington who told a story
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.85,0:03:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a cow who had enough of him\Ntaking her babies away.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.73,0:03:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to him,\Nthe cow had given birth to twins
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.46,0:03:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when he couldn't find\None of them, he went looking.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.96,0:03:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He eventually found\Nthat she had hidden one of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.03,0:04:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to him,\Nshe was trying to protect her baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.33,0:04:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've since learned this happens often.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.84,0:04:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not just cows.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.24,0:04:08.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pregnant pigs\Nin a more natural environment
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.37,0:04:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,build nests before they give birth,\Ncollecting branches in their mouths.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.92,0:04:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mother hens will use\Ndifferent vocalizations
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.46,0:04:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to protect their chicks from predators.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.80,0:04:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like any mother, they want\Nto protect their babies from harm.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.85,0:04:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like human animals,\Nthese animals feel pain.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.31,0:04:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are so detached\Nfrom animals in our society,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.20,0:04:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are also so detached from the means\Nin which our food is produced.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.06,0:04:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I eventually made a decision
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.56,0:04:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I wanted to focus\Nmy energy on our food choices
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.06,0:04:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they can make a difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.92,0:04:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We eat several times a day,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.37,0:04:45.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and each food choice\Nsays something about ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.65,0:04:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe, our individual food choices\Nand collective voices can have an impact.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.49,0:04:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By going vegan,\NI knew I was doing my part
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.65,0:04:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to contribute to the suffering\Nof non human animals.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.82,0:04:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what about my food?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.68,0:05:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What about the farm workers?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.84,0:05:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can simply stop eating animals\Nas a means of not contributing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.11,0:05:05.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.71,0:05:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not as easy with farm workers.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.87,0:05:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone needs\Ntheir fruits and vegetables.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.99,0:05:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the US, millions\Nof farm workers pick our food.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.11,0:05:17.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just the food of vegans,\Nbut all of our food.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.76,0:05:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is estimated that approximately 400,000\Nof these farm workers are children.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.75,0:05:29.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In California, many farm workers\Nlive in substandard labor camps,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.14,0:05:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[or] are homeless along our creeks\Nand our rivers.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.39,0:05:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't make enough\Nto put a roof over their head,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.96,0:05:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet they put food on our plates.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.13,0:05:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They work in extreme temperatures,\Nexposed to agricultural chemicals,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.05,0:05:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many can't even afford or have access
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.50,0:05:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the types of fruits\Nand vegetables they're picking.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.64,0:05:50.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is estimated in California
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.57,0:05:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the average life span\Nof a strawberry picker is 49 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.21,0:05:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Groups like the Coalition\Nof Immokalee Workers
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.42,0:06:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are making great strides in this area
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.30,0:06:05.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by using consumer pressure\Nto get corporations to make changes,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.11,0:06:08.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as getting tomato buyers\Nto pay just a penny more per pound
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.57,0:06:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the tomatoes that they pick.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.83,0:06:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My organization, Food Empowerment Project,\Norganize a school supply drive
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.47,0:06:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help with the education\Nof the children of farm workers.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.48,0:06:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that they can choose an easier life.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.90,0:06:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still struggle with what more I can do.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.44,0:06:33.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people eat chocolate,\Nthey're eating my flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.15,0:06:38.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what one farmer slave\Ntold a reporter when he was asked
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.25,0:06:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what he would say to Westerners
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.27,0:06:42.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who eat chocolate.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.49,0:06:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In West Africa, 1.8 million children\Nin Ghana, in the Ivory Coast,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.50,0:06:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are victims of the worst forms\Nof child labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.83,0:06:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Hawa] picking cocoa\Nfor the chocolate industry.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.54,0:06:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, they are forced\Nto work with dangerous equipment
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.62,0:07:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as machetes, some children\Nas young as seven years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.98,0:07:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many children have been documented\Nwith scars on their arms and their legs.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.34,0:07:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they don't move fast enough\Nwhile carrying these heavy cocoa pods,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.13,0:07:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're beaten.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.67,0:07:19.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many children are locked in over night,\Nand if they try to escape,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.91,0:07:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're beaten or killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.71,0:07:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all have families, biological or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.72,0:07:29.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's make choices\Nthat respect families
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.79,0:07:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the bonds that they share.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.47,0:07:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can we do this?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.88,0:07:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have access to fresh produce,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.77,0:07:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go vegan.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.19,0:07:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Support the rights of farm workers
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.96,0:07:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through legislation\Nand corporate campaigns
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.92,0:07:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stop eating chocolate.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.47,0:07:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, OK, OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.64,0:07:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have to stop eating chocolate.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.57,0:07:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But please, only buy chocolate\Nthat's not sourced
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.05,0:07:55.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the worst forms\Nof child labor in West Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.21,0:07:58.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can use our list at foodispower.org.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.08,0:08:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I make the most informed\Nfood choices that I can make
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.02,0:08:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I want to lessen\Nthe suffering of sentient beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.42,0:08:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to turn this pain\NI felt into power.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.42,0:08:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much of this has been about loss,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.50,0:08:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what I gained was the feeling\Nthat I could make a difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.31,0:08:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope you will join me\Nand put your ethics where your mouth is.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.69,0:08:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me, these issues\Nare as connected as Charlotte's Web.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.09,0:08:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You and your food choices\Ncan change the world
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.27,0:08:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mitigate suffering the world over.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.78,0:08:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.95,0:08:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)