(30 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Petaluma, California – 19 September 2024
1. Egg laying hens peck at the camera
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santa Rosa, California – 23 September 2024
2. Various educational booth set up on a college campus by Measure J supporters
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristina Garfinkel, Lead Organizer, Coalition to End Factory Farming:
"Measure J is a citizen led ballot measure that aims to phase out and end factory farming in Sonoma County, and it does so using an EPA term called concentrated animal feeding operations. If passed, approximately 21 CFOs in the county would have three years to either downsize their operations to below the EPA’s limit or cease their operations completely."
4. Various Garfinkel talks to college students about Measure J on campus
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Occidental, California – 23 September 2024
5. Various feeding rescued farm piglets at animal sanctuary
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kathy Cullen, Founder, Jolene’s Retreat Animal Santuary:
"I don’t believe any animal should be confined. So when I see them confined in anyway, it’s rough. And when I see so many animals that are abused, again, for no reason other than people like the way it tastes."
7. Cullen gives pigs celery
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kathy Cullen, Founder, Jolene’s Retreat Animal Santuary:
"I get yelled out all the time. Go back to Berkeley! I don’t live in Berkeley, I live here. Measure J is not closing down anyone. We are asking them to downsize."
9. Various Cullen petting pigs
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Petaluma, California – 19 September 2024
10. Various egg laying hens on large egg farm
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Weber, Owner, Weber Family Farms:
"California Department of Food and Ag comes out and inspects. Our organic certifiers, they come out and inspect. Our supermarkets come out and inspect. We have multiple layers of protections for our animals. It’s an activist group of vegans who want us to have a vegan diet. They want to start here in Sonoma County and put us out of business. You’re going to see price inflation. Everybody’s going to feel it. We’ve had enough with price inflation. It also takes away thousands of jobs in this county."
12. Various eggs on conveyer belts
13. Various eggs inspected and packaged
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dayna Ghirardelli, Executive Director, Sonoma County Farm Bureau:
"Everybody knows what Sonoma County is about. Everybody trusts our farmers here. They are connected."
15. Various booth at a farmer’s market selling homemade sausages
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dayna Ghirardelli, Executive Director, Sonoma County Farm Bureau:
"We have to be good stewards of our animals in order to to produce the food that we do. So, you know, it’s just unfortunate that it’s come to really at the end of the day. This measure is really a stepping stone for a group who doesn’t believe in animal agriculture in and of itself."
17. "No on Measure J" sign
STORYLINE:
In a stretch of Northern California known for scenic shorelines and celebrated vineyards, a battle is brewing over the future of the region’s animal farms.
Residents in Sonoma County, which is home to half a million people north of San Francisco, will vote this fall on a ballot measure aimed at putting an end to large-scale contained animal agriculture.
At Weber Family Farms in Petaluma, hundreds of brown-bodied hens waddle freely around a large barn.
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