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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
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
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristina Garfinkel, Lead Organizer, Coalition to End Factory Farming:
"It’s hard to fathom what it would be like being one of those animals that has never even seen the color of the sky, or felt the breeze, you know, amongst them. So yeah, I think I just feel devastated. But I also know that I can do something about it."
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Occidental, California – 23 September 2024
6. Various feeding rescued farm piglets at animal sanctuary
7. 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."
8. Cullen gives pigs celery
9. 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."
10. Cullen pets pigs
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kathy Cullen, Founder, Jolene’s Retreat Animal Santuary:
"Measure J is not closing down anyone. We are asking them to downsize."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Petaluma, California – 19 September 2024
12. Various egg laying hens on large egg farm
13. 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."
14. Various egg laying hens
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Weber, Owner, Weber Family Farms:
"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."
16. Various eggs on conveyer belts
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Weber, Owner, Weber Family Farms:
"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."
18. Various eggs inspected and packaged
19. 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."
20. Various booth at a farmer’s market selling homemade sausages
21. 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."
22. "No on Measure J" sign
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