{"id":2444,"date":"2020-12-07T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmforward1.wpengine.com\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2022-11-22T03:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T03:14:26","slug":"repair-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/news\/repair-is-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair is Possible\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"normal_content bg-white padding-top-small padding-bottom-large\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row center-md\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-styled\"><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We write to you from the year 2050 to let you know that <strong>humanity is thriving on a rejuvenated planet<\/strong>. Looking back, 2020 was a turning point. Colliding crises\u2014runaway climate change, a global pandemic, and extreme inequality\u2014motivated a mass movement of people to demand change.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the years that followed, a diverse coalition of farmers, activists, communities, and consumers built the political will to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/donate\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">end factory farming<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. That work went hand-in-hand with <strong>confronting racism and systemic oppression to build a just society and an economy that promotes equity<\/strong>. Over decades, we mitigated the climate crisis, greatly reduced the risk of another global pandemic, and rebuilt an American food system that works for everyone.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/donate\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Your support of Farm Forward made this all possible.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='responsive-video'><iframe width='500' height='281' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzmsQSaWdes?feature=oembed' frameborder='0' allow='accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture' allowfullscreen=''><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>What does that food system look like from the vantage point of 2050?<\/strong> Monolithic factory farms have been replaced by a mosaic of family farms producing grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables, mostly for domestic consumption. American diets have shifted plants to the center of the plate. Today, the few animals that are raised for food have healthy genetics and are raised on pasture.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As a result, rivers and streams run clean of pesticides, fertilizer, and toxic animal waste. Soils are rich and healthy and are a key part of climate mitigation. Workers across the food chain have safe, dignified jobs that allow them to thrive.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">You might wonder how we did all this in just 30 years. <strong>We worked together.<\/strong> People like you, people dedicated to this vision of a better future, pitched in to build it.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Historians say that 2020 was a critical turning point. Crisis created opportunity. That hard year laid the foundation for the progress that followed\u2014none of this progress would have been possible without people deciding, in 2020, to generously invest in the causes they cared about. That year, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">your support of Farm Forward helped make progress possible.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In 2020, Farm Forward:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Launched<\/strong> a campaign about factory farming and pandemics that reached millions of people and helped pave the way for the political changes to come;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Supported<\/strong> frontline food workers and demanded that meat companies protect their workers\u2014most of whom are people of color and immigrants\u2014from the rampant spread of COVID-19 in slaughterhouses;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Pushed<\/strong> to repeal ag-gag legislation in multiple states, and won in North Carolina (resulting in the court deeming ag-gag laws unconstitutional in one of the largest animal ag states in the country);\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Advocated<\/strong> for an anti-racist animal protection movement; and\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Lobbied<\/strong> for a new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/issues\/food-policy\/farm-system-reform-act\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">vision for American agriculture<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which begins with phasing out CAFO\u2019s and a transition to more just, sustainable, and humane forms of agriculture.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>All of these efforts were integral to what we now experience as a resilient new normal in 2050, and they wouldn\u2019t have occurred without you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Your <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">support in 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> made a different future possible. Consider a<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/donate\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">recurring gift today<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and help Farm Forward ensure a better world.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\t<section class=\"last_updated padding-top-small padding-bottom-large\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"last-updated-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"section-title small\">Last Updated<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"date small\">December 7, 2020<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}