{"id":7974,"date":"2016-02-15T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=7974"},"modified":"2017-03-26T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T17:04:40","slug":"2016-03-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-03-06\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Factory Farming on Animals, Poor People, and the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Amy Halpern-Laff<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>March 6, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Factory farming has devastating impact, not only on the animals but also on the factory and slaughterhouse workers, many of whom are undocumented, the planet, and public health. We&#8217;ll look at the animal agriculture industry and its repercussions, and discuss how we can make a difference. Amy Halpern-Laff earned her JD at Stanford Law School, and is a full-time advocate and mentor, apportioning her time among animal rights, prison reform, poverty reduction, and education equity. She gives presentations for the Factory Farm Awareness Coalition (ffacoalition.org).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Amy_Halpern-Laff.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Amy_Halpern-Laff.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Amy_Halpern-Laff-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Amy_Halpern-Laff-160x160.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/158861303\">Humanist Community Forum (2016-03-06): The Impact of Factory Farming on Animals, Poor People, and the Planet (Amy Halpern-Laff)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<a rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/streamslycs.com\/\" title=\"Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download\" style=\"font-size:0.6px\">Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Halpern-Laff March 6, 2016 Factory farming has devastating impact, not only on the animals but also on the factory and slaughterhouse workers, many of whom are undocumented, the planet, and public health. We&#8217;ll look at the animal agriculture industry and its repercussions, and discuss how we can make a difference. Amy Halpern-Laff earned her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-03-06\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Impact of Factory Farming on Animals, Poor People, and the Planet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9022,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions\/9022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}