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Programs for Individuals

Spread the word about FFAC’s free educational programs on factory farming’s devastating impacts— on climate change, natural resource depletion, animal suffering, immigrant and worker exploitation, and public health. 

Your Social Justice Organization

Factory farming has devastating impacts on marginalized populations, from immigrants who work in slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants to residents of rural communities that border agricultural facilities. A free FFAC program, either in person or over Zoom, informs your members about one of our most exploitative systems. Your FFAC speaker provides relevant, up-to-date information. 
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Your Environmental Group

Animal agriculture is one of the most destructive industries on the planet. If your group focuses on climate change, an FFAC speaker explains in detail how animal farming causes a huge percentage of anthropogenic GHG emissions, and why scientists debate the exact amount. If air or water pollution is your primary focus, FFAC educates your members about the animal waste and fertilizer that leaks into our groundwater and the toxic fumes that factory farms and slaughterhouses release into the air. If depletion of natural resources your club’s primary concern, an FFAC regional director presents science-backed data on 
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Your Faith Community

FFAC speaks to a wide array of faith communities about how our food choices can help support our efforts to be good stewards of the environment and to help communities in need.
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Your Family, Friends, and Colleagues

Do you have children, grandchildren, or neices and nephews who could ask their teachers to invite FFAC speakers to educate their classes? Perhaps your neighbors, friends, or colleagues have children in middle or high schools. 
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Your Green Team

Are you on your company’s Green Team? We can educate your team on the interconnectedness of industrial agricultural systems and climate change, natural resource depletion, and air and water pollution. 
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Topics Covered

Below is a list of some of the impacts of factory farming we cover in our programming; we can tailor our programming to meet your classroom learning needs:

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Environment and Climate Change

  • How animal agriculture contributes to anthropogenic climate change.
  • How animal agriculture contributes to global deforestation.
  • How factory farming depletes land and water.
  • How animal agriculture pollutes air and water, creating human health hazards.
  • What percentage of greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to factory farms, and why there is disagreement within the scientific community
  • Agriculture, including feed conversion ratios, atmospheric C02 resulting from land use change, what are the inputs to aquaculture, etc.
  • Future of food: cellular and cultivated meats
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Social Justice

  • Slaughterhouse work
  • Forced labor in the fishing industry
  • Impacts for small family farms
  • Impacts on indigenous communities
  • Factory farming pollution in communities
  • What a just food system might look like
  • Environmental justice
  • Connections between the food justice and racial justice movements
  • Federal policies for the animal agricultural sector
  • Feminist theory
  • Ableist theory
  • Speciesism
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Human Health

  • Antibiotics given to factory farmed animals
  • Hormones given to farmed animals
  • Links between factory farming and pandemics
  • Toxins released from manure lagoons
  • Healthy eating and nutrition
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Animals

  • The treatment of animals on factory farms
  • New research on animal sentience
  • The ethics of eating animals
  • Animal rights theory