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See Lee, she knows, uh, we're gonna wrap her.

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You don't need your help.

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She's coming.

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Ooh.

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Sealy bird.

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What is it? Sealy bird.
What is it?

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Sealy bird.

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It is almost well, but
this one right there.

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There we go.

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What? Sealy. Sealy.
You're doing so good.

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I think that's good. You're
done. Hey, I won the contest.

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What? Hey sweetie. There you go.

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There you go. That's it.

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If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.

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If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.

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If you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.

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If you want to be
reborn, let yourself die.

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Die. If you want to be
given everything you

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Want to be given everything,

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Give everything up.

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Give everything up.

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It's

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A beautiful day. Sealy. Hey,
get away from here right now.

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Willie.

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There you go.

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Hey, Katie.

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Hi. Hang on.

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So glad we're here for you.

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It was pretty easy for
him to up and leave.

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And it's unfair for her to
be in her crate, you know,

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at least eight to 10 hours a day.

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So she was in her crate that long.

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She was in her crate when the
kids were at school. Yeah. Yeah.

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From the time I would leave home.
'cause then I work a lot of overtime.

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Oh dear. Well, she's

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Got a lot. She likes sweet peppers.
She likes carrot. She loves cucumbers.

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Good girl, mama. Good
girl. She goes, good girl.

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Look at you mama. You,

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this is your, your space. Your
own personal space. Yeah.

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You promise she'll come see you. Yes.
I promise. Absolutely. She really,

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really will.

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Will need to see you. It'll

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Be, it'll, especially the first

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Few months.

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Ivy Lee, come meet
Lulu Ivy. Here you go.

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What? Oh my goodness. Oh, oh, oh.
I've never seen her do that before.

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That this place plays, all
of Texas is under water.

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We used to be cattle ranchers, obviously.
We used to kill animals for a living.

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Mm-hmm. We send 'em to sale, you
know they're gonna die. Mm-hmm.

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And we did that every twice a
year. Mm-hmm. We sent babies.

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Babies, you know, six months old
to sell. Mm-hmm. And so, you know,

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but I loved animals.

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So why do you think we
can eat bacon and eggs and

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cheese and a pork chop? I
used to, okay. Mm-hmm. And,

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and then we can go out and, and pet
Lulu. Mm-hmm. And say, will Lulu's,

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you know, different,

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It's obviously easy to go shopping
and grab it and purchase it.

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When we first got her, I didn't
eat bacon inside the house.

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And I was vegetarian for a little
while. Um, just 'cause I felt so bad.

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I felt so guilty.

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My hope is that we can educate people
to the point to where they really start

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thinking about their choices.

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Because every time you put a fork
in something and eat it, you are,

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you are actually hiring
a hitman to kill animals.

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They suffer. They die. Violent
deaths. You're buying that.

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Anyway. Come see the piggies.

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Penny, come here.
My precious darling.

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This is my girl.

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Look at how big you
are. My goodness.

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Penny Lane.

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Humanity has stripped these
animals from their very existence.

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They just wanna be out here living
their best life, you know? And, and,

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and I'm constantly thinking to myself,
how can I make their life better

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Over here? There you go.

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Little girl. Agape. Y'all eat up.

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We are at, in, out in the Four
Corners Caldwell, uh, Gonzalez, uh,

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Fayette and Bastrop
County. See you later now.

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Hi, can I help you?

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Let me have six spicy
potato soft tacos.

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Cut the cheese and the Chipotle,
no cheese and no Chipotle. Yeah.

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It'll be just lettuce
and potato. Definitely.

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Big bird, buddy. Hey, you.

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Happy birthday to

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Thank you.

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So sim right now you're live on my
Instagram Sim is celebrating her birthday

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here at Rowdy Girl Sanctuary with a private
tour with her whole family. Hi guys.

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Hi. Who here is vegan?

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I'm mainly plant based. Mainly plant-based.
Yeah. So y'all are vegetarian?

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90%. So what inspired you guys to start
it? Do you have time for a story? Yeah,

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absolutely. All. So let's get
to fair. What happened was, um,

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me and Tommy have been married twice.
Yeah. I'm pretty honest about my life.

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I'm in recovery. I've been sober
now, you know, over seven years.

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And so when we divorced the first
time, it had to do with that.

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And the first time we married,
he didn't have a cattle ranch.

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And in the middle of us being divorced
and remarried, I bought a ranch.

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And 2010 we got married.
She moved into the ranch.

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And I didn't really wanna live in,
she did not like me selling the cows.

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And I would just complain all the
time. And I'd cry and I was, I would,

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you know, I would say, can't you hear
those mama's crying? And he would tell me,

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I had to, you know, suck it
up basically. And I couldn't.

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She called me a murderer. I
remember distinctly looking in her,

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uh, Volkswagen, I think
it was on the floorboard.

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And there were several Chick-fil-A
bags in there. And I'd go, oh,

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you eat Chick-fil-A and you're calling
me a murderer. Where do you think,

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where do you think that filet mignon
comes from that you love so much?

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I was for the first time,

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seeing how my actions were contributing
to violence. And, you know,

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cruelty and,

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and cruelty and violence is so
normalized in our culture through food.

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And I started having real issues with
the fact that I was loving some animals

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and eating others. And
that's what kinda led us to,

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had led me to go vegan. It
took me four years of, um,

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just about losing my mind.

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Literally just every time
the babies would go to sale,

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it would get worse and worse. He
kept trying to hide it from me.

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I kept, you know, and I
knew it was happening.

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And so it would make me even more
mad. I was feeling so conflicted.

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I didn't know if I could live with
this man anymore. I couldn't, I

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Had no intentions on
becoming a vegan.

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Nope. Neither did I.

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Veganism was shoving down my throat,
but I went on health and environmental.

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And then the last thing
was, you know, compassion.

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I never liked taking my
cows to the cell barn.

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That was the hardest part of
being a rancher was, you know,

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taking these cows you cared
for. And when you drop 'em off,

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they're like, you're the only one
there. They know. And they're,

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they're looking at you like

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Going vegan, y'all. I,
I'm not saying it's easy.

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It was the hardest thing I
ever did. But now that I am,

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I'm wondering what the
hell took me so long.

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Come here. We're gonna look
at the goats real quick.

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Drop the middle

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Of seed. We might as well.

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They're so cute.

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Pepper was our first goat four and a half years ago.

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Tom, Tom came as a result of, uh, hurricane Harvey

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buddy.

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Four or

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Five years, we'll probably
have 20 or 30 goats.

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Hi. Hi. Do you smell it?

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Don't you

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Really licking her lips. Okay.

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I don't like factory farms and I never
realized I really didn't like 'em that

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much when I was involved in it.
But the more I learned about it,

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the more I was incentivized
to become vegan. Yeah.

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Some people even call me animal rights
activist and see my great-grandfather

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was a, a big rancher, head of
slaughterhouse in Houston.

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I know both sides of the story.

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I believe that in 1850
in the United States,

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you probably had to eat meat to survive.
But we don't have to do that anymore.

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Trixie and Dixon, they actually
came with the property.

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How do y'all support yourselves?
Is it just these tours?

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Right now we're funded mostly
by contributions. Right.

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But we also have a foundation.
Renee is branched off.

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She's not only having
a sanctuary now,

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but she's rescuing
ranches and farms or, and,

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and it's really, I told her
she was stupid to do it.

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I thought it was a crazy ideal,
but every time I do that,

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it seems to work at

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Welcome to RingCentral Conferencing.
Please announce yourself. Hi, this is

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M**k. Hey M**k. Okay. You
know, we're finally here.

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And obviously, uh, the capital
campaign is something we,

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we have been trying to
get off ground zero, uh,

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for two years. And then we've got the
summit September 18th through the 20th.

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And we've got over $20,000 in
financial commitments over

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The rest of Q one,

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identifying some very key donors that
we can reach out to because we wanna do

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two things.

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Okay. I'm gonna let ceiling in. She's
having a little hissy fit over there.

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Alright. So, um,

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the next objective is
education for those wanting to

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learn how to transition
their small farm.

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Are you talking about ranchers who
want to transition away from animal

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agriculture to
plant-based agriculture?

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Yes. For farmers and transition
folks that, you know,

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are really just trying to get some
education on how we've done something to

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help, like, say the Barretts
transition to a mushroom farm.

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What are some of the things that we've
done there that might interest them?

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Great.

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That's really good.

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Hey Renee. Yeah. Come
here for a second.

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Did you entice her to come
out on the porch this morning?

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Hey Lucy, you

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Coming out to see us?

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Well, I think you, uh,
you started something.

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I called her out earlier.

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I heard you. And uh, now she's like,
Ooh, this part of my territory. Lucy,

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You can come on out, baby.

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What do you think, Willie?

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Go ahead.

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Now are you gonna eat that?

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Mm-hmm.

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We taking you to the vet next.

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What is it, Lucy Goose? What?

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Hi. Volunteer day is the most
amazing time for me personally.

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You know, as former cattle ranchers
in Texas, it's not normal to do this.

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We also have a program, it's called
the Rancher Advocacy Program.

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And the Rancher advocacy
program is converting willingly

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farmers and ranchers that wanna go from
animal farming to plant-based farming.

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Yay. Is that like rat or what?

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We have four farms in our program. One
just joined us from North Carolina.

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A chicken farmer. We've got a chicken
farmer, cattle rancher in Wix, Arkansas.

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The Barretts that the
foundation that works with us,

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that believes in us wholeheartedly,
has already put $500,000 in this farm.

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And we're getting ready to sink another
$500,000 in this farm to transition them

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from a chicken farm to a mushroom farm.
Yay. Woohoo. That's what's happening,

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y'all.

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Um, peace to the planet,

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to the humans. And
may all of you hear,

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find connection to always be
the voice for the voiceless.

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Something.

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Yeah. Well we've been in survival
mode for like three years,

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so it's now to kind of
like be moving forward.

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We have to remove a bunch of the stuff
that is not needed for the production of

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mushrooms. You know, you have the massive,
um, exhaust fans on the other side.

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We do not need that
in mushroom farming.

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The key of setting it up is that you can
eat off the floor anywhere in the farm.

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Right.

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So our number one priority is
to move this ground cemented

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and not have this
critical control point.

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That's what they chickens
used to drink out of.

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They used to eat out of this
feed pans when they were biddies

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and you kept 'em for
about 52 to 50, sometimes

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8 58 days in here. In

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Here.

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They had full artificial
light for how many days?

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At first we kept them on
solid 24 hours a day for

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like three to five days,
depending on what you were doing.

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How you were trying to get 'em to
grow off at the end. Yeah. Wow.

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But then past that point,

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you put 'em on a scale to
where you graduated them down

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to where there wasn't hardly
any light in here at all.

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So we, we tortured them. Mm-hmm.
And then we put 'em on a plate.

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Well, this will go from a torture chamber to
a life chamber once we start growing

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mushrooms. That's perfect.
So that's the goal.

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What we're trying to achieve
That's perfect in longevity.

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It's gonna be phenomenal when all
four of 'em are functional full.

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It's gonna be an awesome feat.

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And then now we're gonna go to adopt
an animal. A female go Annelise.

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Yes. That's perfect. Annelise. Yeah.
And so we're gonna adopt an animal.

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10,000 years ago is when we
started herding animals.

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H e r d and h u R T because
we started hurting them

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and commodifying them that
long ago. And you know,

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before that we didn't do this.

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I'm not about fighting
animal agriculture.

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I'm about doing what I gotta do to create
a new system because this is much more

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attractive than stomping around in dead
chickens that are cannibalizing each

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other as they rot to death and
their own feces and urine. Okay.

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Who wants to do that? What farmer would
rather do that than grow mushrooms?

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Yeah. Wow. You know, my
daddy was 29 years old,

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my mama was 15 and my
daddy's first wife

00:23:00.930 --> 00:23:04.330
committed suicide and she
hadn't been dead long.

00:23:05.470 --> 00:23:09.970
And he took my mom
at 15 years old and

00:23:10.430 --> 00:23:14.730
he took her to a
graveyard where Barbara

00:23:15.270 --> 00:23:19.770
was buried. She was, the
dirt was still fresh.

00:23:20.150 --> 00:23:21.770
And, uh, he raped my mother

00:23:23.470 --> 00:23:28.290
and I was conceived and I
grew up fighting 'cause he

00:23:28.290 --> 00:23:33.210
beat her every day. I can
remember when my mother finally

00:23:34.080 --> 00:23:37.250
left my daddy. I was 10
years old and she was bloody,

00:23:37.750 --> 00:23:42.330
she was a Polk just completely
mangled by my dad. And I'm 10,

00:23:42.390 --> 00:23:46.840
my brother's eight, my sister's six.
They're looking at me and I'm like,

00:23:48.360 --> 00:23:49.920
I didn't, I mean, I'm
in shock, you know,

00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:53.480
all I knew is I had to take care of my
sister and my brother and they left.

00:23:53.580 --> 00:23:55.720
And I didn't think I'd ever
see my mom and daddy again.

00:23:57.360 --> 00:24:01.240
I recovered from all that. Y'all see,
that's one of the great great things.

00:24:01.380 --> 00:24:04.040
You know, we can either go all
the way up or go all the way down.

00:24:04.980 --> 00:24:09.320
We can take all this stuff that happens
to us and we can become mired in

00:24:09.320 --> 00:24:12.960
alcoholism and drug addiction like
I did. I'm recco, I'm in recovery,

00:24:13.390 --> 00:24:17.080
have been for many years.
Or we can come on out of it

00:24:19.820 --> 00:24:23.680
Now. My life's for a
purpose and you know,

00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:27.040
if I can get through all that and still
be standing, this is a piece of cake.

00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:38.860
I hate to inform you, bud.

00:25:38.890 --> 00:25:42.460
They took me for a ride and we're
gonna have to push him back up in here.

00:25:42.810 --> 00:25:43.643
Okay.

00:25:43.770 --> 00:25:48.700
Alright. Rowdy girl is, uh, one of
the patients. Oh, she's got a problem.

00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:51.300
And we gotta get her fixed.
Yeah. All right,

00:25:51.550 --> 00:25:52.420
We'll do our best.

00:26:03.570 --> 00:26:04.403
You can see her teeth?

00:26:04.810 --> 00:26:05.643
Mm-hmm.

00:26:08.620 --> 00:26:12.670
It's okay. Roddy. Girl, you need
to get on in there, girl.

00:26:12.670 --> 00:26:13.503
No, you gotta go that way.

00:26:23.860 --> 00:26:28.590
Come on. Close in this
way. Close in this way.

00:26:29.360 --> 00:26:30.193
Close in this way.

00:26:45.830 --> 00:26:46.960
Come on Rowdy. Let's go

00:27:00.530 --> 00:27:03.000
Watch that panel. Hey,

00:27:09.120 --> 00:27:12.040
I mean, what do you think of that Ke
looking at it? I mean, do we, is it,

00:27:12.060 --> 00:27:15.760
do we risk putting her sleep right now
to look at that or do you, can you,

00:27:15.760 --> 00:27:16.640
do you have enough of a

00:27:17.310 --> 00:27:22.000
Yeah, I would like to at least get some
antibiotics in her. Yeah. Is my thought.

00:27:22.110 --> 00:27:22.943
Yeah. So,

00:27:23.540 --> 00:27:24.373
Um, all right.

00:27:41.180 --> 00:27:42.600
So what may have happened? I mean,

00:27:42.600 --> 00:27:45.840
she could have had a thorn or something
and then it developed into an abscess

00:27:45.840 --> 00:27:47.400
that ruptured and made
this bigger hole.

00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:51.680
But the good news is now that it's open
and draining and we clean it and do

00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:53.080
antibiotics, it
should be just fine.

00:27:59.820 --> 00:28:00.320
And that's

00:28:00.320 --> 00:28:03.960
The reversal. This is, yeah. You have
to give it slowly because they're,

00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:06.640
you know, it's picking their heart
rate back up really quickly and

00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:17.840
Yep. Hey, hey. Pay us back. Yeah.

00:28:25.780 --> 00:28:26.613
Yep.

00:28:32.090 --> 00:28:35.600
Ratty girl, you're
done. It's all over.

00:28:38.060 --> 00:28:41.080
That's her oldest daughter. Udine
coming to check on her mama.

00:28:58.230 --> 00:28:59.063
Here we go.

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And now then membership
template for failed donations.

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Spotty down this morning, huh?
Spotty is down this morning.

00:29:13.470 --> 00:29:15.930
You say down like he can't
get up. She can't get up.

00:29:17.030 --> 00:29:20.290
And she's one of the not
young ones, but not old ones.

00:29:20.670 --> 00:29:22.730
Can you get her on the phone just
right quick while I'm doing this? Yeah,

00:29:23.050 --> 00:29:24.810
absolutely. I just told
her. I mean, because

00:29:26.110 --> 00:29:30.730
Ah, Sandy,

00:29:31.030 --> 00:29:31.863
Hey, it's Renee.

00:29:32.040 --> 00:29:34.050
Richard saw her this
morning. She's down,

00:29:34.190 --> 00:29:35.930
Was she down yesterday?
Was she limping?

00:29:36.950 --> 00:29:39.890
No. No. We think it's probably
the same thing as the others.

00:29:40.670 --> 00:29:43.600
So since she's down
Yeah. And not dead.

00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:47.720
I think it's a good idea to get a vet
out there today. Just call an emergency.

00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:48.000
I don't

00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:48.833
Have one.

00:29:49.030 --> 00:29:50.000
Okay. You. That's

00:29:50.020 --> 00:29:53.520
The problem. Okay, well let me, you
don't have any that come out on weekends.

00:29:53.710 --> 00:29:57.520
Okay. Well, hang on a minute. Um,
Julie, ma'am, why don't you do this?

00:29:57.570 --> 00:30:01.440
Let's all calm down. Okay.
Know, I know it's a small herd,

00:30:02.180 --> 00:30:04.400
but let's, let's do
what we can today.

00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:09.360
And Jerry's going to see what she
can do to find a vet to come out

00:30:09.360 --> 00:30:13.000
there. Okay? If, if you don't
have the money to pay for it,

00:30:13.080 --> 00:30:16.640
I will figure it out. Because we need
to get, we need to get a vet out there.

00:30:19.320 --> 00:30:20.960
I can't deal with this. Renee.

00:30:25.120 --> 00:30:25.953
I know Cindy.

00:30:29.540 --> 00:30:30.840
We didn't take care of her.

00:30:32.620 --> 00:30:34.480
God, I know how you feel.
I know how you feel.

00:30:34.800 --> 00:30:39.240
I know how it feels to
be on the other side of

00:30:39.670 --> 00:30:44.480
this industry and trying to figure
out what to do with the cows.

00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:47.560
You have left. It's not easy.

00:30:49.630 --> 00:30:50.463
Okay.

00:30:51.760 --> 00:30:53.120
I knew this was
gonna happen. Mm-hmm.

00:30:53.730 --> 00:30:58.000
She's finally realizing she's
losing her family one by one.

00:30:58.970 --> 00:31:02.720
She's realizing that
they're not chattel.

00:31:04.600 --> 00:31:09.320
A real rancher in transition
is her chance to really,

00:31:09.540 --> 00:31:13.960
really just let me hear the
grief, 'cause I hear it.

00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:15.320
I know. I went through it.

00:31:32.600 --> 00:31:35.980
So, you and Richard Trailer are one of
our ranchers in transition this morning.

00:31:35.980 --> 00:31:37.300
They found one of their cows,

00:31:37.340 --> 00:31:41.340
a 15 year old named
spotty down trailers.

00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:49.460
The trailers live in a rural area, so the
travel will be expensive. In addition,

00:31:49.460 --> 00:31:51.340
there could be medications,
treatments, and landmark.

00:31:51.340 --> 00:31:55.180
Please donate today
to help. Boom. Okay,

00:31:58.250 --> 00:31:59.083
Great.

00:32:00.660 --> 00:32:04.440
Hey, hey, Renee. I don't think today
was the day to put her down, do you?

00:32:06.120 --> 00:32:10.800
I don't know. I mean, I'm torn. It's
like pulling the plug on somebody.

00:32:11.380 --> 00:32:14.800
You know, when you start having
feelings for animals, you know,

00:32:14.860 --> 00:32:18.600
the kind of animals you used to eat, it
causes a whole different level of grief.

00:32:19.230 --> 00:32:22.680
It's, it's a, it's a level of grief
that I can't even explain It. Just,

00:32:23.150 --> 00:32:24.320
It's heart wrenching.

00:32:43.860 --> 00:32:46.840
It is so good to to see you.
Hello. What happened? Exactly?

00:32:47.140 --> 00:32:49.200
So, I was headed Toho,
a ranch in south Texas,

00:32:49.340 --> 00:32:51.880
and I stopped by to check on
him on my way out of town.

00:32:52.320 --> 00:32:55.360
I had a cow down having a calf,
you know, this was maybe at noon.

00:32:55.740 --> 00:32:58.960
And by five o'clock she still
hadn't delivered. Oh. And I said,

00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:02.400
y'all gotta get a vet out there. And the
vet got the calf out. She did her job,

00:33:02.580 --> 00:33:05.720
and then she left. I got out
there about 11 o'clock at night,

00:33:05.900 --> 00:33:08.360
and he was nearly dead. I mean,

00:33:08.360 --> 00:33:12.960
he was just like laying there
lethargic. I, I mean, and I,

00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:17.640
he wouldn't suck. So I, I'd hold his head
up, poured the colostrum in him and I,

00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:19.920
and I literally just cradled
him in my lap, you know,

00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:21.680
and stayed there with
him like all night.

00:33:22.020 --> 00:33:25.760
And the next morning I took
him down where the cow was,

00:33:26.420 --> 00:33:29.120
put him on the ground, mama
walked up, looked at him,

00:33:29.120 --> 00:33:29.960
and turned around and walked off.

00:33:32.170 --> 00:33:32.520
There

00:33:32.520 --> 00:33:36.600
He is now, buddy. You okay?
Say hello to your new friends.

00:33:38.340 --> 00:33:39.720
Say hello to your new friends.

00:33:40.020 --> 00:33:43.320
Hey, baby. Hey sweetie. Hello.

00:33:46.030 --> 00:33:49.160
Look at you. You have
a sweet buster. Boy.

00:33:54.280 --> 00:33:55.400
Goodness gracious.

00:34:03.120 --> 00:34:06.720
I mean, we're in cows all the time.
They usually try to get away from you.

00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:08.440
They don't ever come to you
and love on you. You know,

00:34:08.510 --> 00:34:13.080
it's just kind of different,
you know, it's like, man, and

00:34:14.900 --> 00:34:15.733
he just,

00:34:16.020 --> 00:34:18.760
And he, my mouth on
your real level.

00:34:18.860 --> 00:34:20.360
He just got a big heart. You know,

00:34:22.990 --> 00:34:25.520
When I'm just out
with the cows, like,

00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:29.720
I just go out with him and just be with
him whenever mi whenever I went vegan

00:34:29.780 --> 00:34:32.320
and Tommy wasn't vegan, we
were fighting all the time.

00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:34.840
I thought we were gonna get
a divorce. Literally. Uh,

00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:38.280
I didn't wanna come in the house and just,
I mean, I was calling him a murderer.

00:34:39.460 --> 00:34:40.480
And I mean, I was like,

00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:43.880
this is when I first went vegan and
I was just totally outta my mind.

00:34:44.500 --> 00:34:47.600
And I went out and I just really
lived with the cows. I just went,

00:34:47.620 --> 00:34:50.520
did what they did. I sat
down. When they sat down,

00:34:50.680 --> 00:34:55.040
I laid down when they laid down, and I
just got real quiet with 'em all day.

00:34:55.160 --> 00:34:57.720
I was with the cows. Then I'd
go in and, and be, you know,

00:34:57.720 --> 00:35:01.000
and sleep at in the house. But during
the day, I didn't wanna be at home. Yeah.

00:35:01.140 --> 00:35:05.640
So I really got real intimate with
like, being a cow. Yeah. And so,

00:35:06.890 --> 00:35:09.400
Funny thing is I do
that too. You do. I go,

00:35:09.520 --> 00:35:12.240
I go sit out in the pasture with
'em and talk to 'em and pet on 'em.

00:35:12.240 --> 00:35:15.720
And all my cows are tamed. They come
up, let me rub on their head. Yeah.

00:35:15.790 --> 00:35:19.240
It's kinda like hunting. You know?
People ask me all the time, you know,

00:35:19.420 --> 00:35:22.080
how can you be a hunter if
you love the animals so much.

00:35:24.670 --> 00:35:28.840
I've never had a problem with it. I was
raised doing it. I've always, you know,

00:35:29.120 --> 00:35:33.120
believed in the Bible that God gave us
dominion over the animals and you know,

00:35:33.120 --> 00:35:37.240
where to take care of 'em
and, you know, but that's a,

00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:40.760
a resource that we've
been given. And you know,

00:35:40.780 --> 00:35:42.720
as long as you're a good
steward of it, I mean,

00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:47.480
I don't have those convictions that you
have. I could never eat him, you know?

00:35:47.630 --> 00:35:49.960
Yeah. Eating him would be like
eating my dog. You know? I just,

00:35:50.040 --> 00:35:51.480
I he's just like a child.

00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:56.240
Oh, that's a picture.

00:36:03.260 --> 00:36:06.760
Oh my goodness. There ain't
nothing better than that.

00:36:06.790 --> 00:36:09.000
I want you to come
back. He's hungry.

00:36:09.860 --> 00:36:11.760
We had a resident Turkey.
Her name is Sealy.

00:36:15.420 --> 00:36:16.360
You gonna bite me?

00:36:16.780 --> 00:36:21.080
She probably will. This is you.
This is what you're committing to.

00:36:21.230 --> 00:36:22.560
This is what you're putting, I mean,

00:36:22.600 --> 00:36:26.040
I have studied everything there is
in the Bible about this. If you,

00:36:26.040 --> 00:36:28.720
if you're open, I'll send you some stuff
I've learned. Sure. Yeah. You know,

00:36:29.460 --> 00:36:34.440
one time, God, according to the
Bible, did allow men to eat animals,

00:36:34.660 --> 00:36:38.400
but it was never intended that
we make a big habit of it. Yeah.

00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:41.560
It was never intended that we
create a business out of it. Yeah.

00:36:42.140 --> 00:36:46.160
Be know where does it say that we should
buy and sell and breed 'em and freight

00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:47.760
'em. And if you think about it,

00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:53.640
I, I, I just, I, I go back to
treating them with respect.

00:36:54.540 --> 00:36:55.373
And

00:36:55.600 --> 00:36:58.200
I didn't think I'd ever, ever
be a vegan. I was in rodeo,

00:36:58.330 --> 00:37:02.160
collection of leather boots, went to
trail rides, but little rowdy girl,

00:37:02.510 --> 00:37:03.760
when I started feeding her,

00:37:04.060 --> 00:37:07.880
that's when all the black Angus cows
in the pasture got vivid in my brain.

00:37:07.940 --> 00:37:12.640
It was like, I could see that every brow
feature. I could see their eyelashes.

00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:16.280
I could tell who they were. And they
started telling me their names.

00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:21.160
I didn't just name them. There's
a red, there's curly, you know?

00:37:21.220 --> 00:37:24.680
And I, and Tommy would say, Renee,
you gotta quit naming them cows.

00:37:25.060 --> 00:37:29.720
But that's when I started seeing stuff
I'd never seen before was I was feeding

00:37:29.720 --> 00:37:30.440
little rowdy girl.

00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:32.840
That's why when you were telling me
all the stuff you said about bus,

00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:34.280
I was like, oh s**t.
Better be careful.

00:37:34.900 --> 00:37:39.440
And there's a door inside our
consciousness that we dare not go through

00:37:39.670 --> 00:37:40.840
because if we do,

00:37:41.540 --> 00:37:45.160
we will see that all these
animals are just like us.

00:37:45.670 --> 00:37:49.720
Yeah. You're following your convictions
and you're doing a great job here. Well,

00:37:49.720 --> 00:37:54.440
thank you. I'm thankful. I'm thankful he
gets this place. It's, it's a blessing.

00:37:55.830 --> 00:37:57.600
Okay, let me go tell him by,

00:38:02.160 --> 00:38:07.100
I think you're happy here. You seem
happy. You seem like you're a happy guy.

00:38:20.300 --> 00:38:21.630
He's such a beautiful boy.

00:38:22.010 --> 00:38:25.950
He, I don't know man. He just got
something about him, his personality.

00:38:26.730 --> 00:38:30.950
He just, he's just a lover.

00:38:32.590 --> 00:38:37.080
And I literally held him in
my lap that first night and

00:38:37.380 --> 00:38:41.160
didn't know if he was gonna
live or not. We bonded.

00:38:42.740 --> 00:38:43.840
We bonded up buddy.

00:38:49.110 --> 00:38:49.230
I

00:38:49.230 --> 00:38:50.230
Think he's gonna like it here.

00:38:50.490 --> 00:38:52.310
He does. I can already tell

00:38:58.500 --> 00:39:01.270
it's been been kind of hard
'cause I've gotten attached.

00:39:02.740 --> 00:39:04.110
Just let him know. I'll see later.

00:39:04.690 --> 00:39:08.350
All right buddy. I'll see
you later. Okay. Okay.

00:39:09.070 --> 00:39:10.950
I gotta go drop
with, okay. Alright.

00:39:39.950 --> 00:39:40.783
Rowdy girl.

00:39:44.630 --> 00:39:45.463
Rowdy,

00:39:48.990 --> 00:39:51.860
rowdy girl is my vision.

00:39:55.310 --> 00:39:59.020
Rowdy girl. My rowdy,

00:40:01.670 --> 00:40:04.380
rowdy girl is the vision

00:40:06.970 --> 00:40:11.860
through rowdy eyes. I see them

00:40:14.130 --> 00:40:17.580
through Rowdy Girls' heart.

00:40:19.260 --> 00:40:20.420
I feel them

00:40:22.210 --> 00:40:25.340
through Rowdy Girls' Soul.

00:40:27.140 --> 00:40:29.900
I enter in

00:40:31.940 --> 00:40:36.820
a world where all can see

00:40:36.890 --> 00:40:40.180
them all rowdy.

00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:42.820
Hey Houdini.

00:41:09.210 --> 00:41:10.043
Woo.

00:41:31.340 --> 00:41:32.173
Come on.

00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:10.713
Hmm.

00:42:28.150 --> 00:42:32.000
Welcome to the Rancher
Advocacy Program Summit.

00:42:32.580 --> 00:42:37.120
I'm gonna throw it straight out to my
co-host Renee King Sonin in Texas.

00:42:37.610 --> 00:42:39.160
Thank you, Jane. I'm so,

00:42:39.220 --> 00:42:42.800
so honored to be here for the
first ever inaugural wrap summit.

00:42:43.340 --> 00:42:48.120
The rancher advocacy program is a
result of a Texas beef cattle ranch

00:42:48.150 --> 00:42:52.600
that went vegan. That's
right. In Texas. Angleton.

00:42:53.060 --> 00:42:57.880
We had a vegan change of heart when I
could no longer tolerate the cows going to

00:42:58.070 --> 00:42:58.900
sale.

00:42:58.900 --> 00:43:03.160
Now when you buy organic rice for
$2 a pound in the supermarket.

00:43:03.740 --> 00:43:07.040
And then I go and talk to the woman
who grew the rice in, in India,

00:43:07.420 --> 00:43:11.440
and she only got 5 cents a pound because
this game was designed by colonial

00:43:11.550 --> 00:43:15.400
traders. So instead I'm saying, money
should be flowing from the bottom up,

00:43:15.580 --> 00:43:16.600
not from the top down.

00:43:16.980 --> 00:43:19.120
So how do we change that
game? You know, I know,

00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:23.640
I know from the work we're doing at
the Rancher advocacy program with our

00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:27.520
scientists, with our, the, the
folks we have in finance and the,

00:43:27.540 --> 00:43:31.680
the business planners and the work that
we're doing, just how difficult it is.

00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:35.520
I mean, you can't just expect
nonprofits to pay for all this.

00:43:36.070 --> 00:43:39.520
It's very exciting to think about
not just regenerating the soil,

00:43:39.900 --> 00:43:44.880
but regenerating families and
regenerating the communities that

00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:46.680
have been ripped apart
by factory farming.

00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:49.120
I am so glad you
brought this up, Leah,

00:43:49.120 --> 00:43:53.120
because one of the things that I have
been really looking at that Cory Booker

00:43:53.380 --> 00:43:57.880
has said over and over again that
really speaks to my heart is that

00:43:57.980 --> 00:44:01.920
vegans and farmers have
finally found common ground.

00:44:02.420 --> 00:44:06.560
All of us are against the mechanized
and ex and exploitation of animal

00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:07.300
agriculture.

00:44:07.300 --> 00:44:12.200
And so if we can come to that
crossroads and we can realize that

00:44:12.200 --> 00:44:17.040
farmers have lost control. I mean
they've lost control. They don't have,

00:44:17.140 --> 00:44:18.840
uh, they've lost control
of their livelihoods.

00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:22.680
They've lost control of the animals,
their crops, their land. I mean,

00:44:22.680 --> 00:44:23.640
it's unsustainable.

00:44:40.150 --> 00:44:41.810
Oh, how they're all
gonna fit in there.

00:44:48.540 --> 00:44:53.520
The component of receiving our cups today,
that's like such a strong milestone.

00:44:54.460 --> 00:44:56.320
In a couple months time,

00:44:56.320 --> 00:45:00.760
there'll be eight feet of hallway going
all the way down and there'll be 18

00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:03.360
groin rooms going all the
way to the end of that wall.

00:45:03.820 --> 00:45:07.640
The beautiful part about our location is
that we can pick that mushroom by noon,

00:45:08.160 --> 00:45:09.560
ship it to Dallas by four o'clock.

00:45:09.660 --> 00:45:13.960
It can be on the plane at six o'clock
and be at the client's door at 10 o'clock

00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:16.800
at night where they're getting ready
their trucks at three o'clock in the

00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:19.760
morning to push into Chicago and New
York, wherever they may be going.

00:45:20.850 --> 00:45:23.960
We're utilizing older technologies,
the chicken technologies,

00:45:24.100 --> 00:45:26.880
and we're customizing 'em to
actually automate the whole system.

00:45:27.540 --> 00:45:30.600
The first exotic automated
mushroom farm in America.

00:45:33.820 --> 00:45:38.400
And the most beautiful part is the
fact that everything on this farm is

00:45:38.720 --> 00:45:39.553
American.

00:45:40.180 --> 00:45:45.000
The leftover substrate has a compost
to build able to fertilize mm-hmm.

00:45:45.220 --> 00:45:48.960
And help the nutrition
to the ground. We, uh,

00:45:49.050 --> 00:45:54.000
we're gonna test it for the cows we we're
studying right now for possibility of

00:45:54.010 --> 00:45:57.960
being able to feed this to
cattle and futuristically.

00:45:58.070 --> 00:46:02.040
When the volume starts coming off,
you've got a compost business.

00:46:02.500 --> 00:46:04.800
Can you put your 3000
of those in a room?

00:46:06.110 --> 00:46:10.320
That particular mushroom has four grams
of protein per serving. It's iron,

00:46:10.390 --> 00:46:14.440
it's magnesium, it's vitamin
D, calcium, copper, potassium.

00:46:15.660 --> 00:46:16.840
Oh, this is so exciting.

00:46:17.110 --> 00:46:17.943
Yeah, it really is.

00:46:33.790 --> 00:46:34.640
Come on, let's go.

00:46:44.540 --> 00:46:45.373
Woo.

00:47:11.540 --> 00:47:12.373
Governor.

00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:20.100
That's my girl. And
brownie. Brownie dude,

00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:24.793
Apache,

00:47:31.510 --> 00:47:34.320
have you learned to sit in
the seat? I'll be darned.

00:47:39.500 --> 00:47:44.280
Our main concern is there's not gonna
be a sanctuary that's gonna take on

00:47:44.820 --> 00:47:46.560
240 cows.

00:47:47.740 --> 00:47:48.573
Are you?

00:47:49.020 --> 00:47:53.000
To you is not to get rid of 200
animals to give them sanctuary.

00:47:53.540 --> 00:47:57.920
It is to put them to work on this
land and let them have a good life

00:47:58.370 --> 00:48:01.040
doing what they're supposed
to like in a natural setting.

00:48:01.620 --> 00:48:05.280
And then what all the ecosystem
services are documented.

00:48:05.710 --> 00:48:08.520
This can be broadcast
across the land.

00:48:08.900 --> 00:48:09.530
Yes. On

00:48:09.530 --> 00:48:10.363
Large scale.

00:48:10.810 --> 00:48:15.800
We've gotta restore the land back to
natural grasses, herbs, shrubs, herbs,

00:48:16.130 --> 00:48:19.920
medicinals, whatever. These animals
know how to eat on their own.

00:48:20.330 --> 00:48:25.040
We've gotta be able to give them the
opportunity to take care of their damn

00:48:25.190 --> 00:48:29.040
self. I live with these cows.
I watch them, I study them.

00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:31.760
I am so much a part of the herd.

00:48:32.220 --> 00:48:36.520
I'm telling you what they have
taught me. Just being with them.

00:48:38.310 --> 00:48:40.560
It's so exciting to hear
you talk like this.

00:48:41.140 --> 00:48:45.480
You know why these grasses are
so fantastic for a, a model?

00:48:46.190 --> 00:48:49.000
It's because they don't
need maintenance either.

00:48:49.750 --> 00:48:52.240
Then it provides all
this ecosystem, right?

00:48:52.620 --> 00:48:55.520
For all these endangered
and diminishing species.

00:48:56.310 --> 00:48:58.240
It's not just about
sequestered carbon,

00:48:59.070 --> 00:49:02.880
it's about saving
species extinction.

00:49:03.780 --> 00:49:07.000
If we do not create a
solution for the land,

00:49:07.500 --> 00:49:09.920
our planet is dire. Straits

00:49:10.830 --> 00:49:12.880
Turn your lips to God's ears.

00:49:35.380 --> 00:49:36.960
You think there's thunder
out there somewhere?

00:49:38.100 --> 00:49:42.840
Yep, I do. Well, it's,

00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:44.360
it's about 30 miles away.

00:50:04.630 --> 00:50:08.400
Okay. We've got 200 cows
to move in Arkansas.

00:50:08.820 --> 00:50:12.520
We gotta find a place to move them
or we gotta send 'em to slaughter.

00:50:12.780 --> 00:50:17.640
Nobody wants to do that. So
when Renee told me that, uh,

00:50:18.180 --> 00:50:22.880
you know, somebody had some, uh,
negative feedback on Ron's situation,

00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:28.520
I, I instantly threw up
my, you know, wall and sit.

00:50:29.090 --> 00:50:33.000
Lemme explain what my objection is.
Putting the animals on the pasture,

00:50:33.400 --> 00:50:37.520
I think is a great idea. Doing the
study, I think is where the problem is.

00:50:38.080 --> 00:50:41.400
Everyone who's kind of trying to
show that animal agriculture can be

00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:44.920
environmentally sustainable
are beef ranchers.

00:50:45.540 --> 00:50:46.920
If this is successful,

00:50:47.540 --> 00:50:51.760
the conclusion that they will make is
that this is an argument for raising

00:50:51.820 --> 00:50:54.800
cattle in this way for slaughter.

00:50:55.700 --> 00:50:56.390
You know,

00:50:56.390 --> 00:51:01.320
raising cows in an environmental
sustainable way to me is

00:51:01.460 --> 00:51:04.480
common sense. I've seen, uh,

00:51:04.990 --> 00:51:09.120
high production on pastures and
I've seen low impact on pastures.

00:51:09.620 --> 00:51:11.840
And if we prove that uh,

00:51:11.980 --> 00:51:16.760
the cattle ranchers can use this
environmental sustainable way and they start

00:51:16.760 --> 00:51:17.430
doing it,

00:51:17.430 --> 00:51:22.160
they're instantly gonna
produce 90% less cattle

00:51:22.380 --> 00:51:27.120
on the same amount of land and
it's gonna instantly produce

00:51:27.300 --> 00:51:32.200
better land where the, uh, the
natural fauna and flora flourish.

00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:36.200
I agree with that. What the study is
really gonna do is say, you know,

00:51:36.200 --> 00:51:40.840
there are ways of producing
meat that's environmentally

00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:41.640
sustainable. Hang

00:51:41.640 --> 00:51:44.640
On a minute. Hang on a minute.
Because we used to be cattle ranchers.

00:51:45.260 --> 00:51:48.880
We are the bridge and we have to,

00:51:49.060 --> 00:51:53.920
we have to be able to have our feet
in both worlds to be able to be

00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:58.040
a funnel and channel for the
light to save. Not just cows,

00:51:58.610 --> 00:52:02.760
which I adore and love,
but the planet all species.

00:52:03.780 --> 00:52:07.640
If we are not here to do
that, then what are we doing

00:52:44.680 --> 00:52:45.480
There?

00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:46.750
Dusty roads. Come on.

00:52:53.620 --> 00:52:54.550
Come on Dusty.

00:53:03.500 --> 00:53:07.030
Come right over here. And when
they come up you can approach 'em.

00:53:07.250 --> 00:53:09.950
You'll just sit down
and give them time.

00:53:09.950 --> 00:53:13.750
They will come call me. I think I know
what to do. Okay. I don't need instructions.

00:53:13.750 --> 00:53:14.583
Alright.

00:53:18.540 --> 00:53:22.910
Okay, dear Dusty, Hey Dusty's,

00:53:22.910 --> 00:53:27.120
the baby of Jan. Jan to my right.

00:53:27.770 --> 00:53:29.200
Lemme see if dust steel.

00:53:34.260 --> 00:53:37.160
So I'm out here and
now we see wild pigs.

00:53:37.160 --> 00:53:41.560
They're just right here acting like
you know, Hey, one bit scared.

00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:44.113
Unbelievable.

00:53:46.440 --> 00:53:51.080
I hear voice in the
morning. Oh, you call me.

00:53:52.250 --> 00:53:56.760
Radio reminds me of
my home far away.

00:53:58.180 --> 00:53:59.880
Riding down the road.

00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:04.520
I get feeling that I
should have been home

00:54:04.870 --> 00:54:08.320
yesterday. Yesterday.

00:54:11.930 --> 00:54:15.720
Gussy Rose. Take me home

00:54:18.380 --> 00:54:22.360
to the tray. I belong.

00:54:24.590 --> 00:54:29.320
Well, Texas hot Summer,

00:54:31.710 --> 00:54:35.250
take me home. Dusty Road.

00:54:43.910 --> 00:54:46.250
Hi, Lulu's here to see Var.

00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:47.793
Look at you.

00:54:48.590 --> 00:54:50.690
Hi mama. You're so big.

00:54:52.990 --> 00:54:57.890
How does it feel to see her here
and know that she's safe and Oh,

00:54:58.080 --> 00:55:01.570
Oh's. That's amazing that I don't
ever have any kind of concerns.

00:55:01.570 --> 00:55:05.530
Come here mom, come here.
Oh, her weight is great.

00:55:06.110 --> 00:55:07.010
She is good. Mm-hmm.

00:55:09.460 --> 00:55:11.810
She's got such a big presence.

00:55:14.630 --> 00:55:18.890
She loves her little space
and, uh, and protects it.

00:55:19.080 --> 00:55:19.913
Yeah.

00:55:20.030 --> 00:55:21.730
Has it changed your diet at all?

00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:24.690
Does it make you think any different
about anything like what you eat?

00:55:24.990 --> 00:55:28.410
We have changed our diet. Yes. Yeah. I
used to love bacon. I ain't gonna lie.

00:55:28.910 --> 00:55:33.530
Of course. Now I don't eat. She'll tell
you. No, I don't. No, it's not my,

00:55:33.600 --> 00:55:34.970
it's not my thing
anymore. Like yeah,

00:55:34.970 --> 00:55:38.210
we do eat a lot more vegetables now
good than one lot before. A lot more.

00:55:38.600 --> 00:55:40.410
Even though you
might want to change,

00:55:40.870 --> 00:55:45.690
the idea of it is tough
because of the tradition

00:55:45.690 --> 00:55:49.610
and the family part. It's really
tough to go to a family outing. Yeah.

00:55:49.610 --> 00:55:54.530
When everybody's eating a roast, a pork
roast or a Turkey and, and you know,

00:55:54.530 --> 00:55:55.930
you feel like the odd man out,

00:55:56.710 --> 00:56:00.970
You know, the problem is, is like
life gets in the way. Priorities.

00:56:01.470 --> 00:56:05.890
You just fall, fall in line, move with
the waves, move with the winds, you know,

00:56:05.990 --> 00:56:08.330
so you don't realize it until
somebody starts talking about it.

00:56:08.330 --> 00:56:10.930
Then you realize,
oh, there is a point.

00:56:12.110 --> 00:56:14.930
The choices we make
really do matter.

00:56:15.030 --> 00:56:19.770
And the reason we fall in line to your
point is because we're programmed

00:56:20.470 --> 00:56:23.560
by systems. We don't
hear the screams.

00:56:23.580 --> 00:56:27.000
We don't see the throats being
slashed and the blood pouring out,

00:56:27.220 --> 00:56:29.160
but we eat the results of

00:56:29.300 --> 00:56:32.280
Mm-hmm. I defended freedom for
21 years as a retired marine.

00:56:32.380 --> 00:56:36.720
So I've seen a couple of things I wish
I could forget in my military career.

00:56:37.380 --> 00:56:40.560
So I understand. And it's just
the way the system is, you know,

00:56:41.550 --> 00:56:44.000
most people don't get to see the
things that I get got to see.

00:56:44.310 --> 00:56:46.160
It's the same thing in
animal agriculture.

00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:50.320
I have to admit that. I can't
remember the last time we ate pork.

00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:53.200
I can't remember the last time I did
eat pork. Actually, come to think of

00:56:53.200 --> 00:56:56.360
It, when people like you go vegan,
you can make such a difference.

00:56:59.100 --> 00:56:59.933
Go beans,

00:57:35.390 --> 00:57:39.280
Josephine. How you
doing? How you doing?

00:57:42.810 --> 00:57:43.160
Gonna

00:57:43.160 --> 00:57:44.240
Get the please off of me

00:58:40.340 --> 00:58:41.280
Now you hear me?

00:58:49.510 --> 00:58:50.343
Come here baby.

00:58:57.990 --> 00:59:01.880
Baby. How you doing? Hey,

00:59:03.500 --> 00:59:07.960
how goes it? How goes
it? Hmm? How goes it?

00:59:07.970 --> 00:59:10.000
Let's get them flies off. You

00:59:11.900 --> 00:59:15.200
get thems off you baby.
Such a big beautiful girl.

00:59:18.900 --> 00:59:20.400
Hey Maria, how are you?

00:59:51.450 --> 00:59:53.080
Sweet girl. Yes, you

00:59:55.120 --> 00:59:56.720
gorgeous girl.

01:00:21.580 --> 01:00:23.680
We looked into building
more chicken houses.

01:00:24.230 --> 01:00:26.600
He's barely able to
breathe with four.

01:00:26.950 --> 01:00:29.440
It's go big or go home
in animal agriculture.

01:00:30.620 --> 01:00:32.040
The cool cells were down here,

01:00:32.260 --> 01:00:36.960
so it brought in air from that end of
the chicken house. This and these fans.

01:00:37.660 --> 01:00:41.720
Oh my god, my love. So
where was the natural light?

01:00:42.060 --> 01:00:43.960
No natural light. They
keep it very dim.

01:00:45.700 --> 01:00:46.533
No

01:00:48.060 --> 01:00:50.200
Enough for us to come
in here and see,

01:00:50.340 --> 01:00:55.160
to pick up the dead ones and then we would
dim them. It doesn't make sense now.

01:00:55.200 --> 01:00:56.960
I see it clearly now,
but mm-hmm. I mean,

01:00:57.020 --> 01:00:58.800
but when you're working within
the industry, you're like,

01:00:58.860 --> 01:01:01.920
how else are you gonna raise all these
chickens? I thought this was amazing,

01:01:01.950 --> 01:01:05.960
this innovation that you can grow a six
pound chicken that quick when I figured

01:01:05.980 --> 01:01:09.000
out you could live without it. Like
you don't even have to eat meat.

01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:13.120
Like it's not necessary at all. And that's
when my mind started going then why,

01:01:13.260 --> 01:01:14.480
why is all this happening?

01:01:19.310 --> 01:01:21.400
This will be the 18th room,

01:01:22.860 --> 01:01:24.560
25,000 chickens

01:01:24.900 --> 01:01:25.840
Per per

01:01:26.070 --> 01:01:26.903
Barn.

01:01:27.420 --> 01:01:29.320
Who? And they started
off in the half house.

01:01:29.380 --> 01:01:34.320
We would brooded them on one half
and then when they got about,

01:01:34.870 --> 01:01:37.240
depending on the weather and
depending on how cold it was,

01:01:37.630 --> 01:01:40.600
sometimes we would turn 'em
out at five days old. Um,

01:01:40.700 --> 01:01:44.440
but sometimes we would have to hold 'em
till 10 days and then turn 'em out into

01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:45.400
the whole house.

01:01:45.690 --> 01:01:48.800
Never had their mom to tell
'em what to do. Nothing.

01:01:48.870 --> 01:01:50.480
Just a bunch of little baby chicks

01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:54.560
Everywhere. Dumped out of
crates. I know. Isn't that crazy?

01:01:56.020 --> 01:01:59.200
But to come full circle to
be here right now. Yeah.

01:01:59.950 --> 01:02:00.400
Look at

01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:01.920
It. I'm telling you.

01:02:02.670 --> 01:02:05.840
Well, you've done a lot in a short
period of time, it looks like to me.

01:02:06.630 --> 01:02:10.560
Well, we're going grow quite a few different
varieties and we'll be able to grow

01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:14.800
anything anybody wants. Wow. Cool.
Yeah. This gonna be so awesome.

01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:20.480
I can't wait. I can't
hardly wait. Yeah.

01:02:21.630 --> 01:02:24.520
Long time coming. It's been,
it's been so long coming.

01:02:29.180 --> 01:02:32.070
Uh, yeah, it's been a while. 20

01:02:32.140 --> 01:02:32.690
Feet.

01:02:32.690 --> 01:02:36.150
21. Yeah. Feet. The
rooms are 21 by 30.

01:03:26.520 --> 01:03:27.670
There he is coming in.

01:03:31.130 --> 01:03:34.390
So Tommy, what are you gonna have
'em do when they come up here?

01:03:34.390 --> 01:03:36.190
Are you gonna have 'em
go like that and come

01:03:36.190 --> 01:03:36.610
Around?

01:03:36.610 --> 01:03:39.310
I'm gonna have him pull right out into
the pasture and you keep him going.

01:03:39.540 --> 01:03:39.830
Okay.

01:03:39.830 --> 01:03:42.190
So I can go ahead and out there and
I'll just be showing him where to goes.

01:03:42.190 --> 01:03:42.390
Yeah.

01:03:42.390 --> 01:03:43.223
Okay. That'd be great.

01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:55.750
Y'all, just so you know, on Instagram,
if you don't know Richard Tray,

01:03:55.940 --> 01:04:00.750
he's a sixth generation cattle rancher
that is in our rancher advocacy program

01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:05.710
along with his wife Cindy. And
he's recently going vegan. First

01:04:05.710 --> 01:04:06.630
Time I ever met Renee,

01:04:06.850 --> 01:04:10.790
she got in between me and the cow
when I had Electric Pro. She goes,

01:04:10.850 --> 01:04:14.870
you are not touching that baby with
that LEC prod. And I thought, well,

01:04:14.870 --> 01:04:17.910
I'm gonna have to fight this woman
and her husband's bigger than me.

01:04:18.610 --> 01:04:21.590
So we got 'em in there without
using the LEC electric prod.

01:04:21.730 --> 01:04:24.950
Hey, hey, okay, let's go and let
'em out. Go ahead and let 'em out.

01:04:24.950 --> 01:04:25.783
Go and let 'em out now.

01:04:38.620 --> 01:04:39.453
Come on baby.

01:04:48.300 --> 01:04:49.133
Whoa,

01:04:49.550 --> 01:04:53.030
Frito. Look. Look. Oh my God.

01:05:00.850 --> 01:05:01.710
How cool is that?

01:05:08.680 --> 01:05:13.390
Missy has just been reunited with
three members of her family is just

01:05:14.390 --> 01:05:15.223
unbelievable.

01:05:19.430 --> 01:05:21.280
That corner all the
way down the street,

01:05:24.860 --> 01:05:29.320
You know, there's been many trailers that
I've seen leaving cellulars. Oh God.

01:05:30.470 --> 01:05:31.480
They get so scared.

01:05:31.550 --> 01:05:35.520
They're crammed in those trailers and
they just poop all over everything. And,

01:05:35.940 --> 01:05:38.600
and then when there's nobody
in the trailer and you know,

01:05:38.600 --> 01:05:41.880
they're in the cell barn.
That's the last memory.

01:05:43.390 --> 01:05:46.320
Yeah. It's really sad.

01:05:49.420 --> 01:05:52.400
But what we're talking about is the
big picture of being cruel to animals.

01:05:52.910 --> 01:05:54.440
What you've already mm-hmm.

01:05:54.520 --> 01:05:58.720
Been in doctor to
think is your property

01:05:59.380 --> 01:06:01.560
is, you can do. Yeah. You
can do with what you want to.

01:06:01.750 --> 01:06:02.583
Exactly.

01:06:02.710 --> 01:06:07.160
It's, I've made the, I Yeah. You
know, it's amazing what you've done,

01:06:07.820 --> 01:06:11.840
um, Renee, because at first it was
just about the environment, remember?

01:06:12.100 --> 01:06:16.480
So I got that part of it. But in the last
few months it's something's clicked.

01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:19.920
I appreciate you saying that
because when I first started rap,

01:06:21.260 --> 01:06:25.480
it was meant to be not some vehicle where
I'm gonna transition a bunch of farms,

01:06:25.480 --> 01:06:28.320
give 'em a bunch of money. It
was really meant to be, uh,

01:06:30.120 --> 01:06:34.080
a like, I, I wanted to help people make
the connection when they started seeing,

01:06:34.430 --> 01:06:36.640
when they started seeing things
that they didn't see before.

01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:41.440
I wanted to be a catalyst for that change
because I know what happened to me was

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so hard when I went vegan in the
middle of the cattle country,

01:06:45.140 --> 01:06:49.720
being married to Tommy saw
him. Uh, it was such a,

01:06:49.740 --> 01:06:53.200
it was such a painful,
quiet torment for me.

01:06:54.690 --> 01:06:56.980
This veganism, I really
think is part of the journey.

01:06:57.160 --> 01:06:59.500
It is, isn't it? It is. It is
that the vegan going vegan,

01:06:59.720 --> 01:07:04.220
the connect the dots connect going vegan
was the first time I realized I grew up

01:07:04.220 --> 01:07:04.720
racist.

01:07:04.720 --> 01:07:05.553
Me too.

01:07:05.780 --> 01:07:06.613
I don't believe

01:07:06.780 --> 01:07:07.420
I see how wrong

01:07:07.420 --> 01:07:08.900
I was. Yeah. And I hate

01:07:08.900 --> 01:07:09.540
The person I used

01:07:09.540 --> 01:07:11.380
To be. You know,
not eating animals.

01:07:11.560 --> 01:07:14.700
You have to go against the way
you were raised in your family.

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And so when you do that,

01:07:16.960 --> 01:07:19.940
you can begin to reject the same
thing you were taught around politics,

01:07:21.540 --> 01:07:22.373
around racism.

01:07:23.420 --> 01:07:27.280
You know how unique it is for me and you
to have connected and have gone through

01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:31.880
the same type of journey
and learn that that's wrong.

01:07:32.300 --> 01:07:37.060
As in connecting it to the
dehumanization of animals.

01:07:37.450 --> 01:07:41.580
Yeah. I know. It all is the
same, it's the same mindset.

01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:46.100
It is the normalization of violence.
Yeah. Think about the animals.

01:07:46.100 --> 01:07:48.900
That's why every time I see a
truck, every time I see a trailer,

01:07:48.900 --> 01:07:52.260
every time I go to the vet, anytime
I can be a voice for the voiceless,

01:07:52.260 --> 01:07:56.420
for the ones that have no voice.
You have a voice. You have a voice.

01:07:56.640 --> 01:07:59.060
It is incumbent upon us
to not be quiet anymore.

01:08:29.660 --> 01:08:32.920
Hey, fel Norman.

01:08:57.740 --> 01:08:58.573
Okay.

01:09:07.770 --> 01:09:10.510
Hey Tammy. Boy, it's okay.

01:09:14.770 --> 01:09:15.603
My,

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That's pretty in it.
That's really pretty.