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Assume positive intent. Be curious. Ask what shaped the other person’s worldview, because none of us chose the culture, family, or circumstances we were born into. Don’t assume everyone will land where we did, and don’t assume someone who disagrees is a bad person. We won’t always reach the same moral conclusion, but we can find common ground along the way, and that connection is how we build a better world together. Let’s model the kind of conversation we want to see, in the comments too.

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Sometimes it can feel like the grocery store is just a bunch of corps in a trench coat. Because it basically is.

#worldfoodday2026 #worldfoodday #bigfood #bigfoodanddrink #makebigfoodpay

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Sitting down with Phil at @hopewellfarmsga was one of my favorite conversations from the One Table series, where I talk with farmers about the things we usually avoid. Phil really listened, and we found understanding if not agreement even though we eat differently. I respect him for inviting me into a conversation that could have gone sideways. I’m so grateful it didn’t, and I wish more of us could talk to each other this way.

In this clip we get into why I don’t eat eggs. Male chicks are separated from the hens shortly after hatching because they can’t lay eggs, so they’re treated as worthless. Most are killed on their first day, often by maceration, where they’re fed into rotating blades. It’s unfathomable to me that this is just normal practice.

I think that’s where the real change starts, when people with very different perspectives still pull up a chair and listen. Every table like this one makes the next hard conversation a little easier, and who knows what grows from a single honest exchange.

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Do you ever wonder if a farmer who raises animals the industrial way can really change?

Will Harris did.

For years he farmed the way he was taught, the way the system rewards. Then came a moment when he looked at his animals and saw them differently. He couldn’t unsee it, and it changed everything about how he farms.

In this clip from my One Table series, Will tells me about that exact moment.

Farmers aren’t locked into this system forever. Some of them are already finding the way out.

Full conversation at the link in my bio.

🎥 @singlestonemedia

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In March 2024, NEW Cooperative spilled 265,000 gallons of nitrogen fertilizer into the Nishnabotna River. The previous year, the Iowa legislature defunded the statewide water monitoring network.

So, neighbors started monitoring the water themselves.

The Nishnabotna Water Defenders hand out nitrate strips and teach neighbors how to use them, building a record of the river the state stopped watching.

Watch the full doc at the link in our bio.

Created in partnership with the documentary organization @singlestonemedia

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Pregnant pigs locked in metal crates so small they can’t even turn around, for nearly their entire pregnancy. That’s a gestation crate. So why do we still have something this cruel? A lot of people assume it’s because farmers want them. So I decided to ask a pig farmer directly.

Will Harris has raised pigs, cattle and poultry on pasture at White Oak Pastures in Georgia for decades. His answer was clear: confining a pregnant pig like this is wrong. Farmers aren’t the ones demanding this. The industry is.

I’ve sat in Senate offices with Will. When an advocate like me talks about gestation crates, it’s expected. When a Georgia farmer with generations of dirt under his fingernails says the same thing, our Senator hears it in a whole new way. That’s the power of allies. You don’t have to agree on everything to stand together on what matters.

Will and I don’t see eye to eye on every question. But on this one we’re completely aligned: no pregnant pig should be stuck in a crate, and states should keep the right to say so. That’s why we’re fighting the Save Our Bacon Act together.

This is why I started One Table. To end factory farming, we have to build a table everyone wants to sit at.

Filmed by @singlestonemedia

Watch the full conversation with Will on YouTube: At One Table (link in bio)

@ciwfusa is one have the organizations dedicated to ending the cage age.

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What does a farmer who raises pigs, cattle, chickens and turkeys really think about vegans?

So I asked him. We broke bread together and had a real conversation.

Will Harris of @whiteoakpastures has been farming his family’s land in Bluffton, Georgia his whole life. He raises animals for meat and eggs. I’ve spent 25 years fighting factory farming. You’d think this conversation would go sideways fast.

You’ll have to watch it to find out if it did…

I believe if we’re going to end factory farming, we have to build a table that everyone wants to sit at. Farmers, vegans, meat eaters, all of us. That’s what my new YouTube series One Table is all about, and this is the very first clip.

The full conversation is live on YouTube now. Link in bio!

Follow me so you don’t miss the upcoming episodes. More clips of this conversation and other conversations with farmers are coming.

Filmed by @singlestonemedia

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Iowa resident Nick Schutt has witnessed the state’s cancer crisis firsthand. Now, he wonders if he’s next.

Nitrate is a probable human carcinogen. Iowa has the second-highest cancer rate in the country and extreme levels of nitrate pollution. Schutt is still waiting for someone to connect the two.

Watch the full doc at the link in our bio.

Created in partnership with the documentary organization @singlestonemedia

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When the factory farming model came to Iowa, there was wide public pushback. But today, researcher Austin Frerick says the worst actors continue to thrive.

As water pollution in the state grows, so do Iowa’s cancer rates.

Watch the full doc at the link in our bio: @sentient_media

Created in partnership with the documentary organization @singlestonemedia

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While cancer rates across the country are dropping, Iowa has the fastest growing cancer rate in the United States. Is industrial agriculture to blame?

We went to Iowa to find out.

The state has the most factory farms in the country, and is overflowing with animal waste: over 170 billion pounds a year, in fact. It’s full of nitrogen, and that runoff manure is wreaking havoc in the rivers — and the health of its residents.

Created in partnership with the documentary organization @singlestonemedia

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Iowa has a cancer problem. With the most consequential election cycle in recent memory around the corner, water and cancer are on the ballot in a way they’ve never been before.

“Iowa is a warning sign. This is what happens if we don’t rein in the structure.”

On Thursday, September 24, we’ll publish a new documentary on Iowa’s cancer crisis, created in partnership with the documentary organization, @singlestonemedia. Stay tuned.

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✊ #LaborDay was born from a movement fueled by a fierce demand for human dignity and recognition of the value of labor. In the late 1800s, workers organized to dismantle grueling, dangerous conditions. These changemakers won many of the rights we rely on today. Yet the fight against unsafe workplaces and systemic inequality continues.

Watch the full video by @singlestonemedia . featuring our Executive Director, Dr. Lina Traslaviña Stover in our blog: heartlandworkerscenter.org/blog/honoring-labor-day

She shares details regarding the painful, but very true reality of what many Nebraska laborers have dealt with, especially those who have immigrated to work here.

Let Labor Day inspire you to be part of the action to build stronger, more united communities.

✊ El #DíaDelTrabajador surgió de un movimiento impulsado por una firme reivindicación de la dignidad humana y el reconocimiento del valor del trabajo. A finales de los 1800, los trabajadores se organizaron para acabar con las condiciones de trabajo agotadoras y peligrosas. Estos agentes de cambio lograron muchos de los derechos de los que disfrutamos hoy en día. Sin embargo, la lucha contra los lugares de trabajo inseguros y la desigualdad sistémica continúa.

Mira el video completo de @singlestonemedia. presentando a nuestra directora ejecutiva, la Dra. Lina Traslaviña Stover en nuestro blog: heartlandworkerscenter.org/blog/honoring-labor-day

Ella habla en detalle sobre la dolorosa pero muy real situación que por años han enfrentado muchos trabajadores de Nebraska, especialmente aquellos que emigraron para trabajar aquí.

Deja que el Día del Trabajador te inspire a ser parte de la acción para construir comunidades más fuertes y unidas.

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