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even if it isn't on a day-to-day basis of his being unable to leave the home of having a family at home being front and so there are some similarities but there's also a distinction. the communities responded as a whole to the domestic worker trafficking. with sex vast extra thick workers in cases where there is trafficking at with what they have discovered is something really different into something really brilliant about how we look at this issue but again be able to develop leaders of our organizing using that model to create policy change and not
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just shift the state of one individual but a huge community responsibility. >> thank you everybody for coming. thank you for coming to book culture. [applause]
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the visiting oakland california with the author of ways what it teaches 7 million kids and how its lessons could change food and farming forever. in organization that focuses on the development and serves 7 million kids in the united states and around the world into the turn of the last century in 1902 and 1903 it was a project of the agricultural extensions.
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there were the techniques and the problem but they were running up against is that. they were doing the things the same way their ancestors came over from europe, so very cleverly. they had some new technology as well and they were interested in those so it started out as a way
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to reach. they were all from the area and they were all teenagers. this was a little bit unusual in that most of the kids that live in urban and suburban areas are not involved in the livestock products and these kids they were following were. >> there are sort of smaller competitions throughout the year but it's kind of the culmination for kids that are raised in livestock. there are two ways that you can compete in the fair. the first way is through the sheep or the animal itself and
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how well it conforms to the standards of the briefs are basically how beautiful, how strong and how grateful your animal is and you can control this with how you feed the sheep and take care of the sheep and even then the other competition which i thought was mature interesting this is where you as the presenter show how well you've trained the sheep and this that you've developed with we've developed with your sheep so this is where you would take the sheep around the ring and keyword show them that their response to your command and they've grounded in a certain way and if you really know how to handle the sheep.
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it's the extent that they are consumed. the amount of time they dedicate to raising these animals. i went to meetings when i remember to. it's like a fun thing but it wasn't anything too major. they spend hours and hours all day bonding with their animals, grooming them, feeding them, calculating the ratio. the amount of time. >> these are markets close and animals which means at the end of the fair if you are raising sheep, pigs or cows, then there
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will be an auction and it is your responsibility to find somebody who is likely to buy your animal at the end of the fair. you can see people saying goodbye to their animals but when you talk to these kids, most of them get so much out of that relationship that you've developed and they get a lot of love of learning exactly where the meat comes from that even if it is a sad occasion it's kind of bittersweet because they've learned to appreciate this lifecycle. >> they really reflect the communities they are in so if you have a diverse community, then you will have a diverse four h. club.
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it represents a problem because it is expensive so there is not a lot of socioeconomic diversity among the kids that raise livestock. you have to be up to pay for the feed and by the animal itself into the grooming supplies and there are some that are offering scholarships and searching out grants. there is a cool model in austin texas where the schools that serve the populations that normally wouldn't be able to afford to do this have gotten a bunch of grants of grant timberlake in this kind of activity raising goats available to all the public school kids. the kids i followed that were raising the sheep said castor valley, she is 100% positive
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that she is going to become a large animal vet. and this is a sort of postscript to the book that i've never read him but she graduated from high school and ended up going to uc davis which has an awesome veterinary science program and she in her sophomore year of college ended up being the campus shepherdess so she was living in a barn with sheep. her dorm room was in the barn. so having extra money for housing, college housing and the room and board paid for. i visited her her and here it was in the middle of the season she was on call 24 hours a day to help them give birth to the
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new land so this is a passionate will become her career. as for the other kids i thought i'm not so sure that they are going to eventually end up farmers or anything it was a meaningful extracurricular for them but if you went to the four h. clubs i think you would find markets like kelly sowing the seeds of the rest of their lives >> go to c-span.org/mac cities tour.
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he decides he's going to get on a train and he's going to
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campaign the country. he has three major trips he makes across the country into the candidates never do that. this is the first time it's ever happened. there've been occasions but they've number the kind of times they spoke on the road to less than a dozen. ..

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