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English to Spanish: A lesson in turning adversaries into allies.
Source text - English In the summer of 2014,
I found myself sitting across from a man
who, by every definition, was my enemy.
His name was Craig Watts,
and he's a chicken factory farmer.
My career is devoted
to protecting farmed animals
and ending factory farming.
And up until this point in my life,
I had spent every waking moment
standing up against everything
this man stood for,
and now, I was in his living room.
The day I met Craig Watts
he had been raising chickens for 22 years
for a company called Perdue,
the fourth largest chicken company
in the entire country.
And as a young man,
he had yearned for this way
to stay on the land
in one of the poorest
counties in the state.
So when the chicken industry came to town,
he thought, "This is a dream come true."
He took a quarter
of a million dollar loan out,
and he built these chicken houses.
Perdue would give him a flock,
he'd raise them,
and each flock he'd get paid,
and then he'd pay off
in small increments that loan,
like a mortgage.
But pretty soon, the chickens got sick.
It's a factory farm, after all,
there are 25,000 chickens
that are stuffed wall-to-wall,
living on their own feces,
breathing ammonia-laden air.
And when chickens get sick,
some of them die.
And you don't get paid for dead chickens,
and Craig started to struggle
to pay off his loan,
he realized he made a mistake,
but he was all but an indentured
servant at this stage.
When I met him,
he was at a breaking point.
The payments seemed never-ending.
As did the death,
despair and illness of his chickens.
Now, if we humans tried to think
of some super unjust,
unfair, filthy and cruel food system,
we could not have thought
of anything worse than factory farming.
Eighty billion farmed animals
around the world annually
are raised and slaughtered.
They're stuffed in cages and warehouses
never to see the light of day.
And that's not just a problem
for those farmed animals.
Animal agriculture,
it accounts for more
greenhouse gas emissions
than all of the planes, trains
and automobiles put together.
And one third of our arable land is used
to grow feed to feed
factory-farmed animals,
rather than ourselves.
And all that land is sprayed
with immeasurable chemicals.
And ecologically important habitats,
like the Amazon,
are cut down and are burnt,
all so we can feed
and house farmed animals.
By the time my three kids grow up,
there's very unlikely to be polar bears,
Sumatran elephants, orangutans.
In my lifetime,
the number of birds, amphibians,
reptiles and mammals has halved.
And the main culprit
is our global appetite
for meat, dairy and eggs.
And for me, up until this point,
the villain was Craig Watts.
And as I sat there in his living room,
my fear and my anger
turned into something else.
Shame.
My whole life I had spent blaming him,
hating him,
I even wished him ill.
I had never once
thought about his struggle, his choices.
Could he be a potential ally?
I never had thought
he feels as trapped as the chickens.
So we had been sitting there for hours
and the midday turned into afternoon,
turned into dusk, turned into darkness,
and he suddenly said,
"OK, are you ready to see the chickens?"
So under the cover of darkness,
we walked towards one
of these long, gray houses.
And he swung open the door
and we stepped inside,
and we were hit
with this overpowering smell
and every muscle in my body tensed up
and I coughed and my eyes teared.
I was too overwhelmed
by my own physical discomfort,
I didn't even look around at first,
but when I did,
what I saw brought me to tears.
Tens of thousands of newly hatched chicks
in this darkened warehouse
with nowhere to go and nothing to do.
Over the next few months,
I returned many times,
with filmmaker Raegan Hodge,
to record, to understand,
to build trust with Craig.
And I walked his houses with him
as he picked up dead and dying birds,
birds with messed-up legs
and trouble breathing
and difficulty walking.
And all of this we caught on film.
And then we decided to do something
I don't think either he or I
ever expected to do when we first met.
We decided to release that footage.
And that was really risky for both of us.
It was risky for him
because he could lose his income,
his home, his land,
his neighbors hating him.
And I could risk
getting my organization sued,
or being the reason
that he would lose everything,
but we had to do it anyway.
"The New York Times" broke the story
and within 24 hours,
a million people had seen our video.
It went viral by every definition,
and suddenly we had this global platform
for talking about factory farming.
And working with Craig got me thinking.
What other unlikely allies are out there?
What other progress,
what other lessons can I learn
if I cross those enemy lines?
The first lesson I learned
is that we have to become comfortable
with being uncomfortable.
Only talking to people who agree with us,
it's not going to get us to the solution.
We have to be willing
to enter other people's space.
Because quite often,
the enemy has the power
to change the problem
that we're trying to solve.
In my case, I'm not in charge
of a single chicken.
The farmer is and so are
the meat companies.
So I need to enter their space
if I want to solve the problem.
And a couple of years
after working with Craig,
I did something again
I never expected to do.
I sat down with an even bigger
so-called enemy:
Jim Perdue himself.
The man I had made the villain
of my viral video.
And again, through difficult conversations
and being uncomfortable,
Perdue came out with the first
animal care policy
of any poultry company.
In it, they agreed to do
some of the things we had criticized them
for not doing in the viral video,
like put windows into houses.
And pay for them.
And that was a really
important lesson for me.
The second lesson
is that when we sit down to negotiate
with the enemy,
we need to remember,
there's a human being in front of us
that very likely
has more in common with us
than we care to admit.
And I learned this firsthand
when I was invited to visit
at a major poultry company's headquarters.
And it was the first time
that my organization had been invited,
and any organization had been invited,
to visit with them.
And as we walked through the corridor,
there were literally people
who were peeking our from the cubicles
to get a quick look at what does
an animal rights activist look like,
and we walked --
I look like this, so I don't know
what they were expecting.
(Laughter)
But as we walked into the boardroom,
there was an executive
who was in charge, sitting there.
And his arms were crossed
and he did not want me to be there.
And I flipped open my laptop,
and my background photo came up,
and it was a picture of my three kids.
My daughter clearly looks
different than my sons.
And when he saw that photo
he uncrossed his arms
and he tilted his head
and he leaned forward and he said,
"Are those your kids?"
And I said, "Yeah.
I just got back
from adopting my daughter -- "
And I babbled on way too much
for a professional meeting.
And he stopped me and he said,
"I have two adopted kids."
And for the next 20 minutes,
we just talked about that.
We talked about adoption
and being a parent
and in those moments,
we forgot who we were supposed to be
at that table.
And the walls came down,
and a bridge was built
and we crossed this divide.
And more progress
was made with that company
because of that human
connection that we made.
My last lesson for you
is that when we sit down
with the so-called enemy,
we need to look for the win-win.
Instead of going in
with farmers like Craig Watts
and thinking, "I need
to put them out of farming,"
I started to think how can I help them
be different kinds of farmers,
like, growing hemp or mushrooms.
And a farmer I later worked with
did exactly that.
He did do the exposé with me and filmed,
and we went with
"The New York Times" again,
but he went beyond that.
He quit chicken factory farming,
and it turns out
that those big, long, gray warehouses
are the perfect environment
for growing something else.
(Laughter)
(Applause)
That's hemp, people, that's hemp.
(Laughter)
Here is an environmentally friendly way
to stay on the land,
to pay the bills,
that a vegan animal rights activist
and a chicken farmer can get behind.
(Laughter)
And instead of thinking,
how can I get these big
meat companies out of business,
I started thinking, how can I help them
evolve into a different kind of business.
One where the protein doesn't come
from slaughtered animals,
but rather, plants.
And believe it or not,
these big companies are starting
to move their ships in that direction.
Cargill and Tyson and Perdue
are adding plant-based proteins
into their supply chain.
And Perdue himself said that,
"Our company is a premium protein company,
and nothing about that says
that it has to come from animals."
And in my own home town of Atlanta,
KFC did a one-day trial with Beyond Meat,
for plant-based chicken nuggets.
And it was insane,
there were lines
wrapped around the corner,
there was traffic stopped
in all directions,
you would think they were giving out
free Beyoncé tickets.
People are ready for this shift.
We need to build a big tent
that everyone can get under.
From the chicken factory farmer,
to the mega meat company,
to the animal rights activist.
And these lessons,
they can apply to many causes,
whether it be with a problem with an ex,
a neighbor or an in-law.
Or with some of the biggest problems
of exploitation and oppression,
like factory farming,
or misogyny or racism or climate change.
The world's smallest and biggest problems,
they won't be solved
by beating down our enemies
but by finding these
win-win pathways together.
It does require us
to let go of that idea of us versus them
and realize there's only one us,
all of us,
against an unjust system.
And it is difficult,
and messy, and uncomfortable.
But it is critical.
And maybe the only way
to build that compassionate food system
that we all, from the chicken
to the chicken farmer
to the mega meat company, to all of us,
deserve.
Thank you.
(Applause)
Translation - Spanish En el verano de 2014...
.... estaba sentada frente a un hombre...
... que, claramente, era mi enemigo.
Su nombre era Craig Watts...
... y es un avicultor.
Mi profesión está abocada
a proteger a los animales de granja...
... y acabar con la avicultura.
Y hasta ese momento en mi vida...
... había aprovechado cada momento...
... luchando contra todo
lo que este hombre representaba...
... y ahora estaba en su sala de estar.
Para cuando conocí a Craig Watts...
... llevaba 22 años criando pollos...
... para una la empresa Perdue.
La cuarta empresa de pollos
más grande del país.
Y de joven...
... anhelaba quedarse en el campo...
... en uno de los condados
más pobres del estado.
Cuando la avicultura llegó a la ciudad...
... pensó: Mi sueño se volvió realidad.
Tomó un préstamo
de doscientos cincuenta mil dólares...
... y construyó gallineros.
Perdue le daría una manada de pollos
que él criaría...
... y con cada manada que le paguen
él cancelaría el préstamo.
Como una hipoteca.
Pero de pronto, los pollos se enfermaron.
Era una granja industrial...
... con veinticinco mil pollos...
... todos amontonados...
... viviendo en sus propios excrementos,
respirando amoníaco.
Y cuando se enfermaban, algunos morían.
Pero no te pagan por pollos muertos...
y Craig tenía que cancelar el préstamo.
Asumió su error...
... pero era un trabajador contratado.
Cuando lo conocí, estaba quebrado.
Las deudas empeoraban.
Como también las muertes...
... el desánimo y el estado de los pollos.
Si quisiéramos encontrar
un sistema alimenticio súper injusto...
... desigual, sucio y cruel...
... no se nos ocurriría nada peor
que una granja industrial.
Anualmente, ochenta mil millones
de animales de granja en todo el mundo...
... se crían y sacrifican.
Están encerrados en jaulas y depósitos
sin ver la luz del día.
Y no es solo un problema
para los animales de granja.
La ganadería...
... es responsable por la emisión
de más gases de efecto invernadero...
... que todos los aviones,
trenes y automóviles juntos.
Y se usa la tercera parte
de la tierra fértil...
... para producir alimentos
para estos animales...
... que para nosotros.
Y toda esa tierra está regada
con una incalculable cantidad de químicos.
Y hábitats importantes para la ecología...
... como el Amazonas...
... se deforestan e incendian...
... para poder alimentar
y almacenar a los animales de granja.
Cuando mis tres hijos hayan crecido...
... casi seguro no habrá osos polares...
... elefantes de Sumatra y orangutanes.
En el transcurso de mi vida...
... la cantidad de pájaros, anfibios,
reptiles y mamíferos se redujo a la mitad.
Y el principal motivo...
... es nuestro apetito mundial
por la carne, los lácteos y los huevos.
Y yo pensaba, hasta ahora...
... que el villano era Craig Watts.
Y mientras estaba sentada con él...
... mi miedo y enojo
se transformaron en otra cosa.
Vergüenza.
Toda mi vida, lo había culpado a él...
... odiado...
... e incluso maldecido.
Jamás había pensado...
... en su lucha, sus elecciones.
¿Podría ser un posible aliado?
Nunca había imaginado...
...que se sentiría
tan atrapado como los pollos.
Estuvimos sentados por horas...
... y pasamos del mediodía a la tarde...
... y de la tarde a la noche.
Y de pronto, él dijo...
¿Estás lista para ver a los pollos?
Entonces, en la oscuridad...
... caminamos a una de esas casas grises.
Abrió la puerta...
... y nos metimos adentro.
Y nos invadió un olor insoportable.
Sentí una tensión en todo el cuerpo.
Y tosía y me lagrimeaban los ojos.
Sentí una incomodidad tan grande...
... que ni siquiera podía mirar.
Pero cuando lo hice...
... lo que vi me hizo llorar.
Miles de pollitos recién nacidos...
... en ese depósito oscuro...
... sin lugar donde ir ni nada para hacer.
Durante los próximos meses,
volví varias veces...
... con el cineasta Raegan Hodge...
... para grabar, para comprender...
... para ganarme la confianza de Craig.
Y caminé por los depósitos con él...
... alzando las aves
muertas o moribundas.
Aves con patas heridas
y con problemas respiratorios...
... y dificultad al caminar.
Filmamos todo eso.
Y decidimos hacer algo...
... que no imaginamos
jamás hacer cuando nos conocimos.
Decidimos publicar la filmación.
Lo que fue bastante riesgoso para ambos.
Era riesgoso para él
porque podía perder su ingreso...
... su hogar, su tierra,
la amistad de sus vecinos.
Y mi organización podía ser demandada...
... o ser el motivo de su quiebra.
Pero debíamos hacerlo de todas formas.
The New York Times publicó la historia...
... y en 24 horas...
... un millón de personas vieron el video.
Se hizo completamente viral.
Y así surgió una plataforma global...
... para hablar de la granja industrial.
Trabajar con Craig me hizo pensar...
¿Qué otros posibles aliados hay?
¿Qué más podemos mejorar?
¿Qué otras cosas puedo aprender
si me acerco al enemigo?
La primera lección que aprendí...
... fue que tenemos que
sentirnos cómodos con la incomodidad.
Hablar solo con quienes
coinciden con nosotros...
... no nos llevará a la solución.
Debemos estar dispuestos
a entrar en el mundo de otras personas.
Porque, con frecuencia...
... el enemigo tiene el poder
de solucionar el problema...
... que estamos tratando de resolver.
Y yo no estoy a cargo de ningún pollo.
El granjero sí, y también
las empresas cárnicas.
Entonces, tengo que entrar en su mundo
si quiero resolver el problema.
Y después de un par de años
de trabajar con Craig.
Hice otra cosa de nuevo
que jamás imaginé que haría.
Me senté con un famoso enemigo
aún más grande...
... con el mismo Jim Perdue.
El hombre que convertí en villano
en mi video viral.
Y de nuevo, gracias a arduas charlas...
... y estar incómodos...
... Perdue propuso la primera política
de cuidado animal...
... para todas las compañías avícolas.
Acordaron hacer...
... algunas cosas que, en el video,
los criticamos por no hacer...
... como poner ventanas en los gallineros.
Y pagar por esto.
Y ésta fue una lección importante para mí.
La segunda enseñanza...
... es que cuando negociamos...
... con el enemigo...
... debemos recordar que
estamos con un ser humano...
... que muy posiblemente tenga
más en común con nosotros...
... de lo que creamos.
Y comprendí esto personalmente...
... cuando me invitaron a visitar la sede
de una importante compañía avícola.
Era la primera vez que mi organización
había sido invitada...
... y que cualquier organización
haya sido invitada a visitarla.
Mientras caminábamos por el pasillo...
... había personas que, literalmente,
espiaban desde los cubículos...
... para ver cómo es
un activista de derechos animales...
... y caminamos..
... soy así, así que no sé que esperaban.
[Risas]
Cuando entramos a la sala de reuniones...
... había un directivo sentado allí.
Estaba de brazos cruzados...
y no me quería allí.
Yo abrí mi computadora portátil...
... y apareció mi fondo de pantalla...
... una foto de mis hijos.
Mi hija es muy diferente a los varones.
Cuando vió la foto, descruzó los brazos...
... inclinó la cabeza,
se tiró hacia adelante y dijo...
¿Esos son tus hijos?
Y yo dije: Sí.
Recién vengo de adoptar a mi hija...
Y balbuceé demasiado
para una reunión profesional.
Me frenó y dijo...
Yo tengo dos hijos adoptados.
Y durante los siguientes 20 minutos...
... solo hablamos de eso.
Hablamos sobre la adopción y ser padres...
... y en ese momento...
... olvidamos quiénes debíamos ser...
... en esa mesa.
Y se cayeron los muros...
... construimos un puente
y cruzamos esta división.
Y logramos más avances con esa compañía...
... gracias a la conexión humana
que hicimos.
Mi última enseñanza para ustedes...
... es que cuando nos sentamos
con el famoso enemigo...
... debemos buscar que ganemos todos.
En lugar de acercarme
a granjeros como Criag Watts...
... pensando: Debe terminar
con la granja...
... empecé a pensar en cómo ayudarlos
a ser diferentes granjeros...
como cultivar cáñamo u hongos.
Y un granjero con el que trabajé después
hizo justamente eso.
Hicimos la exposición y la filmación...
... y lo puso The New York Times...
... pero él fue más lejos.
Dejó la avicultura...
y resultó ser...
... que esos depósitos grises grandes...
... era el ambiente perfecto...
... para cultivar otra cosa.
[Risas]
[Aplausos]
Eso es marihuana, gente, es marihuana.
Esa es una forma ecológica
de trabajar la tierra...
... pagar los impuestos...
... que un activista vegano...
... y un granjero avícola pueden apoyar.
[Risas]
Y, en lugar de pensar...
cómo puedo terminar
con estas grandes empresas cárnicas...
... empecé a pensar en cómo ayudarlos
a desarrollar otro tipo de negocio.
Uno en el que la proteína no venga
del sacrificio de animales...
sino de las plantas.
Aunque no lo crean...
estas grandes empresas
se están moviendo en esa dirección.
Cargill, Tyson y Perdue están incorporando
proteínas de origen vegetal...
... en su cadena de producción.
Y el mismo Perdue dijo...
Nuestra compañía es
una empresa superior en proteínas...
... y nada dice que sea de origen animal.
Y en mi ciudad natal de Atlanta...
... KFC y Beyond Meat realizaron
una prueba de un día...
... de reemplazar el pollo por vegetales.
Y la gente enloqueció.
Había filas que daban vuelta la esquina...
... el tráfico detenido a ambos lados...
... parecía que regalaban entradas
a un show de Beyoncé.
La gente está lista para el cambio.
Deberíamos construir una gran tienda...
... en la que podamos caber todos.
Desde el granjero avícola...
... la súper compañía cárnica...
... hasta el activista
de derecho animal.
Y éstas enseñanzas...
... pueden aplicarse a muchas causas...
... ya sea para un problema con un ex...
... un vecino o la familia política.
O con algunos de los problemas más grandes
de explotación y opresión...
... como la granja industrial...
... o la misoginia, el racismo
o el cambio climático.
Los problemas mundiales
más pequeños y los más grandes...
... no se resuelven
derribando al enemigo...
... sino encontrando juntos el camino
en el que todos ganen.
Requiere que nosotros...
... abandonemos la idea de confrontar...
... y comprender que todos somos uno...
... todos...
... contra un sistema injusto.
Y es difícil...
... complicado e incómodo.
Pero es crucial...
... y puede que sea el único camino...
... a un sistema alimenticio compasivo...
... que todos, desde el pollo,
el granjero avícola...
... la súper compañía cárnica,
todos nosotros...
merecemos.
Gracias.
[Aplausos]
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