I would like to welcome all Mr. Robert Kennedy and I'm thrilled that he has such an interest and

such a dedicated passion to the environment, to land stewardship and to food systems and health

in general. And many of us have been engaged with food for many years in this space. It's an

area that connects all of our lives. It connects everybody to each other, it connects us to

our environment, our environment. But it's seldom that we have the opportunity to meet the farmers

who grow the food for us, who stew with the land that keep us alive with that over to you, so.

Thank you very much Elizabeth and I'm really thrilled to be in the presence of so many amazing

farmers today and leaders and, you know, and healthy, awesome agriculture and regenerative agriculture

and good soils. I'll just tell you very briefly that I, I actually was a 4-H kid growing up,

I began litigating against, against big agricultural interests. I probably had more losses against

the chicken industry, the poultry industry, industrial fat, poultry farming. But in the early 80s,

Wendell Murphy, in particular, I guess hogs, an hog production. And in the early 1980s,

Wendell Murphy, who was the state senator in North Carolina, looked at what Frankard Owen O'Bell

Grum and John Tyson had done to the chicken industry where they put a million chicken farmers out

of business in our country and began raising chickens in battery cages and big warehouses and tiny

cages with a dosing them with sub therapeutic antibiotics and in cages where they couldn't even

turn around or stand up straight and a hormones that caused them to literally lay their guts out

over a shortened and miserable life and they had all made themselves billionaires, those three men

and Murphy looked at that and said, I can do the same thing with hogs and he was a senator

that time and he passed 28 laws in the state of North Carolina that made it almost impossible to

sue a factory farm and at the same time he went into partnership with Smithfield, which moved

30,000 a day, had hogs, slaughterhouses, into North Carolina and they dropped the price of hogs

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