This event is a book talk and signing with Leah Garcés, President and CEO of Mercy for Animals and author of Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us from Factory Farming. In Transfarmation, Garcés explains how food and farming policies have failed over decades and offers insights into the wave of change coming from a new crop of farmers and communities who are constructing a humane and sustainable farming system. Factory animal farming faces an abundance of issues—from environmental concerns and animal cruelty, to exploited farmers and poor working conditions—and more and more farmers are searching for a way out and for a new start.

Using insights from interviews and fieldwork, Garcés shares the perspectives of farmers, animals, and farm communities
and demonstrates the reasons why we must end factory farming.