Jillian Hansell 06/30/21 English 2100 Proposal When we are in the grocery store shopping for steaks or chicken for dinner that night, what are we thinking about? Money, if I had to guess I would say most people purchasing meat ‘would try to get the most bang for their buck. Why is this a problem? This is a problem because these cheap meats are coming from factory farms, farms that house animals with hardly any room to move, animals that have never seen the daylight and animals that have been pumped with fillers and hormones to make them fatter. I'd like to make people who look at meat as just a price at the grocery store, something more. I think if we put the information out there for people to know what they are eating, then ‘maybe they will think twice, I would like to raise awareness for the inhumane living conditions these poor animals are put through everyday and how terrible this food is for us to consume. Handing out flyers at your local grocery stores or posting informative articles on social media is the best way J can think of reaching out to everyone. I plan to put up flyers for an informative day to be hosted outside a local store of my choosing. I want to bring some of our local farmers. and pricing of their products to hand out to people. So we can have volunteers speaking with people about the harmful factory farms and then we have the local farmers there to promote their business. In return, we will be helping our local farmers which, will help our economy tremendously, nutritionally be more beneficial for us and will ereate a more humane lifestyle for the animals that feed us every day. Even if this only changes a few people’s minds on where theybuy their meat it is a start. Every animal life matters and the more popular local farms become I hope to one day see then end of factory farms and the constant use of local farms.NO MORE FACTORY FARMS WHEN July 1st 8am — 12pm WHERE Smiths Grocery Downtown Salt Lake City Utah Information on where to buy locally farmed pork, beef, and poultry. Help our local farmers and support! Local farmers will be providing information about their product and how their animals are raised. ALL AGES EVENT PLACE YOUR ORDERS You will be able to place orders for pickup at the local farmers markets! HELP SUPPORT! SPONSORS Utah Natural Meat Peterson Family Farms Schmidt's Farm. Drake Family Farm BENEFITING Local businesses and yourselflOutcome We had a group of volunteers and local farmers outside of the downtown Smiths location to promote and inform people the benefits of buying local meat rather than, meat produced in factory farms, This is a popular grocery store with a wide range of people. Posting flyers around all the local grocery stores prior was important because the people who saw them and wanted to get the information were able to plan on coming. I chose to do it on a weekend so that it would be a busy time at the store and we can speak to people on their way to shop. Having local farmers there to give out their pricing and nutritional info was a key factor in getting people to really listen, Some people didn’t want to be bothered but others truly wanted to know what they were eating, A lot of people did not realize that these animals were being raised inhumanely and filled with hormones. ‘We are hoping to see an increase in local meat being sold. Farmers in the area had .es to what you could find in the store. They also drop the prices the more you comparable pi buy. These animals are grass fed and living a completely organic lifestyle. Everyone that took interest was pleased to hear about what the local farms had to offer. Overall, I think that putting the information out there to the public is the most important thing you can do, Raising awareness for the benefit of the animals is always worth every minute of time spent, My next step I would like to make is to promote local farms in the stores. We can start by speaking with corporate of smaller chains to try to get our local meats in store. | think this will honestly take everything to the next level because it will help out small businesses grow within our larger corporations.