Mike Platt - Bridging the Divide, Finding Common Ground
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Bridging the Divide, Finding Common Ground - Mike Platt, Indiana Pork Association Executive Director, from the 2012 Animal Ag Alliance Stakeholders Summit, Real Farmers Real Food, Celebrating Tradition and Technology, May 2-3, Arlington, VA, USA.
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Mike Platt - Bridging the Divide, Finding Common Ground
- 1. Bridging The Divide, Finding Common Ground Michael Platt Executive Director mplatt@inpork.org 317-872-7500
- 3. “Be Bold” “Engage” “Educate” “Be Proactive” “Tell Our Story” “Move The Needle” “Provide Transparency”
- 4. Fair Oaks Attendance Year General Group Total 2009 109,914 47,106 157,020 2010 128,958 55,268 184,226 2011 167,042 71,590 238,632
- 6. Pig Adventure Core Messages Pork farming is compatible with the environment. Pork farmers care about their animals. Pork is good for you.
- 7. Tourable Farm Pig Adventure Learning objectives • Interaction with animal experts • Stewardship on display • Hands-on feel in controlled environment Key audiences • General consumers • Industry stakeholders • Meat buyers and retailers • Key decision makers
- 9. Pig Adventure Pork Education Center A building will be constructed on the Fair Oaks main campus for viewing of fun and interactive educational exhibits before and/or after the Pig Adventure tour. It will join the dairy educational building, birthing barn and cheese factory/restaurant on the main campus.
- 10. Pig Adventure Distance Learning Distance learning is an important component of the Fair Oaks Pig Adventure. Video conferencing will make it possible for students in classrooms, retailers, and key leaders anywhere to be connected to the site providing direct contact with the farm workers engaged with their daily work activities.
- 11. Pig Adventure Call To Action We need your help! Open Doors to Potential Donors Consider a Gift From Your Organization Visit Fair Oaks and see it for yourself mplatt@inpork.org
- 13. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great Teddy Roosevelt devotions; who spends himself in a worthy April 23, 1910 cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the “The Man In The worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring Arena” greatly, so that his place shall never be with Sorbonne, Paris those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”