we bought a company called Lancaster Co Colony. And Lancaster Colony, about 90% of their earnings eventually became in specialty foods-- half grocery store and half through restaurants. Things like Sister Schubert's rolls.
Most citizens don't think enough about these issues and are unwittingly supporting this bad system. After Lancaster Stockyards was convicted of cruelty, I traveled around the country documenting more downed animals. That's a picture I took in Southern California.
provides at least a portion of the electricity for that particular residential unit. Paris expects that Lancaster will be a net solar energy exporter within the coming years and I think he's probably right. There are plenty of opportunities for solar within our built environment.
So we're going to have a pasta dinner. do outside of Lancaster , Pennsylvania.
right working in secrecy is it can be very very alienating this imagine having room in Lancaster or some somewhere out in the desert and that sort of thing Las Vegas is a popular place of course and
And he was actually killed in an accident hitchhiking home for Christmas in 1945. So having been in the Lancaster bomber all those years as a rear gunner, that's really kind of ironic, and sort of, kind of funny if you're not-- you know, I was only 2 and 1/2.
Obviously people were unhappy when they found out, and that was the end of it. But down the street in Lancaster , exact same technology, public debate, they decided to use it. And that happens time and again.
The less predictable story about solar I found in a city called Lancaster , California. How many of you have heard of Lancaster ? That's what I thought.
And just to give you an idea of sometimes how long that patience can be-- back in 2000, we bought a company called Lancaster Co Colony. And Lancaster Colony, about 90% of their earnings eventually became in specialty foods-- half grocery store and half through restaurants.
So we tried to take advantage of that. And now it's moved to Lancaster , Pennsylvania, I think.
you get to know these animals at Farm Sanctuary like many people know their cats and dogs, and hearing about their stories. So it began a campaign at Lancaster Stockyards after there was no movement on prosecuting the stockyard for leaving this downed animal on the dead pile. And our position was that if an animal's too sick to walk, that animal should be humanely euthanized or should be given proper veterinary care.
But as time went, and as people started seeing these images of animals left for dead, and they started hearing about what was happening, things ultimately shifted. We were able to get Lancaster Stockyards convicted of cruelty to animals after seven years of campaigning. I went back to the stockyard a few years ago, took that picture.
So they came to the US. And the first place they lived in was Lancaster , Pennsylvania, which, as anybody knows, was Amish central. A very cultural shock, to say the least.
So we're going to have a pasta dinner. Bird in Hand is a small town outside of Lancaster .
They shouldn't be left to suffer and die in the alleyways, which was also commonly happening. But at the time, Lancaster Stockyards was seen as a pillar of the community. It was getting ready to celebrate its 100 year anniversary.
And so it's become-- Rick and I have been friends for a long time. And I think the first program-- you went to the one in Lancaster that I went to the first time, right? So we both went for the first time to the same program.
And one of the examples I'd say is if a business is focused on the near term, they'll either do one of two things. oh, I grew up in Lancaster .
So that's, again, the kind of predictable story about solar. The less predictable story about solar I found in a city called Lancaster , California. How many of you have heard of Lancaster ?
And I think his staff's mouths kind of dropped open because they weren't quite prepared for this declaration. And people kind of shrugged their shoulders because who had heard of Lancaster ? But he came back to California, the staff set to work, and over the course of several years, Lancaster has developed solar on most of its public buildings.
But, some researchers looked at the rise of lawyers to the position of judge in South Carolina. So there's some fascinating research that was conducted at Paoli Memorial Hospital in Lancaster in Pennsylvania.
It's reasonably quiescent. But if you're overfeed a black hole, then things can happen. In fact, my colleagues Brooke Simmons, now at Lancaster , and Becky Smethurst, now at Christchurch in Oxford, and also a YouTube star, used a set
It was 12 hours for us. We spent it at a prison, the first one in Lancaster . That was a level 4 maximum security prison with 50 EITs.
So I had, actually, only yesterday, on the back of some media coverage, I had a lady write in her late 80s to tell me about climbing her local tree in Oxford during the Second World War and pretending it was a Lancaster bomber while the Battle of Britain was raging over the Channel.
So not exactly warm, fuzzy, progressive politician. Thankfully though, that same dogged determination that he has applied to crime-fighting in Lancaster , he's applied to developing solar energy in the same city. Several years ago, he went to a conference in China and was sitting amidst dignitaries from a number of major metropolitan centers
And they had both incredible resumes, these guys. They'd worked with Errol Flynn, and with Burt Lancaster -- and in fact, Bob Anderson did all the light saber sequences for the "Star Wars" movie.
Thank you. Hello, I am Jen Lancaster , and I'm going to give you a little bit of background on what "The Tao of Martha" is about and why I did it.
Now, when Farm Sanctuary started in 1986, I spent a lot of time going to stockyards and farms and slaughterhouses to document what was happening. This is a picture taken of Lancaster Stockyard, which was, at the time, the largest stockyard east of Chicago. Cows, pigs, sheep, goats would be transported here to be sold.
And one of the examples I'd say is if a business is focused on the near term, they'll either do one of two things. And the man who received the card said, oh, you're from Lancaster .
And people kind of shrugged their shoulders because who had heard of Lancaster ? But he came back to California, the staff set to work, and over the course of several years, Lancaster has developed solar on most of its public buildings. It's encouraged local businesses, such as this Toyota dealership, to invest in solar.
Well, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Galusha Grow-- who was often called the Father of the Republican Party, an anti-slavery Republican congressperson from Lancaster ,
of the things to me that's very interesting. Mike Mumma is one of the premier scientists slash astrobiologists. Just to backtrack for a second, he grew up in Lancaster County,
in revenue and cut, so I was just kind of curious, have they'd approached you in Lancaster ?