Some of you know me, I've been a writer and journalist for over twenty-five years. But for far longer, basically for as long as I can remember, I have observed the distorted relationship of society to animals.

Animals are living and feeling beings like us. They feel not only joy and love, gratitude and friendship, but also pain and fear. Yet majority society treats them as things without emotions and pain receptors. This perverted paradigm is automatically propagated within the public space in contemporary society. The indefensible and unethical system of intensive livestock production, with factory farms at its centre, is an "achievement" of less than the last century.

Ethics aside, it is also perverse that this intensive animal industry continues to thrive despite the fact that scientists have long warned of its fatal impact on the destruction of the world's ecosystem..

I have been trying to set a personal example in my approach to animals all my life, hoping that something must change... Last year, however, while preparing a report for Reflex, I visited several dozen Czech factory farms and found that the suffering of animals in them has not only not decreased over the past decade, but often quite the opposite.

The overwhelming response of shocked readers, but also of those who blamed me for showing the unbearably cruel reality and who consequently didn’t enjoy the taste of meat and cheese in supermarkets any more, made me feel the need to do more. That is why I founded the ONE HEART Foundation.

Before that, I became a visionary and a patron of the campaigns www.konecdobyklecove.cz and End Factory Farming, an international organization fighting to improve the lives of farm animals Compassion in World Farming.

As a journalist and now mainly as the founder of the fund, I work with activists, experts and officials in high positions in the Czech Republic and the EU who are directly responsible for the legislation and functioning of this area..

To give a voice to those who don't have one.