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RT Liv Boeree: How do we fix factory farming? Most people hate it -- it sucks for our health, our animals, our environment, and it's putting small far...

2025-04-19 02:24:56

RT Liv Boeree
How do we fix factory farming? Most people hate it -- it sucks for our health, our animals, our environment, and it's putting small farmers out of business. So why is it still happening?

I sat down with food policy researcher @Lewis_Bollard to understand how to fix the worst parts of the meat industry. A super informationally dense episode on a topic very dear to my heart, so please watch and share, thank you♥️

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro & Lewis's life story
4:20 - What Qualifies as a Factory Farm?
14:20 - The Human Cost Of Factory Farming
20:33 - U.S. Labeling Standards
25:11 - Pandemic Risks from Factory Farming
31:45 - Environmental Impacts
36:28 - Mental Health Of Farm Workers
43:13 - Undercover Reporting
48:14 - Political Corruption and Incentives
53:14 - EATS Act & the Farm Bill
1:00:32 - Ag-gag Laws
1:04:32 - Improvements & Solutions
1:17:29 - Government Subsidies
1:24:02 - Technological Solutions
1:31:08 - Cultivated Meat
1:39:52 - Advice From Lewis
1:45:38 - Finding a Win-Win Future of Farming

The Win-Win Podcast:
Poker champion Liv Boeree is joined by top researchers, philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to design incentives to fix coordination problems and change lose-lose games into Win-Wins.

The WWII boys

2025-04-18 04:08:03

The WWII boys

Up next: woolly mammoth

2025-04-08 05:26:52

Up next: woolly mammoth



Science girl: You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years

Back from extinction

using ancient DNA from fossils up to 72,000 years old, Colossal reconstructed a full genome , through precise CRISPR edits, and brought this species to life

RT AlexandrIA: 🪰 RELICS OF TOMORROW 🦗 Midjourney v7 + MagnificAI + Runway Gen4 🖤

2025-04-06 22:00:57

RT AlexandrIA
🪰 RELICS OF TOMORROW 🦗

Midjourney v7 + MagnificAI + Runway Gen4 🖤

Who needs money anyway

2025-04-04 05:39:12

Who needs money anyway

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