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How to Be a Techno-Optimist for Animals
How can we build a scalable, abundant agricultural system that also aligns with our ethics?
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You Can Now Buy Eggs From In-Ovo Sexed Hens!
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DARPA for Chickens
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Don't Demonize Efficiency in Animal Agriculture
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The Climate Cost of Pre-Slaughter Mortality
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DARPA for Chickens
How Innovate Animal Ag accelerates breakthrough technologies in animal agriculture
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No, Bird Flu Isn't Over
Cases are about to spike again
Oct 17
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A Year of The Optimist's Barn
Some reflections on writing on Substack
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The Gene-Editing Platform that Will Change How We Raise Chickens
A spotlight on NextHen's Layers Laying Broilers technology
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The Climate Cost of Pre-Slaughter Mortality
Let’s at least eat the livestock that we raise
Aug 20
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You Can Now Buy Eggs From In-Ovo Sexed Hens!
Consumers now can vote with their wallets to support this new tech.
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Don't Demonize Efficiency in Animal Agriculture
A review of We Are Eating the Earth, by Michael Grunwald
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3 Research Questions in Animal Welfare Technology
Can someone please tackle these questions?
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Individuation is a Key Challenge in Animal Welfare Technology
A single animal needs husbandry, a million animals need technology
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