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How food is causing the apocalypse and how we can fix it with George Monbiot

The Happy Pear Podcast

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The Importance of Agriculture in the United States

As a teenager I worked on an intensive pick farm and every day there were two thoughts went around my head. The first was this isn't what they told me farming was about And the second was why is this legal? We're killing 76 billion animals a year to feed ourselves so as well as having terrible welfare impacts this also has terrible environmental impacts because all these animals had to be fed up grain. This is it incidentally where the great maturity of our animal products come from - Steel factories.

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