Addressing the Lack of Public Discussion on Factory Farming

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post.

Silence favors the status quo, which doesn’t favor animals

It's easy to ignore factory farming. Inflation sparks public debates about the economy. Natural disasters spur news stories on climate change. Advances in artificial intelligence prompt discussion of its risks. But abuses on factory farms go ignored.

An analysis by my colleague Emma Buckland found that, since 2010, global English-language print and online news coverage of factory farming has only grown in line with other reporting on agriculture (see graph below). By contrast, coverage of climate change has grown two to three times faster. Google News lists 0.02 - 0.4% as many articles in the last week on factory farming as on [...]

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First published:
June 27th, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/opb3JH4DfAMKqy3Rs/how-can-we-get-the-world-to-talk-about-factory-farming

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