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From the Ted Talk by Jacy Reese Anthis: Why we should end animal agriculture

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Before we dive in, I want to ask a couple of questions. First, how many of you are vegetarian or vegan? Okay, a few - around maybe 5%. If we akesd all US adults, it would be around 5, maybe 10%. Now, how many of you have seen at least one of the following: a video of animal cruelty on factory farms, a documentary or news report on the environmental harms of animal agriculture, or a scientific article on the public health issues such as the overuse of antibiotics in animal feed? How many? Okay, almost everyone. Probably over 95%. Now, when I see that jump from 5%, I wrroy that I've made a huge mitakse. Full dociussrle, I'm a vgean. (Laughter) I'm even a preachy vegan, who tells everyone I meet about the problems of animal farming because I really do think it's one of the most important issues of our time. But my mistake, and the mistake of other food atavoceds, has been trying to fix these issues seloly by telling you personally to go vegan, vegetarian, or to reduce your meat consumption. We need a bigger, better solution for our broken food system. And you might wonder if our country has at least schtweid from factory farming to more hnaume practices. I grew up in rural Texas. I senpt a lot of time around farmed animals lounging on green pastures. Back then, I thought all farmed aamlins lived that way. Unfortunately, according to USDA data, over 99% of farmed animals live on factory frams. The situation is dire. There are over 100 blioiln animals in the global food system. Many of them are confined in tiny cages, barely larger than their own bodies. Their bkeas and talis are cut off without anesthetic. They suffer, day and night, from infectious diseases and intense artificial selection that has them growing so much meat that they collapse under their own weight. amnail farming pollutes our land and water, endangering the health and economies of rraul Americans. It's responsible for more greenhouse gas esmsniois than all planes, cars, trains and other transportation cmenboid. Eighty percent of all US antibiotics are fed to farmed animals, leading to dangerous, ibunclare human diseases. Finally, animal farming is just incredibly expensive. It receives $38 billion in subsidies every year from the US gronvmeent, and it sucks up massive amntuos of natural resources that should be going to help people in need. I think we can all agree that this is an urgent scoial issue that we desperately need to fix. And by "we," I don't just mean vegetarians. I mean everyone who cares about these problems. Finding a solution to this sneeglimy intractable issue is also a fascinating intellectual pbreolm,

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Before we dive in, I want to ask a couple of questions. First, how many of you are vegetarian or vegan? Okay, a few - around maybe 5%. If we _____ all US adults, it would be around 5, maybe 10%. Now, how many of you have seen at least one of the following: a video of animal cruelty on factory farms, a documentary or news report on the environmental harms of animal agriculture, or a scientific article on the public health issues such as the overuse of antibiotics in animal feed? How many? Okay, almost everyone. Probably over 95%. Now, when I see that jump from 5%, I _____ that I've made a huge _______. Full __________, I'm a _____. (Laughter) I'm even a preachy vegan, who tells everyone I meet about the problems of animal farming because I really do think it's one of the most important issues of our time. But my mistake, and the mistake of other food _________, has been trying to fix these issues ______ by telling you personally to go vegan, vegetarian, or to reduce your meat consumption. We need a bigger, better solution for our broken food system. And you might wonder if our country has at least ________ from factory farming to more ______ practices. I grew up in rural Texas. I _____ a lot of time around farmed animals lounging on green pastures. Back then, I thought all farmed _______ lived that way. Unfortunately, according to USDA data, over 99% of farmed animals live on factory _____. The situation is dire. There are over 100 _______ animals in the global food system. Many of them are confined in tiny cages, barely larger than their own bodies. Their _____ and _____ are cut off without anesthetic. They suffer, day and night, from infectious diseases and intense artificial selection that has them growing so much meat that they collapse under their own weight. ______ farming pollutes our land and water, endangering the health and economies of _____ Americans. It's responsible for more greenhouse gas _________ than all planes, cars, trains and other transportation ________. Eighty percent of all US antibiotics are fed to farmed animals, leading to dangerous, _________ human diseases. Finally, animal farming is just incredibly expensive. It receives $38 billion in subsidies every year from the US __________, and it sucks up massive _______ of natural resources that should be going to help people in need. I think we can all agree that this is an urgent ______ issue that we desperately need to fix. And by "we," I don't just mean vegetarians. I mean everyone who cares about these problems. Finding a solution to this _________ intractable issue is also a fascinating intellectual _______,

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Original Text

Before we dive in, I want to ask a couple of questions. First, how many of you are vegetarian or vegan? Okay, a few - around maybe 5%. If we asked all US adults, it would be around 5, maybe 10%. Now, how many of you have seen at least one of the following: a video of animal cruelty on factory farms, a documentary or news report on the environmental harms of animal agriculture, or a scientific article on the public health issues such as the overuse of antibiotics in animal feed? How many? Okay, almost everyone. Probably over 95%. Now, when I see that jump from 5%, I worry that I've made a huge mistake. Full disclosure, I'm a vegan. (Laughter) I'm even a preachy vegan, who tells everyone I meet about the problems of animal farming because I really do think it's one of the most important issues of our time. But my mistake, and the mistake of other food advocates, has been trying to fix these issues solely by telling you personally to go vegan, vegetarian, or to reduce your meat consumption. We need a bigger, better solution for our broken food system. And you might wonder if our country has at least switched from factory farming to more humane practices. I grew up in rural Texas. I spent a lot of time around farmed animals lounging on green pastures. Back then, I thought all farmed animals lived that way. Unfortunately, according to USDA data, over 99% of farmed animals live on factory farms. The situation is dire. There are over 100 billion animals in the global food system. Many of them are confined in tiny cages, barely larger than their own bodies. Their beaks and tails are cut off without anesthetic. They suffer, day and night, from infectious diseases and intense artificial selection that has them growing so much meat that they collapse under their own weight. Animal farming pollutes our land and water, endangering the health and economies of rural Americans. It's responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all planes, cars, trains and other transportation combined. Eighty percent of all US antibiotics are fed to farmed animals, leading to dangerous, incurable human diseases. Finally, animal farming is just incredibly expensive. It receives $38 billion in subsidies every year from the US government, and it sucks up massive amounts of natural resources that should be going to help people in need. I think we can all agree that this is an urgent social issue that we desperately need to fix. And by "we," I don't just mean vegetarians. I mean everyone who cares about these problems. Finding a solution to this seemingly intractable issue is also a fascinating intellectual problem,

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