David Kay

Thousands of family farms support basic humane standards for farm animals, just as two-thirds of all Americans do. But @HouseAgGOP silenced their voices at today’s hearing. Not on my watch. That’s why, when Republicans invited Big Ag lobbyists to argue for putting animals back in confinement crates, I made sure farmers who support #prop12 had a seat at the table. Their livelihoods are at stake – and their voices deserve to be heard.

🥞🔥 Plant-based breakfast at @DennysDiner? Say less. I’m in. ✅

Article: houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outloo…

Bravo to Barry Carpenter, the former CEO of the North American Meat Institute, for speaking out against these ridiculous and anti-free market cultivated meat bans in this piece in the @HoustonChron.

"Despite the silence, I believed, and believe, that the unjustified and unjustifiable suffering of nonhuman animals is among the most pressing issues of our time." Great to see @CassSunstein back speaking up for animals and against cruelty!

Fuck crony capitalism, fuck it all to hell

Animals matter, and on not being silent about moral issues. casssunstein.substack.com/p/animals-matt…

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.

Plant-based by default - terrific piece. @Mary_MacLennan @Econ_4_Everyone @ZLiscow @morgfair @UNEP @StephenESachs canarymedia.com/articles/food-…

Powerful op-ed from the incoming president of @BeefUSA, one of the country’s biggest meat trade groups, on why cultivated meat bans are dangerous and anti-free market. As seen in @BEEFMagazine.

@joshbalk @HarvardHBS Thank you for sharing Josh!

A piece that makes you think by @_David_Kay in the @HarvardHBS newspaper. "And while the rate of animal suffering today is higher than it has ever been, it is paradoxically also true that society’s views towards animals have never been more enlightened..." harbus.org/post/the-most-…

From a cofounder of a cultured meat company, guest lecturer in my Rationality course, and Harvard Business School student: The case that treatment of animals in factory farms is the most neglected social issue of our time. @_David_Kay

One day humanity will end factory farming. When it does, our descendants will look back and wonder how we ever tolerated it. They'll wonder how a generation who loved animals -- and hated animal cruelty -- failed to stop the worst abuse of animals in history.

@sapinker Thank you for sharing, Steve!

@MartinVGould So true - thanks for sharing!

Being on the right side of history means challenging the norms of your time

@Lewis_Bollard Thank you for sharing, Lewis!

@PaulHShapiro @HarvardHBS Thank you for the kind words Paul!

@_David_Kay @HarvardHBS Thank you for writing this important commentary, @_David_Kay. It's so easy to see the shortcomings of our ancestors, yet so hard to objectively look at our own, especially when it comes to our treatment of animals.

What will future generations judge us most harshly on? In my piece in the @HarvardHBS’ newspaper, I argue that factory farming is a good candidate. harbus.org/post/the-most-…

Congrats to @AlephFarms! This is not an easy environment to raise in, so it's great to see investor confidence in cultivated meat.

Congrats to @MissionBarns on this historic accomplishment: the first ever FDA clearance for cultivated pork fat! Hopefully, after 2 years of delay, FDA is ready to support food innovation again.