| I'm really excited to tell you all about a project Sigal Samuel, Byrd Pinkerton, and I have been working on for a long time: season 3 of our podcast, Future Perfect, available wherever you get your podcasts. Season 2 was all about a major topic of this newsletter and the Future Perfect website: big philanthropy, and its relationship to government and democratic values. Season 3 is all about another favorite beat: factory farms, and the harms of large-scale conventional meat production. Some of the season will touch on animal welfare and the effects of factory farms — or concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), in the technical parlance — on the billions of animals forced to live in them amid horrible conditions. But we wanted to try something a little different for this series and focus mainly on how factory farming hurts everything besides animals: consumers, public health, workers, the environment, and more. Case in point: Our premiere episode is all about a public health and environmental catastrophe in North Carolina created by the sheer quantity of animal waste its pig CAFOs produce. Literally, the problem is pig shit. Pigs produce 8 to 10 times as much fecal matter on a daily basis as humans, and that adds up. A 2008 Government Accountability Office study looking at just five counties in North Carolina estimated that their CAFOs produced 15.5 million tons of pig manure every year. And that manure gets sprayed into the air. North Carolina farms typically use what's called a "lagoon and sprayfield" system in which animal waste is stored in massive open vats. It's then sprayed back into the air to fertilize crops. But people (and disproportionately Black and brown people) have to live near these farms. They have to live with the smell of pig waste in the air, every day. They have to live with pig waste in their water, and with (according to a recent Duke study) a higher risk of death due to their proximity to these farms. In our episode, we talk to environmental activist and "riverkeeper" Larry Baldwin, environmental justice activist Naeema Muhammad, and public interest attorney Marianne Engelman Lado about the impact of this manure pollution on the people and rivers of North Carolina, and how affected communities started to organize to fight back. That's just the start. In the next few weeks, we'll cover: - How increased line speeds at meatpacking plants have led to higher rates of gruesome workplace injuries — and might be resulting in less safe meat
- Why the next pandemic flu might come from a factory farm
- An experiment in Brazil meant to make cattle grazing less harmful to the Amazon rainforest
- The risk of overusing antibiotics on livestock, especially for the development of drug-resistant strains of bacteria
This season was made possible thanks to support from Animal Charity Evaluators, who research and promote the most effective ways to help animals. I really hope you'll take a listen. We're trying to talk about these issues in a way that makes sense not just to animal rights activists but to lifelong meat eaters and people on the fence. So check out our first episode and let us know what you think! —Dylan Matthews, @dylanmatt | 
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