Welcome to rising anxieties, where we purport to talk about what's worrying the industry.

Though these days I feel like I'm the one who's worrying, not the industry.

And I should warn you before we start that like everybody in the country, I'm in a mood.

I'm in a mood. I'm in a mood.

I'm really upset about what's going on. I don't know what. Sometimes it feels so hard,

well, I've talked about this before, to talk about these issues when really the only issue on our mind is Minneapolis and all of the other travesties that's not just

Minneapolis it's you know it's a whole nightmare but uh but yeah what I talk about is

animals and I you know I think it's not only important to talk about because it's important

and because maybe we'll

have the opportunity to make change, even more so in a time of change, but because it's all

the same thing. It's all the same fucking thing because people think they can do this to people

who don't have whatever kind of power that they have and they think they can do this

and you know too often they can't it's fact all right so i'm in a mood i'm sorry there's also it's also

nine degrees here that's fahrenheit that's not windchill that's nine degrees. And there's a foot of snow on the

ground that I have to like remove from certain parts of my walk. So, so yeah, I'm in a mood,

as, you know, well one should be in order to do rising anxieties. And the first story put me

in some worse mood. So thank you, Michael Dorr for sending it.

It's from the New York Review of Books.

And bang the drumstick slowly by Ian Frazier.

About 26 billion chickens occupy Earth.

But apart from the lucky ones in backyards, most are condemned to the hellscape that is industrial farming.

And you're like thinking, thinking well why did that make

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