Welcome to Rising Anxieties.

Hi, I'm Marianne Sullivan, and this is where we talk about, I try to talk about what's worrying the industry, the animal abuse industry, and I end up talking a lot about what's worrying me, which was kind of an

unending conversation. But I'm doing my best here, guys. I'm doing my best. Don't forget to

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like, even if you don't. All right. Our first story is from Meeting Place. Does this group speak for farmers?

This is by Jack Hubbard, who's now their resident commentator, basically, on the animal rights

movement. And he's talking about an advocacy group run by two people who previously worked for the

Humane Society of the United States,

the nation's largest animal rights group.

It has a staff of half a dozen or so.

Its major funders, according to public documents, are an animal rights activist billionaire.

Yay, could we have more of those, please?

An environmentalist billionaire and dark money outfits. You know how much animal rights movement is pervaded by dark money?

Does this sound like a group that has the best interests of farmers in mind?

Actually, I would say, yeah.

The interests of farmers are basically similar to the interests of other people, I would say,

well, not really. But if they were, it would definitely have their interests in mind. He doesn't think so.

This is farm action, and it represents itself as a voice for farmers in Washington, D.C. And I actually haven't heard of farm action before.

I should know more about it.

I'm looking at price now.

I'm supposed to improve this before.

I was supposed to, like, figure this out before I start recording.

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