Philip Conspiracy Realist, we are returning to you with a classic episode.

This is one in a series.

And just to give you some insight, we explored this in 2020.

It still stays true today, unfortunately.

And if you are eating something as you're about to

tune in, put the food down or wait until you're not hungry. This is not a snack time episode.

I got to tell you, Ben, personally, I'm a little ashamed of myself realizing that we talked about this

way back then at the end of 2020

and thinking about how much meat

I still consume on a weekly,

mostly daily basis

because the stuff we're talking about in this,

it is harrowing and should, and my mind should be like life-changing, you know, in some way.

It's definitely changing a lot of lives, maybe not human ones.

Exactly.

But if, you know, to hear it and to absorb the information that's contained within this episode feels like it should matter. And I just, I do wonder how much our culture, as we talk about on this episode,

and our food availability really does have kind of a stranglehold on all of us.

Yeah, agreed, man. This is the first chapter in our two-part series on the global

livestock industry and the secrets of things like factory farms and trade organizations. And how,

you know, one of the things we touch on is how the U.S. conspires to keep meat so affordable.

So this is for all the vegetarians,

vegans, and obligate carnivores in the audience tonight.

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