Fighting back against factory farming

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On this special episode, we give you a preview of season 3 of the Future Perfect podcast. Vox's Dylan Matthews comes on to talk about meat and environmental justice. Subscribe to Future Perfect on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app to automatically get new episodes of the latest season each week. Further listening and reading: ProPublica’s Talia Buford has done in-depth reporting on the problems of overflowing pig waste lagoons in North Carolina, and you can see images of the aftermath of lagoon flooding from Hurricane Florence collected here. Pig waste from factory farms is not just a problem in North Carolina. You can read about issues in Iowa, Minnesota, and Ohio. We always want to hear from you! Please send comments and questions to futureperfect@vox.com. This podcast is made possible thanks to support from Animal Charity Evaluators. They research and promote the most effective ways to help animals. Featuring: Marianne Engleman Lado, Environmental Justice Clinic, Vermont Law School Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox More to explore: Follow all of Future Perfect’s reporting on the Future of Meat. Subscribe to Vox’s Future Perfect newsletter, which breaks down big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Follow Us: Vox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I care about humans, some of my best friends are humans.
0:04.6	I married to a human.
0:07.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:23.3	I'm Matthew Iglesias.
0:24.6	My guest today is Dylan Matthews.
0:26.4	He's Vox.com, Senior correspondent and host of the Future Perfect Podcast.
0:31.3	We are here to introduce a new season of that podcast.
0:34.0	It is all about meat.
0:35.6	And today we're going to give you the first episode of the new season, which is about
0:38.9	a subject that's near and dear to my heart, pig excrement.
0:42.6	So Dylan, welcome to the show.
0:44.2	I always have to be here.
0:45.5	So I don't actually want to say too much about the pig shit because that's the one
0:50.0	that we're going to see here.
0:51.4	But just tell us briefly, what's the issue here?
0:55.3	So pig shit is important because pigs as it turns out, and I did not know this before
1:00.0	making the season, produce about 8 to 10 times as much excrement per day as humans do.
1:07.2	Pigs are pretty enormous.
1:08.7	They tend to weigh a great deal more than the average human.
1:12.1	And so if you have farms like we do in the United States where you have thousands or tens
1:16.6	of thousands of pigs living in really close proximity to each other, they're going to
1:20.9	produce a lot of shit.
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