Well, we kept going through this logical exercise of how do we help more and more animals,

and every single time the logical end point was it's not dogs and cats, it's animals in the food system,

right? It's not a matter of tens of millions of animals, it's a matter of

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Today's conversation is with Nate Saul Peter.

Nate and his wife Anna Sweet are the founders of Sweet Farm, an animal sanctuary in Half Moon Bay, California,

that is a whole lot more than an animal sanctuary.

It's a combination of animal rescue, agriculture, and technology.

The technology initiatives at Sweet Farm are the future of food,

which really isn't that surprising when you learn that by day,

Nate is a nuclear engineer and Anna is a computer scientist and the

CEO of Bad Robot, which is J.J. Abrams Gaming Company.

Sweet Farm is also the home of Goat to Meeting, which Nate Nana started when Sweet Farm couldn't

have visitors during the pandemic. Instead, people can invite the farm animals into their video conferences,

Lamas, goats, cows, and they're still making appearances at meetings all over the planet. I'm going to be here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Hi Nate, it's great to have you on. Thank you for having us on. I want to talk about what quarantine is like on a farm or has been like because I would think it would be pretty nice. How's it been since things shut down?

Yeah, so, you know, we, my wife Anna Sweet and I are a little bit of homebodies anyways.

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