Welcome to rising anxieties.

Happy new year.

It's another year of rising anxieties.

They just keep rising.

This is, of course, the program where we unpack what's worrying the animal abuse industry,

or the biggest of the animal

abuse industries and you know what's worrying me which is a lot we don't go through that entire

list and maybe some of the things that are worrying you or a better way to think of it perhaps is

the things that should be worrying you because that is my lot in life

to tell people all this stuff that they're supposed to be worrying about.

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And all right, today our first story is by one of my favorite commentators on the industry.

And so this is from sentient media and by the always insightful Jessica Scott Reed,

of course, it's been on the podcast.

So this isn't from the industry, it's about the industry and about the things that they would

like to have us think, but that maybe we should like, you know, change our perspective a bit.

All right, I'll just get into it.

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