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🗓️ 7 June 2024
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor in Chief of Current Affairs |
0:24.1 | Magazine. I am joined today by Lewis Ballard. He is the program director of farm animal welfare |
0:31.9 | at Open Philanthropy. He previously worked as policy advisor to the CEO, the Humane Society of the United |
0:39.4 | States. His writing and commentary on farm animal welfare could be found at farm animal welfare. |
0:44.7 | .substack.com. Lewis Pollard, thank you so much for joining us on current affairs today. |
0:49.6 | Thanks for having me, Nathan. So, Louis, you work at open Philanthropy that is an organization that aims to fund and |
0:56.6 | address the most impressing crises in the world to deal with our most serious, all of our most serious |
1:06.5 | problems. And I know that they think a lot at Open Philanthropy about, you know, what are the |
1:12.3 | worst things in the world, and what are the things that we most urgently need to work on? |
1:17.9 | And you, yourself, have dedicated your career to working on animal welfare, so you clearly |
1:25.8 | have concluded that animal welfare falls into the category of one of the most |
1:31.5 | morally urgent issues in the world. I think for a lot of people, it seems like a secondary |
1:37.9 | issue. It gets neglected. And so I wonder if maybe you could start by telling us why, to you, you really do feel like this is such an urgent moral priority. |
1:49.2 | That's right. |
1:49.9 | I believe that factory farming and our treatment of animals is a moral atrocity that future generations will look back on with disgust. |
1:57.4 | And I think most of us believe that too when we really think through what we already |
2:02.6 | believe and it's ethical implications. So most of us already believe that it's wrong to torture |
2:08.8 | an individual animal, that it's wrong to cause an animal to suffer needlessly. I think most of |
2:13.5 | us believe that animals can suffer when that pigs or even chickens or fish can all |
2:18.3 | suffer. |
2:19.3 | And when most of us see the conditions on factory farms, they would have little doubt that |
2:23.2 | these animals do suffer. |
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