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There has been so much happening this week at the nexus of COVID-19, the meat industry, & animal ag as a whole that it's hard to distill which insights &

Today's eye-opening read is so full of revelations that it's hard to know which quote to pull first. I'll post a few in the thread below. Hard-hitting reporting from @USATODAY

We're seeing one of the ugliest inefficiencies of animal agriculture rearing its head: it's tragically inept at responding in real time to volatility in demand, prices, or production capacity. Slaughterhouse

I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math. 1/n Let’s conservatively

#Covid19 is among the most serious challenges humanity has ever faced, and enormous work lies ahead of us to get this outbreak under control. But in parallel, we need to