David Kay

1st employee @UpsideFoods. MBA candidate at @HarvardHBS. Advisor at @From_Fauna and Alt Protein Partners. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

[David Kay @_David_Kay]

Millions of mother pigs could be forced to spend their lives in gestation crates — unable to move or turn around. The House just passed a #FarmBill with the #SaveOurBacon Act that allows exactly this. Call your senator: [phone] — tell them to vote NO on #SaveOurBacon 🐷

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I spoke with @krystalball and @esaagar about how industry lobbyists for the factory food mega-corporations are trying to abolish US animal abuse laws, including ones enacted by states, and the lessons from the recent success in freeing beagles from gruesome experimentation:

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Do read this thread.

[Josh Balk @joshbalk]

The pork industry lost with voters. Lost at the Supreme Court. So they turned to Congress—and got the "Save Our Bacon" Act buried in the House Farm Bill. It's the biggest rollback of animal welfare protections in U.S. history. A thread. 🧵

[David Kay @_David_Kay]

@susanarmenti1 Yes — by calling your senator!

[David Kay @_David_Kay]

Millions of mother pigs could be forced to spend their lives in gestation crates — unable to move or turn around. The House just passed a #FarmBill with the #SaveOurBacon Act that allows exactly this. Call your senator: [phone] — tell them to vote NO on #SaveOurBacon 🐷

[David Kay @_David_Kay]

Thank you @sapinker for lending your voice! You can email your Senator to tell them to vote NO on the Farm Bill if it includes the Save Our Bacon Act here: https://t.co/UKhklMLcYV

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

It may be unrealistic to expect the world to become vegetarian (at least not until synthetic meat is produced at scale), but that doesn't mean we must treat farm animals with vicious cruelty. Small protections can reduce massive harm at tolerable costs. Tell your senator to vote NO on the Farm Bill if it includes the "#SaveOurBacon Act."

[David Kay @_David_Kay]

When @TomiLahren and @NickKristof agree on an issue, you know you've found a no-brainer cause. And yet, Congress is on the verge of passing this monstrosity!
https://t.co/gji72zktLl

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

We raised pigs for a while on our farm, when I was a kid. They are as smart as dogs, have very strong individual personalities, can be a bit grumpy, and make ferociously protective moms. @TomiLahren is right: We shouldn't be torturing them.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Thousands of family farms support basic humane standards for farm animals, just as two-thirds of all Americans do. But @HouseAgGOP silenced their voices at today’s hearing. Not on my watch.

That’s why, when Republicans invited Big Ag lobbyists to argue for putting animals back in confinement crates, I made sure farmers who support #prop12 had a seat at the table. Their livelihoods are at stake – and their voices deserve to be heard.

[Paul Shapiro @PaulHShapiro]

🥞🔥 Plant-based breakfast at @DennysDiner?

Say less. I’m in. ✅

[David Kay @_David_Kay]

Article: https://t.co/jTBsShS5af

[David Kay @_David_Kay]

Bravo to Barry Carpenter, the former CEO of the North American Meat Institute, for speaking out against these ridiculous and anti-free market cultivated meat bans in this piece in the @HoustonChron.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

"Despite the silence, I believed, and believe, that the unjustified and unjustifiable suffering of nonhuman animals is among the most pressing issues of our time."

Great to see @CassSunstein back speaking up for animals and against cruelty!

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

Fuck crony capitalism, fuck it all to hell

[Cass Sunstein @CassSunstein]

Animals matter, and on not being silent about moral issues.
https://t.co/pyINuJCaLh

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

How do we fix factory farming? Most people hate it -- it sucks for our health, our animals, our environment, and it's putting small farmers out of business. So why is it still happening?

I sat down with food policy researcher @Lewis_Bollard to understand how to fix the worst parts of the meat industry. A super informationally dense episode on a topic very dear to my heart, so please watch and share, thank you♥️

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro & Lewis's life story
4:20 - What Qualifies as a Factory Farm?
14:20 - The Human Cost Of Factory Farming
20:33 - U.S. Labeling Standards
25:11 - Pandemic Risks from Factory Farming
31:45 - Environmental Impacts
36:28 - Mental Health Of Farm Workers
43:13 - Undercover Reporting
48:14 - Political Corruption and Incentives
53:14 - EATS Act & the Farm Bill
1:00:32 - Ag-gag Laws
1:04:32 - Improvements & Solutions
1:17:29 - Government Subsidies
1:24:02 - Technological Solutions
1:31:08 - Cultivated Meat
1:39:52 - Advice From Lewis
1:45:38 - Finding a Win-Win Future of Farming

The Win-Win Podcast:
Poker champion Liv Boeree is joined by top researchers, philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to design incentives to fix coordination problems and change lose-lose games into Win-Wins.

[Cass Sunstein @CassSunstein]

Plant-based by default - terrific piece. @Mary_MacLennan @Econ_4_Everyone @ZLiscow @morgfair @UNEP @StephenESachs
https://t.co/DiyTVuudCZ

[David Kay @_David_Kay]

Powerful op-ed from the incoming president of @BeefUSA, one of the country’s biggest meat trade groups, on why cultivated meat bans are dangerous and anti-free market. As seen in @BEEFMagazine.

[David Kay @_David_Kay]

@joshbalk @HarvardHBS Thank you for sharing Josh!

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

From a cofounder of a cultured meat company, guest lecturer in my Rationality course, and Harvard Business School student: The case that treatment of animals in factory farms is the most neglected social issue of our time. @_David_Kay

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

One day humanity will end factory farming. When it does, our descendants will look back and wonder how we ever tolerated it.

They'll wonder how a generation who loved animals -- and hated animal cruelty -- failed to stop the worst abuse of animals in history.