Vegan Accusations, Cancer-Causing CAFOs, and the Screw Worm Cometh | Rising Anxieties

About this episode

The episode discusses various issues related to animal agriculture, including health risks from factory farms and political controversies surrounding veganism.

This week on Rising Anxieties, we’re covering the full spectrum of animal agriculture chaos — from the political circus surrounding James Talarico’s (alleged) veganism to the unsurprising news that living next to a factory farm might be slowly killing you. Plus, a meat industry columnist accidentally makes the case for abolishing animal agriculture, and the screw worm is getting uncomfortably close…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jasmin Singer, Mariann Sullivan

Topics covered

• animal agriculture
• veganism
• health risks
• factory farms
• political issues
• animal rights

Keywords

• animal agriculture
• veganism
• factory farms
• health risks
• screw worm
• politics
• meat industry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: meat industry

Products: screw worm

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