When Animal Agriculture Sweats: Oregon, Bird Flu & Joyful Chickens | Rising Anxieties

About this episode

This episode discusses various pressing issues in the animal agriculture industry, including a potential ballot initiative in Oregon and the impact of bird flu.

This week on Rising Anxieties, Mariann runs through a lineup of stories that have the animal agriculture industry sweating — from a ballot initiative that could make killing animals for food illegal in Oregon, to the egg board spending a cool million to get scrambled eggs into school cafeterias, to bird flu quietly turning dairy cows into a mammalian petri dish.…

People in this episode

Host: Mariann Sullivan

Topics covered

• animal agriculture
• Oregon ballot initiative
• bird flu
• animal rights
• school cafeterias

Keywords

• animal agriculture
• Oregon
• bird flu
• egg board
• animal rights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oregon, egg board

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