They Fought Factory Farms. Now They Want to Run One.
About this episode
The episode discusses the controversial idea of animal advocates running factory farms and its implications for the movement.
What if I told you that the best way to fight for animals was for animal advocates to open and run a factory farm? You heard me right. It sounds absolutely ridiculous, yet this is far from a joke. This is a very serious unfolding plan backed by millions of dollars in funding. And this will have dire implications for our entire movement. To discuss this topic, I have with me Sam Tucker-Davis. Sam is a longtime animal rights activist, entrepreneur, and technologist from New Zealand. He has worked in animal advocacy for more than two decades. He notably founded Open Paws, a nonprofit that developed AI tools for more than 100 animal advocacy organizations. Today, he is developing GaryOS , an AI system designed to give individual activists the capacity to operate at the scale of a large organization. He is also the author behind the Substack Collectively Gary . We discussed the psychological, economic, and ideological reasons explaining why animal advocates would operate a factory farm, the possibility that this is all a scheme for AI companies to infiltrate Big Meat, how some donors in our movement are funding experiments to make animals insensitive to pain, how high-tech like AI…
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