Biotech for Chickens — Robert Yaman
A dairy cow is worth $1,000 to $2,000 to a farmer, whereas a broiler chicken, raised for meat, generates just $4 of profit. Quantifying animals this way may feel uncomfortable, but those $4 are all a farmer can spend to keep a chicken healthy. And this places some really interesting constraints on how biotechnology must be scaled (in terms of vaccines and other interventions) in the animal welfare space.
In this episode, Robert Yaman, CEO of Innovate Animal Ag, argues that the way to improve animal welfare is to make farming more efficient rather than less. We discuss in-ovo sexing (which…
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