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Episode #266: The War on Happy Animals: Grass-Fed Beef, Free-Range Chickens, and Big Ag Science
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Dr. Sina McCullough and Farmer Joel Salatin examine a new wave of studies and headlines claiming that feedlot beef, caged chickens, and farmed fish may be better for the environment and even more humane than natural production systems.
From carbon-footprint models and missing nutrition data to cattle genetics, mobile chicken housing, avian-flu risk, and animal welfare, they ask what these studies measure, what they leave out, and why industrial agriculture's preferred metrics can make confinement look like ecological salvation.
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