Industrialized agriculture has been a miracle for feeding billions of people, but also incredibly damaging to the planet. It’s also resulted in torturous condit

Industrialized agriculture has been a miracle for feeding billions of people, but also incredibly damaging to the planet. It’s also resulted in torturous conditions for animals in feedlots. Animals may not possess our intellect, but they certainly feel emotions... To me, it’s worth the extra dollar for the eggs if it supports a more sustainable model of farming. Food production is at the heart of our society, yet we’ve become distanced from it. The cheap clothes, the cheap food — they’re not actually cheap. We’ve just ignored the cost of the externalities. The polluted waterways, full of nitrogen from industrial farms; the antibiotics; the rising co2 levels from damaged pasture that no longer sequesters carbon, and the trucks and airplanes that ship out-of-season produce across the world...