Executive summary: Techno-optimism offers a promising approach to improving farm animal welfare without sacrificing agricultural abundance, by developing technologies that align industrial animal agriculture with ethical values.
Key points:
Current solutions to farm animal welfare issues (veganism, regenerative agriculture) are unrealistic “degrowth” approaches that sacrifice abundance.
Techno-optimism has succeeded in other areas like climate change mitigation through renewable energy innovations.
Emerging technologies like in-ovo sexing can directly improve animal welfare in industrial agriculture.
More investment and innovation is needed to develop a humane, scalable animal husbandry system.
The author’s organization, Innovate Animal Ag, aims to champion this techno-optimist approach to farm animal welfare.
Readers are encouraged to follow “The Optimist’s Barn” blog for further discussion on using technology to improve animal agriculture.
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Executive summary: Techno-optimism offers a promising approach to improving farm animal welfare without sacrificing agricultural abundance, by developing technologies that align industrial animal agriculture with ethical values.
Key points:
Current solutions to farm animal welfare issues (veganism, regenerative agriculture) are unrealistic “degrowth” approaches that sacrifice abundance.
Techno-optimism has succeeded in other areas like climate change mitigation through renewable energy innovations.
Emerging technologies like in-ovo sexing can directly improve animal welfare in industrial agriculture.
More investment and innovation is needed to develop a humane, scalable animal husbandry system.
The author’s organization, Innovate Animal Ag, aims to champion this techno-optimist approach to farm animal welfare.
Readers are encouraged to follow “The Optimist’s Barn” blog for further discussion on using technology to improve animal agriculture.
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