Five: Lewis Bollard on factory farming

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

Every year tens of billions of animals are raised in terrible conditions in factory farms before being killed for human consumption. Despite the enormous scale of suffering this causes, the issue is largely neglected, with only about $50 million dollars spent each year tackling the problem globally.

Since 2015, Lewis Bollard has led Open Philanthropy’s program on farmed animal welfare, where he has conducted extensive research into the best ways to eliminate animal suffering in farms as soon as possible.

He might be the single best person in the world to introduce the problem of factory farming.

Full transcript, related links, and summary of this interview

This episode first broadcast on the regular 80,000 Hours Podcast feed on September 27th, 2017. Some related episodes include:

• #91 – Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
• #99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry
• #26 – Marie Gibbons on how exactly clean meat is created & the advances needed to get it in every supermarket
• #20 – Bruce Friedrich on inventing outstanding meat substitutes to end speciesism & factory farming
• #14 – Sharon Nunez & Jose Valle on going undercover to expose animal abuse

Series produced by Keiran Harris.