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Martin Gould
@martinvgould.bsky.social
Working on farm animal welfare research and grants at Open Philanthropy🐔📈 Views my own. Interested in economics, policy and bouldering
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Very cool!
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This lolsob via Vasile Stănescu via Seth Ariel Green's great blog:
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The European Food Safety Authority has advised a return to slower-growing breeds, which suffer fewer health problems

When even industry leaders describe broilers’ lives as “painful,” it's clearly time for a change: www.bloomberg.com/news/featur...
October 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
And the parent birds ("breeders") are "forced to endure chronic hunger" lest they grow too big to do any breeding
October 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The world’s dominant chicken breeds grow to slaughter weight roughly three times faster than chickens in the 1950s

This speed comes at a cost: chronic leg pain, heart failure, and muscle disorders leading to "woody breast" and "spaghetti meat"
October 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM