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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
You could probably post a half-dozen beer-sheds encircling a village, and each batch of brew is moved on a dolly to a spot somewhat further from the village-center, such that you steadily enlarge a de-mosquitoed zone.
Also worth considering: though you get a similar CO2 trap with baking soda, that would be a COST of a few dollars a week, only yielding a small amount of chicken-feed and avoiding malaria and bites in general. Instead, brewing beer (or fruit wine into vinegar) generates a revenue from inputs, WHILE eliminating malaria. This is also categorically better than Bed Nets, because those only protect you in BED; the mosquitoes are still flying around everywhere!