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Apr 2021
1h 12m

#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk

SAM HARRIS
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Sam Harris speaks with Bruce Friedrich and Liz Specht from the Good Food Institute about the way the problems of climate change and pandemic risk are directly connected to animal agriculture. The Good Food Institute is an international nonprofit reimagining protein production.

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