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← The treatment of animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history

13 connected korrents · 9 moments from 13 Dec 1968 to 18 Sept 2026.

Everything filed under animal welfare animal welfare Everything filed under consciousness consciousness Everything filed under sustainability sustainability Everything filed under AI sentience AI sentience Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: The treatment of animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history The treatment of animals in industrialfarms is perhaps the worst crime inhistory Last stated 11 years ago 25 Sept 2015 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2015-09-25 — tap for who they are Same subject: Domesticated animals are collectively the most successful animals on Earth and individually the most miserable that ever existed — tap to centre the map on it Domesticated animals arecollectively the most successfulanimals on Earth and individuallythe most miserable that ever existed Last stated 11 years ago 25 Sept 2015 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2015-09-25 — tap for who they are Same subject: The documented torture of farmed animals is unacceptable, whether or not one thinks animals have personalities — tap to centre the map on it The documented torture of farmedanimals is unacceptable, whether ornot one thinks animals havepersonalities Last stated 17 years ago 27 Oct 2009 NP Natalie Portman — holds since 2009-10-27 — tap for who they are Same subject: The human cost of factory farming, to slaughterhouse workers and above all to the environment, is staggering — tap to centre the map on it The human cost of factory farming,to slaughterhouse workers and aboveall to the environment, isstaggering Last stated 17 years ago 27 Oct 2009 NP Natalie Portman — holds since 2009-10-27 — tap for who they are Same subject: Factory farming of animals will be looked back on as a relic of a less-evolved age — tap to centre the map on it Factory farming of animals will belooked back on as a relic of aless-evolved age Last stated 17 years ago 27 Oct 2009 NP Natalie Portman — holds since 2009-10-27 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI sentience is a category error, and the chances of AIs being sentient are vanishingly small. — tap to centre the map on it AI sentience is a category error,and the chances of AIs beingsentient are vanishingly small. Last stated 2 months ago 31 Aug 2026 TC Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are Same subject: AIs that convincingly pretend to have feelings will come to be granted rights through social convention — tap to centre the map on it AIs that convincingly pretend tohave feelings will come to begranted rights through socialconvention Last stated 2 years ago 5 Sept 2024 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2024-09-05 — tap for who they are Same subject: An AI's sympathy and a friend's are not the same act: one is a learned pattern about what to say, the other rests on having felt the thing. — tap to centre the map on it An AI's sympathy and a friend's arenot the same act: one is a learnedpattern about what to say, the otherrests on having felt the thing. Last stated 3 months ago 10 Aug 2026 FL Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are Same subject: A mystical state defies expression, so its quality must be experienced directly and cannot be passed on to others — tap to centre the map on it A mystical state defies expression,so its quality must be experienceddirectly and cannot be passed on toothers WJ William James — holds since c. 1902 — tap for who they are Same subject: A pain is essentially defined by how it feels, so knowing how it feels is knowing what it is. — tap to centre the map on it A pain is essentially defined by howit feels, so knowing how it feels isknowing what it is. Last stated 4 months ago 15 Jul 2026 PG Philip Goff — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity. — tap to centre the map on it A person is best understood as aloose jumble of barely intelligent,looping processes producing only theillusion of coherent subjectivity. Last stated 2 months ago 18 Sept 2026 MW Matt Webb — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero — tap to centre the map on it A finite world can support only afinite population, so populationgrowth must eventually reach zero Last stated 58 years ago 13 Dec 1968 GH Garrett Hardin — holds since 1968-12-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: A primitive science of insect control has armed itself with modern weapons and turned them against the earth — tap to centre the map on it A primitive science of insectcontrol has armed itself with modernweapons and turned them against theearth RC Rachel Carson — holds since c. 1962 — tap for who they are Same subject: A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less. — tap to centre the map on it A romantic, low-yield farming systemwould need far more land and wouldproduce more hunger, not less. Last stated 3 years ago 28 May 2023 GM George Monbiot — holds since 2023-05-28 — tap for who they are
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At the centre The treatment of animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history Last stated 25 Sept 2015 · 11 years ago Holds Yuval Noah Harari Read this korrent →