Somewhat relatedly, my kids had their guitar lessons over Zoom this week and I found Zoom has an “original audio” option that bypasses noise cancellation, etc. Makes a huge difference for music - before I enabled it, the guitar sound was fading in and out constantly.
This is awesome. The SweetFarm team has been very creative. I once saw you could feed the animals by making the donation online and seeing the live video.
The team is super down to earth and I think this Goat-2-Meeting is just hilarious. Nice work!
Just wrote to them asking if they offer the service in Spanish so my girlfriend can include it in her online classes of philosophy for her highschool students.
I'll post here if they do.
This is genius. Farm animal sanctuaries educate consumers about the cruelty of animal agriculture while providing a compassionate home for rescued farm animals to live out their lives. People tour the sanctuaries and meet animals that they would never otherwise meet, and learn that they're at least as interesting and lovable as the dogs and cats we would never consider eating.
These nonprofit organizations are expert in caring for animals, so it's surprising to see such a tech savvy response to the pandemic. The pandemic has shut public access to sanctuaries, but this idea means potentially more people can now meet these animals. Another great story about human creativity and adaptability in the face of crisis.
>Farm animal sanctuaries educate consumers about the cruelty of animal agriculture while providing a compassionate home for rescued farm animals to live out their lives.
There is nothing evil about animal agriculture done right per se. The term you're looking for is an industrial farm. There are (or were) many farms where herds and flocks are raised with compassion and respect even if at the end of the day they are destined for a dinner plate somewhere.
Please don't paint the entire farming/animal husbandry profession with the same brush. There is a very big difference between the places that treat their animals/livestock well, and those that show not even the merest semblance of care for life in general. I'm totally with you on being disgusted by what industrial farms get away with; but I've also been part of an Op where meat cows were run and treated well. It is what you make it; and while it can seem like it takes a cold heart to do the worst part of the job (culling for market), the care that goes in to raising them the rest of the time and keeping the herd safe, contained, happy and healthy is extremely hard (and relatively uncompensated) work, which only becomes more sustainable by being smarter about your inputs.
It's frustrating when people only seem to want to talk about how Ag is full of people like the guy who is running. A herd the next pasture overwith a bunch of underfed Longhorns, that'll break down our fencing to get to our ladies' protein tubs. Think he can be bothered to be held responsible? Nope. He's out of contact on a regular basis, and every time, we ended up eating the time cost of repairs or separating the herds.
Sorry if it's a bit ranty; but I won't tolerate the assertion farming and cruelty go hand-in-hand. It's hard, unforgiving, largely thankless work to the rest of the world. Sometimes the only thing making it emotionally tenable is the fact you at least haven't stooped to the level of making your animals' lives hell in order to make it work yet; and that at the end of the day they still do exactly what they are there to do for you. Day in, day out. More reliable than some people that way.
> I won't tolerate the assertion farming and cruelty go hand-in-hand.
You don't need to hold it yourself, but if you don't tolerate other people saying it? I'm fine with that assertion, and in fact given my morals that assertion naturally follows.
The documentaries "Our daily bread" and "Dominion" (you can watch them for free on YouTube) can persuade most people to change their mind, at least for a month.
It's cute, and hopefully it will generate money, but it would never replace petting a real goat. I feel like this age is the answer to that college essay question, where it's proposed technology will remove the need for travel to have those experiences, and physical travel will become a thing of the past. Pick a side and defend your argument.
yes invite a goat to your meeting! It’ll be fun until this Silicon Valley company sells your trade secrets to your competitor because they have been recording all the meetings you have openly invited them to.
My company has been getting musicians in our morning meetings on Zoom, it's really an awesome way to start the day.
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