Lewis Bollard

And you see this total confusion in the laws we pass.

So for instance, dog fighting, which is a real evil.

It's horrific.

But we're talking about thousands of animals.

And Congress has passed multiple laws.

Every state's made it a felony.

It is being regulated correctly out of existence.

Right.

Meanwhile, the factory farming of pigs occurs on this far greater scale.

I mean, we've even done the same thing with cockfighting, which is literally chickens.

And it's literally, again, thousands of chickens.

And we have rightly banned it.

We've rightly made it felony animal cruelty.

And yet, when factory farmers do far worse to a far larger number of chickens, we call that commerce.

Yeah, so we think less than $300 million is being devoted to all work globally around every possible solution to factory farming across every country.

And less than $200 million of that is what you would probably consider smart money going to evidence-based effective interventions.

So to put that into perspective,

Philanthropic climate advocacy alone is 50 times bigger than that.

The work of cat and dog shelters and rescue groups in the US alone, 25 times bigger than that.

There are individual conservation and poverty charities that are five to 10x bigger than that.