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[00:01.75] Take the chick killing.

[00:06.54] Innovators have developed in-ovo sexing technology that allows the egg industry to only hatch the female chicks.

[00:13.18] Thanks to that, Germany recently banned the killing of day-old chicks entirely, and France and Italy are largely doing so too.

[00:21.94] Other innovators are developing alternative proteins, made from plants, algae, even animal cells to meet the world's growing demand for animal protein without more factory farming.

[00:34.96] And yet, for all this progress, the problem overall is still growing worse.

[00:44.79] More animals are suffering at human hands today than at any prior point in our history.

[00:53.82] We raise and kill 210 billion animals globally every year.

[00:59.13] Two hundred and ten billion.

[01:00.99] That's more than the number of humans who have ever lived on Earth.

[01:05.24] We are the only species to have ever inflicted so much suffering on so many other animals.

[01:15.07] But we are also the only species to have ever acted to protect other animals from cruelty.

[01:21.71] We are a species of animal lovers. It is core to our humanity.

[01:28.09] One day, humanity will end the worst abuses on factory farms.

[01:32.87] And when we do, our descendants will look back and ask what we did to help end them.

[01:41.90] So what can you do to help?

[01:44.03] You can advocate, donate, even devote your career to this cause.

[01:46.42] But if you do just one thing, I ask this.

[01:49.87] Talk about factory farming.

[01:52.53] Tell the corporations you buy from, the politicians you vote for that you expect them to adopt at least basic animal-welfare standards.

[02:00.50] Tell your friends and family what you've learned about factory farming.

[02:06.08] Factory farming thrives in the dark, shielded by a cone of silence, ignored by our politicians, our media and society at large.

[02:18.03] Its victims are voiceless.

[02:20.42] They need your voice.

[02:24.67] I was thinking about this when I was back in New Zealand a few months ago with our three-year-old son, Willie, visiting my childhood farm.

[02:34.50] Willie's started asking what I do at work all day.

[02:36.89] He just doesn't understand strategic philanthropy to reform factory farming.

[02:41.94] No matter how many times I repeat it.

[02:45.92] So I told him, I'm trying to make the world a little bit more like that farm. We can have that world.

[02:54.69] Humanity has already amassed unprecedented wealth and power.

[03:00.27] Soon, advances in AI will make us more powerful still.

[03:04.78] And we will face a choice, a test of our humanity.

[03:09.03] Will we use that power to factory-farm ever more animals?

[03:13.55] Or will we use it to end this cruelty?

[03:17.53] Humans are animals too.

[03:19.93] What separates us from the pigs and the chickens is our ability to make moral progress.

[03:27.63] We should use it.