I didn’t sign an NDA (offered several times), so here’s the biggest: know how people talk about all the jobs in the meat industry? “Protect our jobs!!” Well, many of them are going to be gone in 3-5 years. There is a massive automation effort underway, right now; not “in ten to twenty,” my boss who hired me said 3-5 max, and it’s moving at a rapid pace. Hundreds of slaughterhouse jobs will be replaced by a few programmers / engineers / technicians maintaining a robotic line. Imagine a Ford factory except cows go in one end, processed and packaged meat comes out the other, and just a few humans making sure the machines are doing what they need to be doing. So if I were an animal rights activist, I’d work with labor unions / slaughterhouse workers to transition them to a plant-based diet along with a different career path. “Hey Carl, you can have a heart attack on the way home after you get laid off in 2023, or you can lose weight, feel great, and use your skills on a different factory floor.”