Factory farming and animal agriculture industries must be engaged through partnership and dialogue rather than just confrontation to achieve sustainable, long-term improvements in animal welfare.

“I think I very quickly realized that if you want to change things, you have to convince the enemy to join you and get on your path with you, even if you start a little further back than you'd like. It's a it's a more sustainable long-term change that ends the battle.”

Engaging with institutions that practice factory farming is necessary to understand the system and build the trust required to influence change.

“Well, it seems it seems elemental to me that understanding is foundational to creating change. If you don't understand the playing field and the players, and you don't find a way to, you know, at least empathize with them in some way, then you're starting from, you know, behind the starting line”

Animals need to express the behaviors they evolved to perform in the wild, such as foraging and hunting sequences.

“We feed them on a plate. We're thinking like we we think that we're doing them a service like here's here's your food on the plate. You don't have to do anything. But they come equipped to actually show their food getting repertoire of behaviors. So typically if we don't allow them to show those beh”

True animal welfare includes allowing livestock to express their natural, instinctive behaviors.

“after I had the change of heart I came to realize that in addition to those things good Animal Welfare also means you give the animal the opportunity to express instinctive Behavior”

The electric prongs on a collar are not necessary for the shock function to work.

“The purpose of the prong is just to extend the shocking capability. It feels exactly the same, right? And as Dan said, yeah, that the you unscrew to put on different sizes, right? So, Cutie is speaking just from a place of ignorance, which I mean with all respect, just because she doesn't have this,”