S4. E21: Nate Salpeter: Goat-2-Meeting
We kept going through this logical exercise of how do we help more and more animals. And every single time the logical end point was - it's not dogs and cats, it's animals in the food system. It’s not a matter of tens of millions of animals. It's a matter of tens of billions of animals and hundreds of billions of fish.
- Nate Salpeter
What do you get when two tech geniuses start an animal sanctuary? The first non-profit sanctuary in the world to address the global impacts of factory farming across animals, the plants and the planet.
Nate Salpeter and Anna Sweet are the founders of Sweet Farm, an animal sanctuary in Half Moon Bay, California, that links veganic agriculture, farm-animal rescue, and technology that is revolutionizing food and agriculture production. The technology initiatives that are happening at Sweet Farm are going to change the way that we eat forever. It’s the future of food.
Everything that is going on at Sweet Farm is pretty astounding, but not terribly surprising when you learn that by day, Nate is a nuclear engineer and Anna is a computer scientist and the CEO of Bad Robot, JJ Abrams gaming company.
Sweet Farm is also the home of Goat-2-Meeting, which Nate and Anna started when the sanctuary had to close to visitors because of the pandemic. Instead of going in person, people can invite the farm animals into their video conferences. Llamas, goats, cows, and others are still making appearances at meetings all over the planet.
Sadly, no animals joined Nate and I for this conversation, but Nate did a pretty good job by himself. He’s an incredibly interesting guy – smart, compassionate, hopeful and eager to change the way the planet eats for generations to come. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Tech Companies Mentioned:
Bioforcetech
Shiok Meats
Turtle Tree Labs
Clara Foods
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