Is Factory Farming Humanity’s Biggest Crime?

I’m Andres Acevedo, and this is The Market Exit. In this essay, I examine factory farming through a historical and moral lens. The story begins not with animals, but with nitrogen, explosives, and industrial agriculture. From the Haber–Bosch process to monocultures, selective breeding, and political subsidies, factory farming didn’t emerge by accident. It was engineered.

This essay includes parts from my interview with historian and bestselling author Rutger Bregman, known for books like Humankind and Utopia For Realists. Drawing on ideas from his book Moral Ambition, we explore six warning signs that suggest factory farming may be one of the gravest ethical failures in human history.

This is not a complex policy debate. It is a simple moral question.

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