The Optimist's Barn Podcast

By Robert Yaman

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Episodes: 22

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A techno-optimist's lens on farm animal welfare.

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Episode Date
Ozempic for Chickens
Apr 09, 2026
How We're Using AI to Scale Tech Discovery
Mar 08, 2026
DARPA for Chickens
Nov 09, 2025
No, Bird Flu Isn't Over
Oct 17, 2025
Contra Grunwald on Industrial Farming
Oct 14, 2025
The Gene-Editing Platform that Will Change How We Raise Chickens
Sep 21, 2025
The Challenge and Promise of High-Expansion Nitrogen Foam
Aug 31, 2025
The Climate Cost of Pre-Slaughter Mortality
Aug 20, 2025
You Can Now Buy Eggs From In-Ovo Sexed Hens!
Jul 17, 2025
Don't Demonize Efficiency in Animal Agriculture
Jul 01, 2025
3 Research Questions in Animal Welfare Technology
Jun 11, 2025
Individuation is a Key Challenge in Animal Welfare Technology
May 25, 2025
Progress Studies and Animal Welfare
May 04, 2025
Imagining the Chicken Farm of the Future, Part 2: Automate Everything
Apr 17, 2025
Why is the US Chicken Meat Industry Getting Less Efficient?
Mar 30, 2025
Imagining the Chicken Farm of the Future, Part 1: On-Farm Everything
Mar 16, 2025
The Animal Welfare Premium is Not Captured by Certifiers, but AI Can Help
Feb 09, 2025
Animals Need Us to Be Rich
Jan 19, 2025
Explaining the Vote-Buy Gap in Animal Welfare: Why Subsidies Make Better Policy
Dec 17, 2024
Is Higher-Welfare Farming Scalable?
Dec 02, 2024
Why Innovating in Animal Agriculture is Hard
Oct 22, 2024
How to Be a Techno-Optimist for Animals
Oct 15, 2024