How big beef destroyed the planet

Coming up today: big beef, dodgy DNA tests and outsourcing decisions to algorithms.

Join the WIRED Book Club – we’re reading Lost in a Good Game, by Pete Etchells

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-book-club-lost-in-a-good-game

Stories we talked about this week:

How our addiction to big beef ended up ruining the planet
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/big-beef-meat-industry-environmental-impact

The spurious, questionable science behind DNA testing kits
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dna-testing-kits-science

What happened when I let algorithms run my life for a week
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/algorithm-decision-making

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Show produced and edited by Matt Burgess