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
