Rob Velzeboer as a child with his grandfather and their chickens

I grew up around my grandfather’s chickens.

For a long time, that was simply what I thought animal farming—and chickens’ lives—looked like.

Rob Velzeboer speaking at TEDx beside a photograph of chickens in an industrial barn

And then one day I learned that I was wrong about that.

Much of my writing begins with trying to understand what follows from that.

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Essays on ethics, evidence, and everyday life.

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