Factory farms destroy lives, both animal and human. Jamie Berger joins us this week to discuss the making of the documentary The Smell of Money and the devastation caused to eastern North Carolina and its residents by this evil industry.

Jamie Berger is a writer and filmmaker born and raised in North Carolina. Her writing has been featured in Vox, The Guardian, USA Today, NowThis, The News & Observer, and more. Throughout her career, she has used writing and visual storytelling to draw attention to issues ranging from environmental racism to the climate crisis to other injustices wrought against people, animals, and the planet.

• Jamie Berger on Instagram
• Jamie Berger on X

RESOURCES

• Continued Decline in US Meat Consumption is “Long-Term Industry Disruption” Creating Significant Opportunity
• Meat Consumption Is Rising — But Not in the Way You Think
• The Smell of Money website
• watch The Smell of Money trailer
• The Smell of Money on Instagram
• The Smell of Money on TikTok
• The Smell of Money on X

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