"Blooming Biomes Mean Blooming Profits": 'Nature-based' Industrial Farming and the Politics of the Industrial Animal Microbiome

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Maggie Mang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/09/blooming-biomes-mean-blooming-profits-nature-based-industrial-farming-and-the-politics-of-the-industrial-animal-microbiome/. About the post: This blog post details how hype, imaginations, and promises over the industrial animal microbiome circulate in industrial agritech circles. Such images, claims, and examples drive home the point that industrial animal metabolism – and the probiotic, ‘natural,’ patented tools designed to optimize it – is considered to be a profitable next frontier.