AnimalsMay 2, 2026
Big Beef Is Watching You
Inside the industry’s fight to keep beef “top of mind” — a federally funded, around-the-clock operation to monitor and manage what the public believes about meat.
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To find out, researchers built a simulated city and handed AI the keys.
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