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Bird flu in milk is alarming — but not for the reason you think

Bird flu has had a busy couple of years. Since 2022, it’s ravaged the US poultry industry, as more than 90 million farmed birds — mostly...

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The meat industry’s war on wildlife

A red fox killed with a cyanide bomb. A gray wolf gunned down from an airplane. A jackrabbit caught in a neck snare. These are just a few of the 1.45...

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The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy

For years, climate scientists have called for a phase-out of fossil fuels to avoid catastrophic global warming. Now, according to a first-of-its-kind...

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Sell lab-grown meat in Tennessee, pay a $1 million fine

Earlier this month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared his support for banning a food product that barely exists — cell-cultivated or...

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How a shipping error more than a century ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry

Some archaeologists believe that when future civilizations sort through the debris of our modern era, we won’t be defined by the skyscraper, the...

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You’re probably eating way too much protein

This story has been adapted from Meat/Less , Vox’s newsletter series to help you easily incorporate more plant-based foods into your diet. For...

28.01.2024 20

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When one twin goes vegan and the other doesn’t

A recent Stanford University study won’t end the raging war over what we should eat for optimal health, but it does give vegans a leg up. Published...

12.01.2024 9

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Big Meat just can’t quit antibiotics

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew that America’s meat industry had a drug problem. For decades, evidence had amassed that the...

15.12.2023 5

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We raise 18 billion animals a year to die — and then we don’t even eat them

Almost 1 in every 4 animals raised on a factory farm never actually makes it to your plate. Instead, they die for nothing. That’s according to a...

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What kids should know about factory farming, explained by the Chicken Run movies

The 2000 children’s movie Chicken Run is one of the darker and more subversive films made for kids: The story follows a flock of lovable, though...

08.12.2023 4

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There’s less meat at this year’s climate talks. But there’s plenty of bull.

Over the next two weeks, an estimated 70,000 people will gather in Dubai for the United Nations COP28 summit. It’s the world’s largest and...

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Kristie Sullivan is quietly, and effectively, fighting animal testing

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What Thanksgiving turkeys endure before getting to your plate

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Can a social media “pigfluencer” turn people off bacon?

Esther the Wonder Pig — a world-famous pig who was one of the few of her kind to escape the fate of the factory farm and slaughterhouse to live life...

03.11.2023 7

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This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.

Last month, an environmental group sued the federal government for failing to protect turtles from cows. To understand this bizarre-sounding but...

20.10.2023 5

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Zoos aren’t for animals. They’re for us.

This week, a leading wildlife conservation group declared that zoos play an essential role in protecting wild species from extinction. “Zoos,...

13.10.2023 7

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Europe might abandon its animal welfare revolution

Europe was on the cusp of an animal welfare revolution. In the summer of 2021, European Union policymakers promised to phase out cages for 300...

29.09.2023 4

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There’s no such thing as a climate-friendly hamburger

One species accounts for around 10 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions: the cow. Every few months, like clockwork, environmental...

08.09.2023 20

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