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Young Activists Are Getting Plant-Based on the Menu, for Climate and Animals
Getting restaurants to serve more plant-based food can have big climate impacts.
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How Tariffs Will Impact Farmers and Consumers
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Satellites Reveal Illegal Bottom Trawling in Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
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The Vegan vs. Carnivore Narrative Distracts From Climate Action
How food fights fuel conflict instead of solutions.
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Federal Inspectors Found Antibiotics in Beef ‘Raised Without Antibiotics.’ They Took No Action
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MAHA’s ‘Natural’ Foods Obsession Doesn’t Account for the Way We Actually Eat
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The Ugly, if Unsurprising, Truth About Collagen
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Venison Donated to Food Banks May Contain Lead. The NRA Could Be Why.
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How Ads for Meat, Milk and Eggs Sell You a Fantasy
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How Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates and Musk Are Trying — or Not Trying — to Make Meat Sustainable
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EPA Civil Rights Work Stalls Under Trump as Communities Wait for Justice
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Iowa Dairy Manure Spill Kills Over 100,000 Fish in 10-Mile Stretch of Dry Run Creek
State records reveal a faulty manure control structure noted in previous inspections, and “freshly dead fish with some stranded gasping for air, manure on top of ice, and dirty flowing…
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Prop 12 Is Under Attack Again, But Some Republicans Aren’t On Board
Inside the latest attempt to undo the landmark animal welfare law.
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Food Security Researchers in 20 Countries Thought They Had U.S. Funding. Then Trump Took Office
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What Animal Advocates Are Bracing for With Trump’s Return
“An interview with Delci Winders, director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School.
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“We sat down with Viveca Morris and Jennifer Jacquet to discuss their research into the money flowing to academics from the livestock industry.