Mikko Jarvenpaa

Perspective

We Asked ChatGPT How to Fix Our Food System

What does ChatGPT think about factory farming?

Food•21 min read

Reported

From Meat to Plant-Based, One Factory at a Time

Finland's Meeat Food Tech is accelerating food system change by converting existing meat facilities into plant-based protein factories.

Food•9 min read

Reported

Sentient Media Welcomes Award-Winning Journalist Jenny Splitter

We are excited to announce Jenny Splitter as the new Managing Editor of Sentient Media. Her writing has been seen in Vox, the Guardian, and Popular Mechanics, among others.

Policy•4 min read

Perspective

Cultivated Meat Could Radically Transform Animal Agriculture: Interview With Investor and Author Jim Mellon

Jim Mellon's new book, Moo's Law, helps readers understand the quickly evolving investment landscape in cultivated and plant-based proteins.

Science•1 min read

Analysis

Letter From Our Founder

Sentient Media was founded to help bring animal welfare and animal rights issues into the mainstream.

Policy•4 min read

Perspective

Interview with Tanya O’Callaghan and Derrick Green, Hosts of New Plant-Based Travel Show

The plant-based travel show, Highway to Health, takes the viewers through fascinating places around the world. Find out what's in store for season one.

Health•1 min read

Perspective

Pandemics, Liberation, and Animal Ag: An Interview With Peter Singer

Philosopher Peter Singer has been highly influential in shaping the ethical foundation for animal protection, in addition to his long career in ethics, especially utilitarianism.

Policy•18 min read

Perspective

Voters For Animal Rights: Creating a More Compassionate New York

Voters For Animal Rights is an animal protection group lobbying for ending animal cruelty, and holding elected officials accountable in the State and City of New York. We spoke with…

Law & Justice•9 min read

Perspective

Mercy For Animals: Interview with President Leah Garcés

With two decades of experience in reducing animal suffering, Mercy For Animals continues to work for a more compassionate world.

Policy•5 min read

Investigation

“This Is Horrific Abuse”: Rooney Mara Joins Shocking Investigation of Factory Farming

Relating her first-hand experiences in an investigation with Animal Equality, actor Rooney Mara exposes the reality of factory farming. "It's so much more awful than you can even imagine."

Food•3 min read

Perspective

Our Companions: Mimi The Cat

In the series Our Companions, Sentient Media's Mikko Jarvenpaa reflects on living with Mimi, a black rescue cat with a special personality.

Policy•4 min read

Reported

Index Like You Care: Sustainable Investing with Vegan ETF

Mitigating or fully avoiding the negative effects of extractive, destructive industries and companies is genuine cruelty-free investing. Vegan ETF makes responsible investing easy for anyone.

Climate•7 min read

Perspective

German Court: Economic Grounds Not Acceptable for Causing Pain to Vertebrates

While 45 million male chicks can continue to be killed in German egg and poultry industries for now, a new court ruling opens exciting opportunities for expanding and enforcing animal…

Law & Justice•2 min read

Perspective

From Shepherd to Advocate: Why I Focus on Animal Suffering

In a world rife with human suffering and problems, why should one focus on animal rights and animal suffering? My answer is at once moral, emotional, and rational.

Policy•18 min read

Perspective

Animal Matters Episode 2: Political Leanings of Animal Rights

In this second episode of Animal Matters Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and Sentient Media co-founder Grant Lingel discuss the political leanings and the associated values around the animal rights…

Policy•2 min read

Investigation

Supplier for Costco and In-N-Out Accused of Confining, Mistreating Animals

California's darling burger chain In-N-Out and the wholesale retailer Costco are supplied, in part, by Northern California Ray-Mar Farms and Harris Ranch, whose cruel mistreatment of animals was just exposed…

Food•2 min read

Reported

Despite Lack of Animal Ag on Agenda, Climate Summit Talks Plant-Based

The climate science community, for over a decade now one of the most vocal defenders of factual scientific information, will not be able to leave animal agriculture off its agenda…

Climate•5 min read

Reported

McDonalds Celebrates 50 Years of Big Mac: Estimated 11 Million Animals Have Been Slaughtered for the Sandwich

The Big Mac was first launched 50 years ago. Over the decades, the sandwich has become legendary to the point of being a comparative instrument in international economics in the…

Food•1 min read