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We Asked ChatGPT How to Fix Our Food System
What does ChatGPT think about factory farming?
Food•21 min read
Mikko Jarvenpaa
Mikko is the founder of Sentient Media and on the Board of Directors. Prior to Sentient Media, he has worked in the technology industry, most recently as the CEO of Infogram (acquired in 2017). Mikko started his career as a product marketing manager at Google, a job he quit to become a tour manager for a metal band.
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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
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