Nina B. Elkadi is an investigative reporter for Sentient. Her work explores corporate influence within the agricultural industry, the environmental impacts of factory farming, and how negligence impacts consumers and workers. Her work also appears in National Geographic, Inside Climate News, Civil Eats, High Country News, Ambrook Research, JSTOR Daily, Barn Raiser, and more. She splits her time between Washington D.C. and her hometown of Iowa City.
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Feature
Pitched as a boon to small towns, the biodigester financed $41.5 Million via the town of Gillett, promising jobs and future tax revenue.
Climate•6 min read
News
A decade later, the pork plant became the subject of a scathing complaint to the EPA about working conditions.
Food•2 min read
Feature
At a township hearing, a developer revealed the 350,000 chickens would be kept mostly separate from the solar panels and probably “don’t go outside much.”
Climate•8 min read
Feature
The new docuseries digs into the dairy industry’s widespread influence in America.
Food•6 min read
Feature
Amid rising cancer rates, citizens are demanding Governor Reynolds take more meaningful action.
Climate•9 min read
News
200 JBS employees from four countries are losing their U.S. work authorization.
Food•2 min read
Investigation
When climate technology breaks down, the results can be deadly.
Climate•9 min read
Solutions
Through stories, memories and community engagement, a new grassroots effort is building public support for restoring the state’s polluted lakes.
Climate•6 min read
Solutions
“These operations are not farms. They’re factories.”
Local Organizing•9 min read
Heavy rain and 11,500 gallons of dairy cow manure per acre appear to have triggered the deadly spill.
Climate•4 min read
Investigation
A lawsuit alleges that three Guatemalan citizens, who came to the U.S. on J-1 visas, worked dangerous jobs under false pretenses.
Legal Action•10 min read
News
The partnership aims to fill a research gap with statewide listening sessions and a review of the scientific literature.
Health•4 min read
Investigation
A new report documents how manure and other contaminants find their way into treated water.
Health•4 min read
Investigation
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…
Food•4 min read
News
During a visit to Iowa, Secretary Rollins suggested that the administration would consider financial relief for farmers.
Policy•3 min read
Feature
Two new studies reveal decades of industry tactics to downplay beef’s role in climate.
Big Meat•8 min read
News
The agency has opened an investigation into high egg prices and corporate price-gouging.
Policy•3 min read
Feature
Importing eggs would need to happen at a dramatic scale to impact U.S. egg prices.
Policy•5 min read
News
The latest continuing resolution to pass the Senate will greatly impact rural programs.
Policy•3 min read
Feature
The state cancer registry makes no mention of the millions of gallons of factory farm manure pumped into Iowa waterways.
Health•10 min read
News
Critics of checkoffs — the marketing tool of agricultural commodities like pork and beef — are asking the Trump administration to make cuts.
Food•9 min read
Reported
For now, plenty of roadblocks to food system change still stand in the way.
Policy•6 min read
Reported
‘250,000 gallons of untreated beef processing waste’ flowed into the local water supply, the notice states.
Food•5 min read
Investigation
Amid a deregulatory blitz, trade group pushes for rollback on environmental regulations, worker protections and food safety.
Policy•6 min read
Reported
With human infections of avian flu present in the U.S., workers remain most vulnerable to the virus.
Health•6 min read
Investigation
“I am afraid that if we had tried to 'hide' what we had learned...then press found out, we would be butchered like a fat buck!”
Health•18 min read
Reported
Two new studies reinforce the fact that slaughterhouse jobs are among the most dangerous.
Food•3 min read
Reported
A new report maps manure spills in Iowa, where factory farms produce 109 billion pounds of manure per year.
Climate•3 min read
Explainer
Onions are at the center of a nationwide outbreak — but the source comes back to beef.
Health•8 min read
Reported
Mothers are rallying behind RFK Jr.’s promises to expose corporate influence over America’s food and health systems.
Elections•6 min read
Reported
Contrary to what ag industry groups say, these small farmers have embraced the new animal welfare law.
Meat Lobby•10 min read
Reported
The Ninth Circuit backed EPA’s response to polluted water: 'study further' and form a subcommittee.
Legal Action•8 min read
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