Sam Mellins

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Perspective

Pork Industry’s COVID-19 Response Demonstrates Innate Brutality of Factory Farming

The culling of pigs during COVID-19 hardly compares in scale to the misery of the 75 million pigs currently held on U.S. factory farms, or the anguish of the more…

Food•5 min read

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Topics

Sentient investigates and explains factory farms and their effect on climate, animals, health, politics and more.

Climate

Investigation

UN Green Climate Fund Investing in Factory Farming, Report Finds

Climate•6 min read

Food

Solutions

Slaughterhouse Workers Seek a ‘Brave New Life,’ but Challenges Remain

Food•9 min read

Health

Reported

Why Vegan Restaurants Going Un-Vegan Isn’t Necessarily a Long-Term Problem

Diet•5 min read

Policy

Explainer

Do Government Subsidies Make Meat Cheaper? Yes, but With Some Important Caveats

Meat Lobby•10 min read

Science