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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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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

Explainer

Why ‘Food Apartheid’ Is a Better Term Than ‘Food Desert’

Food•6 min read

Health

Explainer

E. Coli Outbreaks & Factory Farms in the U.S. Are Largely Inextricable

Health•11 min read

Policy

Explainer

Who Is Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Pick?

Election 2024•3 min read

Science

Fact Check

The Skin Benefits of Beef Tallow Are Lathered on Thick

Mythbusting•5 min read

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

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Climate

UN Green Climate Fund Investing in Factory Farming, Report Finds

Food

Why ‘Food Apartheid’ Is a Better Term Than ‘Food Desert’

Health

E. Coli Outbreaks & Factory Farms in the U.S. Are Largely Inextricable

Policy

Who Is Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Pick?

Science

The Skin Benefits of Beef Tallow Are Lathered on Thick