Investigation
Can You Trust a ‘Certified Humane’ Pet Food Brand?
We investigated the animal welfare claims on Open Farm’s pet food labels and found they don’t live up to the hype.
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Investigation
We investigated the animal welfare claims on Open Farm’s pet food labels and found they don’t live up to the hype.
Food•6 min read
Reported
Land grant universities whose research supports the beef industry are funded in part by land stolen from Indigenous tribes.
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Explainer
Wondering why egg prices are skyrocketing? A mix of reasons — avian flu, inflation and shifting demand are all partly to blame.
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Explainer
As America’s appetite for chicken increases, so too do the negative effects of poultry farms.
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Reported
Documents reveal a proposal to train PhDs on how to boost public trust in pork.
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Explainer
You probably knew chickens in battery cages are crammed in tight — but did you know about the neverending light and reproductive control?
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Explainer
The plant-based milk might be more environmentally friendly than dairy — but that doesn’t make it automatically ethical.
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Explainer
Why eating chicken is not necessarily more ethical than eating beef.
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Reported
Undercover footage shows the fast food chain violating its own pledge to only slaughter animals who have been stunned.
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Explainer
Here’s what you need to know about the pork industry in the United States.
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Reported
Hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep could be at risk from ongoing hostilities in the Red Sea region.
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Explainer
It might be a faraway scenario — but it’s one worth examining.
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Analysis
Layoffs and a declining stock price may signal trouble for the U.S.'s largest poultry producer
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Analysis
When a 9-year-old tried to pull her goat from auction, Shasta County fair officials insisted the animal be killed to teach her a lesson about meat.
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Reported
These tactics are just the latest in a long line of campaigns to delay food system change.
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Reported
Open farm days are curated to show the public only what the meat industry wants you to see.
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Explainer
Everything you ever wanted to know about intensive agriculture, and the efforts to make it more sustainable.
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Reported
A new report tracks progress among global brands pledging to source cage-free eggs.
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Reported
The dairy industry has been fighting plant-based alternatives for a long time — but historically, it hasn’t exactly worked.
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Reported
Rumors and conspiracy theories about Chinese ownership of a major U.S. pork producer abound, but concerns might be misplaced.
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Reported
An outbreak is killing pigs around the world, and would likely spread quickly in the United States.
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Explainer
Like many other forms of agriculture, sheep farming has become increasingly industrialized. Here’s what you need to know.
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Reported
Female horses are drained of blood to provide a hormone used in pork production worldwide.
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Explainer
Wagyu beef is one of the most expensive — and consistently mislabeled — foods on the market. In this explainer, we look into what the "wagyu" label means for the cows.
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Reported
A coalition of lawmakers are backing the EATS Act in hopes of gutting the Supreme Court's decision upholding the welfare provisions of California's Prop 12.
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Reported
The 2023 Farm Bill offers lawmakers an opportunity to transform the food system but will they take it?
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Reported
Amid the World Pork Expo, the industry reframes "sustainability" and targets the very communities it pollutes.
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Reported
The Aubrey Plaza campaign is just the latest in a long history of artists, celebrities and athletes hired to promote the dairy industry.
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Reported
An undercover investigator found water shortages and "free-range" chickens that never see the outside.
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Explainer
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has many responsibilities, including oversight of the food system and rural development.
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Reported
Is eating chicken more sustainable than beef? The industry is misleading consumers with its "climate-friendly" marketing.
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Explainer
Gestation crates are one of the most controversial aspects of pork production. But what are they, and why does the industry say they're necessary?
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Reported
The 1000 scientists who signed the declaration are far from impartial.
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Explainer
The egg industry continues to cull billions of male chicks worldwide each year — despite legal and scientific progress to curb the practice.
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Explainer
What is a feedlot? These large fenced-off areas of land house thousands of cattle as they gain weight before slaughter. But how do they work?
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Reported
A new EU government report warns of an impending uptick in avian flu outbreaks, especially in areas with a high concentration of factory farms.
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Explainer
Consumers want to know the difference between grass-fed vs. grass-finished but research shows all beef is bad for the planet.
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The proposed FDA label guidance implicitly favors single "superfoods" and dairy as the nutritional gold standard over a varied plant-rich diet.
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Explainer
61 percent of U.S. voters support a ban on fur farming — yet the $22 billion industry is still legal in the U.S. and much of the rest of the…
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Explainer
Goat milk has become increasingly popular, yet most consumers are unaware of the environmental and animal welfare impacts of dairy goat production.
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Explainer
The poultry industry uses the term "broiler chickens" to describe birds farmed for meat. But where exactly does the term come from?
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Explainer
You might think "free-range" meat comes from happy animals but in reality, the label is no guarantee the farm meets any animal welfare standards.
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Explainer
Almost 300 million cattle were slaughtered globally in 2020, despite research suggesting cows are capable of feeling pain and distress.
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Reported
Wendy's and other national brands are failing to make good on their cage-free egg commitments.
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Explainer
U.S. cattle feedlots house over 13 million cattle annually, maximizing growth before slaughter.
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Explainer
More than 21,000 factory farms raise and slaughter billions of livestock animals each year in the U.S.
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Reported
Between February and August of last year, more than half of commercial chicken depopulations used ventilation shutdown.
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Explainer
Over 8 billion chickens are killed each year by the food industry.
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Explainer
Dairy farming is the practice of raising animals such as cows, goats and buffalo to produce milk for human consumption.
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Explainer
In this explainer, we answer the question what is veal?
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