Explainer
These Food Labels and Symbols Don’t Mean What You Think
Symbols like ‘recyclable’ and ‘compostable’ aren’t as reliable as you’d expect.
Food•9 min read
Explainer
Symbols like ‘recyclable’ and ‘compostable’ aren’t as reliable as you’d expect.
Food•9 min read
Reported
Industrial farming operations stuffed with thousands of hogs, cows, or chickens seriously harm our health and environment. All across the country, communities are pushing back.
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Explainer
Why the U.S. is behind when it comes to connecting environmental and personal health.
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Explainer
An astronomical number to comprehend, broken down.
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Investigation
More than 90 percent of the polluting facilities are located less than a mile from water used to irrigate fruits and vegetables.
Food•4 min read
Solutions
The new fast-casual restaurant is powered by robots and a mostly meatless menu.
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Explainer
The invasive practice of electroejaculation, revealed.
Food•6 min read
Explainer
A brief primer on the harsh conditions animals and workers endure.
Food•8 min read
Analysis
The plant-based leader hopes to boost sales by tapping into the American tradition of measuring masculinity with meat.
Food•6 min read
Explainer
Unfortunately, the answer isn’t simple.
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Reported
British, Irish and Canadian hog farms are looking to get ‘Prop 12 certified’ to sell pork to the golden state.
Food•5 min read
Explainer
How the meat and dairy industries rely on the labor and suffering of mothers.
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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.
Food•8 min read
Explainer
Wondering why egg prices are skyrocketing? A mix of reasons — avian flu, inflation and shifting demand are all partly to blame.
Food•6 min read
Explainer
As America’s appetite for chicken increases, so too do the negative effects of poultry farms.
Food•7 min read
Reported
Documents reveal a proposal to train PhDs on how to boost public trust in pork.
Food•5 min read
Explainer
You probably knew chickens in battery cages are crammed in tight — but did you know about the neverending light and reproductive control?
Food•11 min read
Explainer
The plant-based milk might be more environmentally friendly than dairy — but that doesn’t make it automatically ethical.
Food•8 min read
Explainer
Why eating chicken is not necessarily more ethical than eating beef.
Food•2 min read
Reported
Undercover footage shows the fast food chain violating its own pledge to only slaughter animals who have been stunned.
Food•4 min read
Explainer
Here’s what you need to know about the pork industry in the United States.
Food•7 min read
Reported
Hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep could be at risk from ongoing hostilities in the Red Sea region.
Food•7 min read
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.
Food•4 min read
Reported
Open farm days are curated to show the public only what the meat industry wants you to see.
Food•8 min read
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.
Food•5 min read
Reported
The dairy industry has been fighting plant-based alternatives for a long time — but historically, it hasn’t exactly worked.
Food•10 min read
Reported
Rumors and conspiracy theories about Chinese ownership of a major U.S. pork producer abound, but concerns might be misplaced.
Food•4 min read
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.
Food•10 min read
Reported
Female horses are drained of blood to provide a hormone used in pork production worldwide.
Food•6 min read
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.
Food•6 min read
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.
Food•5 min read
Reported
The Aubrey Plaza campaign is just the latest in a long history of artists, celebrities and athletes hired to promote the dairy industry.
Food•9 min read
Reported
An undercover investigator found water shortages and "free-range" chickens that never see the outside.
Food•6 min read
Explainer
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has many responsibilities, including oversight of the food system and rural development.
Food•7 min read
Reported
Is eating chicken more sustainable than beef? The industry is misleading consumers with its "climate-friendly" marketing.
Food•6 min read
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?
Food•7 min read
Reported
The 1000 scientists who signed the declaration are far from impartial.
Food•6 min read
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?
Food•7 min read
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.
Food•4 min read
Explainer
Consumers want to know the difference between grass-fed vs. grass-finished but research shows all beef is bad for the planet.
Food•7 min read
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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