Explainer
Three of the largest dairy co-ops market the vast majority of milk sales; some have expanded into milk processing and other parts of the dairy industry.Farmers say these organizations —…
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Feature
Fewer than 15% of veterinary school graduates are opting to care for farm animals.
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Feature
3,700 federally protected wild horses were sold in 2025, and a new investigation reveals some end up at the slaughterhouse.
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Feature
In Nebraska, Blackshirt Feeders LP is building the country’s largest feedlot for 200,000 beef cattle on a square-mile slab of concrete.
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News
A growing body of research scrutinizes how the meat industry can shape scientific research.
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Investigation
Egg companies that received hundreds of millions of dollars in bird flu payments are ordered to settle for a fraction of the price.
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The popularity of bovine colostrum is surging. Can the supply keep up with the demand?
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News
The largest privately held company in the United States is refusing to concede to workers’ demands for more dignified workplace conditions, including protected bathroom breaks.
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Review
A new book reports how beekeeping operations are more like livestock megafarms.
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Feature
Your ‘seacuterie’ board may not be as sustainable as you think.
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Investigation
Wild Fork Foods, owned by the largest meatpacker in the world, is the latest manifestation of industry consolidation.
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News
As Watts’ legal battle drags on, the Trump administration moves to delay a Biden-era rule designed to reform how farmers get paid.
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Feature
A retired Cargill meat scientist urged the industry to take seriously a growing list of health concerns, including lameness, heat stress, congestive heart failure and late-term deaths in feedyards.
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Fact Check
As a judge issued a final order, the state’s attorney general and governor have criticized one another.
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Perspective
The massive scale and influence of the meat industry shouldn’t be underestimated.
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Sentient reporters, editors and staff look back on the year, and share what surprised us.
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News
Sentient reporters, editors and staff give you some of our favorite stories of the past year.
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Feature
Despite China’s low ownership of land, fear and skepticism about Chinese influence continue to drive legislation in Oklahoma and across the country.
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Feature
In Coffee and Seminole Counties, residents cite health, environment and community concerns in their fight against industrial poultry operations.
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Feature
Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders.
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Feature
Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?
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News
The multinational corporation’s plans are part of a broader trend of inequity in global food production.
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Explainer
The practice may encourage companies to keep producing more than we humans actually consume.
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News
The nation’s largest retailer is poised to become a significant player in the beef industry, owning cattle from slaughter to sale.
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News
When a sweeping scientific study called for eating less meat, the meat industry launched a full-scale attack. And we could be in for a repeat.
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Explainer
The shift from battery cages to cage-free farms, explained.
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Explainer
90 percent of all chicken farmed in the U.S. is the product of contract farming.
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News
How rumors the brand was going bankrupt spread, and what that says about the discourse.
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News
A decade later, the pork plant became the subject of a scathing complaint to the EPA about working conditions.
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Feature
The new docuseries digs into the dairy industry’s widespread influence in America.
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News
Less than two years into a five-year, multi-million dollar campaign to research building consumer trust, the pork industry shifts focus.
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Explainer
Processing, packaging and marketing eat into the ‘farm share,’ leaving farmers with 19 percent of ice cream’s price but earning 57 percent from butter.
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News
200 JBS employees from four countries are losing their U.S. work authorization.
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Solutions
In the struggling lab-grown meat sector, the companies that remain are getting creative.
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Feature
Blended meats could help omnivores cut back.
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Investigation
While Tyson says its growers obtain water from ‘lawfully acquired sources,’ the state’s permitting system allows poultry operations to pump water without permits.
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Explainer
Most of the meat we consume comes from animals raised on CAFOs.
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Investigation
States with major crop, solar, wind and livestock industries have seen dramatic increases in the past decade.
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Investigation
Investors in major egg companies saw their stocks dramatically rise in value as consumers suffered from soaring egg prices.
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Investigation
The federal government has a single contractor to assist with killing infected flocks, leading to delays and the use of controversial culling methods.
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News
The rule, which has been in the works for years, would have made American consumers safer.
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News
Advocacy groups asked regulators to block JBS’ bid, noting its history of corruption charges and illegal deforestation. Approval came after a big donation to Trump.
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News
JBS, Cargill and Tyson appear to have misled consumers.
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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…
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News
Walmart and Kroger are among the retailers overlooking a major source of food-related climate pollution.
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Explainer
And will continue to do so.
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News
Critics of checkoffs — the marketing tool of agricultural commodities like pork and beef — are asking the Trump administration to make cuts.
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Explainer
The avian flu outbreak has resulted in even more dead poultry than usual.
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Reported
‘250,000 gallons of untreated beef processing waste’ flowed into the local water supply, the notice states.
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Solutions
Policies that target ultra-processed foods could end up being bad for both the plant-based industry and the planet.
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