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Who Profits When You Buy Ice Cream or Butter at the Store?
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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Hundreds of Iowa Meatpacking Employee Visas Revoked
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Can Cultivated Meat Succeed? One Company Is Turning to Quail Foie Gras & Woolly Mammoth Meatballs
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In Vermont, Residents Are Fighting to Free Their Dairy Farmworker Neighbors
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The Sneaky Way Even Meat Lovers Can Lessen Their Climate Impact
Blended meats could help omnivores cut back.
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Oklahoma’s Loophole: How Tyson’s Water Use Goes Unchecked
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Sentient investigates and explains factory farms and their effect on climate, the environment, animals, health, politics and rural communities.