At some swine and poultry plants, line speeds are increasing and federal inspectors are stepping back. Industry groups support the changes, but critics warn about risks to food safety, worker…
Big Meat•21 min read
News
Beef prices are at a record high, but that doesn’t mean less meat production.
Big Meat•8 min read
Feature
Students do learn about methane, but not about eating less meat.
Big Meat•7 min read
Feature
How a meat industry PR group is trying to pass itself off as climate-friendly.
Big Meat•7 min read
Feature
Two new studies reveal decades of industry tactics to downplay beef’s role in climate.
Big Meat•8 min read
Reported
Critics say the controversial GWP* method – which New Zealand appears close to adopting – is “open to significant abuse.”
Big Meat•7 min read
Solutions
How Jack in the Box and Wingstop agreed to their first climate goals.
Big Meat•4 min read
Solutions
‘Protein splits’ appear to be working — but is there hope the trend could spread to the U.S.?
Big Meat•8 min read
Reported
The meat industry is playing with the metrics that measure methane to make climate claims that don't add up.
Big Meat•11 min read
Reported
A new report documents the banking industry’s investments in the meat and dairy industry, and its climate pollution.
Big Meat•5 min read
Explainer
From methane masks to lemongrass, how do the many efforts to make sustainable beef compare to just eating a little less?
Big Meat•1 min read
Reported
A new report suggests the government might be funding the wrong solution.
Big Meat•8 min read
Reported
An industry-funded startup is the first ever carbon marketplace to give climate credit to a mega-dairy.
Big Meat•6 min read
Explainer
Demand for cruelty-free leather alternatives are on the rise, along with a growing interest in materials that are better for the planet.
Big Meat•6 min read
Reported
The investigation reveals evidence of government willingness to accept an alternative accounting method that is the darling of the meat and dairy industry.
Big Meat•6 min read
Reported
Debunking the key concepts the world’s largest food and farming companies will be using to sway debates at the climate summit.
Big Meat•16 min read
Reported
It’s the latest tactic to downplay meat’s climate impact
Big Meat•3 min read
Reported
More than 40 million people depend on this vital U.S. waterway.
Big Meat•4 min read
Reported
The requirement to disclose scope 3 emissions — from the cows, not just the kitchen — is what's rankling the food and agriculture industry.
Big Meat•6 min read
Reported
A new report uncovers global climate investors looking to boost industrial pork and poultry.
Big Meat•6 min read
Analysis
Milk and meat brands are turning to climate labels like "carbon neutral" and "net zero" to boost sales. But what do these terms actually mean?
Big Meat•8 min read
Reported
Experts worry the pledge to slash methane encourages "unproven techno-fixes" over systemic solutions.
Big Meat•6 min read
Reported
New research shows Rabobank provided global meat and dairy corporations with billions in financing.
Big Meat•5 min read
Explainer
Methane stays in the atmosphere for around 12 years, which can make it a tricky gas to calculate.
Big Meat•4 min read
Reported
Marketed to consumers as "sustainable," this "climate-beneficial" wool is polluting the land and killing wildlife.
Big Meat•8 min read
Explainer
Despite what you may have read in a few viral Twitter threads, animal leather is not more sustainable than vegan leather.
Big Meat•7 min read
Explainer
The global dairy industry is responsible for rising rates of water and air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and degraded farmland.
Big Meat•7 min read
Analysis
“We’re in an apocalyptic phase for animals in CAFOs.”
Big Meat•7 min read
Explainer
Intensive farming may have made cashmere more affordable, but overgrazing has also led to widespread environmental damage and animal suffering.
Big Meat•8 min read
Analysis
Officials say fires burning in the Amazon and Cerrado to clear land for soybean production—the primary ingredient in animal feed—have reached an all-time high.
Big Meat•4 min read
Explainer
For years, fish farming was championed as a sustainable alternative to overfishing. But many advocates worry it has unseen consequences.
Big Meat•9 min read
Analysis
A new investigation finds that deforestation of the Amazon for soy farming has continued despite a moratorium. Big meat and dairy companies are largely to blame.
Big Meat•3 min read
Explainer
From an early age, we’re taught that milk is essential to our growth and development. What we’re not taught is where that milk comes from.
Big Meat•2 min read
Explainer
A new report from Collective Fashion Justice and the Center for Biological Diversity explores the wool industry’s "shear destruction" of indigenous plant and animal life.
Big Meat•5 min read
Perspective
Animal agriculture is one of the leading sources of methane emissions, but world leaders have a bad habit of downplaying its impact or ignoring it entirely.
Big Meat•4 min read
Reported
The service offers companies “robust certification” capable of demonstrating that their net-zero target will reduce emissions at the pace and scale required to keep global warming to 1.5°C.
Big Meat•3 min read
Explainer
Animal agriculture generates massive amounts of greenhouse gases, despite the industry's recent efforts to clean up its act.
Big Meat•2 min read
Explainer
The fires in Brazil are part of a global problem, one which highlights the direct link between deforestation and loss of ecosystems with dietary choices made thousands of miles away.
Big Meat•10 min read
Explainer
Factory farming is part of a global food system that prioritizes cheap food at the expense of animal welfare, society, and the environment.
Big Meat•9 min read
Explainer
The conditions in which cows are farmed are detrimental to the air, water, habitat, and soil. Experts say the industry has been slow to adapt.
Big Meat•8 min read
Perspective
Potty training cows to curb emissions seems like a harmless idea, but it's no silver bullet. In fact, it does more to distract from the problem than solve it.
Big Meat•4 min read
Analysis
The environmental impact of animal agriculture is hard to ignore. “Eating Our Way To Extinction,” a new documentary narrated by Kate Winslet, shows us why.
Big Meat•5 min read
Perspective
The last thing we needed was Big Oil and Big Ag on the same team. Now, they've joined forces in a dangerous attempt to greenwash the factory farming industry.
Big Meat•3 min read
Analysis
McDonald's has around 1,300 restaurants in the UK alone, serving three million beef patties to 3.5 million customers daily. Unfortunately, it's showing no signs of slowing down.
Big Meat•9 min read
Reported
In June, three Danish sustainability organizations filed Denmark’s first climate lawsuit against Danish Crown, accusing the meat company of greenwashing and deceptive marketing.
Big Meat•5 min read
Perspective
Factory farming is trying to clean up its act by turning methane emissions into biogas. But the promise of sustainability could be doing more harm than good.
Big Meat•7 min read
Reported
A surprisingly large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions comes from the food we feed farmed animals. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Big Meat•5 min read
Explainer
Move over, fossil fuels. The meat and dairy industries have a much bigger part to play in the climate crisis than most people are willing to admit.
Big Meat•2 min read
We’ve long counted on climate groups to model what a sustainable future looks like—one where single-use plastics are rare and electric cars are business as usual. But what about the…
Big Meat•4 min read
Reported
JBS, the largest meat company on the planet, recently committed to achieving zero deforestation across its global supply chain by 2035. Critics say by then it may be too late.
Big Meat•5 min read
You have read 0 articles.
As a fiercely independent, reader-supported news outlet, we’re unswayed by advertisers and profit margins. Your support funds investigative journalism, fact-checked explainers, resources for journalists and partnerships with publishers to boost reporting on the most pressing issues of our time. Read more
Sentient investigates and explains factory farms and their effect on climate, the environment, animals, health, politics and rural communities.
Sign up below or see a sample newsletter first.