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Netflix’s Liver King Doc Skips the Meat of the Story
Jessica Scott-Reid watched ‘Untold: The Liver King’ so you don’t have to.
Diet•4 min read
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Sentient Writers Share Their Favorite Stories From 2024
Favorite stories from 2024 and reader predictions for 2025.
Farms•3 min read
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The Stories That Surprised Us Most in 2024
Sentient’s staff picks the stories that stuck with us.
Breakthroughs•4 min read
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20 Environmental Books to Inspire You in the Year Ahead
A roundup of books for anyone who cares about the planet.
Climate•15 min read
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Book Review: ‘Meet the Neighbors’ by Brandon Keim Compassionately Complicates the Narrative about Animals
A big-hearted and heavily researched exploration of what it means to treat animals with respect.
Science•8 min read
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‘Blue Zones’: New Netflix Docuseries Highlights Plant-Based Longevity
A new four-part series on Netflix explores the secrets of centenarians around the world, including how they eat.
Diet•3 min read
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Yearning for Utopia: A Review of Half Earth Socialism
The new book by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese details a plan to save the future from extinction, climate change, and pandemics.
Climate•3 min read
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New Documentary Transforms Cows From Methane Machines to Sentient Beings
In Cow, a documentary filmed over four years on a British dairy farm, director Andrea Arnold explores what it means for Luma, a farmed animal, to be truly seen.
Culture•5 min read
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New Documentary Hopes to Bring Vegans and Meat-Eaters Together
Meat and dairy have become central tenets of today’s climate culture wars. A promising new documentary, Meat Me Halfway, looks to diffuse the situation.
Farms•4 min read
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10 Queer and POC-Led Groups Fighting for a More Equitable Food System
Across the country, queer folks and people of color are getting organized and coming up with real solutions for a food system that they say is leaving marginalized communities behind.
Local Organizing•10 min read
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Watch: What It’s Like to Live Next to a Factory Farm
A 2020 film by Greenpeace tells the story of Michel Pouret-Frydendahl and his neighbors, who live near three intensive pig farms in Denmark. No other country in the world produces…
Climate•1 min read
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New Photography Collection Exposes the Hidden War on Animals
The book features the work of 40 photojournalists from around the world, offering an “unflinching” look at our conflict with non-human animals around the globe.
Food•3 min read
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Black Food Justice Reading List: 25 Articles, Books, and People to Follow
Centering the conversation around the activists, artists, and plant-based pioneers fighting for equality in the food system—and in their everyday lives—is the first step toward justice.
Farms•9 min read
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Book Review: Our Symphony with Animals by Aysha Akhtar
The first book by a physician to show how deeply the well-beings of humans and animals are intertwined, Our Symphony with Animals is a must read.
Animal Behavior•5 min read
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Jonathan Safran Foer on Our Moral Obligation to Eat Better
The writer’s second book on animal agriculture, We Are The Weather, asks readers to take a hard look at their own role in the climate crisis.
Farms•8 min read
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Book Review: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy
Carnism isn’t unlearned until we “witness the truth of carnism while witnessing ourselves.” As Joy puts it, we need to show ourselves as much compassion during this process as we…
Farms•6 min read
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Book Review: How To Go Vegan by Kate Schuler
As we near the end of Veganuary, the annual challenge for non-vegans to go vegan for the month (and hopefully carry it into the rest of the new year), let’s…
Diet•5 min read
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Book Review: Protest Kitchen by Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina
Do you have the tools you need to fight? Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time (Conari Press 2018) by Carol…
Diet•3 min read
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Book Review: Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey
Only then can we change human and animal lives for the better. The morality of our civilization depends on it.
Culture•5 min read
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Book Review: The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 by Kathryn Gillespie
There is so much suffering hiding behind the walls of a factory farm. The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 reminds us that there are animals in there, too.
Food•5 min read
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Read This Book: Pulphead
The story of "La·hwi·ne·ski: Career of an Eccentric Naturalist" from John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead: Essays (FSG 2011) gives voice to the more romantic side of humankind's quest for knowledge and…
Climate•2 min read
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Read This Book: Genius Foods
Push Doctor/Flickr This one’s for the health nuts. In Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Harper Wave 2018), Max Lugavere approaches each…
Diet•1 min read
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