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How Trump wants to make one of the most dangerous jobs in America even worse

Last week, the US Department of Agriculture announced sweeping plans to increase slaughter line speeds at pork and poultry plants — a move that...

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A newly surfaced document reveals the beef industry’s secret climate plan

It’s now well established that for decades, major oil companies knew that burning fossil fuels would cause global warming, and yet did everything in...

20.03.2025 20

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Is your grocery store out of eggs? Try these alternatives instead.

A global economic meltdown seems to be the only event that can cause people to cut back on meat. In the years that followed the 2007 Great Recession,...

09.03.2025 20

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Some actually good news about eggs

Since the start of 2025, over 27 million egg-laying hens — 9 percent of the entire national flock — have died from the bird flu or have been...

06.03.2025 5

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Why Big Pharma wants you to eat more meat

This is the final story in a series of articles on how factory farming has shaped the US. Find the rest of the series and future installments here,...

01.03.2025 8

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One state’s flawed, desperate new plan to fix its egg shortage

H5N1, a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza known as bird flu, continues to wreak havoc on the nation’s egg farms. In just the last month,...

20.02.2025 6

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How a shipping error more than a century ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry

Some archaeologists believe that when future civilizations sort through the debris of our modern era, we won’t be defined by the skyscraper, the...

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How Big Meat silences its critics

BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point.  For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in...

07.02.2025 8

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Meet the new neighbors: 7.5 million chickens and their mountains of manure

MALCOM, IOWA — When Carolyn Bittner moved to Malcom, Iowa, in 2008 to serve as a pastor at two churches, she had no idea the town was also home to...

23.01.2025 8

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Big Oil and Big Ag are teaming up to turn cow poop into energy — and profits. The math doesn’t add up.

The hundreds of billions of pounds of waste produced by America’s dairy cows every year has long been a headache for farmers.  Manure is expensive...

13.01.2025 10

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How factory farming took over America — and why it isn’t going away anytime soon

A Vox reader asks: Why is factory farming still around? Factory farming — the intensive confinement of chickens, pigs, and cows on a massive scale...

09.01.2025 3

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Why 597 million chickens go missing from America’s food supply each year

America’s favorite animal to eat — the chicken — has also become its most expendable: In 2021, around 556 million chickens in the US died at...

08.12.2024 4

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Why 597 million chickens go missing from America’s food supply each year

05.12.2024 4

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How America broke the turkey

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Americans are eating less meat. And more meat. How?

21.11.2024 4

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Denmark is tiny. Its ambition to make its food system more climate-friendly is huge.

21.11.2024 2

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An undercover investigation reveals the deception of “humane”-certified farms

14.11.2024 3

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What a second Trump term could mean for animals

07.11.2024 3

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Fish farming was supposed to be sustainable. But there’s a giant catch.

24.10.2024 3

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Helene just pummeled America’s chicken farming capital

01.10.2024 4

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The ugly reality behind Tim Walz’s farm-friendly image

26.09.2024 2

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A thousand pigs just burned alive in a barn fire

16.09.2024 1

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American government built the meat industry. Now can it build a better food system?

09.08.2024 80500

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How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impact

07.08.2024 80500

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The bird flu doom loop

24.07.2024 2

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