A pig heart was recently transplanted into a man with a violent past. But there’s a much thornier moral debate we should be having about this medical breakthrough.

Biden’s crackdown on Big Meat aims to increase competition to bring prices down. But cheap meat depends on ignoring the product’s true cost.

The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.

The purveyors of “grass-fed” beef want you to believe that it solves meat’s environmental problem. But this is merely a branding exercise, not a climate solution.

Eating meat just one day a week could cut emissions, stave off climate despair, and help start a movement.

Eyal Press’s new book studies essential workers who face a unique occupational hazard: moral injury.

Many consider capitalist solutions to conservation to be démodé. But done right, they could spark the wealth transfer needed to save the world’s largest rain forest.

Panic over California’s pork reform exposes everything wrong with the meat industry.

A recent fracas in Spain shows that simply telling people to reduce meat consumption in the name of climate and personal health won’t work.

The overwrought film from Michael Sarnoski contains a fundamental truth about a very sick industry.

Small tweaks to the meat industry can’t save Americans from a simple truth: We need to eat less meat.

Conservatives’ lies about a Biden burger ban obscure a difficult truth about America’s addiction to a dangerous industry.

Utah’s new law mandating cage-free egg production by 2025 is, well, chickenshit.

The rise of cellular agriculture will force consumers to consider the moral consequences of torturing and killing animals for food.

Big Agriculture’s artificial insemination is abusive. Most states have rewritten old laws to absolve it—but some haven’t.

American agriculture is in crisis.

Covid-19 cases are surging, but enhanced compensation for frontline workers has all but dried up. Giants like Walmart and Amazon got the reputation bump; now they’ve moved on.

Meat consumption is the third rail in climate politics. But no amount of ingenuity is going to make feedlots good for the environment.

Narrowly focusing on greenhouse gas emissions isn’t enough.

U.S. senators, McDonald's, Microsoft, and the agribusiness lobby are pushing the dangerous myth that carbon storage in American farmland will stave off climate catastrophe.