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Meat
June 1, 2020
Geoff Dembicki
Trump Is Bailing Out Big Meat—and Further Screwing the Planet
Preserving the current system means preserving a climate-destroying supply chain built around industrial meat production.
May 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Corporations Make Pandemics Deadlier
Lethal new diseases are springing up at alarming rates, and modern globalized capitalism is behind it.
April 29, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Give Me Meat and Give Them Death
Trump’s executive order requiring industrial meatpackers to keep operating is murder.
July 1, 2019
Amanda Little
The Meat Mogul’s Case For Lab-Grown Beef
“If we can make the meat without the animal, why wouldn’t we do that?”
June 7, 2019
Emily Atkin
The Promise and Problem of Fake Meat
It could help improve public health and reduce climate change. But questions remain about the highly processed food—and some producers' coziness with the "real meat" industry.
May 7, 2019
Magazine
Samuel Moyn
The Price of Meat
America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.
February 13, 2019
Magazine
Rachel Riederer
The Future of Meat Is Vegan
A plan to eliminate animal farming relies on science and startups.
September 14, 2018
Emily Atkin
Behind Hurricane Florence’s Poop Lagoon Crisis, a Nation of Pork Lovers
The most disgusting threat posed by Hurricane Florence has a deep connection to our dinner plates.
July 3, 2018
Emily Atkin
Why Do Carrot Hot Dogs Make You So Mad?
How nationalism, xenophobia, and advertising created a nation of uncompromising wiener evangelists
December 13, 2017
Emily Atkin
The Most Overlooked Environmental Crisis of 2017
Apocalyptic weather dominated the headlines, but meat production also caused severe destruction in 2017.
March 10, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump explains: The steaks that were displayed at his press conference on Tuesday were Trump steaks, not Trump Steaks.
August 6, 2015
Corby Kummer
Eat Meat?
Put your morals where your mouth is
July 3, 2015
Rebecca Leber
This Is What Your Hot Dog and Burger Are Doing to the Planet
October 13, 2014
Alice Robb
Bloody, Meaty Veggie Burgers? Vegetarians Don't Want That.
April 19, 2013
Paul Lukas
The Vocabulary of Flesh
Chewing over the meat industry's redefinition of chops and steaks
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