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The Future of Meat

Future Perfect’s coverage of factory farming, animal welfare, and how the way we eat affects our lives and our planet.

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

The midterm culture war over plant-based meat

By Kenny Torrella

FDA approval puts lab-grown meat one step closer to your dinner plate

The FDA has given a California startup approval to sell its lab-grown "cultivated" chicken. Now the USDA has to weigh in.

By Kenny Torrella

Now is the best time in human history to be alive (unless you’re an animal)

Animal welfare has suffered as humanity has improved, but there’s hope on the horizon.

By Kenny Torrella

Egg prices are higher than ever. Blame the record-breaking bird flu.

By Kenny Torrella December 20

The first lab-grown seafood will be fancy

By Kenny Torrella December 14

Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.

By Sigal Samuel November 29

How to eat less meat: A practical guide

By Allison Rockey and Kenny Torrella January 3

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By Vox Staff October 15, 2018

Want to donate to charity? Here are 10 guidelines for giving effectively.

By Dylan Matthews and Sigal Samuel November 29

Black-footed ferrets!

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Sen. Cory Booker has a plan to stop taxpayer bailouts of Big Meat

By Marina Bolotnikova and Kenny Torrella November 22

What is an animal’s life worth?

By Kenny Torrella October 25

We tasted Beyond Meat’s new plant-based steak tips. Here’s how they measure up to the real thing.

By Kenny Torrella October 24

Inside the fantastical, pragmatic quest to make “hybrid” meat

By Kenny Torrella October 24

The Future Perfect 50

Liz Specht is shaping the next generation of meat alternatives

By Kenny Torrella October 20

The Future Perfect 50

Ryan Xue is cultivating a better meat industry in China

By Kenny Torrella October 20

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Olga Kikou has helped make Europe the leading edge of an animal welfare revolution

By Kenny Torrella October 20

The Future Perfect 50

The future of meat requires new intellectual infrastructure. That’s what Isha Datar is building.

By Kenny Torrella October 20

The Future Perfect 50

We didn’t know fish feel pain. Then the zoologist Lynne Sneddon came along.

By Kenny Torrella October 20

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Carolina Galvani wants to make factory farming in the Global South more humane

By Kenny Torrella October 20

The Supreme Court is about to decide the fate of millions of pigs

By Kenny Torrella October 9

Meat has a big carbon footprint. The Inflation Reduction Act ignores it.

By Kenny Torrella August 16

What can a bee feel?

By Kenny Torrella August 6

How Gordon Ramsay’s lamb slaughter joke explains our confusing relationship with meat

By Kenny Torrella August 3

How Germany is kicking its meat habit

By Kenny Torrella July 22

Costco’s inflation-proof $4.99 rotisserie chicken, explained

By Kenny Torrella July 18

When is an animal — or even an AI — a person?

By Kenny Torrella June 21

The environmental limits of eating local

By Kenny Torrella June 6

The plant-based future of food doesn’t always taste that great

By Kenny Torrella May 25

The horrific bird flu that’s wiped out 36 million chickens and turkeys, explained

By Kenny Torrella May 5

The difference you make when you eat less meat

By Kenny Torrella April 22

How Black North Carolinians pay the price for the world’s cheap bacon

By Jamie Berger April 1

Gene editing could upend the future of factory farming — for better or worse

By Kenny Torrella March 25

Most animal cruelty is legal on the farm. A judge is questioning that.

By Kenny Torrella March 9

The corporate raider taking aim at McDonald’s over the treatment of pigs

By Kenny Torrella March 3

The future looked like it could be meat-free. Then the pandemic hit.

By Kenny Torrella February 15

New York Mayor Eric Adams is an imperfect vegan. And that’s okay.

By Kenny Torrella February 12

This is how much meat and dairy hurt the climate

By Kenny Torrella February 1

8 tips to help you keep eating less meat in 2022

By Kenny Torrella February 1

Billions of animals are slaughtered every year — just to be wasted

By Kenny Torrella January 30

Big Food is ready to sell you more plant-based meat

By Kenny Torrella January 21

The biggest fast food rollout of meatless fried chicken is happening in January

By Kenny Torrella January 4

Hog farming has a massive poop problem

By Laura Bult January 4