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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.

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The midterm culture war over plant-based meat

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.

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.

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

The first lab-grown seafood will be fancy

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

How to eat less meat: A practical guide

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

What is an animal’s life worth?

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

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

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Liz Specht is shaping the next generation of meat alternatives

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Ryan Xue is cultivating a better meat industry in China

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

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

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

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

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

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

What can a bee feel?

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

How Germany is kicking its meat habit

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

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

The environmental limits of eating local

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

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

The difference you make when you eat less meat

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is how much meat and dairy hurt the climate

8 tips to help you keep eating less meat in 2022

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

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

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

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