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Kenny Torrella is a staff writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section, with a focus on animal welfare and the future of meat. He’s also the author of Meat/Less, a Vox newsletter designed to help readers incorporate more plant-based food into their diets. Prior to joining Vox, he worked in communications and public policy at animal welfare nonprofits, and his writing on animal welfare has appeared in Fortune, Conscious Company, GreenBiz, and the Independent. He can be reached via email at kenny.torrella@vox.com and on Twitter at @kennytorrella.

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

By Kenny Torrella

The first lab-grown seafood will be fancy

By Kenny Torrella

Neuralink shows what happens when you bring “move fast and break things” to animal research

By Kenny Torrella

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

By Marina Bolotnikova and Kenny Torrella

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The midterm culture war over plant-based meat

By Kenny Torrella

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

By Kenny Torrella

What is an animal’s life worth?

By Kenny Torrella

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

By Kenny Torrella

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

By Kenny Torrella

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

By Kenny Torrella