Animal Ag

Pasture raised turkeys. (Photo courtesy of Diestel Family Ranch.)

In Search of a ‘Regenerative’ Thanksgiving Turkey

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11.23.20

a hand pulling freshly harvested turnips from healthy soil

New Research Confirms What We Eat Is Central to the Climate Crisis

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11.18.20

Bert Paris at his farm outside Belleville, Wisconsin. Photo by Finn Ryan, Grassland 2.0

Grassland 2.0 Aims to Replace Soy and Corn Farming with Perennial Pasture in the Upper Midwest

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11.11.20

overhead view of a salmon farm aquaculture operation in norway

The Continued Fight over Farming the Oceans

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11.09.20

Two happy pigs running around outside without a gestation crate in sight.

Could Crate-Free Pork Become the New Industry Standard?

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10.26.20

Site manager Eileen Bowman wears a "REGISTER & VOTE" mask as long lines of voters wait to cast early voting ballots at Roxborough High School on October 17, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Fighting Voter Suppression, Environmental Racism, and Corporate Agriculture in Hog Country

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10.22.20

A butcher sells local meat at a farmers market

The Pandemic Has the Potential to Finally Transform Meat Processing in the U.S.

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10.19.20

A flock of free range regenerative livestock graze in a field in the Bay Area

Ranchers Form Co-Op to Address Meat Processing Bottleneck

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09.23.20

Miyoko Schinner of Miyoko's Creamery poses with her "powerfully vegan" tattoo on her farm where she works to end animal cruelty

Civil Eats TV: Meet the Queen of Vegan Cheese

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09.01.20

food workers at a poultry processing plant watch chickens go by as line speeds accelerate

USDA Seeks to Permanently Speed up Poultry Plant Line Speeds

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08.31.20

Whtie vegans protest outside an ice cream shop in Venice Beach, California

Is the Vegan Movement Ready to Reckon with Racism?

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08.26.20

a flock of sheep graze prior to being herded up and sent to the slaughterhouse

Closure of Western Lamb Processor by JBS Could ‘Devastate the Ranch Economy’

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08.14.20

workers cutting meat in a slaughterhouse

How Essential Food Workers Are Fighting Back

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07.31.20

a veterinarian checking pigs in a factory farm

Will COVID-19 Make Big Meat Look Like a Bad Investment?

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07.29.20

workers in a poultry processing plant dealing with fast poultry line speeds and insufficient social distancing and other protections.

Op-ed: Speeding Up Poultry Lines in a Pandemic Puts Workers’ Lives in Danger

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07.17.20

A still from the Burger King ad about reducing their cows' methane emissions

Op-ed: Burger King’s New ‘Reduced Methane’ Beef May Be All Hat, No Cattle

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07.16.20

A collage of a photo of the author Chase Purdy and the cover of his new book, Billion Dollar Burger

Inside the Race for Lab-Grown Meat

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07.08.20

loren poncia stands in the doorway of his barn

Civil Eats TV: Regenerative Ranching in a Pandemic

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06.16.20