Jan Dutkiewicz

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The media is trumpeting studies that say we can drastically reduce cows’ methane emissions merely by feeding them a particular seaweed. But I did the math, and it doesn’t add up.

The industry insists that meat’s problems can be solved with technical fixes. We’ve seen this before.

It started as a way to distract from the Iran-Contra affair. Now it’s a mockery of both American agriculture and our arbitrary legal system.

Burgers branded with false climate claims are coming to a supermarket near you.

The meat culture war may seem goofy. It’s deadly serious.

Chinese pork facilities may seem dystopian—but the United States is where this whole trend got started.

Borrowing a page from the fossil fuel industry’s playbook, meat’s “merchants of doubt” are funding questionable research and lobbying to keep meat reduction off the table.

The demonstration may have been cringey, but we do need to eat less meat.

It’s past time to green the nation’s agriculture. But spending on biofuels and seaweed additives is the wrong way to do that.

Do voters have the right to restrict harmful industrial practices within their state? The Supreme Court’s ruling on Prop 12 will decide.

Ukraine was already neutral when Putin decided to bomb it into staying that way. Without the protection of NATO or the EU, the country’s options will be severely limited.

John Mearsheimer and other foreign policy figures are treating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like a game of Risk.

A pig heart was recently transplanted into a man with a violent past. But there’s a much thornier moral debate we should be having about this medical breakthrough.

Biden’s crackdown on Big Meat aims to increase competition to bring prices down. But cheap meat depends on ignoring the product’s true cost.

The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.

It’s real meat, biologically speaking, not a plant-based imitation. But it didn’t come from a living, breathing animal. The words used to brand it could make all the difference—just ask GMO producers.

The purveyors of “grass-fed” beef want you to believe that it solves meat’s environmental problem. But this is merely a branding exercise, not a climate solution.

Panic over California’s pork reform exposes everything wrong with the meat industry.

A recent fracas in Spain shows that simply telling people to reduce meat consumption in the name of climate and personal health won’t work.

The overwrought film from Michael Sarnoski contains a fundamental truth about a very sick industry.