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Meat Industry
August 4, 2020
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Ted Genoways
Beyond Big Meat
Just six companies control two-thirds of the nation's meat production. It's time to end their monopoly of our food supply.
July 31, 2020
Troy Vettese
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Nicholas Carter
An Inconvenient Lesson From the Pandemic: We Have to Stop Eating Meat
The Covid-19 emissions paradox reveals the adjustments we have to make to fight climate change.
June 1, 2020
Geoff Dembicki
Trump Is Bailing Out Big Meat—and Further Screwing the Planet
Preserving the current system means preserving a climate-destroying supply chain built around industrial meat production.
May 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Corporations Make Pandemics Deadlier
Lethal new diseases are springing up at alarming rates, and modern globalized capitalism is behind it.
April 29, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Give Me Meat and Give Them Death
Trump’s executive order requiring industrial meatpackers to keep operating is murder.
October 14, 2019
Kim Kelly
Trump Turns Back the Clock in America’s Meat Plants
More than a century after Upton Sinclair's gruesome "The Jungle," the president is loosening rules that protect workers and consumers alike.
August 12, 2019
Adrian Carrasquillo
ICE’s Raids Were a Win for Corporate Exploitation
Destroying families won't end migration. But it will make abused workers less likely to speak up.
May 7, 2019
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Samuel Moyn
The Price of Meat
America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.
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