Kenny Torrella
Deputy Editor and Writer at Vox
Writing @voxdotcom on factory farming and the future of meat, making music at https://t.co/WW27Jnq9M3
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1 week ago |
vox.com | Kenny Torrella
An obscure arm of the federal government killed almost 2 million wild animals last year using a variety of methods, including firearms, poisons, and traps that ensnare an animal’s neck, feet, or entire body. Carried out by the US Department of Agriculture’s euphemistically named Wildlife Services department, the 2024 body count included over 2,000 green iguanas, almost 1,700 red-tailed hawks, and 614 armadillos, according to recently published data.
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1 week ago |
vox.com | Kenny Torrella
President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office have been a gift to a sector of the economy that gets little attention but has enormous social and economic consequences: the US meat industry. While Congress and both Republican and Democratic administrations tend to do what meat companies want — in part because those companies tend to give a lot of money to politicians and intensively lobby them — Trump has been even friendlier than most.
Common Ground review: What the regenerative agriculture documentary gets wrong about our food system
3 weeks ago |
vox.com | Kenny Torrella
On Tuesday, a pair of documentaries landed on Amazon Prime that put forth a rather bold claim: By simply making a few tweaks to how we farm, humanity can reverse climate change and all but eliminate a host of other problems stemming from our modern food system.
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3 weeks ago |
vox.com | Kenny Torrella
From 2017 to 2020, meat-free sausages and veggie burgers had a moment. Sales of plant-based meat doubled thanks to new startups — like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods — which collectively took billions of dollars in venture capital investment and invented much more meaty vegetarian products than their predecessors. The emerging sector was hailed as a potential silver bullet solution to the ills of factory farming: animal suffering, climate change, deforestation, and more.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Kenny Torrella
From 2017 to 2020, meat-free sausages and veggie burgers had a moment. Sales of plant-based meat doubled thanks to new startups — like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods — which collectively took billions of dollars in venture capital investment and invented much more meaty vegetarian products than their predecessors. The emerging sector was hailed as a potential silver bullet solution to the ills of factory farming: animal suffering, climate change, deforestation, and more.
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RT @CassSunstein: Animals matter, and on not being silent about moral issues. https://t.co/pyINuJCaLh
RT @Lewis_Bollard: Montana just banned the sale of cultivated meat. It did so because the World Economic Forum apparently told people to e…
Marina with the best piece on protein yet — so well researched and argued, as usual: https://t.co/JEAOhvzriV
