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  • 2 weeks ago | vox.com | Kenny Torrella

    Before becoming secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services and leader of the Make America Healthy Again movement, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a swashbuckling environmental attorney who regularly took aim at the meat industry. He sued large meat companies and the Environmental Protection Agency over water pollution from factory farms, and criticized factory farming for its “unspeakable” animal cruelty and overreliance on feeding animals hormones and drugs.

  • 3 weeks ago | vox.com | Kenny Torrella

    In The Dying Trade, a forthcoming documentary film about slaughterhouse workers, a man named Tom describes a moment during his career that still haunts him many years later: the time he skinned a cow alive while she was giving birth. Tom worked at slaughterhouses across Europe from the late 1990s to the mid-2010s, and one of his jobs on the production line was to remove the skin from animals after they had been hung up, stunned unconscious, and bled out. That’s how it’s supposed to work in theory.

  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kenny Torrella

    In The Dying Trade, a forthcoming documentary film about slaughterhouse workers, a man named Tom describes a moment during his career that still haunts him many years later: the time he skinned a cow alive while she was giving birth. Tom worked at slaughterhouses across Europe from the late 1990s to the mid-2010s, and one of his jobs on the production line was to remove the skin from animals after they had been hung up, stunned unconscious, and bled out. That’s how it’s supposed to work in theory.

  • 1 month ago | vox.com | Kenny Torrella

    Late last month, some 14,000 baby chicks in Pennsylvania were shipped from a hatchery — commercial operations that breed chickens, incubate their eggs, and sell day-old chicks — to small farms across the country. But they didn’t get far. They were reportedly abandoned in a US Postal Service truck in Delaware for three-and-a-half days without water, food, or temperature control. By the time officials arrived at the postal facility, 4,000 baby birds were already dead.

  • 1 month ago | vox.com | Kenny Torrella

    Should you care about the suffering of bugs? For most people, it’s a laughable question. But for those who really, really care about animal welfare, there’s a certain intellectual journey that might lead them to take it seriously. It goes something like this: First, they learn that the vast majority of the 84 billion birds and mammals raised for food are kept on factory farms, where animals are routinely mutilated and intensively confined.

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Kenny Torrella
Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella
6 Jun 25

The FDA has approved Wildtype to sell its cell-cultivated salmon. It'll first be served at Kann, a Haitian restaurant in Portland, OR. I tried it a few years ago -- it's very good. https://t.co/bPyfht3UDx

Kenny Torrella
Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella
4 Jun 25

RT @mbolotnikova: We're trained to see things through a measured lens of moral complexity but sometimes it really do be that simple — the d…

Kenny Torrella
Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella
4 Jun 25

I was deeply moved from hearing and reading the stories of slaughterhouse workers' struggles with PTSD and other mental health challenges. I think you will be too: https://t.co/zcZFtutMGo