Sentient Media

Sentient Media is a nonprofit organization focused on journalism that aims to shed light on animal welfare issues and the challenges posed by the mass use of animals in various industries. We create engaging and original news stories to inform and motivate journalists, advocates, researchers, government officials, and the general public about important subjects like animal health and suffering, factory farming, environmental issues, public health concerns, and political matters related to animal agriculture and other uses of animals.

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There Is Nothing Especially Healthy About Regenerative Meat

1 week ago | sentientmedia.org | Jessica Scott-Reid

Surgeon General nominee Casey Means is the latest addition to the Trump administration to sell the benefits of regenerative meat, touting it as a health food and “one of the most powerful choices you can make as a health seeker or environmentalist.” Means is part of the Make America Healthy Again movement, which centers meat and dairy in their food policy goals. Yet Americans already eat more red meat, and the advice to eat more of it doesn’t track with a healthier planet or people.
Regenerative Agriculture Falls Short As a Climate Fix, New Study Finds

1 week ago | sentientmedia.org | Dawn Attride

Farmers are increasingly turning to regenerative agriculture –– a trendy method of farming that originates from global Indigenous land practices. The core concept of regenerative farming is implementing a range of nature-based practices like cover crops and not tilling the soil. Companies like Cargill and Nestle have jumped on the bandwagon and in 2024, the Biden Administration invested strategies, including many regenerative agriculture practices.
The Meat Industry’s Hidden Link to Wildfires

1 week ago | sentientmedia.org | Jessica Scott-Reid

As I write this, smoke hangs in the air around my house. The fires are hundreds of miles away, but the smoke still reaches my city, where thousands of residents from north of the province of Manitoba are headed to escape the wildfires inching toward their homes. We remain under a state of emergency as over 1.4 million acres of land continue to burn. It’s wildfire season in North America, something that has long occurred as part of natural weather patterns.
Iowa’s Clean Water Advocates Are Reclaiming the Past to Protect the Future

1 week ago | sentientmedia.org | Nina Elkadi

How can you create nostalgia for a world some have never seen? In Iowa, a group of non-profits has come together to do just this. The 48 Lakes Initiative encourages volunteers to tell stories of their memories with 48 of Iowa’s lakes — recalling a time when these crucial waterways were the center of social life and collective memory. Today, lakes in many parts of the state are now too polluted for safe use.
Oklahoma’s Loophole: How Tyson’s Water Use Goes Unchecked

2 weeks ago | sentientmedia.org | Juan Vassallo |Investigate Midwest

This story was originally published on Investigate Midwest. As Jill Trapp steered her pickup truck down the red dirt roads of southeast Oklahoma, she raised a hand to greet a passing neighbor — a calf roper who once made it to the National Finals Rodeo. She drove on, passing a modest cowboy church where Sunday sermons share space with country music and the smell of brisket.
Here's What It Takes to Produce Slaughter-Free Milk

2 weeks ago | sentientmedia.org | Grace Hussain

“I’m never eating poop again,” exclaims Kunti Salazar’s daughter after learning how cow manure is used as fertilizer to grow food. Like me, it’s the young girl’s first time visiting Gita Valley, a farm Kunti has fond memories of visiting when she was about her daughter’s age. I’m spending the weekend at the farm, which also acts as a sanctuary and ecolodge, tucked into the hills of rural Pennsylvania. The farm follows an Ahimsa model, refusing to slaughter their cattle.
Why Anti-Trans Campaigns Keep Returning to the Politics of Meat

2 weeks ago | sentientmedia.org | Grey Moran

The Trump Administration’s dangerous crusade against transgender and genderdiverse people has been facilitated by major political spending — with a boost from the meat industry. In the last campaign cycle, the GOP spent a record-high of nearly $215 million on anti-LGBTQ political ads in both the presidential and down ballot elections. This included ads that relied on meat industry funding to compare transgender people to cattle and denigrate treatments that fall within gender-affirming care.
How Much Meat Can You Eat and Still Be ‘Climate-Friendly?’

2 weeks ago | sentientmedia.org | Gabriella Sotelo

From climate-smart beef to organic and grass-fed options, the meat industry has no shortage of marketing strategies to sell you meat that sounds sustainable. But the truth is, a sustainable diet for your health and the environment has to mean eating less meat. Now, new research has calculated exactly how much less meat climate-conscious consumers should aim for.
How an Oregon Community Group Fought a Factory Farm and Won

3 weeks ago | sentientmedia.org | Nina Elkadi

Teresa Mitchell Clausen was almost finished with her shift at a local farm store when a customer came in looking to buy a fruit tree. During their exchange, he said he was a land scout for Foster Farms, and began telling her about the five-year plan for industrial chicken operations in the area, one of which Clausen realized would be built 350 feet from her then-home. “What about the little red farmhouse across the irrigation ditch?” she remembers asking him. “Oh, what is that? One or two people?
How Big Ag Thwarted Wetlands Protections in Illinois and Iowa

3 weeks ago | sentientmedia.org | Frida Garza

Two years ago this week, the Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. the Environmental Protection Agency significantly limited the agency’s ability to use the 1972 Clean Water Act to safeguard the nation’s wetlands from pollution and destruction. The decision determined that wetlands — waterlogged habitats that help filter water and sequester carbon — must be indistinguishable from larger bodies of water to be eligible for protection under the law.