One of the most impactful resolutions you can make in the new year
Throughout the 2010s, eating less meat and embracing plant-based food was — to many Americans — aspirational.Large swathes of the ...
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We need to grow the economy. We need to stop torching the planet. Here’s how we do both.
The first thing that struck me about this year’s most talked-about policy book, Abundance (perhaps you’ve heard of it?), is ...
The race to stop octopus farming before it starts
Last year, California and Washington state banned farming octopuses for their meat, and bills have been introduced in seven other ...
Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.
If you care about animals and want to reduce their suffering, but aren’t sure exactly how, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) ...
8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
Today, tens of millions of Americans will partake in a national ritual many of us say we don’t especially enjoy ...
How soybeans took over America — and the world
Americans have a weird relationship with soy, one of the most important and widely cultivated crops in the world.Most of ...
The climate movement’s biggest weakness
Here’s a sobering fact: Even if the entire world transitions away from fossil fuels, the way we farm and eat ...
Plant-based meat has been relentlessly — and unfairly — attacked as “ultra-processed.” Can the industry save itself?
Beyond Meat is undergoing a makeover.Last month, the popular plant-based meat company announced a new product — Beyond Ground — ...
The brutal trade-off that will decide the future of food
Perhaps the most crucial idea for understanding our species’ future on this planet boils down to two boring words: land ...
Is it even possible to convince people to stop eating meat?
Factory farming is a particularly wicked problem to solve.It’s a moral atrocity, involving the confinement and slaughter of hundreds of ...
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