The state cancer registry makes no mention of the millions of gallons of factory farm manure pumped into Iowa waterways.| Sentient
Sentient investigates and explains factory farms and their effect on climate, animals, health, politics and more.| Sentient
Central Valley residents say the state’s program for cutting methane emissions incentivizes factory farms and leaves local communities gasping.| Sentient
When a sweeping scientific study called for eating less meat, the meat industry launched a full-scale attack. And we could be in for a repeat.| Sentient
Water demand is spiking from both agriculture and data centers. Without intervention, the Great Lakes could be strained past their limit.| Sentient
An opportunity for climate journalists to expand their coverage by including the largest source of food-related emissions.| Sentient
Watch four reporters from Inside Climate News discuss what we know — and don’t know — about pollution from industrial animal agriculture.| Sentient
The massive scale and influence of the meat industry shouldn’t be underestimated.| Sentient
“It probably did wonders for your appetite,” one employee wrote to another after the slaughterhouse visit.| Sentient
The shift from battery cages to cage-free farms, explained.| Sentient
To win over conservative lawmakers, some animal rights advocates are stressing spending cuts in their pitch.| Sentient
Despite community pushback over groundwater pollution and health risks, the 88,000-head feedlot will be one of the largest in the state.| Sentient
90 percent of all chicken farmed in the U.S. is the product of contract farming.| Sentient
When climate technology breaks down, the results can be deadly.| Sentient
A decade later, the pork plant became the subject of a scathing complaint to the EPA about working conditions.| Sentient
Kennedy wants to ditch recommendations that would encourage Americans to eat more beans and other plant proteins.| Sentient
At a township hearing, a developer revealed the 350,000 chickens would be kept mostly separate from the solar panels and probably “don’t go outside much.”| Sentient
A new report from the World Resources Institute finds anaerobic digesters offer limited climate benefit for a high price tag.| Sentient
Volunteers keep an eye out for ICE while others grow and distribute plants like cactus and jute mallow.| Sentient
Beef prices are at a record high, but that doesn’t mean less meat production.| Sentient
To stay afloat, food banks in the Global South are considering selling controversial offsets for revenue.| Sentient
The ban is already having some real-world consequences.| Sentient
The recent move to criminalize cultivated protein has more to do with politics than science.| Sentient
The burgeoning cultivated meat industry has found some unlikely allies.| Sentient
The research that fish feel pain, explained.| Sentient
The administration says animal welfare laws in California are raising egg prices nationwide.| Sentient
In the struggling lab-grown meat sector, the companies that remain are getting creative.| Sentient
Big Food is characterized by the domination of major food markets by a few large companies. In the food industry, the lack of competition leads to a host of problems.| Sentient
A lawsuit alleges that three Guatemalan citizens, who came to the U.S. on J-1 visas, worked dangerous jobs under false pretenses.| Sentient
“I would hate to look back in five or 10 years at this moment and think, wow, what we could have done right now could have prevented so much.”| Sentient
Sentient has learned that the primary federal laboratory for farm animal welfare research has lost its probationary scientists to the mass firings.| Sentient
Amid heightened fears of immigration raids, Alianza Agricola has spent months educating hundreds of their coworkers on how to prepare for an avian flu outbreak.| Sentient
It might be a faraway scenario — but it’s one worth examining.| Sentient
The most common questions about cultivated meat, answered in plain English.| Sentient
The new language would block states from regulating animal welfare on factory farms.| Sentient