In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm
Water resource “hedge funds” and corporate farms are running the desert dry.| Sentient
The nation’s largest retailer is poised to become a significant player in the beef industry, owning cattle from slaughter to sale.| Sentient
Nearly a dozen environmental and community groups are challenging the EPA’s exemption that farms don’t need to report hazardous gases released from animal waste.| Sentient
The summer of 2025 was the most un-swimmable Iowa summer yet, thanks in part to pollution from farms.| Sentient
While SNAP payments and food safety inspections continue, disaster payments, farm loans and federal workers’ pay are on hold indefinitely.| Sentient
The federal agency that oversees disputes of workplace safety violations, including in meatpacking plants, has been without leadership for more than five months.| Sentient
State troopers cited concerns about animal rights activists as justification for blocking journalists from livestock crash sites.| Sentient
Researchers are more reluctant to give interviews since Trump returned to the White House.| Sentient
An experiment in public dining is challenging the idea that good food should be a luxury.| Sentient
Agri Star was fined just $50,000 for violating its water pollution discharge permit 60 times.| Sentient
Water resource “hedge funds” and corporate farms are running the desert dry.| Sentient
How Protein Pact, a meat industry PR group, tries to pass itself off as climate-friendly.| Sentient
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
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 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
