At an Iowa Pork Plant, Piles of Dead Pigs and Wafting Sulphur Dioxide
When climate technology breaks down, the results can be deadly.| Sentient
When climate technology breaks down, the results can be deadly.| Sentient
Iowa clean water advocates criticized the EPA’s move to reverse a decision adding seven Iowa river segments to the state’s impaired waters list.| Sentient
Chick-fil-A buys its chicken from Mar-Jac Poultry, a company fined by the Department of Labor for employing 14-year-olds to eviscerate poultry at an Alabama packing plant.| Sentient
New maps show that where animal feeding operations exist, higher percentages of Latino and uninsured residents also live.| Sentient
Going from 100 lbs of chicken each year to 63 would be quite the change.| Sentient
Pitched as a boon to small towns, the biodigester financed $41.5 Million via the town of Gillett, promising jobs and future tax revenue.| Sentient
How rumors the brand was going bankrupt spread, and what that says about the discourse.| Sentient
A decade later, the pork plant became the subject of a scathing complaint to the EPA about working conditions.| Sentient
New research shows roughly a quarter of the nation’s large cattle, dairy and hog farms are located in just 30 U.S. counties.| Sentient
Coupons and community farms aim to bring more fruits and vegetables to those most often priced out.| 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
Sentient investigates and explains factory farms and their effect on climate, animals, health, politics and more.| 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 bipartisan bill aims to stop commercial octopus farming before it starts.| Sentient
“These operations are not farms. They’re factories.”| 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
In places with no enforceable limits on nutrient pollution, addressing the problem will remain elusive.| Sentient
Why the U.S. is behind when it comes to connecting environmental and personal health.| 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
