Animal Welfare
Vox’s home for coverage of animal rights and welfare.
The growing chasm in American meat consumption, explained.
A new investigation finds false advertising continues to dupe consumers.
Who owns the escaped monkeys now? It’s more complicated than you might think.
How a second Trump term could take a wrecking ball to animal welfare.
It’s a big deal for the climate — and for the coffee industry at large.
These marketplaces are the backbone of the meat industry, where cruelty to animals is the norm.
A groundbreaking study suggests your farmed shrimp and salmon might have a much bigger environmental toll than previously thought.
In Sonoma County and Denver, activists are putting animal welfare on the ballot.
Factory farming makes hurricanes more dangerous, disgusting, and expensive.
Dr. Gregory Berns on his surprising research on the emotional lives of dogs and cows.
Cruelty is built into the pork industry — but it could at least try to prevent fires.
We don’t need to pit dogs against humans.
A short history of effective animal advocacy.
The meat industry took away your food options and made activists the enemy. It doesn’t have to be that way.
The nonprofit is a punchline. It’s also forced the world to face factory farming, animal cruelty, and our own hypocrisy.
Vegans are the dissenters in society’s war on animals.
The fight against the meat industry has been rocky. Can it be won?
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
Animal rights must become a core issue for progressives.
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.
When vultures died off in India, people died too.
University scientists helped build factory farming. Now, some want to protect its “social license to operate.”
A new study reveals elephants are more like humans than we realized. What does that mean for the movement for their rights?
House Republicans are working to make America’s factory farms even crueler.
Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.
How centuries of milk marketing warped the way we think about dairy and nutrition.
It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned cell-cultivated or “lab-grown” meat. Why did Democratic Sen. John Fetterman lend his support?
The US Department of Agriculture’s failed response to bird flu in cows, explained.
Your taxes fund an obscure government program that kills millions of wild animals to benefit Big Ag.
The delightful abundance of going vegan.
How industrial meat and dairy trap us in an infectious disease cycle.
It’s a lot sooner than you think.
Meat giant JBS said it’ll reach net zero emissions by 2040. LOL.
Factory farms are now so big that we need a new word for them.
The flow of new money and interest into core EA fields like AI safety poses a challenge to a movement that was used to being small.
Everything from Ozempic to Covid vaccines is tested on long-tailed macaques. Experts believe many are illegally trafficked from the wild.
What a plant-based diet can and cannot do for you, explained by Netflix’s You Are What You Eat.