Kenny Torrella
Senior Reporter, Future Perfect
Kenny Torrella is a senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect section, with a focus on animal welfare and the future of meat. He co-writes Processing Meat, Vox’s biweekly newsletter exploring how the meat and dairy industries shape our politics, culture, environment, and more — sign up here! He’s also the author of Meat/Less, a Vox newsletter designed to help readers incorporate more plant-based food into their diets.
Prior to joining Vox, he worked in communications and public policy at animal welfare nonprofits, and his writing on animal welfare has appeared in Fortune, Conscious Company, GreenBiz, and the Independent. He can be reached via email at [email protected] and on Twitter at @kennytorrella.
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Latest articles by Kenny Torrella
The growing chasm in American meat consumption, explained.
How Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl got the country to launch an impressive vegetarian experiment.
A new investigation finds false advertising continues to dupe consumers.
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.
A groundbreaking study suggests your farmed shrimp and salmon might have a much bigger environmental toll than previously thought.
Factory farming makes hurricanes more dangerous, disgusting, and expensive.
The VP candidate loves to snuggle baby animals. He’s giving factory farming a progressive sheen.
Cruelty is built into the pork industry — but it could at least try to prevent fires.
The plant-based protein movement goes to Washington.
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