The Future of Meat
Future Perfect’s coverage of factory farming, animal welfare, and how the way we eat affects our lives and our planet.
The growing chasm in American meat consumption, explained.
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.
It’s a big deal for the climate — and for the coffee industry at large.
The latest in The Future of Meat
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.
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.
The meat industry took away your food options and made activists the enemy. It doesn’t have to be that way.
The plant-based protein movement goes to Washington.
The nonprofit is a punchline. It’s also forced the world to face factory farming, animal cruelty, and our own hypocrisy.
People of color are more likely to be vegan. But the animal rights movement still has a white face.
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.
Organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund are laundering Big Meat’s propaganda. At what cost?
University scientists helped build factory farming. Now, some want to protect its “social license to operate.”
House Republicans are working to make America’s factory farms even crueler.
How centuries of milk marketing warped the way we think about dairy and nutrition.
Bans on cell-cultivated, “lab-grown” meat are about protecting Big Ag.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned cell-cultivated or “lab-grown” meat. Why did Democratic Sen. John Fetterman lend his support?
Tyson Foods refuses to explain how it’s cut emissions for its new “climate-smart” beef.
Road-clogging, manure-dumping farmers reveal the paradox at the heart of EU agriculture.
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.
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 accidental origins of the chicken on your plate, explained.
Americans are obsessing over protein and forgetting about fiber.
The American diet is lopsided toward meat. Here’s how to incorporate more plant-based food into your life.
What a plant-based diet can and cannot do for you, explained by Netflix’s You Are What You Eat.
From Trump to Tesla, how 2024 will shake out, according to the Future Perfect team.
Meat production is making lifesaving drugs less effective. Where’s the FDA?
From farm to plate, one in four animals raised on factory farms are wasted.
The mixed messages kids get about meat — and how we should think about them — explained by the Chicken Run movies.
Why there should be more collaboration in cellular agriculture.
Meat and dairy are driving the climate crisis. Why won’t world leaders at COP28 do anything about it?
Meet the scientist democratizing the cell-cultivated meat sector and training its next generation of researchers.
The US veterinary profession props up factory farm cruelty. A coalition of vets is fighting to change that.