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The mass killing of tiny creatures, explained. vox.com/future-perfect…

A new report by Rethink Priorities caused me to think a lot more about the future of insect, shrimp, and fish farming. These are issues I plan to cover more this year, so I’m curious for people’s feedback, thoughts, ideas, etc. vox.com/future-perfect…

Every year, billions of newborn chicks are killed, simply because they're male and not of use to the egg industry. New technologies enable in ovo sexing; it's now possible to figure out a chick's sex before it hatches, and destroy the egg. Our deep dive: "Before They Hatch." 🔻

Oklahoma recently passed a law that bans grocery stores from selling plant-based meat next to animal meat.

Why millions of chickens never make it to the slaughterhouse. vox.com/future-perfect…

Last week, news of thousands of abandoned mail-order baby chicks got a lot of news attention. It inspired me to write about the bigger problem of animal transportation: vox.com/future-perfect…

I'm sure there are some dumb farming regulations, but it's a weird choice that when asked about examples of overregulation in the Political Scene podcast, Sen. Slotkin references farming, one of the most thoroughly deregulated industries. wnyc.org/story/4b127e67…

For years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a legitimate terrorism threat. wired.com/story/fbi-wmdd…

This story is a must-read:

This is what the meat industry, and public demand for meat, does to the mental health of slaughterhouse workers:

I was deeply moved from hearing and reading the stories of slaughterhouse workers' struggles with PTSD and other mental health challenges. I think you will be too: vox.com/future-perfect…

We're trained to see things through a measured lens of moral complexity but sometimes it really do be that simple — the dairy industry is evil and there's not much more to it vox.com/future-perfect…

The FDA has approved Wildtype to sell its cell-cultivated salmon. It'll first be served at Kann, a Haitian restaurant in Portland, OR. I tried it a few years ago -- it's very good. just-food.com/news/fda-clear…

Whoa, almost 45% of US hens are now cage-free -- that's a 6% increase from last year. Anyone know how much of this has to do with bird flu culling significantly changing the ratio of cage-free to caged? perma.cc/B8J6-J8MD

New from me: The one drug RFK Jr. should actually ban: vox.com/future-perfect…

The popular dairy company Tillamook markets itself as a charming pastoral operation, but a lawsuit in Oregon asserts it's a huge factory operation that doesn't justify the high prices they charge. New from @clairemcarlson: ambrook.com/offrange/suppl…

I'm writing a book. After years of reporting, I realized we've come to expect too much from policy. CAPABLE is about how a well-intentioned distrust of agency has gone too far—sapping our prospects for structural change, and undermining well-being in the process.

Rubber met the road as the ag sector grappled with a new reality: President Trump is serious about mass deportations. And the president was forced to respond to one of its most loyal sectors. Does that slow arrests in these communities? My latest + 🧵 npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-…

A very smart piece on how to think about the Trump administration's move away from cruel animal experimentation in light of its broader war on science.

Wrote about how to think about the Trump admin's internally contradictory science policies, through the lens of the recent defunding of highly controversial Harvard experiments involving blinding baby monkeys. A lot of baddies featured here! vox.com/future-perfect…