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Animal Welfare

Vox's home for coverage of animal rights and welfare.

Why aren’t we vaccinating birds against bird flu?

By Jess Craig

John Fetterman has beef with no-kill meat

By Kenny Torrella

Bird flu in milk is alarming — but not for the reason you think

By Kenny Torrella

The meat industry’s war on wildlife

By Kenny Torrella

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I gave up meat and gained so much more

By Marina Bolotnikova and Christine Mi

The dairy industry really, really doesn’t want you to say “bird flu in cows”

By Marina Bolotnikova

The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy

By Kenny Torrella

Why New York is suing the world’s biggest meat company

By Jan Dutkiewicz

9 charts that show US factory farming is even bigger than you realize

By Marina Bolotnikova and Kenny Torrella

Can effective altruism stay effective?

By Kelsey Piper

The US uses endangered monkeys to test drugs. This law could free them.

By Dayton Martindale

When one twin goes vegan and the other doesn’t

By Kenny Torrella

The 10 most read Future Perfect stories of 2023

By Bryan Walsh

The greenwashing of wool, explained

By Marina Bolotnikova

Bird flu is surging again on poultry farms. The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop it.

By Marina Bolotnikova

We raise 18 billion animals a year to die — and then we don’t even eat them

By Kenny Torrella

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What makes a good cat?

Maybe your cat loves you. Maybe it would kill you if it could.

By Emily Stewart

The new Chicken Run movie is fun — and a damning critique of America’s meat industry

By Kenny Torrella

Our love of orcas is making them miserable

By Tove K. Danovich

Scaling slaughter-free meat is hard. Here’s one way to make it easier.

By Julieta Cardenas

There’s less meat at this year’s climate talks. But there’s plenty of bull.

By Kenny Torrella

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Genesis Butler is leading the next generation of animal and climate activists

By Marina Bolotnikova

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From court to classroom, Jon Lovvorn is working to end factory farming

By Julieta Cardenas

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How Christopher “Soul” Eubanks fights for a better life — for animals and people of color alike

By Julieta Cardenas

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Mahi Klosterhalfen is leading Germany’s animal welfare revolution

By Kenny Torrella

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Justin Marceau is defending a new generation of animal rights activists

By Kenny Torrella

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Kristie Sullivan is quietly, and effectively, fighting animal testing

By Kenny Torrella

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Crystal Heath wants veterinary medicine to live up to its values

By Marina Bolotnikova

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David Kaplan is building an academic community for the future of meat

By Kenny Torrella

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Catalina Lopez is fighting the horrors of fish farming

By Marina Bolotnikova

How America broke the turkey

By Kenny Torrella

You’re more likely to go to prison for exposing animal cruelty than for committing it

By Marina Bolotnikova

Can a social media “pigfluencer” turn people off bacon?

By Kenny Torrella

This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.

By Kenny Torrella

Dog breed bans are about human prejudice — not the dogs

By Hady Mawajdeh

Zoos aren’t for animals. They’re for us.

By Kenny Torrella

Europe might abandon its animal welfare revolution

By Kenny Torrella

Human progress has come at the expense of animals. It doesn’t have to.

By Bryan Walsh

The bizarre new frontier for cell-cultivated meat: Lion burgers, tiger steaks, and mammoth meatballs

By Jude Whiley

How cars ruin wild animals’ lives

By Marina Bolotnikova

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