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Animal Welfare

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

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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What if AI treats humans the way we treat animals?

By Marina Bolotnikova

Americans can’t afford their pets. It’s pushing animal shelters to the brink.

By Kenny Torrella

A new investigation exposes the stomach-churning practice that goes into making your bacon

By Kenny Torrella

Undercover audio of a Tyson employee reveals “free-range” chicken is meaningless

By Kenny Torrella and Marina Bolotnikova

America’s most popular dog wasn’t bred for this heat

By Kenny Torrella

What can caged lab monkeys tell us about free human beings?

By Garet Lahvis

No-kill chicken tastes like chicken. Because it is.

By Kenny Torrella

What’s worse than a cruel animal experiment? A cruel and fake animal experiment.

By Marina Bolotnikova

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You’re going on vacation. What should you do with your pet?

By Kenny Torrella

Cell-cultivated chicken was just approved for sale in the US. But it won’t be on grocery shelves anytime soon.

By Kenny Torrella

If you can’t breathe well, neither can your pet

By Rachel DuRose and Oshan Jarow

The sustainability risks of Impossible and Beyond Burgers

By Nithin Coca

The Aubrey Plaza ad for Big Dairy that may have violated federal law, explained

By Kenny Torrella

One of the world’s most controversial philosophers explains himself

By Dylan Matthews

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Prop 12 is a win against factory farming. But the pigs’ lives will still suck.

By Justin Marceau and Doug Kysar

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is somehow the best animal rights movie of the year

By Bryan Walsh

At the Kentucky Derby, horses are worked to death for human vanity

By Brian Kateman

Bringing back woolly mammoths and dodos is a bad idea

By Dayton Martindale

A fire killed 18,000 cows in Texas. It’s a horrifyingly normal disaster.

By Marina Bolotnikova, Kenny Torrella, and 1 more

The viral story of a girl and her goat explains how the meat industry indoctrinates children

By Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz

The fight against factory farming is winning criminal trials

By Marina Bolotnikova

Save the “massive, living, beautiful, breathing, majestic boxes of carbon” known as whales

By Rachel DuRose

Pescetarians are responsible for many more animal deaths than regular meat eaters

By Garrison Lovely

Why egg prices keep going up while inflation is going down

By Kenny Torrella

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Carolina Galvani wants to make factory farming in the Global South more humane

By Kenny Torrella

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We didn’t know fish feel pain. Then the zoologist Lynne Sneddon came along.

By Kenny Torrella

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Leah Garcés proved animal rights activism can make room for everyone — even the farmers

By Muizz Akhtar

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