Animal Welfare
Vox’s home for coverage of animal rights and welfare.
It wasn’t the easiest year, but 2024 was not without its bright spots.
Why young people are getting cancer, problems with OpenAI, and the little intelligence agency that could.
She’s an expert in funny, but her relationship with rabbits is very serious.
Coverage of the latest nutrition buzzword is overly broad, arbitrary, and wildly misleading. The problem goes deeper.
These reforms are a big win for advocates, but what happens next will be crucial for animals rights.
Chicken giants are pushing birds to their biological limits. A staggering number die but never make it to consumers’ plates.
The treatment of animals in the real world is far stranger — and crueler — than in Wicked.
Xenotransplantation raises major moral questions — and not just about the pigs.
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
An investigation reveals how the company behind the White House turkey pardon — and the rest of the industry — really treats its birds.
The growing chasm in American meat consumption, explained.
A new investigation finds false advertising continues to dupe consumers.
Who owns the escaped monkeys now? It’s more complicated than you might think.
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.
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.
In Sonoma County and Denver, activists are putting animal welfare on the ballot.
Factory farming makes hurricanes more dangerous, disgusting, and expensive.
Dr. Gregory Berns on his surprising research on the emotional lives of dogs and cows.
Cruelty is built into the pork industry — but it could at least try to prevent fires.
We don’t need to pit dogs against humans.
A short history of effective animal advocacy.
The meat industry took away your food options and made activists the enemy. It doesn’t have to be that way.
The nonprofit is a punchline. It’s also forced the world to face factory farming, animal cruelty, and our own hypocrisy.
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.
When vultures died off in India, people died too.
University scientists helped build factory farming. Now, some want to protect its “social license to operate.”
A new study reveals elephants are more like humans than we realized. What does that mean for the movement for their rights?
House Republicans are working to make America’s factory farms even crueler.
Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.
How centuries of milk marketing warped the way we think about dairy and nutrition.
It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned cell-cultivated or “lab-grown” meat. Why did Democratic Sen. John Fetterman lend his support?