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Kenny Torrella

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This influencer runs 6 miles every night. He’s also a hamster.

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

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Kenny Torrella

A Trump administration rule could stop a powerful tool for exposing animal cruelty

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

05.08.2026 7

Vox

Kenny Torrella

Costco’s organic chicken isn’t what it seems

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

29.07.2026 10

Vox

Kenny Torrella

The unlikely cause bringing liberals and conservatives together

The unlikely cause bringing liberals and conservatives together It turns out no one likes seeing pigs locked in tiny cages. “This is demonic...

01.07.2026 30

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There’s an escaped giraffe on the run in Texas. Why was she there at all?

25.06.2026 10

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Kenny Torrella

The hidden factory farms behind America’s pet snake boom

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

16.06.2026 10

Vox

Kenny Torrella

A new investigation reveals why you can’t take meat companies at their word

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

04.06.2026 20

Vox

Kenny Torrella

No one likes how animals are treated on factory farms. But no one wants to stop eating them.

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

18.05.2026 20

Vox

Kenny Torrella

Millions of people voted for these animal welfare laws. Congress is trying to overturn them.

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

15.05.2026 20

Vox

Kenny Torrella

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else)

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

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What haunts America’s animal shelter workers

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

29.04.2026 30

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Kenny Torrella

The best thing you can do for the planet on Earth Day

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

22.04.2026 20

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Kenny Torrella

How meat became a measure of manhood

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

31.03.2026 40

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Kenny Torrella

James Talarico’s “no meat” controversy explains a lot about America

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

19.03.2026 40

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Kenny Torrella

What a massive blind taste test of vegan milk, cheese, and ice cream found — explained in one chart

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

18.03.2026 30

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Kenny Torrella

Bugs Were Supposed to be the Future of Food. Now, the Industry is Collapsing.

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “We have to get used to the idea of...

12.03.2026 30

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Kenny Torrella

Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the insect farming industry is collapsing.

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

09.03.2026 30

Vox

Kenny Torrella

The real reason all of your eggs still aren’t cage-free

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

06.03.2026 30

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Kenny Torrella

Inside the squalid “bird mills” that breed tropical parrots for America’s pet stores

Statistically speaking, a lot of your neighbors probably have a dog or cat. But there’s a decent chance that there are at least a few parrots in...

06.02.2026 20

Vox

Kenny Torrella

The case against owning small pets

I grew up in the Maryland suburbs and spent much of my childhood in the woods. I would turn over rocks to find shiny centipedes and watch small...

06.02.2026 20

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Why the government really, really wants you to drink (whole) milk

After decades of declining sales, whole milk consumption has been on the upswing in recent years. Its return was crowned when, last month, the Trump...

04.02.2026 30

Vox

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American voters support animal welfare — and MAGA is seizing on it

Recently, something incredibly rare happened: American policymakers at the highest levels of government committed to tackling animal cruelty....

09.01.2026 40

Vox

Kenny Torrella

One of the most impactful resolutions you can make in the new year

Throughout the 2010s, eating less meat and embracing plant-based food was — to many Americans — aspirational.  Large swathes of the public told...

01.01.2026 50

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Kenny Torrella

9 actually good things that happened to animals this year

The world we’ve built is an unrelentingly cruel one for animals. By 2025’s end, millions of animals will have been locked in tiny cages and...

19.12.2025 40

Vox

Kenny Torrella

The alarming rise in antibiotic use by the meat industry

Around a decade ago, the US implemented new rules to limit the widespread use of antibiotics in meat and dairy production, in an effort to combat the...

12.12.2025 20

Vox

Kenny Torrella

Why one of the world’s top fur producers just banned fur farms

The world’s second-largest fur producer is saying goodbye to fur. On Tuesday, Poland passed a law to phase out fur farms over the next eight years...

05.12.2025 20

Vox

Kenny Torrella

The race to stop octopus farming before it starts

Last year, California and Washington state banned farming octopuses for their meat, and bills have been introduced in seven other states — plus the...

05.12.2025 30

Vox

Kenny Torrella

How America broke the turkey

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on November 22, 2023, and reflects events that took place that year. We’re republishing it in...

28.11.2025 30

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Kenny Torrella

The meat industry’s climate accountability moment is here

Some of the world’s biggest meat companies are finally facing a degree of accountability for allegedly deceiving the public about their pollution....

21.11.2025 20

Vox

Kenny Torrella

What we’ve done to the salmon

This story is part of a series supported by Animal Charity Evaluators, which received a grant from EarthShare. The last few decades have seen,...

13.11.2025 40

Vox

Kenny Torrella

We may never get bird flu — or egg prices — under control

It might now be a distant memory, but by the end of last winter, the average cost of a dozen eggs soared to a record high of $6.23. (It’s now at...

30.10.2025 30

Vox

Kenny Torrella

Animal abusers are getting off easy

If someone illegally double parks in a one-way street and a cop walks by, the expectation is that they’d get fined. Similarly, you’d think that if...

08.10.2025 30

Vox

Kenny Torrella

The rich must eat less meat

Here’s a sobering fact: Even if the entire world transitions away from fossil fuels, the way we farm and eat will cause global temperatures to rise...

03.10.2025 30

Vox

Kenny Torrella

How to prevent one hour of animal suffering for just one penny

According to a new commentary paper in the journal Nature Food, some of the worst animal suffering in the world can be prevented at a rate of just a...

18.09.2025 30

Vox

Kenny Torrella

A quarter of America’s “farms” aren’t really farms

The meat and dairy industries — along with the farms that grow corn and soy for animal feed — are some of the biggest polluters in the US. Yet...

04.09.2025 40

Vox

Kenny Torrella

Cow manure just killed 6 workers on a dairy farm. It happens more than you’d think.

Dairy farms are often portrayed as quaint and bucolic. But on the ground, the dairy industry is among the most hazardous to work in — the...

27.08.2025 50

Vox

Kenny Torrella

You feel guilty about eating meat. Can a donation fix your dilemma?

Earlier this month, a fundraiser for nonprofits that fight to end factory farming went a little viral — at least in one corner of the internet. ...

21.08.2025 30

Vox

Kenny Torrella

Can the plant-based meat industry save itself from America’s senseless food fights?

Beyond Meat is undergoing a makeover.  Last month, the popular plant-based meat company announced a new product — Beyond Ground — that, unlike...

14.08.2025 40

Vox

Kenny Torrella

The incredible global collapse of fur production, explained in one chart

In just one decade, a longtime fashion mainstay has been relegated to the sidelines of both haute couture runways and bargain clothing racks: fur. ...

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Kenny Torrella

The terrifying reality behind one of America’s fastest-growing dairy brands

You don’t need me to tell you that the US is in the midst of an obsession with protein. By now, you’ve probably seen extra protein in foods and...

31.07.2025 850

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Kenny Torrella

What won’t Trump blame on California?

President Donald Trump’s second term has been very good to large meat companies, which raise and slaughter some 10 billion animals each year. But...

24.07.2025 40

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Kenny Torrella

Would this food label change how you eat?

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re seated and ready to dine at one of Switzerland’s many celebrated high-end eateries, where a prix fixe meal can...

10.07.2025 50

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Kenny Torrella

Is it even possible to convince people to stop eating meat?

Factory farming is a particularly wicked problem to solve. It’s a moral atrocity, involving the confinement and slaughter of hundreds of billions of...

26.06.2025 20

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Kenny Torrella

The one drug RFK Jr. should actually ban

Before becoming secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services and leader of the Make America Healthy Again movement, Robert F. Kennedy...

12.06.2025 30

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Kenny Torrella

What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind

In The Dying Trade, a forthcoming documentary film about slaughterhouse workers, a man named Tom describes a moment during his career that still...

04.06.2025 30

Vox

Kenny Torrella

4,000 chicks died in the mail. They expose a darker truth about the meat industry.

Late last month, some 14,000 baby chicks in Pennsylvania were shipped from a hatchery — commercial operations that breed chickens, incubate their...

24.05.2025 30

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Kenny Torrella

Humans are on pace to slaughter 6 trillion animals per year by 2033

Should you care about the suffering of bugs?  For most people, it’s a laughable question. But for those who really, really care about animal...

15.05.2025 30

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Kenny Torrella