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Pork
May 12, 2023
Matt Ford
Neil Gorsuch’s Ruling Against the Pork Industry Contained a Telling Confession
Intentionally or not, the justice revealed a certain amount of awareness of how the high court’s conservative majority—and its power—is perceived.
February 15, 2023
Jan Dutkiewicz
China’s Pig High-Rises Are Horrifying. So Are America’s Factory Farms.
Chinese pork facilities may seem dystopian—but the United States is where this whole trend got started.
December 7, 2022
Brian Frazelle
The Supreme Court’s Ruling on California’s Pig Crate Law Could Be a Gift to Corporate America
Even if the justices uphold California’s law, they could still undermine states’ abilities to regulate on environmental or animal welfare grounds in the future.
August 10, 2021
Jan Dutkiewicz
The Truth Behind the Great Bacon Shortage of 2022
Panic over California’s pork reform exposes everything wrong with the meat industry.
May 14, 2021
Alex Shephard
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Really Great at Her Job: Professional Troll
With the GOP giving up on governing, the future belongs to the cranks.
April 12, 2021
Nick Martin
Burning Pig Poop Fumes Doesn’t Solve Anything
The Biden administration supports biofuels. But a Smithfield project in North Carolina shows that converting hog waste to energy won’t address the biggest issues with pork farming.
December 11, 2020
Gabriel N. Rosenberg
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Jan Dutkiewicz
The Meat Industry’s Bestiality Problem
Big Agriculture’s artificial insemination is abusive. Most states have rewritten old laws to absolve it—but some haven’t.
June 6, 2018
Emily Atkin
What Mexico’s Anti-Trump Tariffs Mean for U.S. Bacon
Mexico is taxing imports of U.S. pork bellies. Don't panic.
October 21, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
What’s Wrong with French Secularists’ Pro-Pork Agenda
April 19, 2013
Paul Lukas
The Vocabulary of Flesh
Chewing over the meat industry's redefinition of chops and steaks
January 15, 2013
Molly Redden
The Smithsonian's $2 Million in Sandy Aid is Not Pork
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