Kenny Torrella

Last year, nearly 130 million pigs were raised for meat in the US, but they didn’t come out of nowhere; they had parents. Or as pork producers call them, “breeder pigs.”  Since the 1970s, producers...

Last week, in a video interview with Elle magazine, the pop star Billie Eilish was asked the following question: “What’s one hill you’d die on?”  “Y’all not gonna like me for this one,” Eilish said...

For nearly a decade, Lauren served as the animal control manager for a county in North Georgia. It was a round-the-clock, always-on kind of job, in which she and her employees responded to animal c...

It’s Earth Week, and these days, it’s become hard to know just what to do with this holiday. Is it a reminder to start composting, ditch fast fashion, or donate to climate causes? Or does nothing w...

In January, a 24-year old nutrition influencer named Jacob Smith made the grave mistake of becoming a little too curious about tofu.  Smith had read a study about the health benefits of eating less...

Earlier this month, Texas state Rep. James Talarico eked out victory in a heated race to become Texas’s Democratic nominee for the US Senate race this November. Texans haven’t elected a Democrat to...

Over the last two decades, the availability of plant-based foods has exploded.  You can get a meat-free patty in your Burger King Whopper if that’s your thing, buy realistic “chicken” nuggets at yo...

“We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as cr...

Nearly half of the eggs sold in the US today come from cage-free farms. That’s an astounding turn, considering that in the early 2000s, just a few percent did.  But according to pledges made by man...

Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the kill lines at America’s chicken, turkey, and pig slaughterhouses. The p...

More than one in 10 Americans rely on the Colorado River to take showers and drink clean water. But with no end in sight to the decades-long drought in the western US and rapidly decreasing river l...