Vox Launches In-Depth Exploration of Factory Farming

This week, Vox’s Future Perfect is publishing How Factory Farming Ends, a package of stories on the past and future of the movement against factory farming, its struggle to change our culture, politics, and palates, and how it might yet make real progress.

Billions of animals raised for food are treated abysmally. They are, to name just a few standard industry practices, caged, mutilated without pain relief, and intensively bred to the point that they live in chronic pain and even struggle to stand up before being slaughtered, often painfully.

Every year, humans kill 80 billion land animals — 10 times more than there are people on Earth — and an even larger, poorly tracked number of fish.

However, factory farming is only expanding its global reach, despite decades of animal advocacy striving to stop it, because people want to eat meat, and it’s the cheapest way to produce lots of it for a world of 8 billion.

This package aims to examine the animal movement’s struggle to make progress, build coalitions, find mainstream support, and explore how it can learn from its failures and move forward.

The package features the following stories:

Read more about the package and all of the pieces here.