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![How Factory Farming Ends](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Vox_LandingPage.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The fight against the meat industry has been rocky. Can it be won?
![How Factory Farming Ends](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Vox_LandingPage.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The fight against the meat industry has been rocky. Can it be won?
![How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impact](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ClimateMovementCivilWarOverMeat.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impact](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ClimateMovementCivilWarOverMeat.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund are laundering Big Meat’s propaganda. At what cost?
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![This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-508573194.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.090909090909%2C0%2C65.818181818182%2C100&w=2400)
![This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-508573194.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.63636363636363%2C0%2C98.727272727273%2C100&w=2400)
A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?
![The staggering death toll of scientific lies](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1494529981.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The staggering death toll of scientific lies](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1494529981.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Scientific fraud kills people. Should it be illegal?
![How would we even know if AI went rogue?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1479589931.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.668591224018%2C0%2C66.662817551963%2C100&w=2400)
![How would we even know if AI went rogue?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1479589931.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.002886836027713%2C0%2C99.994226327945%2C100&w=2400)
An early warning system could help fix the dangerous information gap between Big Tech and the US.
![Big Pharma claims lower prices will mean giving up miracle medications. Ignore them.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2163308489.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669597327238%2C0%2C66.660805345525%2C100&w=2400)
![Big Pharma claims lower prices will mean giving up miracle medications. Ignore them.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2163308489.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0043959908563451%2C0%2C99.991208018287%2C100&w=2400)
The case against Medicare drug price negotiations doesn’t add up.
![The case of the nearly 7,000 missing pancreases](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1244771286.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.724537037037%2C0%2C66.550925925926%2C100&w=2400)
![The case of the nearly 7,000 missing pancreases](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1244771286.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.08680555555555%2C0%2C99.826388888889%2C100&w=2400)
Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.
![People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2149172279.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=24.753333333333%2C0%2C50.493333333333%2C100&w=2400)
![People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2149172279.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=12.13%2C0%2C75.74%2C100&w=2400)
Even OpenAI warns that chatting with an AI voice can breed “emotional reliance.”
![How AI’s booms and busts are a distraction](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2152824028.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=12.5%2C0%2C75%2C100&w=2400)
![How AI’s booms and busts are a distraction](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2152824028.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C5.5555555555556%2C100%2C88.888888888889&w=2400)
However current companies do financially, the big AI safety challenges remain.
![Antibiotics are failing. The US has a plan to launch a research renaissance.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1026582844.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=19.463636363636%2C0%2C61.072727272727%2C100&w=2400)
But there might be global consequences.
![More than 4 billion people don’t have access to clean water at home](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1236203134.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669642857143%2C0%2C66.660714285714%2C100&w=2400)
![More than 4 billion people don’t have access to clean water at home](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1236203134.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0044642857142918%2C0%2C99.991071428571%2C100&w=2400)
Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water.
![Mpox never stopped spreading in Africa. Now it’s an international public health emergency. Again.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2163384885_eb3cde.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.156862745098%2C0%2C65.686274509804%2C100&w=2400)
![Mpox never stopped spreading in Africa. Now it’s an international public health emergency. Again.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2163384885_eb3cde.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.73529411764706%2C0%2C98.529411764706%2C100&w=2400)
A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?
![The youth mental health crisis is hitting LGBTQ+ teens hardest](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1255159872.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=15.875%2C0%2C68.25%2C100&w=2400)
![The youth mental health crisis is hitting LGBTQ+ teens hardest](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1255159872.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C1.1599511599512%2C100%2C97.680097680098&w=2400)
While better data is needed to understand just how wide the gap is, help doesn’t have to wait.
![Trump’s campaign against public health is back on](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2164714718.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663083207912%2C0%2C66.673833584175%2C100&w=2400)
![Trump’s campaign against public health is back on](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2164714718.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0053746103407519%2C100%2C99.989250779318&w=2400)
The former president says he’ll block funding for US schools that require vaccines.
![MDMA’s 40-year fight for medical approval continues](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1383502875.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![MDMA’s 40-year fight for medical approval continues](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1383502875.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy, lengthening an already decades-long journey to medicalize the psychedelic.
![MDMA therapy didn’t get FDA approval. Now what?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MDMA_option01_No.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![MDMA therapy didn’t get FDA approval. Now what?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MDMA_option01_No.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The end of psychedelic prohibition will have to wait a little while longer.
![How the seasons screw with your moral compass](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cropped-compass-GettyImages-2149699571.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=18.718527522139%2C0%2C62.562944955721%2C100&w=2400)
![How the seasons screw with your moral compass](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/cropped-compass-GettyImages-2149699571.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=3.0777912832089%2C0%2C93.844417433582%2C100&w=2400)
Your morality isn’t as stable as you might think.
![The only child stigma, debunked](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/LedeImage_OnlyChild.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Being an only child doesn’t mess you up for life. We promise.
![We have a drug that might delay menopause — and help us live longer](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/iStock-1495516791.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=21.875%2C0%2C56.25%2C100&w=2400)
![We have a drug that might delay menopause — and help us live longer](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/iStock-1495516791.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.8125%2C0%2C84.375%2C100&w=2400)
Ovaries age faster than the rest of the body. Figuring out how to slow menopause might help all of us age better.
![The animal rights movement was once locked in bitter debate. Now it’s getting things done.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/WAM9137.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.729323308271%2C0%2C66.541353383459%2C100&w=2400)
![The animal rights movement was once locked in bitter debate. Now it’s getting things done.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/WAM9137.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.093984962406012%2C0%2C99.812030075188%2C100&w=2400)
A short history of effective animal advocacy.
![19th-century animal rights activists had a lot of moxie. Here’s how to get it back.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/MarkHarris_Vox_CrystalHeathRegulatoryCapture.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
The meat industry took away your food options and made activists the enemy. It doesn’t have to be that way.
![American government built the meat industry. Now can it build a better food system?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Vox_KennyTPolicy.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
The plant-based protein movement goes to Washington.
![You’re wrong about PETA](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Vox_PETA.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
The nonprofit is a punchline. It’s also forced the world to face factory farming, animal cruelty, and our own hypocrisy.
![I’m a Black vegan. Why don’t you see more of us?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_NoellaWilliams_1ce57b.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
People of color are more likely to be vegan. But the animal rights movement still has a white face.
![Vegans are radical. That’s why we need them.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/MarkHarris_Vox_Veganism.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Vegans are the dissenters in society’s war on animals.
![Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_VoxFinal_Marina.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
![If the left is serious about saving democracy, there’s one more cause to add to the list](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Taylor.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Animal rights must become a core issue for progressives.
![Ditching factory farming can help prevent another pandemic](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Vox_AnimalWelfare.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.
![Is there an AI bubble — and is it about to pop?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2164988658.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.662327518875%2C0%2C66.675344962249%2C100&w=2400)
![Is there an AI bubble — and is it about to pop?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2164988658.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0065078745281753%2C100%2C99.986984250944&w=2400)
The bill may be coming due for Silicon Valley’s huge investment in AI.
![What AI in music can — and can’t — do](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/final-vox-aimusic.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=33.333333333333%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Music production is getting easier. Does that make it better?
![It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1808365613.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.736621196222%2C0%2C66.526757607555%2C100&w=2400)
![It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1808365613.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.10493179433369%2C0%2C99.790136411333%2C100&w=2400)
Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.
![These reviled birds of prey literally save people’s lives](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1241170086.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![These reviled birds of prey literally save people’s lives](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1241170086.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
When vultures died off in India, people died too.
![Africa is beating HIV. But the rest of the world is falling behind.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-138000156.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.725507502207%2C0%2C66.548984995587%2C100&w=2400)
![Africa is beating HIV. But the rest of the world is falling behind.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-138000156.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.088261253309796%2C0%2C99.82347749338%2C100&w=2400)
Now isn’t the time to stop funding key public health programs.
![Do bigger highways actually help reduce traffic?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-960093634.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.630434782609%2C0%2C66.739130434783%2C100&w=2400)
![Do bigger highways actually help reduce traffic?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-960093634.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.054288816503799%2C100%2C99.891422366992&w=2400)
How America’s ever-widening highways are built on a lie.
![Warren Buffett’s breakup with the Gates Foundation will hurt the world](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-632858732.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Warren Buffett’s breakup with the Gates Foundation will hurt the world](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-632858732.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Buffett’s decision to put his money into a foundation controlled by his kids is a mistake.
![The most promising way to understand how AI works is by understanding the brain](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/growtika-nGoCBxiaRO0-unsplash.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=21.09921875%2C0%2C54.3578125%2C96.636111111111&w=2400)
![The most promising way to understand how AI works is by understanding the brain](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/growtika-nGoCBxiaRO0-unsplash.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.509765625%2C0%2C81.53671875%2C96.636111111111&w=2400)
We know how to build AI models, but not why they work. Neuroscience could be the key.
![The billionaire tax proposal that’s driving Silicon Valley to support Trump](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-495485990.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.983333333333%2C0%2C70.033333333333%2C100&w=2400)
![The billionaire tax proposal that’s driving Silicon Valley to support Trump](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-495485990.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.4036173250833%2C100%2C95.192765349833&w=2400)
No, it isn’t a devious Democratic plan to destroy startups.
![The bird flu doom loop](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1459636363.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The bird flu doom loop](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1459636363.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
![It shouldn’t be so hard to live near your friends](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25428681/Vox_Friends_Final.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Americans are more socially isolated than ever. Here’s how we can reconnect.
![Artificial intelligence isn’t a good argument for basic income](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-640351099.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.644224954646%2C0%2C70.711550090708%2C100&w=2400)
![Artificial intelligence isn’t a good argument for basic income](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-640351099.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.8601292284303%2C100%2C94.279741543139&w=2400)
A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows unconditional cash has benefits that have nothing to do with AI.
![How should we sell psychedelics?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1602502268.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![How should we sell psychedelics?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1602502268.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
A new report outlines policy options for who gets to sell psychedelics, and who gets to buy them.
![Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1243034502.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=18.948157669237%2C0%2C62.103684661525%2C100&w=2400)
![Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1243034502.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=3.422236503856%2C0%2C93.155526992288%2C100&w=2400)
You have the right to opt out of facial recognition tech. Here’s how.