On the rise of alt meat and the decline of cattle.

The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.

What undercover investigators saw inside a factory farm.

The price we pay for cheap meat.

Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.

Previously: Conover discusses this story on the Longform Podcast.

A divorced father takes a job disposing 44 tons of rotting bison meat in an abandoned warehouse.

"As though exposure to air were a catalyst of some sort, a wave of the stench hit him, even through the painting mask and snowmobile goggles. His eyes watered; he was momentarily unable to breathe. He may even have blacked out, which may have been why his aim was off, why his shoulder stopped rotating in the air, and how he came to be showered in a blanket of maggoty meat. And then he did pass out, just briefly."

Our entire way of life depends upon the “cold chain,” the network of artificially refrigerated spaces that have reshaped the modern world.

First Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned.