The surprisingly profound debate over whether fish feel pain
What must it feel like to be a fish — to glide weightlessly through the sea, to draw breath from ...
Tag: Animal Welfare
The 2025 Future Perfect 25
When we launched Vox’s Future Perfect section in 2018, it began with a simple question: “What topics would we write ...
The tragedy of Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth
In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered — in Flagstaff, ...
The secretive dog experimentation industry is crumbling
Animal rights advocates often contrast humanity’s dismal treatment of animals farmed for food with our adoration bordering on worship of ...
We may never get bird flu — or egg prices — under control
It might now be a distant memory, but by the end of last winter, the average cost of a dozen ...
How soybeans took over America — and the world
Americans have a weird relationship with soy, one of the most important and widely cultivated crops in the world.Most of ...
Animal abusers are getting off easy
If someone illegally double parks in a one-way street and a cop walks by, the expectation is that they’d get ...
Jane Goodall’s most radical message was not about saving the planet
Most people know Jane Goodall, the eminent primatologist who died on Wednesday at 91, for her singular, field-defining work on ...
The most miraculous animal migration is happening in the middle of New York City
BROOKLYN, New York — When people imagine what nature looks like, this probably wouldn’t be it. On an overcast afternoon ...
Is AI lying? (And other reader questions, answered.)
For the last few years, we’ve been asking Future Perfect newsletter readers what their biggest questions are. And while we ...
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