This Spring we hosted a close group of friends out at ROAM Ranch for what was to be a life-changing experience. The intention set behind this event was to connect in a deep and meaningful way with the animals in which we consume... more >

Here and Abroad Worldwide, there are 8 species of pigs. Exactly zero of those 8 species are native to North America. Nearly all of the wild hogs residing in the United States today belong to the pig species: Sus scrofa. Sus scrofa are native... more >

Food claims refresher Do you know where your food comes from? With all the marketing jargon that companies slap on packaging and trends in food changing year after year it can be hard to keep track. What’s best for you, for the animal,... more >

Climate change is unarguably one of the most pressing issues facing our planet right now, but it isn’t the only environmental crisis and we’re having the wrong conversation about how to solve it. By acting as if eliminating meat is the biggest change... more >

Let’s get this out of the way: Going vegan is not the way to put an end to pandemics. It seems silly that this need even be said, but, perhaps not unsurprisingly, the current coronavirus pandemic has been drafted as a new weapon... more >

  Why It’s Silly to Criticize Meat for Using Too Much Water Meat has been unfairly tagged as the source of numerous contributions to climate change and environmental destruction. While some of these attributions are legitimate—when it comes to factory farming, that is,... more >

The True Cost of "Free Meat for a Year" and Other Subscription-Box Promotions They’re everywhere these days, those subscription meat services. You know the ones we mean. They advertise in your favorite magazines and on your favorite podcasts. For just X amount of... more >

  It seems like 2019 was a year for nothing but negativity when it came to reporting about the environment. At the end of 2018, a United Nations panel issued a warning that we may have only 12 years to reverse our cycle... more >

Nature is full of parallels and deep interconnections. Consider the gut, for example. The gut, or gastrointestinal tract, comprises the mouth, esophagus, stomach, large intestine, and small intestine and is essentially a long tube through which food travels after we consume it. It... more >

The North American Bison is an iconic animal that conjures images of large free ranging herds, grazing on native grassland prairies. Like all ruminant animals, bison are biologically engineered to consume grass and through the power of their four chambered stomach, convert that... more >

For the entirety of our existence, humans have eaten meat. We didn’t evolve to eat meat; we evolved because our prehuman ancestors ate meat. Our Australopithecus ancestors started eating meat 2.6 million years ago. Eating meat led to the development of tools, like... more >

Before the mid-1800s, somewhere between 30 and 60 million bison roamed North America. For millennia they served as an important keystone species in which ecosystems were nourished through their presence. Beginning around the year 1830, 50 million bison were killed by American settlers... more >