Byrd Pinkerton
Host and Senior Correspondent, Unexplainable Podcast
Latest articles by Byrd Pinkerton

What 26 Vox staffers consumed this year to get them through the darkness.


Meat alternatives are tearing down the idea that eating animals is normal, natural, and necessary.


Brazilians on the edge of the Amazon rainforest are working with cattle ranchers — not against them — to save the climate.


One researcher says we are “playing Russian roulette.”


Two scientists explain the public health risks posed by factory farms — and how we might solve the problem.


US chicken plants process 140 birds a minute. The Trump administration thinks that’s too slow.


A “recovering poultry grower” explains why he gave up factory farming.


There’s a paradox on our plates.


Introducing Future Perfect season 3, all about the human cost of factory farming.


Today, Explained to Kids takes on the summer of protests and violence.