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Marina Bolotnikova

Marina Bolotnikova

Senior Reporter, Future Perfect

    Latest articles by Marina Bolotnikova

    These California and Colorado ballot measures are terrifying the meat industry
    Future Perfect

    In Sonoma County and Denver, activists are putting animal welfare on the ballot.

    By Marina Bolotnikova
    How Factory Farming Ends
    Future Perfect

    The fight against the meat industry has been rocky. Can it be won?

    By Marina Bolotnikova
    Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests
    Future Perfect

    The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.

    By Marina Bolotnikova
    Future Perfect
    Republicans want to put pigs back in tiny cages. Again.Republicans want to put pigs back in tiny cages. Again.
    Future Perfect

    House Republicans are working to make America’s factory farms even crueler.

    By Marina Bolotnikova
    10 big things we think will happen in the next 10 years
    Future Perfect

    Obesity will go down, electric cars will go up, and a nuclear bomb might just fall.

    By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 4 more
    I gave up meat and gained so much more
    Home Planet

    The delightful abundance of going vegan.

    By Marina Bolotnikova and Christine Mi
    Future Perfect
    The dairy industry really, really doesn’t want you to say “bird flu in cows”The dairy industry really, really doesn’t want you to say “bird flu in cows”
    Future Perfect

    How industrial meat and dairy trap us in an infectious disease cycle.

    By Marina Bolotnikova
    Mega drive-throughs explain everything wrong with American cities
    Culture

    They’re great for the fast food industry — but not so great for us.

    By Marina Bolotnikova
    9 charts that show US factory farming is even bigger than you realize
    Future Perfect

    Factory farms are now so big that we need a new word for them.

    By Marina Bolotnikova and Kenny Torrella
    24 things we think will happen in 2024
    Future Perfect

    From Trump to Tesla, how 2024 will shake out, according to the Future Perfect team.

    By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 4 more