Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Cultures vary in the extent to which they consume animal ...

Whether farmed for meat or used as subjects in medical research, animals are deeply sentient beings, whose suffering remains an ever-looming ethical frontier. Besides, breakthroughs in lab testing don ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest hominins ...

A new book provides a hopeful, rigorously researched exploration of how science, policy, and industry can collaborate to meet ...