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Kenny Torrella

Kenny Torrella

Senior Reporter, Future Perfect

    Latest articles by Kenny Torrella

    Future Perfect
    We tasted Beyond Meat’s new plant-based steak tips. Here’s how they measure up to the real thing.We tasted Beyond Meat’s new plant-based steak tips. Here’s how they measure up to the real thing.
    Future Perfect

    It’s delicious, but opinions vary on texture and how close it comes to tasting like steak from a real cow.

    By Kenny Torrella
    Inside the fantastical, pragmatic quest to make “hybrid” meat
    Technology

    Hybrid cars gave way to electric vehicles. Could “hybrid meat” do the same for beef and pork?

    By Kenny Torrella
    We didn’t know fish feel pain. Then the zoologist Lynne Sneddon came along.
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    Over the last decade our understanding of how fish experience pain has greatly advanced, thanks in large part to Sneddon’s pioneering work.

    By Kenny Torrella
    Carolina Galvani wants to make factory farming in the Global South more humane
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    The future of animal welfare will be decided in Asia and Latin America, home to more than two-thirds of the world’s farmed animals.

    By Kenny Torrella
    Liz Specht is shaping the next generation of meat alternatives
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    Scientists, investors, and entrepreneurs want in on the meat-free revolution. Specht has been there to guide them — and accelerate the whole field.

    By Kenny Torrella
    Ryan Xue is cultivating a better meat industry in China
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    Xue and the China Plant Based Foods Alliance have built support for alternative meat production across China.

    By Kenny Torrella
    Olga Kikou has helped make Europe the leading edge of an animal welfare revolution
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    The European Union could ban cages for farm animals as soon as 2027. It’s the culmination of decades of strategic campaigning and coalition-building.

    By Kenny Torrella
    The future of meat requires new intellectual infrastructure. That’s what Isha Datar is building.
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

    For meat alternatives to take off, we don’t just need startups — we need more research and new structures to advance the field.

    By Kenny Torrella
    Future Perfect
    Now is the best time in human history to be alive (unless you’re an animal)Now is the best time in human history to be alive (unless you’re an animal)
    Future Perfect

    Animal welfare has suffered as humanity has improved, but there’s hope on the horizon.

    By Kenny Torrella
    Future Perfect
    The Supreme Court is about to decide the fate of millions of pigsThe Supreme Court is about to decide the fate of millions of pigs
    Future Perfect

    Californians passed a landmark law that bans cages for pigs. Now the Supreme Court could overturn it.

    By Kenny Torrella