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Marina Bolotnikova

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Marina Bolotnikova

@mbolotnikova

Writer @voxdotcom thinking abt factory farming & animal rights, future of food, ag, science & its discontents, cities, housing, transit & ✨ideas. [email protected]

Madison, WI

marinabolotnikova.com

Joined December 2009

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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Mar 5
I tried to do what we call, if I may be so bold, a "conceptual scoop"!! Pls read my story on the most overlooked form of extreme confinement of farm animals—the routine caging of dairy calves in tiny crates less than 1/10 the size of a parking spot. It's not about veal! (🧵)
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Oct 28, 2025
Really big news that I'm still catching up on—the 2nd largest US breeder of dogs for experimentation is shutting down, after Envigo, the former biggest, was shut down last year. In both cases, it was pretty much entirely because of investigative work from animal rights activists
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Oct 8, 2022
BOTH DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN ACQUITTED OH MY GOD #SmithfieldTrial
Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Oct 9, 2022
My story in @theintercept on how two activists took on the biggest pork company in the world & won! “If it can happen in southern Utah, it can happen anywhere” - @waynehhsiung. thank you @maiahibbett for being an absolutely HEROIC editor!!!
Activists Acquitted in Trial for Taking Piglets From Smithfield Foods
From theintercept.com
Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
May 4, 2024
how slaughter-based meat is made 🥓:
U.S. Senator John Fetterman
@SenFettermanPA
May 3, 2024
Replying to @SenFettermanPA
btw, this is the thing that makes lab meat
Readers added context
Most food goes through machines such as this plantautomation-technology.com/articles/types… Organic natural meat such as pork also goes through processes such as this. meat-machinery.com/meat-processin…
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Aug 9, 2024
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Jan 4, 2023
I've been working on this story for a loong time, on the veterinary profession's complicity in factory farm cruelty & the vets who are fighting to change it. It taught me a lot about power & how people who wield it come to look away from extreme suffering
The bitter civil war dividing American veterinarians
From vox.com
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Oct 19, 2025
Veganism is so hard 🌞
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Apr 14, 2022
🧵~scoop~ I wrote for @theintercept about gruesome experiments at a public university that helped lay the foundation for a method right now being used to mass exterminate birds by heating them to death. Thanks to the superb @maiahibbett & @lavrentia! 1/
Amid Bird Flu Outbreak, Meat Producers Seek “Ventilation Shutdown” for Mass Chicken Killing
From theintercept.com
Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Nov 27, 2024
After everything they go through, a large proportion of factory farmed Thanksgiving turkeys are thrown away as food waste. I can only describe this as a kind of desecration — of our planet’s abundance, of our humanity, of life itself vox.com/future-perfect…
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Aug 14, 2025
a lot of pea-brained losers on this site
Michael Knowles
@michaeljknowles
Aug 12, 2025
I'm going to eat more tasty animals to offset your switch to lab-grown meat.
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Sep 25, 2025
I've changed my views on many questions over the years but veganism has been the most durable and robust. It enriches everything in my life. and the food is really good!
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Jul 25, 2023
Still in disbelief, but I won a National Press Club award for a series on bird flu & ventilation shutdown (mass killing by heatstroke) this story was the centerpiece! Grateful to @PressClubDC and @maiahibbett for being a gem of an editor theintercept.com/2022/04/14/kil… #journalismawards
Amid Bird Flu Outbreak, Meat Producers Seek “Ventilation Shutdown” for Mass Chicken Killing
From theintercept.com
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Marina Bolotnikova
@mbolotnikova
Aug 7, 2024
1/ 📢It's a crowded news day, but may we interrupt with a very on-mission announcement? This wk Vox is publishing HOW FACTORY FARMING ENDS, a big package of stories on the fight against factory farming—and, if I may say so, it looks INCREDIBLY sexy vox.com/future-perfect…
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