How factory farming built America

Future Perfect, Vox’s section dedicated to solving the world’s most important yet neglected problems, obsessively covers how the way we eat affects our lives and our planet. For the last year, we’ve been working hard on a special series of ambitious, deeply reported feature stories and investigations on the history of the meat and dairy industries, their political and cultural influence, and their sweeping impacts on American life, particularly in the Midwest, where factory farms are disproportionately concentrated.