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Marina Bolotnikova

Marina Bolotnikova

Deputy Editor, Future Perfect

Marina Bolotnikova is an editor for Vox’s Future Perfect, a section covering the world’s big moral and technological problems, from global poverty and inequality to pandemics to factory farming. She edits staff writers and oversees Future Perfect’s freelance contributions, and she co-writes Processing Meat, Vox’s biweekly newsletter exploring how the meat and dairy industries shape our politics, culture, environment, and more — sign up here!

Previously, Marina was a freelance reporter focusing on factory farming and the criminalization of animal rights activists. She’s contributed to the Guardian, the Intercept, the New York Times, and lots of other outlets. In 2022, she was awarded the University of Denver Animal Law Program’s Sunlight Award for her reporting on the meat industry. In 2023, she was awarded the National Press Club’s Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting award for her coverage of the poultry industry’s gruesome mass killings of birds during avian flu. You can view some of her past work here.

From 2015 to 2021, Marina was an editor for Harvard Magazine, where she wrote and edited stories about academic research, ideas, the politics of higher education, and more. And before that, she was an editorial writer for the Toledo Blade.

Get in touch with Marina at marina.bolotnikova@vox.com, and find her on Twitter at @mbolotnikova.

Latest articles by Marina Bolotnikova

The life of a dairy cow
Future PerfectThe Highlight

The surprising truth about milk is hiding in plain sight.

By Marina Bolotnikova
Americans are drinking more cow’s milk. Here’s why that’s a problem.Americans are drinking more cow’s milk. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Future Perfect

For years, dairy milk was plummeting. The vibe shift — and America’s protein obsession — is bringing it back.

By Marina Bolotnikova
25 things we think will happen in 2025
Future Perfect

From tariffs and a Trump/Elon break-up to artificial general intelligence, here’s what could happen in 2025, according to the Future Perfect team.

By Dylan Matthews, Bryan Walsh and 4 more
The 14 predictions that came true in 2024 — and the 10 that didn’t
Future Perfect

The 24 forecasts we made in 2024, revisited.

By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 4 more
You’re being lied to about “ultra-processed” foods
Future Perfect

Coverage of the latest nutrition buzzword is overly broad, arbitrary, and wildly misleading. The problem goes deeper.

By Marina Bolotnikova
8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
Future Perfect

We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.

By Marina Bolotnikova
Starbucks won’t charge extra for plant-based milk. Other companies should follow.Starbucks won’t charge extra for plant-based milk. Other companies should follow.
Future Perfect

It’s a big deal for the climate — and for the coffee industry at large.

By Marina Bolotnikova and Kenny Torrella
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