Guerilla Tactics

Rolling Stone goes long with this feature following undercover animal-rights activists as they fight "Big Meat" and factory-farmed livestock. The multimedia package probably isn't for the faint of heart — it features disturbing undercover videos and lots of fake blood spatter — but even without the visuals, the piece hammers its point home: "To watch a cow die in a rendering plant is an ecstasy of slow-mo horror... it's reverse engineering, a disassembly line — and it has the full approval of Congress." [Rolling Stone]