by Haafizah | May 9, 2024 | AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews
The mega-meat company, JBS, plans to “expand herd sizes by millions” in Brazil without proper measures to ensure environmental safety. JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have made a deal with China to...
by Haafizah | May 8, 2024 | AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange
In response to concerns about beef’s environmental impact, chicken has been put forward as a more sustainable food choice, but it still harms the planet. People don’t like to change and they especially don’t like to change what they eat. But as the realities of the...
by Rachel | May 7, 2024 | AnimalAgri, Blogs
Read about why registered vegan nutritionist and animal activist, Charlotte Allan, ditched dairy and turned from vegetarian to vegan after she had her son. Up until 3 years ago I was a vegetarian and proud of the fact that I didn’t eat animals — I felt good that I was...
by Haafizah | May 7, 2024 | ClimateChange, GoodNews
Poor countries such as Kenya are most at risk of climate disaster as they struggle to battle the man-made crisis. Jane Kalekye trudges through the narrow muddy alley to her tin-roof house in Mathare, one of Kenya’s largest slums. Ever since the devastating floods that...
by Rachel | May 6, 2024 | AnimalAgri
The story of mother pigs in factory farming is a sad one. Tens of millions of pigs spend their entire adult lives in a space no larger than a fridge. Selectively bred to produce as many piglets as possible, a mother pig’s adult life begins when she is first...
by Haafizah | May 6, 2024 | ClimateChange, GoodNews
Shifting from high meat consumption to a plant-based diet drastically lowers the environmental harm linked to food production, according to a new climate study on diet and emissions. The most extensive study of its kind to date, published in the journal Nature Food,...
by Rachel | May 2, 2024 | Blogs
Until recently, many scientists believed only humans were capable of cumulative culture, but two new studies are upending this belief. I have two lovebirds. Literal lovebirds, mind you, the bright orange-green parrots whose genus name is Agapornis. When we adopted...
by Haafizah | May 2, 2024 | AnimalAgri, GoodNews
There are various tactics that Big Meat and Dairy use to sabotage ethically produced and sustainable alternative protein brands. In the EU and the US, livestock farming receives about 1,000 times more funding than plant-based and cultivated meat, with the “gigantic”...
by Haafizah | May 1, 2024 | AnimalAgri, GoodNews
The meat and dairy industry are directly linked to environmental destruction including mass deforestation that fuels climate change. Forests, which cover 30% of the Earth’s surface, play a critical role in mitigating climate change. Unfortunately, they are...
by Haafizah | Apr 30, 2024 | ClimateChange, GoodNews
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games are set to be the greenest in history with a slew of measurements put in place to reduce carbon emissions from the events. One of the main goals of the events is to ‘halve the emissions arising in relation to the...
