by Haafizah | Jul 10, 2023 | AnimalAgri, GoodNews
Despite promising to stop pumping chickens full of controversial antibiotics 8 years ago, Tyson is back at it. Tyson will once again use certain antibiotics in its chickens, eight years after it announced plans to ditch the drugs in some of its production and slapped...
by Haafizah | Jul 10, 2023 | AnimalAgri, GoodNews
The USDA has awarded another $115 million to meat producers, making the total amount for the fiscal year 2023 $171 million. Fifteen businesses in 17 states were awarded $115 million to help expand independent meat and poultry processing capacity, USDA said in an...
by Haafizah | Jul 5, 2023 | Blogs
There is a direct link between different forms of hierarchies. A new study explores a common psychological link between sexism and speciesism. Sexualized images of women pictured alongside meat or portrayed as animals are often used in Western advertising. Some...
by Haafizah | Jul 5, 2023 | GoodNews
The future of fashion is here with cruelty-free and sustainable ways of producing fashion items, such as leather, using biofabrication. A warehouse filled with huge gleaming silver vats hums around the clock, as billions of yeast cells work to make a material we can...
by Haafizah | Jul 5, 2023 | Blogs, ClimateChange
It would seem that environmentalism is on the decline amid Americans. Why is this and can it be changed? In 1989 Gallup reported that 76 percent of Americans considered themselves environmentalists, by 2021 that had declined to 41 percent. At the same time, poll after...
by Haafizah | Jul 5, 2023 | ClimateChange, GoodNews
Meet the teenager who is fed up of inaction on environmental disaster and climate change, so she is suing the state of Montana. Rikki Held headed southeast into the badlands, eyes fixed on the billowing smoke as it reddened with sunset. Rutted tracks wound between...
by Haafizah | Jul 4, 2023 | Blogs
Here are some tips you can use to handle the stressful situation of fireworks during the holidays and the impact on pets. While we humans may enjoy brilliant fireworks displays, they are most often accompanied by loud noises which can terrify our animal companions,...
by Haafizah | Jul 4, 2023 | ClimateChange, GoodNews
Wildlife are under attack from human made environmental disaster. There is no exception for those in nature reserves. During last year’s United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted. The framework...
by Haafizah | Jul 4, 2023 | AnimalAgri, GoodNews
Octopi are intelligent creatures with a vast mental capacity. Campaigners and experts say that proposed farming of them poses a moral dilemma. Their brains work like ours; they’re affectionate, curious and playful; they feel pain and get bored; and, as it emerged just...
by Haafizah | Jul 4, 2023 | GoodNews, HealthyLiving
These cleaver-slinging vegan entrepreneurs have proven that you can make meat from plants, and they’re changing the definition of butcher shop for good. As recently as 2015, the term “vegan butcher shop” was an unheard-of oxymoron. Today, with dozens popping up...
