AnimalAgri - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Meat and dairy use Big Tobacco tactics to market products

Tobacco tactics are being repurposed to promote meat and dairy consumption, mirroring the industry’s strategies for maintaining market demand. Sustainability NGO Changing Markets Foundation has analyzed the tactics used by 22 big meat and dairy companies to...

Leading environmental groups greenwashing Big Meat’s climate impact

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews

Some of the world’s largest green groups, including the World Wildlife Fund, are supporting the meat industry – and in some cases, receiving donations from industry. In late 2010, McDonald’s convened representatives from the world’s largest meat companies for the...

How dogs highlight our hypocrisy

AnimalAgri, Blogs

While we increasingly pamper our dogs, we blithely accept the torture of pigs. Pigs are mostly invisible to us before they end up as sausages on a plate, so we typically ignore their suffering. Over the past couple of decades, dogs have evolved into humans. Well, at...

Amazon deforestation – how we got here and what we can do

ClimateChange, AnimalAgri, GoodNews

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is at a six-year low, but factory farming continues to drive destruction. Here’s how we got here, and what can be done. The truth sounds unbelievable, and certainly counterintuitive, when talking about what should be the...

Paris 2024 Olympics puts meat back on the menu

AnimalAgri, Blogs, GoodNews

Paris 2024 was touted to be the most sustainable ever, with a majority of food being meatless. However, the Olympics reneged on this promise, showing how far we are from a viable protein transition. For months, one of the dominating themes about the 2024 Olympics has...

Media silence on meat and climate impacting efforts to save the planet

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews

Media is failing to highlight the significant climate impact of livestock farming, leaving a crucial environmental issue underrepresented. A mere 7 percent of climate-related articles referenced livestock farming and its effects on climate change were scarcely...