Blogs - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Society criminalizes people for rescuing animals from cruel factory farms

Wayne Hsiung’s trial and conviction highlights the extraordinary difficulty of exposing animal cruelty on factory farms in a legal system that only sees them as property. Wayne Hsiung, an attorney and leading figure in the animal rights movement, was convicted of two...

7 reasons to love turkeys and not eat them

Blogs

Every year on Thanksgiving, a staggering 46 million turkeys are consumed. But turkeys are not a table centerpiece, they have personalities as distinct and varied as cats or dogs. Thanksgiving is a holiday about giving thanks and being grateful, but somehow over the...

The beef industry is turning the Amazon forest to dust

ClimateChange, Blogs, GoodNews

The beef industry is the biggest driver of Amazon deforestation. A new report by the Climate Observatory notes that Brazil’s beef industry now has a bigger carbon footprint than Japan. Cows, dust and smoke. That was what greeted me on my return home to Altamira, after...

How do rising temperatures harm wild animals?

ClimateChange, Blogs

While people and their beloved pets can take refuge in air conditioned rooms, wild animals can’t summon up soothing streams of cool air at the flick of a switch. You haven’t been imagining the heat; well over 100-million Americans have been subject to dangerous heat...

Climate denialism continues to build while scientists receive threats

ClimateChange, Blogs, GoodNews

Disinformation and conspiracy theory is the order of the day as right-wingers and the media encourage distrust of climate science. In September, 29 of the world’s prominent scientists published a paper in the journal Science Advances showing conclusively that given...

How animal agriculture is destroying the planet

AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange

Animal agriculture is often blamed for climate change, biodiversity loss, competition for food resources, and water scarcity. But do you understand the link? Meat production is often blamed for climate change, biodiversity loss, competition for food resources, and...