Blogs - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Here’s why organic meat is worse for the environment

It is a misconception that there are ways to farm animals for food ethically, as attempts at ‘ethical’ and organic meat actually cause more damage. Perhaps the most important of all environmental issues is land use. Every hectare of land we use for...

Meat made from mushrooms should be on your shopping list

Blogs

Several mycoprotein companies have begun using mushrooms to develop healthy, delicious and sustainable meat alternatives. Mushrooms are having a moment. Not only has the fungus turned into one of the summer’s most surprising fashion trends, but ads for mushroom...

Toss the meat, save the earth

ClimateChange, AnimalAgri, Blogs

The consumption of meat and animal products is the biggest contributor to climate catastrophe. Giving it up might be our only change of survival. I’ve got some bad news and some good news. First the bad. Humanity is close to triggering five climate tipping points...

We must protect the mental wellbeing of animals

AnimalAgri, Blogs

Animals and humans experience the same mental wellbeing issues. Research shows that animal agriculture harms animals psychologically. The systems we have designed for animals are mentally abusive from the very beginning. My late friend Dina had some strange habits....

What is it like to live in a drought as a farmed animal?

AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange

Animals that are bred and kept by humans for consumption are having to endure worsening environmental decline and drought as climate change rages on. The first half of 2022 ranked sixth warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

How the dairy industry hurts the planet, the animals and us

AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange

The dairy industry is responsible for huge amounts of pollution and of destroying natural environments; and is a contributor to climate change. Got milk? For many of us this question – with the accompanying black and white ads and celebrities sporting milk...