Blogs - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

The planet needs us to stop supporting animal agriculture

Choosing to go vegan can have the biggest positive impact for climate change, and is our best way to save the planet. The Earth is on fire in biblical terms with raging storms, floods wiping out towns, drought, and COVID-19 bringing humanity to its knees. “Don’t mess...

Why the proposed octopus farm will be ethical disaster

GoodNews, AnimalAgri, Blogs

Farming octopuses for food is ethically and scientifically negligent and it will be a horrific disaster for the animals involved. A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise 3,000 tonnes of an octopus a year, which means almost...

Actor James Cromwell joins PETA in Starbucks dairy protest

VegansInNews, Blogs, GoodNews

BABE actor James Cromwell joined PETA activists last week to protest popular coffee outlet Starbucks for its anti-vegan policies. Supergluing himself to a coffee counter in protest at non-dairy milk surcharges is the latest in a long line of direct actions from James...

Carbon labelling could help us make sustainable food choices

ClimateChange, Blogs

According to psychologist Ann-Katrin Betz carbon labelling food on menus can trigger our brains to make sustainable choices. More people cutting back on meat would be good news for the planet, but humans have ingrained habits that are tricky to change. Fortunately, a...

How ‘nudging’ can change the way we eat

Blogs, HealthyLiving

A recently published journal article considers the ways in which a psychological phenomenon known as nudging can decrease meat consumption. To keep global heating below 2°C, the world’s appetite for meat must change. This will mean reducing meat consumption in most...

Could our meat come from Mars in the future?

AnimalAgri, Blogs, GoodNews

Plenty of experiments have been conducted to see whether plants can flourish in space, and now a new test has begun to see if meat cells can grow. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both want to colonise space. Nasa is also trying to put people on to the dusty surface of Mars....