Blogs - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Why animal agriculture is bad for the environment

Animal product consumption is increasing and we need to do something about this – and fast! Animal farming is the leading cause of rainforest deforestation and the single largest driver of habitat loss. Changes to our food system are essential if we want to...

The climate apocalypse is coming and we may not be able to prevent it

Blogs, ClimateChange

Despite earnest efforts we’ve made essentially no progress in reining in global carbon emissions to keep the planet from melting down. There is infinite hope,” Kafka tells us, “only not for us.” This is a fittingly mystical epigram from a writer whose characters...

What eating meat does to the planet

AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange

Not eating meat is one of the biggest ways to reduce your impact on the environment, analysis has shown. Here are some of the startling statistics on the impact of red meat production. A huge gap exists between how much food we produce today and the amount needed to...

Brace yourselves, the post-Brexit meat-war is coming

AnimalAgri, Blogs, GoodNews

Britain’s toxic meat culture is set to explode as a post-Brexit might mean less animal farming and more imports of meat products. The ‘meat war’ is upon us, as meat-eaters rage against the mounting evidence that there might be something to all that ‘vegan...

Extinction threatens these animal and plant species because of climate change

Blogs, ClimateChange, GoodNews

According to a report released by the World Wildlife Fund a number of species of animals and plants will soon go extinct due to rising temperatures. From puffins nesting off Britain’s coast to penguins marching across Antarctica and monkeys swinging from trees...

World leaders ignore root cause of pandemics

AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange, Coronavirus

Deforestation, habitat destruction and the abuse of wildlife are the main cause of pandemics including COVID-19. Why are world leaders ignoring this? The root cause of pandemics – the destruction of nature – is being ignored, scientists have warned. The focus of world...