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PETA wants COP26 to go vegan to show commitment to climate goals

PETA sends letter to Alok Sharma at the UN proposing that the upcoming COP26 summit offers a meat-free, sustainable menu to its delegates. Alok Sharma, the president of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), has been asked to serve a vegan menu to...

The National Food Strategy should have taken a harder stance on meat and dairy

AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange

The UK has published its National Food Strategy which will serve as a dietary guideline, however it fails to encourage sustainable eating. I’ve spent a long time waiting for the UK to produce a proper and detailed plan to reform its dysfunctional relationship with...

IPPC says climate crisis is caused by unsustainable human activities

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Scientists at the International Panel on Climate Change have released a report warning that unsustainable human activity is leading us to disaster. “It is unequivocal.” Those stark three words are the first in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new...

Top meat and dairy producing countries like New Zealand, should tax meat and dairy for Climate

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New Zealand has one of the world’s highest proportions of livestock (cattle and sheep) to human population — a mind boggling ratio of of 2 to 1. New Zealand is one of 50 countries being called on to introduce or raise taxes on meat and dairy, in the hope...

The climate crisis is an emergency that must not be ignored

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The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says that the climate crisis must be treated like the outbreak of a world war. The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today, August 9, 2021—the first of four that make...

California’s dairy “digesters” are no use in the fight against methane emissions, say activists

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Community activists say any attempt to reduce methane emissions, while dairy farms continue to exist, wont help the state meet its climate or health goals. Driving along a rural road in the San Joaquin Valley on a blistering afternoon in mid-July, dairy farms and the...