ClimateChange - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Jane Goodall says plant-based diets are “very, very important”

For many years older high profile conservationists and prominent environmental organisations like Sierra Club, the WWF and Greenpeace who were campaigning for wild animals and endangered species did not make the link that farmed animals have appalling lives....

Industrial farming is destroying the earth and possibly leading to future human extinction

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange

Industrial farming relies on large-scale environmental exploitation, triggering climate change, and destroying natural habitats. Philip Lymbery, the chief executive officer of Compassion in World Farming, calls industrial livestock “the cascade of the cruelty of...

Indigenous activist berates “western world” for environmental destruction

Blogs, ClimateChange

Founder of Indigenous-led nonprofit organisation Ceibo Alliance, Nemonte Nenquimo, writes a powerful letter to world leaders. “Dear presidents of the nine Amazonian countries and to all world leaders that share responsibility for the plundering of our...

Oxfam study highlights inequalities of the climate crisis; the rich use while the poor suffer

ClimateChange

A study conducted by OXFAM shows that the climate catastrophe is being caused largely by the wealthy, while the poor suffer the consequences. The world’s poor and marginalised people are suffering the most from climate change impacts, though they contribute the least...

Replacing livestock products with plant alternatives best strategy to reversing climate change

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange

Fossil fuels might be the most widely discussed when it comes to climate change, however, animal agriculture is one of the biggest contributors. Pat and Sharon O’Toole, the ranchers extolling cattle in the Aug. 11 Salt Lake Tribune, (“If you like birds and fish, hug a...

How to rebut these top 10 climate crisis myths

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange

The Climate Crisis is real and it is happening right now with unprecedented natural events happening all over the globe. Most of the leading science organisations around the world have issued public statements expressing this, including international and U.S. science...