ClimateChange - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

New research shows the huge impact of dairy industry on greenhouse gas emissions

Shefali Sharma, director of the IATP says that steering clear of meat and dairy makes us “active citizens”, instead of just consumers. A recent report by Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), reveals that dairy...

Greta’s gap year from school in review

ClimateChange, GoodNews

A year ago, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg infamously took a gap year from school to protest political inaction on the climate crisis. In what may have been her most famous speech, Greta Thunberg said in New York, “I should be in school.” Now,...

Politicians must treat climate change as an emergency

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It is the responsibility of the media to represent the climate crisis accurately; an emergency that world leaders must act on immediately. IT’S RARE TO HEAR THE TERM “CLIMATE EMERGENCY” in media and political discourse in the United States, even though that is the...

The meat industry’s attempts to ‘Go Green’ are an empty promise

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange

The meat industry is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. Can we trust their promise to find sustainable solutions? Late last year, one of Canada’s largest agribusinesses, Maple Leaf Foods, announced that it had achieved carbon neutrality. The company...

VP candidate Kamala Harris says we need to rethink the impact of our meat eating habits

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange

Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, Senator Kamala Harris, says Americans need to be educated about the impact that meat production has on the planet. She has said that, although she does enjoy the occasional cheeseburger, the U.S. government needs to create...

We can no longer wait to act on climate change

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Our struggle against COVID-19 demonstrates our ability to fight climate change, so why are our leaders so reluctant to do so? In the early days of the pandemic, many people urged that societies could not and should not return to business as usual afterwards....