ClimateChange - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Meat industry using bogus science to avoid accusations of unsustainability

Big Meat will do anything to convince consumers their products are good for the planet with the meat industry turning climate change into red-meat politics. A convoy of tractors was making its way to a Dutch government building in February when Tesla CEO Elon Musk...

JBS plans to expand cattle farming in Brazil

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews

The mega-meat company, JBS, plans to “expand herd sizes by millions” in Brazil without proper measures to ensure environmental safety. JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have made a deal with China to...

Chicken is not the more sustainable food choice you’ve been told it is

AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange

In response to concerns about beef’s environmental impact, chicken has been put forward as a more sustainable food choice, but it still harms the planet. People don’t like to change and they especially don’t like to change what they eat. But as the realities of the...

Floods devastate parts of Kenya as climate impact rages on

ClimateChange, GoodNews

Poor countries such as Kenya are most at risk of climate disaster as they struggle to battle the man-made crisis. Jane Kalekye trudges through the narrow muddy alley to her tin-roof house in Mathare, one of Kenya’s largest slums. Ever since the devastating floods that...

Extensive study reveals plant-based diets are best for the environment

ClimateChange, GoodNews

Shifting from high meat consumption to a plant-based diet drastically lowers the environmental harm linked to food production, according to a new climate study on diet and emissions. The most extensive study of its kind to date, published in the journal Nature Food,...

Organisers of Paris 2024 Olympic Games aim to halve climate emissions

GoodNews, ClimateChange

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games are set to be the greenest in history with a slew of measurements put in place to reduce carbon emissions from the events. One of the main goals of the events is to ‘halve the emissions arising in relation to the...