Coronavirus - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Kamala Harris is being urged to encourage plant-based diets to low income American women

A coalition of women are calling on Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris to seize the moment and promote a plant-based diet to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. A group of women leaders, including several women of color, are urging Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris and...

New USDA secretary must ensure COVID-19 health restrictions for workers at meat plants

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

Dr Neal Barnard, president of the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, says that the next USDA Secretary must take a firm stance on meat. More and more, it’s clear just how troubling the meat industry is. It endangers the lives of workers, produces...

UN report names factory farming as a contributor to “Era Of Pandemics”

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, Coronavirus, Environment

A report by the U.N. agency on biodiversity and ecosystem services claims intensive farming and deforestation are triggers for future pandemics. As we continue to battle the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the world must also look ahead to prevent entering into an “era of...

The Planet has been pushed past a tipping point by COVID-19

AnimalAgri, Blogs, ClimateChange, Coronavirus

The emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic is an indication that civilisation has breached a major ‘tipping point’ which will result in a dangerous new era of ecological emergencies. Scientific evidence accumulated over the last five years suggests that the...

Why our way of thinking makes us mobilise for Coronavirus, but not climate change

ClimateChange, Coronavirus

Humans are good at problem-solving according to behavioural scientists. Coronavirus leads us to act with great speed. But when it comes to Climate Change, we dig in. Humans are arguably the best problem-solving species that ever walked the Earth, behavioral scientists...

Store-bought chicken could be a pandemic risk

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews

The chicken you find on the shelf at your local grocery store is often times the result of an unsustainable, unsanitary and cruel unethical production process. Intensively reared chicken for meat from supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury and the Co-op is creating...