Coronavirus - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Has COVID-19 pushed meat-eaters towards plant-based alternatives?

Plant-based meat is being purchased more than ever as sales skyrocket amid the coronavirus outbreak and market confusion. In March, as offices, restaurants and schools closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, sales in the grocery sector shot up...

COVID-19 punishes industrial agriculture

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

Is it possible that the COVID-19 pandemic has enhanced the movement calling for an end to unsustainable animal agricultural practices? The COVID-19 pandemic has cracked open animal agriculture’s bucolic façade, revealing giant agribusinesses that control and exploit...

Choose veganism and choose compassion

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, Coronavirus

Veganism is the ethical choice; it is also our best shot at saving the earth from climate catastrophe for future generations. According to Francisco Guerreiro, “It is a fact that humanity is negatively impacting the planet with its industrialised way of life.” The...

African Swine Fever outbreak in Germany could result in mass culling

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews

Germany is to enact a crisis management plan after African Swine Fever has been detected in a wild boar. This could possibly include mass culling. German farmers have been ordered to enact a series of crisis measures after the discovery of the country’s first case of...

Is there such a thing as disease-free animal agriculture?

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

China claims to be dealing with the health-risk factors that have become synonymous with its animal agriculture and wildlife trades. The buildings do not even look like farms. They are huge grey concrete blocks, many storeys high, which stand side by side in the...

Prince Charles warns that climate crisis will dwarf impact of coronavirus

ClimateChange, Coronavirus, GoodNews

Prince Charles has warned that the climate crisis will “dwarf” the impact of COVID -19 and has called for ‘swift and immediate action’ in tacking this looming catastrophe. In a recorded message from Birkhall in the grounds of Balmoral, the...