AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, Coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought some severe blows to the agriculture industry and may be the beginning of a more sustainable future. On April 12, a meat-processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., owned by Smithfield Foods shut down after hundreds of employees contracted...
AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews
Democracy Now interviews Delia Grace from the UN Environment Programme on the contribution of animal agriculture to pandemics. As the unprecedented global health emergency continues to unfold, a new United Nations report says humans must lower stress on the natural...
AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews
It might have taken a global pandemic, but it looks like our eyes are finally opening to the full extent of meat and dairy damage. Newly-vegan actress Rakul Preet Singh admits to “feeling lighter” ever since she stopped consuming animal products. She is also...
AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, Coronavirus, GoodNews
Governments are beginning to look critically at the meat industry who are responsible for the bulk of climate change-causing carbon emissions. Carbon taxes could wipe more than $11 billion in profits from leading meat companies in the coming decades as governments...
AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews
Activists say they have reason to believe that meat-plants experiencing large coronavirus outbreaks are using legal loopholes to hide their numbers. A chicken processing facility in western North Carolina reportedly underwent widespread testing for Covid-19 in early...
AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, HealthyLiving
With COVID-19 ravaging communities globally, it has never been so clear just how bad meat is for human health and for our future. A group of British doctors has backed a call for the end of factory farming to prevent future pandemics like COVID-19. With the recent...
