Coronavirus - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Interview: UN Environment Programme manager discusses failing food systems

Interview with James Lomax, a programme manager with the UN Environment Programme on the growing demand for food and our failing food systems. Something’s got to give. The world’s population is growing in size and wealth and shifting toward urban areas, driving the...

Environmentalist Chris Packham says COVID-19 is the result of environmental destruction

ClimateChange, Coronavirus, VegansInNews

In an interview with the Guardian, the renowned environmentalist blamed human interference in nature as the cause for COVID-19 and praised youth activism. Chris Packham, the famous British naturalist, wildlife photographer and television presenter for the hit BBC...

COVID-19 is an opportunity to fix broken relationship with the environment

ClimateChange, Coronavirus

The pandemic that is a result of environmental abuse should be seen as a cause for introspection and positive steps towards rectifying our mistakes. In 1997, a large area of rainforest in south-east Asia was burned to the ground to make way for palm oil plantations. A...

Factory farms are a breeding ground for disease

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

From abuse of animals to horrendous labour conditions for workers; it would seem factory farms we get our meat from are breeding the next pandemic. Some experts have hypothesized that the novel coronavirus made the jump from animals to humans in China’s wet markets,...

Will we see the end of factory farming in the near future?

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews

Factory farming has consumed and dominated animal farming for years, but as consumers become more conscious of what they eat, could this be the end? Humans have farmed animals since 11,000 BCE, but today, two out of every three of the 70 billion farm animals killed...

Health experts warn against factory farming in a pandemic-stricken world

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

Professor David O. Wiebers argues that factory farming will have to go if we want to prevent future pandemics and protect human health. A new editorial article authored by leading academic physicians from the US to New Zealand says that the coronavirus pandemic is...