Coronavirus - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

What Is The Link Between Climate Change And Coronavirus?

The time couldn’t be more opportune for us to reevaluate our relationship with our planet and the billions of factory-farmed animals who inhabit it against the laws of nature. At its best, each day lately is full of some degree of uncertainty. Stay-at-home...

Irish Meat-plant Workers Paint Horrifying Picture of Life in COVID-19 Disease Pits

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews

Workers in Irish meat-plants describe feeling let down. Many have contracted COVID-19 in unsafe work spaces where there is disregard for social distancing. Marco* felt the phlegm gather heavily on his chest for five days before he called his local health centre and...

Author Jonathan Safran Foer Calls On Consumers To Withdraw Support For “Cruel” Meat Industry

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

Jonathan Safran Foer is an outspoken critic of the meat industry. He is the author of several books including Eating Animals and We Are The Weather. President Trump’s recent use of the Defense Production Act to order slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants to stay...

What Does The COVID-19 Meat Plant Closures Mean For The U.S Meat Industry?

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Meat industry may suffer a loss of $13.6 billion due to COVID-19 outbreak, say National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA); but that’s not all. The United States beef industry may lose $13.6 billion due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new...

Workers Lives Put in Danger in the Name of Meat

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

At a time when a pandemic is running rampant in meat-plants, and worker safety is seriously jeopardised, is it not selfish for consumers to demand meat? Should someone have to die so others can savor a steak? Stark inequalities in US society are being laid bare by the...

The Meat-plant COVID-19 Situation is a Catastrophe

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Thirty meat-plant workers and four health inspectors have died after contracting the disease at meat-plants across the county. A fourth U.S. Department of Agriculture food safety inspector died Wednesday from Covid-19, according to a union official, amid an outbreak...