Coronavirus - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Pigs Euthanised, Composted At JBS As Company Takes a Hit

A large composting site, akin to a mass grave, erected for the carcasses of pigs euthanized after meat industry is impacted by COVID-19 outbreak. A parcel of land in Nobles County has been transformed into a major composting operation for euthanized hogs coming from...

Queen’s Brian May Demands Meat Tax

Animal activism, AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, News, VegansInNews

Musician Brian May took to Instagram to urge PM Boris Johnson to implement a meat tax, saying: “the world we had before this cornavirus was not good enough.” Queen lead guitarist Brian May just urged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to call for further...

Slaughterhouses Jeopardise Worker Health Due To Demand For Meat

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews

Meat companies fear the impact that COVID-19 will have on the meat industry, punish workers and animals by trying to maintain normalcy. Outbreaks of Covid-19 at slaughterhouses are occurring in a number of countries around the world, in a development that may have...

Costco Introduces Meat Cap For Customers As Stock Dwindles

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

As meat farming and production grinds to a halt due to COVID-19 fears, retailers like Costco are finding it hard to meet consumer demand. With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Costco is limiting the amount of beef, pork and poultry products customers can purchase....

Does Science Really Need Animal Experimentation?

Animal activism, Coronavirus, GoodNews

As global labs scurry to learn more about COVID-19 and how to fight it, animals suffer the most, say animal rights activists. ‘Think about the animals you actually need,’ is the message research laboratories across North America have been receiving in the wake of the...

We should treat Climate Change the way we are treating COVID-19

ClimateChange, Coronavirus

Both of these are harmful, dangerous and have the potential to wipe out our whole species; so why do we treat the climate crisis with less urgency? In the first episode of the Invisibilia podcast’s sixth season, host Alix Spiegel opens by comparing the heartbeat...