Health - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Americans tend to stick their heads in the sands when it comes to the environmental footprint of their food

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, Health, HealthyLiving, Uncategorized

The reluctance the food of Americans to give up their hamburgers, steaks, meat and sausage is doing terrible harm to the planet. What is shocking is that so many Americans have never heard of the impact that their food consumption has on the planet. Most of them are...

Meat Consumption Linked to Chronic Illness

Health, HealthyLiving

A recent study in the US links meat eating and amino acids to chronic illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Plant-based diets have been popular in the media recently, but research shows that going vegetarian or vegan isn’t only good for the...

Hollywood Hunk Harrison Ford ditches meat and dairy

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, Health

Hollywood Hunk Harrison Ford says he is no longer eating meat and dairy. “I know it’s not really good for the planet, and it’s not really good for me.” Known for his iconic characters Han Solo in the Star Wars movies and intrepid explorer Indiana Jones he said...

Getting to know pigs turned Jon Stewart vegan

Animal activism, AnimalAgri, Health, VegansInNews

Jon Stewart, American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and host of The Daily Show for many years, retired to run an animal sanctuary with his wife, Tracey. On Realizing that pigs have individual personalities—and working on opening...

Meat-free food firm launches bacon-scented ‘scratch and sniff’ patch to stop newly vegans overcome cravings

GoodNews, Health

A plant-based food firm has invented a skin patch – similar to a nicotine patch for smokers – to help those trying to adopt a plant-based diet, overcome their cravings for bacon. The patch, worn on the arm, is infused with a bacon scent, with wearers...

Prostate cancer studies reveals dangers of dairy

AnimalAgri, Health

Very few people are willing to tell the truth about dairy. But the fact is that it is anything but the healthy food that the dairy industry would like to tell you. Consuming lots of dairy could raise the risk of men developing prostate cancer, a review of evidence...