factory farming

Taxes on Meat Could Join Carbon, Sugar and Tobacco to Help Curb Emissions

Taxes on Meat Could Join Carbon, Sugar and Tobacco to Help Curb Emissions

By Jessica Corbett “Driven by a global consensus around meat’s negative contributions to climate change and global health epidemics such as obesity, cancer and antibiotic resistance,” a new report by a British investor network concludes that a meat tax should be considered “inevitable” for any government serious about addressing the climate crisis and other health […]

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    Oxford Study Attacks Regenerative Agriculture — Monsanto Ally?

    Oxford Study Attacks Regenerative Agriculture — Monsanto Ally?

    The British Empire has schooled the world in colonialism, with resulting devastation in India, Africa and the Americas. While the colonies’ revolutionary army was successful in defeating the British redcoats more than 240 years ago, today we face a new kind of threat from the United Kingdom. A University of Oxford think-tank, the Food Climate […]

    Total Health Costs of Industrial Food Systems Are ‘Staggering’

    Total Health Costs of Industrial Food Systems Are ‘Staggering’

    A new report by international experts draws significant linkages between industrial food and farming practices and many of the “severest health conditions afflicting populations around the world,” from respiratory diseases to a range of cancers and systematic livelihood stresses. The report was released on Oct. 9 and is titled, Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus: Addressing Practices, […]

    Meeting Paris Goals Means Dealing With Climate Impacts of Eating Meat

    Meeting Paris Goals Means Dealing With Climate Impacts of Eating Meat

    By Ashley Braun Environmental groups place a lot of attention on trying to stop new oil, gas and coal development since current fossil fuel projects would likely already blow us past the less-than 2°C upper limit for warming laid out in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. In fact, there’s a whole movement, known as “Keep […]

    What Netflix’s Okja Gets Right About Big Food

    What Netflix’s Okja Gets Right About Big Food

    By Samantha Henry Netflix’s recent, original feature film Okja has triggered a bit of disruption amongst both those in the film industry and enthusiasts in the food movement. The movie targets several issues concerning the current state of our food system, and could be a great watch for those curious about where our food system […]

    New Drone Footage Exposes the Horrors of Factory Farming

    New Drone Footage Exposes the Horrors of Factory Farming

    By Mark Devries The animal agriculture industry spends millions on deceptive advertising to persuade consumers that farmed animals roam freely on bucolic pastures. But I’ve been piloting drones over animal agriculture facilities for several years, and the video I’ve captured tells a far different story. Nearly all animals raised and slaughtered for food in the […]

    Study Links Most Amazon Deforestation to 128 Slaughterhouses

    Study Links Most Amazon Deforestation to 128 Slaughterhouses

    By Eduardo Pegurier, Translated by Bruno Moraes Satellites are mechanical reporters of the Amazon deforestation process. By documenting the degradation and gaps created by the clear-cutting process over the years, they deliver the verdict: Two-thirds of the Amazon’s deforested area has been turned into pastures. From the ground, the cattle count reveals that the Amazon […]

    Why Consumers Need to Force Ben & Jerry’s to Go Organic

    Why Consumers Need to Force Ben & Jerry’s to Go Organic

    The most important thing we can do today as conscious consumers, farmers and food workers is to regenerate public health, the environment and climate stability. We can do this most readily by moving away from industrial, GMO and factory-farm food toward an organic, pasture-based, soil-regenerative, humane, carbon-sequestering and climate-friendly agriculture system. What’s standing in the […]

    Here’s Why Most Most of the Meat Americans Eat Is Banned in Other Industrialized Countries

    Here’s Why Most Most of the Meat Americans Eat Is Banned in Other Industrialized Countries

    By Martha Rosenberg Recently, Organic Consumers Association, along with Friends of the Earth and Center for Food Safety filed suit against chicken giant Sanderson Farms for falsely marketing its products as “100% Natural” even though they contain many unnatural and even prohibited substances. Specifically, Sanderson chicken products tested positive for the antibiotic chloramphenical, banned in […]