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    Brazil Fines Meat Ranchers and Packers $64M for Raising and Purchasing Cattle From Deforested Amazon Rainforest

    Brazil Fines Meat Ranchers and Packers $64M for Raising and Purchasing Cattle From Deforested Amazon Rainforest

    IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental protection agency, has fined meat packers and cattle ranchers — including the largest on the planet, JBS — $64 million for buying or raising cattle on illegally deforested land in the Amazon rainforest. The agency said 69 properties had been identified that had sold a total of 18,000 cattle who had been […]

    UK Approves Lab-Grown Meat in Pet Food

    UK Approves Lab-Grown Meat in Pet Food

    The UK has become the first country in Europe to approve lab-grown meat. The authorization will specifically allow the use of cultivated chicken, or meat grown from the cells of an egg sample, in a new pet food made by the London-based startup Meatly. Formerly known as Good Dog Food, Meatly received regulatory approval from […]

    Florida’s DeSantis Bans Lab-Grown Meat

    Florida’s DeSantis Bans Lab-Grown Meat

    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a ban on the selling and distribution of lab-grown meat in the state, the first law of its kind in the United States. With the ban, DeSantis said he would be saving beef from the “global elite,” reported BBC News. “Today, Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s […]

    A Philosopher’s Guide to an Ethical Diet:  A Conversation With Peter Singer

    A Philosopher’s Guide to an Ethical Diet: A Conversation With Peter Singer

    Humans have an enormous impact on planet Earth, but from both an animal welfare and an environmental perspective, perhaps nothing is more important than our diets. In 2022, more than 82 billion livestock animals were slaughtered for meat, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States, with the majority of those animals […]

    More Than 80% of EU’s Agricultural Subsidies Goes to Animal Farming That Is ‘Driving Us to the Brink’

    More Than 80% of EU’s Agricultural Subsidies Goes to Animal Farming That Is ‘Driving Us to the Brink’

    The European Union has been investing four times the amount of money into animal agriculture — which makes “artificially cheap” diets that heavily pollute the planet —  than it has into plant-based farming, according to a new study. The European Union spends almost one-third of its budget on subsidizing its common agricultural policy (CAP), reported […]

    Impossible Foods Rebrands to Attract More Meat Eaters

    Impossible Foods Rebrands to Attract More Meat Eaters

    Impossible Foods, a company that makes plant-based meat substitutes, is rolling out a rebrand of its iconic green packaging. In hopes of persuading more carnivores to try its meat alternatives made from plants, the company has switched to red packaging designed to evoke the “craveability of meat,” according to a press release. The rebranding was […]

    Impossible Foods Announces Plant-Based Hot Dogs

    Impossible Foods Announces Plant-Based Hot Dogs

    Impossible Foods, Inc., a company known for its plant-based burgers, is adding hot dogs to its lineup starting in 2024. Some New Yorkers will be able to try them this month before they officially hit stores. The plant-based hot dogs will be the company’s first new product of 2024, although the exact date that this […]