New technologies make factory farming more palatable; that’s not good enough (Forbes)
Innovation and technology are doing big things for animal welfare and the health of the planet. Meatless burgers from companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are now mainstream in a way few could have imagined 20 or 30 years ago. Fermentation is being used to make dairy products without using cows.
Factory Farm Moratorium Oregon (Animal Legal Defense Fund)
Oregon is in the midst of a factory farming crisis. These facilities, where thousands of animals are confined in cramped and filthy conditions, are harming animals and polluting the state’s air and water. The Animal Legal Defense Fund is a member of the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition, which has been working to stop […]
‘Relearning meat as a corpse’: vegan author Amber Husain on the politics of loving animals and eating them (Guardian)
When Amber Husain was 26, she was preparing a piece of chicken for a friend to eat and was overcome by an unfamiliar feeling. A lifelong meat-eater, suddenly she was disgusted by what was in front of her. “I was just handling it and it felt so weird and horrible,” she says.
New research shows animal agriculture is making UTIs worse; factory farms could make them untreatable (Food Tank)
There are a lot of food and agriculture issues that don’t get the attention they deserve. For example, a study in the journal One Health examines the link between urinary tract infections (UTIs)—which can quickly turn serious and result in more than 1 million emergency room visits a year—and animal agriculture in the United States.
Factory farming is fueling a ‘silent pandemic’; here’s what we can do about it (Euro News)
Antimicrobial resistance could cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050. Here’s what can be done about it. As the world recovers from COVID-19, and bird flu decimates wild and farmed birds, the link between food production and pandemic risk has never been clearer.
One million human deaths linked to factory farming, set to double by 2050 (PR NewsWire)
The excessive use of antibiotics in factory farming is causing the premature deaths of nearly one million people and $400 billion in global economic losses each year, according to a report titled Global Public Health Cost of Antimicrobial Resistance Related to Antibiotic Use on Factory Farms published today by World Animal Protection.
U.S. approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation’s first ‘lab-grown’ meat (AP News)
For the first time, U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies to offer “lab-grown” meat to the nation’s restaurant tables and eventually, supermarket shelves. The Agriculture Department gave the green light to Upside Foods and Good Meat, firms that had been racing to be the […]
More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand (Guardian)
More than 800m trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef, according to a new investigation, despite dire warnings about the forest’s importance in fighting the climate crisis. A data-driven investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), the Guardian, Repórter Brasil […]
California has the country’s strongest animal welfare law; now it just needs to be enforced (Vox)
Last month, in a welcome surprise to animal welfare advocates, the US Supreme Court sided with pigs over the pork industry. In a 5-4 decision, the Court upheld Proposition 12, a California law that partially bans the sale of pork from farms that keep pregnant breeding pigs, known as sows, in tiny enclosures called gestation […]
If we don’t end factory farming soon, it might be here forever (Forbes)
Do you know what the most popular book is? No, it’s not Harry Potter. But it does talk about spells. It’s the Bible, and it has been for centuries. In the past 50 years alone, the Bible has sold over 3.9 billion copies. And the second best-selling book? The Quran, at 800 million copies.
