13 Apr We and the animals, the wrong choices
If I could, I would force big meat eaters to visit a factory farm. Starting with the smell that burns the nostrils and makes you want to vomit....
30 Mar BBFAW update: Global food producers lead animal welfare efforts in 2020
The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), a globally recognised investor framework for assessing companies' performance on farm animal welfare, has released its annual report for 2020....
27 Mar Animal welfare: Fish are complex, emotional and intelligent beings and yet we treat them so cruelly
When I look back over three decades of progress on the way we treat animals, it has been heartening to see how attitudes and understanding have evolved to insist on better treatment....
15 Mar Half-Earth Gives the “tree of life” at Least a Fighting Chance
Saved on my old Dell, CD-RWs and, more recently, a flash drive as failsafe is a 660-page tome I’ve been writing for years. Referenced to the point of overkill, it’s a heavily-cited compilation of environmental ethics and moral philosophy, delving into humanity’s destructive bent....
10 Mar Genome editing and the future of food
Dan Saladino looks at the future role of genome editing for food. A public consultation is underway on technologies such as CRISPR. What could it mean for farmers and consumers?...
01 Mar Turun Sanomat review of Dead Zone
Translation of a Finnish book review of Dead Zone....
28 Feb Industrial Livestock Farms and the Environmental Impacts
Philip Lymbery, the chief executive officer of Compassion in World Farming, calls industrial livestock “the cascade of cruelty of intensive animal farming.”...
23 Feb Agri and food production causing huge biodiversity loss
Produced by the UK think-tank Chatham House and backed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Compassion in World Farming, the study says that agriculture is threatening 86% of the 28,000+ plant and animal species known to be at risk of extinction....
12 Feb Pigs can play computer games, study shows
Study showing animals’ intelligence prompts calls for end to their being factory farmed...
09 Feb Biodiversità minacciata da cibo a basso costo e agricoltura
In un report presentato oggi dal think tank britannico Chatham House, in collaborazione con Unep (Programma delle Nazioni Unite per l'Ambiente) e Compassion in World Farming, si chiede con urgenza una riforma del sistema alimentare....