Just last week, we learnt about monstrous rains in China and Mumbai with hundreds dead. The week before we witnessed the worst floods for decades in Germany and Belgium with heavy loss of life....
For millennia, farming has worked in harmony with nature. However, one human lifetime ago, things changed dramatically: farming became dominated by industrial agriculture....
"If Mother Nature could speak, I believe she would weep." Our own future and the health of all life on Earth depends on us making peace with nature....
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....
Global action is needed to alleviate poverty, address overconsumption of livestock products and move food systems to regenerative forms of conservation agriculture...
Whilst the emergence of Covid-19 has been linked to eating wildlife, it shows strong parallels with other viruses which have emerged from a different route – industrial farming...
Marco Springmann and colleagues warn that we must shift to more plant-based ‘flexitarian’ diets if we are to reduce the food system’s projected greenhouse-gas emissions and meet the targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement...
Does meat have to come from an animal? Perhaps not. The Telegraph...
Man has an almost insatiable appetite to destroy the planet in his quest for cheap meat. As well as pushing wildlife to extinction through the destruction of habitats, rising meat production is accelerating climate change. - The Times...
