Factory farming must end if the world is to tackle climate change and meet United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
For millennia, farming has worked in harmony with nature. However, one human lifetime ago, things changed dramatically: farming became dominated by industrial agriculture.
If Nature Could Speak
"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.
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.
Could humanity’s hoofprint overwhelm nature?
Global action is needed to alleviate poverty, address overconsumption of livestock products and move food systems to regenerative forms of conservation agriculture
To protect humans from coronavirus, then we need to act quick on animal rights too
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
Governments should unite to curb meat consumption
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
For the first time in human history we might not need animals for food
Does meat have to come from an animal? Perhaps not. The Telegraph
If we keep eating so much meat we’ll destroy our planet
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