Compassionate World Blog Round Up – October 23
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For all the animal, farming, food and environment news from September and October, please use this great update
From the game-changer that is cultivated meat to ending the cage age, and from the magic of nature to the sentience of animals that share our world, plus a whole lot more…
Opinion Articles
- The Case for Lab-Grown MeatIn September 2019, the International Space Station was undertaking an extraordinary mission: to produce the first beef in space.
- ‘Ghost food waste’ is another reason why the UK must ban rearing of farm animals in cagesIt might sound like a space-saving idea, but more than half of the UK’s cropland is devoted to feeding farm animals kept in cages
- Animals are sentient. Just ask anyone who knows about cowsInsects are fascinating, trees make us happy and sea eagles are just magical
- From Glasgow’s Ruchill Park to Costa Rica, the beauty of nature can lift your spiritsInsects are fascinating, trees make us happy and sea eagles are just magical
- How food poverty is being fuelled by our obsession with factory-farmed meatNearly 800 million people are going hungry even though there is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone
Blogs
- Enough is Enough: How One Word Can Change the World1 Like on Social: There comes a time in everyone’s life where you have to put your foot down and say, “enough is enough”. I remember that moment well. I was left shattered and shaking inside. I couldn’t believe what… Read more: Enough is Enough: How One Word Can Change the World
- The Misery of Merely Existing – the Scandal of Animal Factories94 Like on Social: If you only read one article today, 2nd October 2024, World Farm Animals Day, please make it this one. What is ‘quality of life’? What is a life worth living? And who decides? ‘Quality of Life’… Read more: The Misery of Merely Existing – the Scandal of Animal Factories
- Why Europe’s Newfound Consensus on Food and Farming Matters to YouBrussels Consensus Reached on the Need to Ban Confinement Cages in Animal Farming
- End of the Olympics? How Climate Change & Diets are Threatening the Future of SportLike on Social: With the Paris Olympics now done and dusted and the Paralympics hotting up to a climax, the big question is, could we be seeing the last of big sporting events? After all, the intense heat felt in… Read more: End of the Olympics? How Climate Change & Diets are Threatening the Future of Sport
- For The Love Of All Life6 Like on Social: Why we must face and act on the crisis facing humankind, animals and our planet A special guest blog by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna The Food Crisis It’s a world of crises. Crises which are… Read more: For The Love Of All Life
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