Animal farming
Factory Farms Destroy Ecosystems
Factory farms are the Grim Reapers of civilization, inhumanely penning up and slaughtering cows, pigs, and chickens by the tens of millions, as well as unintentionally, but effectively, poisoning, maiming and/or killing birds, insects, amphibians, mammals, and crucial life-supporting ecosystems that are key to human life. And, it’s legal.
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Couple Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara to Produce Film Exposing Link Between Factory Farms and Pandemics
New film The End of Medicine—created by award-winning British filmmaker Alex Lockwood and What the Health co-director Keegan Kuhn—aims to spotlight the role of animal agriculture in the rise of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19.
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Former Dairy Farms Now Make and Deliver Vegan Oat Milk
Refarm’d is helping former dairy farmers transition away from animal agriculture and produce and deliver vegan oat milk.
Read More ‘To Finish’; Looking at Language
‘Finishing’ is yet another of the words with which the animal use industry glosses over the monstrous activities of our species.
Read More ‘Ground-Breaking’ Documentary Links Amazon Fires And Deforestation To Animal Agriculture
Moby, who executively produced the film, says it’s a ‘must-watch for anyone who is passionate about combating corruption’
Read More Methane Emissions Have Jumped a Staggering Nine Percent Since Last Decade
Emissions of methane – a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide – have risen by nine percent in a decade driven by humanity’s insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concluded Wednesday.
Read More How to Stop the Next Pandemic: U.N. Report Links Outbreaks to Climate Crisis & Industrial Farming
A new UN report says COVID-19 has a zoonotic origin, meaning it jumped from animals to humans, and the U.N. report finds that such diseases are spreading with greater frequency due to human activity, including industrial farming and the climate crisis.
Read More Why You Should Go Animal-Free: 18 Arguments for Eating Meat Debunked
Unpalatable as it may be for those wedded to producing and eating meat, the environmental and health evidence for a plant-based diet is clear.
Read More Time for Regenesis
Every problem has possibility. I believe we are on the cusp of a regenesis. A change in the way we see the world and a total reordering in how we exist in harmony with it.
Read More Farmers in New Zealand Are Offended by Climate Change Curriculum
Advice to eat less meat and dairy is seen as “biting the hand that feeds.”
Read More Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
“Meat Improves Mental Health,” mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the “study” was funded by an “unrestricted research grant through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.” Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat.
Read More Dress Rehearsal for the Apocalypse
As we look out on silent, empty, streets, watching while statistics of the sick and the dead skyrocket out of control, and the sickening chill of fear clutches at our hearts for our loved ones whom we are powerless to protect, the question that hangs in the air is, ‘Why?’
Read More Isaiah’s Warning to Change
So many Christians insinuated that “God is angry with the way we are living.” I would disagree. If you want to simplify and personify the beautiful, loving force that connects all and everything into a father figure; then I would suggest he is not angry – he is bitterly disappointed.
Read More How COVID-19 Took Hold and Why We Must End the Wildlife Trade
Here’s what we can do to make sure the critical mistakes made after the SARS outbreak won’t be made again.
Read More Ban Wildlife Markets to Avert Pandemics, Says UN Biodiversity Chief
Warning comes as destruction of nature increasingly seen as key driver of zoonotic diseases
Read More CORONAVIRUS: How Did it Really Start & How Do We Stop it From Happening Again?
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Read More Stopping Animal Abuse will Prevent Future Pandemics, says Leading Scientist
“By creating distressed and sick animals, we are harming ourselves,” claims Dr Aysha Akhtar, a neurologist and public health specialist.
Read More Coronavirus Closures Reveal Vast Scale of China’s Secretive Wildlife Farm Industry
Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus
Read More Coronavirus: ‘Nature Is Sending Us a Message’, Says UN Environment Chief
Destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis is hurting humanity, with Covid-19 a ‘clear warning shot’, say experts.
Read More Our Growing Food Demands Will Lead to More Corona-like Viruses
As agriculture expands, habitats will shrink. That will likely lead to higher numbers of the species that transmit deadly diseases.
Read More What Humans Are Really Doing to Our Planet, in 19 Jaw-Dropping Images
Ahead of a series of major events later this year, The Foundation for Deep Ecology and the Population Media Center released a collection that illustrates the devastating effects of out-of-control growth and waste, and it’s breathtaking.
Read More ‘A Common Germ Pool’: The Frightening Origins of the Coronavirus
Some 60 percent of the new diseases that crop up around the globe each year are zoonotic — meaning they come from domesticated animals or wildlife. Scientists have found that infectious diseases are now emerging more rapidly than in the past.
Read More Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry? The Filthy Business of Fish Farming
On October 7th, 2019, animal protection organization Compassion Over Killing released footage from their new undercover investigation of a salmon factory farm.
Read More Thinking of Ducks
Ducks. As a child I used to love visiting duckponds. These memories linger, visions of a lost childhood when I thought the world was a place of beauty and wonder. Oblivious to the barbarity of my species, I had no clue what was really in store for the majority of ducks, and the world became a blacker and more sinister place for my knowing.
Read More This Graph Will Show You the Carbon Footprint of Your Protein
Even the most sustainable meat is worse for the environment than plant-based protein.
Read More ‘Apocalypse Cow’ Is the Documentary Meat-Eating Environmentalists Need to See
Channel 4 documentary “Apocalypse Cow: How Meat Killed the Planet” could change the way some environmentalists see meat.
Read More Could Abandoned Agricultural Lands Help Save the Planet?
Agriculture’s global footprint is decreasing — more land globally is now being abandoned by farming than converted to it. This, some researchers contend, presents an opportunity for ecological restoration that could help fight climate change and stem the loss of biodiversity.
Read More Climate Crisis to Drive All Future New Zealand Government Policies
New Zealand is stepping up its efforts to stop global warming. All new government decisions will be made with the climate change crisis in mind.
Read More Scientists Warn World Will Reach “Peak Meat” by 2030
A demand letter signed by more than 50 leading environmental experts calls upon world governments to replace animal agriculture with plant-based food production to keep the Earth from warming to dangerous levels.
Read More How Much Would Giving Up Meat Help the Environment?
It is no secret that steaks and chops are delicious. But guzzling them incurs high costs for both carnivorous humans and the planet.
Read More The Impact of Animal Farming on the Planet: Interview with Dr Sailesh Rao
Mic the Vegan interviews Dr. Sailesh Rao, systems specialist with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and co-producer of the documentary Cowspiracy.
Read More Walmart, Costco, Target, McDonalds and More! Companies Linked to Promoting Amazon Deforestation
Fires in the Amazon made global headlines for weeks. Alongside the criticism of the Brazilian government for encouraging anti-environmental stances, new information is now available on business and companies‘ impact on the fires in the Amazon.
Read More The Age of Radical Evil
We live in an age of radical evil. The architects of this evil are despoiling the earth and driving the human species toward extinction.
Read More Why Protecting the Amazon Is Critical to Solving the Climate Crisis.
The world has spent weeks watching fires ravage the Amazon Rainforest, and along with it, our chances of meeting the Paris Agreement’s goals. What’s more, scientists predict that this critical ecosystem is nearing an irreversible tipping point: a decline from lush rainforest to dry savanna.
Read More So What’s Wrong with Wool?
Despite the fact that farming sheep is at least as harmful to the environment as farming cows, many sheep raised for wool are treated very cruelly. This video reveals the very disturbing treatment of sheep on an Australian wool farm, which is unfortunately considered “treatment as usual” across Australia and much of the world.
Read More Climate Catastrophe Comes for Europe
When most people think of climate change, what come to mind are the poles, Asia’s fast vanishing glaciers, or Australia, where punishing droughts are drying up the sub-continent’s longest river, the Murray. But climate change is an equal opportunity disrupter, and Europe is facing a one-two punch of too much water in the north and center and not enough in the south.
Read More Animal Agriculture Is Major Driver of Australia’s Faunal Extinction Crisis
In a submission to an Australian government inquiry into Australia’s faunal extinction crisis, Vegan Australia urged the government to move towards a vegan agricultural system to help save koalas and many other threatened species.
Read More The Companies Behind the Burning of the Amazon
The burning of the Amazon and the darkening of skies from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, have captured the world’s conscience. Much of the blame for the fires has rightly fallen on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for directly encouraging the burning of forests and the seizure of Indigenous Peoples’ lands. But the incentive for the destruction comes from large-scale international meat and soy animal feed companies.
Read More Indigenous Tribes on Front Line of Amazon Rainforest Fires Vow to Resist Bolsonaro’s “Destruction of Mother Nature”
Indigenous tribes whose land and livelihoods are being directly harmed by the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest vowed Tuesday to do everything in their power to resist Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s “destruction of Mother Nature” and called on the rest of the world to join them.
Read More How Will We Feed The Ever-Growing Human Population?
We can feed the ever-growing human population through sustainable farming and less food waste, but not without a shift towards a plant-based future.
Read More We Can’t Keep Eating As We Are – Why Isn’t the IPCC Shouting This From the Rooftops?
In its crucial land and climate report, the IPCC irresponsibly understates the true carbon cost of our meat and dairy habits
Read More Opinion: How New VR Experience Can Create Empathy for Farmed Animals
A new form of animal advocacy and outreach involves the use of virtual reality, providing people an immersive experience of what it’s like to be a farm animal on an industrialized farms.
Read More Germans Want a Meat Tax to Save the Planet
Germany is considering a meat tax for environmental reasons. As well as sustainability, some politicians are urging the tax for animal welfare reasons.
Read More Faunalytics Index – August 2019
Each month, our Faunalytics Index provides a round-up of data, statistics, and facts gleaned from the most recent research we’ve covered in our library. Our aim is to give you a quick overview of some of the most eye-catching and informative bits of data that could help you be more effective in your advocacy for animals.
Read More We Can’t Keep Eating as We Are – Why Isn’t the IPCC Shouting This from the Rooftops?
The new report on land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shies away from the big issues and fails to properly represent the science. As a result, it gives us few clues about how we might survive the century.
Read More Animal Agriculture Is Major Threat to Koalas
Koalas in Australia are at risk of becoming extinct. The key threat to koala survival is land clearing, both past and continuing, and the key driver for tree-clearing is the production of animal products.
Read More Drastic Changes to Food Production and Consumption Needed to Save Planet From Catastrophic Warming, IPCC Reveals
When some of the world’s top scientists conclude an international summit in Geneva next week, they are expected to call for a major shift to vegetarian diets around the world in order to keep the warming of the globe under 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Read More Massive Industrial Farms Are Devastating the Environment, New Drone Footage Reveals
Newly released drone footage reveals massive factory farms, each housing tens of thousands of animals, polluting Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
Read More From Mad Cow Disease to Agrochemicals: Time to Put Public Need Ahead of Private Greed
From the ‘great British beef scandal’ of the 1980s to ongoing pesticide issue, the profit motives of rich corporations continue to trump the public interest.
Read More Cut Beef Consumption in Half to Help Save the Earth, Says New Study
The world’s population will hit 10 billion in just 30 years and all of those people need to eat. To feed that many humans with the resources Earth has, we will have to cut down the amount of beef we eat, according to a new report by the World Resources Institute.
Read More ‘Unprecedented’ Decline of Plants and Animals as Global ‘Red List’ Reveals Nearly One-Third of Assessed Species Under Threat
The Red List, published Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), revealed that one third of all species the group has assessed are now under threat due to overfishing, pollution, illegal logging and trafficking, threats to water sources and habitats due to the climate crisis, and other factors, including many human activities.
Read More Revealed: How the Global Beef Trade Is Destroying the Amazon
Between 1980 and 2005, Amazon deforestation levels reached 20,000 sq km per year — with an area the size of Wales being lost. Although there have been political murmurings about trying to halt the destruction, the latest data shows that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has risen by 73% since 2012. The number one cause? Raising cattle for beef.
Read More How Your Diet Contributes to Nutrient Pollution and Dead Zones in Lakes and Bay
Every year in early summer, scientists at universities, research institutions and federal agencies release forecasts for the formation of “dead zones” and harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie. This year the outlook is not good.
Read More Global Effort to Plant a Trillion Trees ‘Overwhelmingly’ Among Most Effective—and Cheapest—Solutions to Climate Emergency: Study
Amid record-setting temperatures worldwide and predictions by experts that this year will be among the hottest humanity has ever seen, researchers behind a new study say a rapid global effort to plant billions of trees and the restoration of forests would be the “most effective” strategy for battling the planetary climate emergency.
Read More Insects: The Hidden Extinction
An extensive study looks to quantify the extinction of insects around the world, and finds agriculture to be a driving factor in declining populations.
Read More Killing as a Government Service
The USDA’s Wildlife Services program slaughters millions of wild animals every year — including endangered species. It doesn’t have to.
Read MoreDeforested Areas Bleed Heat to Nearby Forests, Drive Local Extinctions
Areas cleared of forests bleed heat to neighboring forests, and this fuels increases in temperatures there, new research has found. Average temperatures in forests around the world are already rising because of climate change; this leaked heat exacerbates the problem and accelerates local extinctions of forest-dwelling species.
Read MoreMeat Industry to Blame for Massive Dead Zone, New Analysis Says
According to a recent analysis by environmental protection organization Mighty Earth, America’s largest meat companies are to blame for the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. The analysis shows that huge meat companies have constructed slaughterhouses, processing facilities, and industrial farms in areas throughout the Mississippi River basin that are prone to flooding.
Read MoreTalking About Weather, Fruit and Vegetables
Reading the daily litany of the disasters that we humans are wreaking on our dying planet through our irresponsible actions, my attention was snagged by news of the storm-wrought crop failure and the resulting declaration of a ‘natural emergency’ in parts of France. In sawing off the branch our species is sitting on, we must never forget that our victims, our fellow species, are sitting on it alongside us, helpless passengers on our self-driven journey to ruin. And so it was that I found my thoughts wandering on the subject of crops.
Read More Why Is Veganism on the Rise?
If you asked for vegan food 20, 10, or even five years ago, you’d be met with surprise or even an eye-roll. Vegans were once stereotypically thought of as hippies, pictured sitting around eating nothing but lettuce in flower crowns. Fast forward to 2019, and times have changed. Times have really, really changed.
Read MoreArtifishal: New Film Asks, Have We Reached the End of Wild?
That salmon sitting in your neighborhood grocery store’s fish counter won’t look the same to you after watching Artifishal, a new film from Patagonia. Artifishal looks specifically at how fish hatcheries and fish farms threaten wild salmon populations, which in turn has ecosystem-wide effects — all because of our desire to eat these culturally significant species.
Read MoreIndian High Court Declares Animals Legal Persons Entitled to Justice
The High Court of Punjab and Haryana has ordered that animals are now to be considered legal persons in the Indian state of Haryana. This means that animals in the state may no longer be treated as “objects” or “property” and are “entitled to justice.”
Read More Meet the Animal Rights Activists Facing Prison Time for Rescuing Ducks, Piglets from Factory Farms
Nearly 100 animal rights activists were freed today, after being arrested by police in riot gear for carrying out a rescue mission and protest at the Reichardt Duck Farm in Petaluma, California, which they accuse of engaging in animal torture.
Read MoreAnimal Production: What Techniques Can Reduce Carbon Footprints?
A study of four farms in Spain used a variety of methods to discern the environmental advantages and disadvantages of both intensive and extensive production systems.
Read MoreIf We Want Antibiotics to Work, Consumers Have to Put Big Pressure on Factory Farms
On March 1, Denny’s stopped purchasing chicken treated with medically important antibiotics for its U.S. restaurants. Many consumers might expect to see such promises at Whole Foods or their local farm-to-table restaurant, but why is a chain like Denny’s (i.e., one that is enjoyed more for its assortment of inexpensive breakfast foods than its moral standards) joining the trend to reduce antibiotics in meat?
Read MoreHow Green Party Gains Could Make Europe a Leader Again on Climate
In recent years, Europe’s role as a global environmental leader has been jeopardized by rising nationalism and populism. But spurred by young climate activists, the Green Party fared well in the latest European Union elections and is now well-positioned to advance bold climate initiatives.
Read MoreClimate Plan
The Climate Plan advocates measures that can be taken in efforts to improve the situation regarding the climate, as well as regarding the health, prospects and wellbeing of people and life in general. These measures can and should be implemented immediately, in line with the current climate crisis.
Read MoreAfter Years of Abuse, the Earth Has Sent Its Bill Collectors
This planet’s macro-ecological system does have an undeniable sense of accounting … and it keeps a running tally. From alpha-gal syndrome to herbicide resistance, from rising seas to superstorms, we’re watching Mother Nature’s accounting system repeatedly expose the fatal flaw driving economic growth during the Anthropocene era. That flaw is the fallacy of externalities.
Read MoreAnimal Agriculture Causes Biodiversity Loss: UN Report
A new UN environmental report, which found that around 1 million species are at risk of extinction, puts much of the blame on animal agriculture, saying that the meat industry has a “particularly heavy impact”. Of all the major causes of biodiversity loss listed by the report (such as destruction of forests and wetlands, overfishing, climate change and pollution), animal agriculture is the primary cause of the deterioration.
Read MoreBeef Industry Takes the Biggest Bite Out of Earth’s Natural Resources
Earlier this month, faced with its involvement in the planet’s environmental crisis, the U.S. Roundtable on Sustainable Beef put together a voluntary framework to “assess” and “encourage” sustainability and hand out recognition certificates. But it’s totally inadequate. This framework lacks accountability, transparency and, above all, truth about beef’s impacts.
Read More The Zero Carbon Bill Through the Eyes of an Everyday Activist
The Zero Carbon Bill was released by the New Zealand Government on the 8th May, 2019 and everyone has an opinion on it. Will it be any good for us, the biodiversity we cherish and the planet? The jury is definitely out on that one as scientists, academics, economists, politicians and everyday activists like me try to figure out what it will mean. Its intention is to get New Zealand on a pathway of no more than 1.5C warming, in a way which includes all sectors.
Read MoreRating Animals’ Quality Of Life
Animals in factory farms have the worst lives, that virtually no one would want for themselves. This report compares how their suffering may measure up to wild animals, and other humans.
Read MoreHasan Minhaj Breaks Down Deforestation in the Amazon — and Offers a Way to Help
Comedian Hasan Minhaj grew up watching public service announcements about protecting the Amazon rainforest. While some of them were definitely cringey, global calls to action eventually slowed deforestation rates in the Amazon. But last year saw an alarming reversal of that progress, Minhaj explained on the latest episode of his Netflix series, Patriot Act.
Read MoreMother Cow Escapes Slaughterhouse to Save Her Calf!
A mother will go to any length to protect her child, even if it means braving the most miserable and inhumane conditions imaginable. Just like humans, mothers of other species are driven to do amazing things to ensure their young ones a brighter future.
Read MoreSuperbugs to Kill More People than Cancer if Industrial Agriculture Doesn’t Ditch Antibiotics and Pesticides
Industrial agriculture is perpetuating one of the greatest threats to mankind. From the rampant overuse of antibiotics in factory farm animals to the heavy spraying of pesticides on food crops, industrial agriculture has given rise to deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
Read More The Lost Teachings of Jesus: Have Compassion for the Earth and All Beings
Jesus Christ was sent to show humanity how to live and interact not only with each other but with the world around us. But the true essence of his teachings was lost when his group, the Ebionites, was disbanded after the fall of the Jewish Temple in 70 AD, and the final nail was put in the coffin when Christianity was blended with the Roman Empire in the 4th Century AD. I believe that another Christian reformation is coming, one that will show the world how to live authentically with compassion, love, creativity, and with a light impact on our beautiful planet.
Read MoreMystery Killer Spans the Globe
According to the World Health Organization: “The world is facing an antibiotic apocalypse.” There are multiple causes behind antibiotic-resistant bacteria, with their extensive use in animal farming being chief among these.
Read MoreSaying Goodbye to Planet Earth
Chris Hedges argues that “the human-induced change to the ecosystem, at least for many thousands of years, will probably make the biosphere inhospitable to most forms of life [without] halting our consumption of fossil fuels, converting to a plant-based diet and dismantling the animal agriculture industry as well as greening deserts and restoring rainforests.”
Read More The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming
In a new report, scientists warn of a precipitous drop in the world’s insect population, a situation that could be just as catastrophic to humans as it is to insects. To avoid insect apocalypse, we need to reduce the size of our agricultural footprint.
Read More The Honest Truth About Dairy
Is milk healthy? What sacrifices are made to make dairy? How did we come to be dairy drinkers in the first place?
Read MoreJapan Begins Culling Thousands of Pigs as Swine Fever spreads
Japanese authorities were battling to contain swine flu on Wednesday (Feb 6) after the virus was detected at multiple sites in central Japan.Japanese soldiers and local government officials began slaughtering around 6,600 pigs at a farm in Toyota City in Aichi prefecture following the confirmation of an outbreak of swine fever, also known as hog cholera, there.
Read More Breathtaking Video Shows How Animal Agriculture is Destroying Earth
This breathtaking video presents a gloomy picture of how the animal industries are destroying the environment and changing life on Earth. We only have one home, let’s protect it.
Read MoreHumanity has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations since 1970, Report Finds
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation.
Read MoreAnimal Agriculture is Choking the Earth and Making Us Sick – We Must Act Now
Our collective minds are stuck on this idea that talking about food’s environmental impact risks taking something very intimate away from us. In fact it’s just the opposite. Reconsidering how we eat offers us hope, and empowers us with choice over what our future planet will look like. And we can ask our local leaders – from city mayors to school district boards to hospital management – to help, by widening our food options.
Read MoreInside the Bold New Animal Liberation Movement: No Masks, No Regrets, All the Risk
DxE is one of may animal rights groups whose members are risking prison time in order to expose the cruelties within the animal farming industry.
Read More Planet Earth – As We Eat Our Way To Extinction
It is the no. 1 cause of global warming, world hunger, deforestation, water pollution, species extinction and other environmental disasters. Can you guess what is it?
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