More than 800m trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef, according…
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‘Deer are destroying habitats’: push to get venison on to UK dinner plates
“It’s crazy and indefensible,” says the MP Charles Walker. “Venison is a wonderful, sustainable resource but is seen as too posh to eat, ergo –…
View More ‘Deer are destroying habitats’: push to get venison on to UK dinner platesMeat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study
Emissions from the food system alone will drive the world past 1.5C of global heating, unless high-methane foods are tackled. Climate-heating emissions from food production,…
View More Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study‘Super-tipping points’ could trigger cascade of climate action
Three “super-tipping points” for climate action could trigger a cascade of decarbonisation across the global economy, according to a report. Relatively small policy interventions on…
View More ‘Super-tipping points’ could trigger cascade of climate actionClimate impact labels could help people eat less red meat
Climate impact labels on foods such as red meat are an effective way to get people to stop choosing options that negatively affect the planet,…
View More Climate impact labels could help people eat less red meatRevealed: world’s biggest meat firm appears to have avoided millions in UK tax
The global megacompanies supplying some of Britain’s most popular meat brands, including KFC, Nando’s chicken and Sainsbury’s organic range, appear to have been using offshore…
View More Revealed: world’s biggest meat firm appears to have avoided millions in UK tax‘This land belonged to us’: Nestlé supply chain linked to disputed Indigenous territory
On one side of the fence, in dense forest, the Mỹky people grow their crops: cassava, pequi and cabriteiro fruit. On the other side, ranchers…
View More ‘This land belonged to us’: Nestlé supply chain linked to disputed Indigenous territoryEngland must reduce meat intake to avoid climate breakdown, says food tsar
The only way to have sustainable land use in this country, and avoid ecological breakdown, is to vastly reduce consumption of meat and dairy, according…
View More England must reduce meat intake to avoid climate breakdown, says food tsarMicroplastics detected in meat, milk and blood of farm animals
Microplastic contamination has been reported in beef and pork for the first time, as well as in the blood of cows and pigs on farms.…
View More Microplastics detected in meat, milk and blood of farm animalsPlant-based meat by far the best climate investment, report finds
Investments in plant-based alternatives to meat lead to far greater cuts in climate-heating emissions than other green investments, according to one of the world’s biggest…
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