Posts tagged animal agriculture
Can’t cut it as a vegetarian? Try this instead.
Can’t cut it as a vegetarian? Try this instead.

Can’t cut it as a vegetarian but want to eat for the planet and your own health? Try the reducetarian diet instead.

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The beef with regenerative grazing
The beef with regenerative grazing

Advocates often tote grass-finished beef as environmentally sustainable in comparison to the grain-finished feedlot alternative. But is that true? A recent report by Impossible Foods challenges that claim.

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Regenerative growingTia Schwabgrass-fed, climate change, animal agriculture, regenerative grazing, holistic grazing, holistic land management, sustainable meat, sustainable food, grazing, managed grazing, multi-paddock grazing, Allan Savory, World Resources Institute, grass-finished beef, Will Heard, Tim LaSalle, Brian Kateman, Paul Shapiro, grass fed beef Comments
Progress in fight against Big Ag polluters
Progress in fight against Big Ag polluters

The truth is no one really knows how much factory farm waste is escaping into our environment because no federal agency collects consistent and reliable information on the number, size, and location of large-scale agricultural operations, nor the pollution they’re emitting. Without this information, no one can monitor and hold CAFOS accountable for mismanaged waste and related health and environmental damage. Stanford Law Professor Daniel Ho and PhD student Cassandra Handan-Nader are hoping to change that.


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Climate innovationTia Schwabanimal agriculture, water pollution, public health, factory farming, CAFOs, Stanford, mapping, algorithm, environmental interest group, EarthJustice, Waterkeeper Alliance, Factory Farming Awareness Coalition, pigs, animal wate, animal manure, Katie Cantrell, Daniel Ho, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Nature Sustainability, ag-gag laws, Environmental Working Group, Stanford researchers, Soren Rundquist, pollution and factory farms Comment
Hamburgers and climate change: how do animal ag emissions stack up?
Hamburgers and climate change: how do animal ag emissions stack up?

The hamburger has become central to national discussions about climate change, raising the question: how much does animal agriculture really contribute to greenhouse gas emissions? Photo source

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Climate innovationTia Schwabplant-based eating, greenhouse gas, animal agriculture, climate change, sustainable food system, hamburger, food politics, Green New Deal, project drawdown, Paul Hawken, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Desus & Mero, factory farming, livestock, food sector, EPA, Project Drawdown, greenhouse gas emissions from livestock, connection between livestock and climate change, animal agriculture and greenhouse gas emissions, animal agriculture and climate chance Comment