The meat industry could trigger the next pandemic
Covid-19 could be the ‘straw that breaks the meat industry’s back’, says a new report
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Covid-19 could be the ‘straw that breaks the meat industry’s back’, says a new report
A story in the Metro this week says vegetarians “are more likely to be depressed and meat is good for mental health”. This is, of course, nonsense…
The Covid-19 coronavirus may be linked to a wet market, but the next pandemic could come from a factory farm near you.
Air quality in cities has improved as a result of the coronavirus lockdown, but it’s a temporary glimpse of how things could be rather than a cause to celebrate.
Finally, the right question is being asked. In the Guardian this week, an article describes how scientists are tracing the path of SARS CoV-2 from a wild animal host, but says we need to look at the part played in the outbreak by industrial food production.
A huge body of scientific evidence supports plant-based diets, for both human health and environmental benefits. Yet one article after another, on the BBC Future website, uses flawed studies, often...
Was Zaria Gorvett having a brain freeze when she wrote this article? A mismatch of outdated and obscure articles cobbled together to argue that vegans are missing out on brain...
The H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was detected in a turkey flock of 40,000 birds and local media reported that the outbreak might result in them all being slaughtered.…
In a speech billed as a ‘meat fight-back’ at the Oxford Farming Conference, Alice Stanton, professor of cardiovascular pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, said that nutrient…
