When everyone on the planet consumes steaks and dairy products like Brazilians and Americans, it is necessary to report that the Earth needs five more in order to reach the goal of global warming countermeasures. The book was published on the 16th. This is the first report comparing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from food consumption in 20 countries and regions (G20).
The emissions from livestock farming amount to about 65 teragrams (Tg) of nitrogen a year. That means meat and dairy production alone breaches the lower limit of the 62 to 82 Tg a year considered to be the “planetary boundary” for nitrogen emissions, or the safe global level beyond which humanity’s future prosperity is endangered. Nitrous oxide, for example, is exacerbating global warming.
New Zealand has implemented a new climate change curriculum in schools that advises learners to avoid consuming dairy and meat.
Whether you are concerned about your health, the environment or animal welfare, scientific evidence is piling up that meat-free diets are best. Millions of people in wealthy nations are already cutting back on animal products.
It is these very conditions that facilitate the emergence of new infectious diseases and that also inflict horrific harms on animals — being kept in confined conditions and then butchered. Simply put, the coronavirus pandemic is a result of our gross maltreatment of animals.
In his editorial New Rule, Bill contends that humans can’t trash the environment – including animals – and not have it come back and kill them.
The production of chicken to be sold in UK supermarkets, restaurants and fast-food chains is destroying wildlife-rich forests in South America, Greenpeace investigators claim.
Newly-obtained footage shows the underwater fish farm pipe in British Columbia is still churning out virus-infected blood and guts.
In Japan, pro athletes who do not eat meat are increasing in numbers to improve their performances.
Eating healthy food is almost always also best for the environment, according to the most sophisticated analysis to date.
The researchers said poor diets threaten society by seriously harming people and the planet, but the latest research can inform better choices.
Scientists at the University of California discovered that the human body views red meat as a foreign invader and launches an immune response
The disease is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. after lung cancer, and kills around 31,620 people annually. It is most common in men over the age of 66, and African Americans. However, eating animal products, and dairy in particular, was associated with an increased or unchanged risk of being diagnosed with the disease.
As many as 37 percent of human breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to bovine leukemia virus.
CHICKEN has been linked to a higher risk of getting cancer for the first time, it has been reported.
Switching to a plant-based diet can help fight climate change, UN experts have said.
A major report on land use and climate change says the West’s high consumption of meat and dairy produce is fuelling global warming.
But scientists and officials stopped short of explicitly calling on everyone to become vegan or vegetarian.
If Blue Bombers, top-ranked tennis players and basketball stars can go vegan, why can’t the rest of us?
