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The latest developments on the cultivated meat front

Food Politics

‘Meating’ demand: Animal-based proteins versus cell-based agriculture As demand for meat and poultry continues to grow, Food Manufacture explores what is driving sales of animal-based protein and whether or not the advent of cell-based meat is truly the herald of things to come, or a half-baked pipedream limited by a lack of resources….

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Animal Ag News 6/18

Agwired

Deborah Okedoyin ‘24, a North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) alumna, has received the International Livestock Congress Student Fellowship for 2024.

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Exiting the Factory Farm

Modern Farmer

The role of policy One of the biggest obstacles that Kara Shannon, director of farm animal welfare policy for the ASPCA, has observed for farmers wanting to transition out of industrial animal agriculture and into specialty crops or something more humane is the lack of funding and resources available to overcome financial hurdles.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

Last year, the foundation announced construction was beginning on a 45,000-square-foot, $31 million facility called the Market Center of the Ozarks. What’s more, deforestation is one of the main drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in animal agriculture.

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Guarding Communities: Washington State Veterinarian Amber Itle shares about veterinarian’s roles in animal, human and environmental health

NASDA

While she once measured success by immediate animal care outcomes, she now sees it in her ability to shape policies that benefit animals and humans alike. “In

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Congress Likely to Preserve OSHA Loophole That Endangers Animal Ag Workers

Civil Eats

Members of Congress will likely reapprove a policy that may be obscuring the deaths of hundreds of animal agriculture workers—and which leaves the vast majority without any oversight or protection—despite concerns from worker advocates and a key legislator. And who is there advocating on behalf of farmworker and agriculture rights?

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