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How the food industry exerts influence II: climate scientists (meat industry)

Food Politics

The animal agriculture industry, US universities, and the obstruction of climate understanding and policy. In the USA, one of the largest consumers and producers of meat and dairy products, livestock greenhouse gas emissions remain effectively unregulated. The study: Morris, V., Jacquet, J. What might explain this?

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The COP-28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai—items

Food Politics

The lunch menu: The summit is featuries roughly two-thirds plant-based menu to highlight the link between greenhouse gas emissions and livestock. FERN’s Ag Insider: Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture grew 14 percent in 20 years. Reuters: Countries urged to curb factory farming to meet climate goals IV.

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Despite Recent Headlines, Urban Farming Is Not a Climate Villain

Civil Eats

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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Opinion: There’s No Right Way to Eat Meat

Modern Farmer

There’s no doubt that industrial animal agriculture carries a laundry list of sins; greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water pollution and labor rights abuses are just a few examples. For some people, eschewing meat—or even all animal products—entirely is the only reasonable course of action.

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Opinion: Farm Forward’s Investigation Into Alexandre Farms and the Greenwashing of Large-scale Dairy

Modern Farmer

Farm Forward recently published a major investigative report detailing systematic animal suffering and consumer fraud at Alexandre Family Farm—a leading large-scale organic dairy company with “well over 9,000 head of cattle,” according to co-owner Blake Alexandre—whose products are covered in certification labels.

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Cream Co. Meats Is Reshaping the Meat Industry One Farm at a Time

Food Tank

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) finds that if farmers and ranchers continue to produce the same amount of livestock, but employ tactics used by the lowest 10 percent of greenhouse gas emitters, overall emissions from the industry could decrease by 30 percent. Pollard said Cream Co.

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

We are on the cusp of the deepest, fastest, most consequential disruption in food and agricultural production since the first domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago. The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound. And these think tanks continue to crank out their nonsense.

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