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Avian Flu Is Making it Tougher to Keep Backyard Chickens
Domestic chicken-keeping surged in popularity during lockdown. Then avian flu happened.
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Catherine Oliver
Catherine Oliver is a geographer, researcher, and lecturer in the sociology of climate change at Lancaster University. Until September 2022, Catherine was working with ex-commercial laying hens in London at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham in 2020 and her first book, Veganism, Archives, and Animals was published with Routledge in 2021. Catherine writes widely about animals from a geographical perspective in academic and public-facing forums. She can be found on Twitter at @katiecmoliver, and more about her work is available on her website: https://catherinecmoliver.com/.
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Cambridge University Says It’s ‘Closing a Chapter on Meat’, but There’s Still Plenty of Beef on the Menu
One of the world's most prestigious universities made a pledge to go meat-free but the reality has been far from sustainable.
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New Documentary Transforms Cows From Methane Machines to Sentient Beings
In Cow, a documentary filmed over four years on a British dairy farm, director Andrea Arnold explores what it means for Luma, a farmed animal, to be truly seen.
Climate•5 min read
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