Explainer
Despite the industry's best efforts to hide behind labels that make chicken farming appear more eco-friendly, it still has devastating consequences for animals and the environment.
Big Meat•17 min read
Explainer
As transformative and applicable as biochar may be, it will have little effect on the overall sustainability of our food system if agricultural practices otherwise remain the same.
Big Meat•8 min read
Reported
Deforestation is a global problem. If it increases the risk of disease, which we now know it does, then the prognosis is more economic catastrophe.
Big Meat•6 min read
Perspective
Follow along as climate researchers debunk another industry-backed study bragging about the perceived benefits of regenerative agriculture.
Big Meat•29 min read
Analysis
Variations on a meme claiming that 100 companies are responsible for 71 percent of greenhouse gas emissions have become ubiquitous on the internet. The problem is, they may not be…
Big Meat•5 min read
Perspective
Pesticide producers have a long history of lobbying against environmental regulations. Now, they're using power and influence to manipulate legitimate climate strategies for their own ends.
Big Meat•6 min read
Perspective
Meat producers are trying to trick the rapidly growing sector of eco-conscious consumers into believing that they are partners in the solution to climate change. And people are eating it…
Big Meat•6 min read
Reported
A new carbon-cutting proposal by a beef association shows that the industry isn’t really looking for climate solutions. It’s trying to maximize profits.
Big Meat•5 min read
Perspective
The industry's quiet campaign to greenwash its image has a new partner in crime: the emerging biogas industry.
Big Meat•5 min read
Reported
Danone, Tyson, and other food giants have promised to reduce emissions in their supply chain, as part of an industry-wide push for sustainability. Will they deliver?
Big Meat•7 min read
Reported
In the new documentary, Takeout, filmmaker Michal Siewierski takes viewers into the world's largest rainforest to discuss why the Amazon is burning.
Big Meat•4 min read
Explainer
One of the most overlooked factors of accelerated climate change is animal agriculture. Could changes to the human diet help us slow down the climate crisis?
Big Meat•8 min read
Perspective
The meat industry is under intense scrutiny for its climate impact, with beef singled out as the biggest culprit. But if you want to save the planet, opt for the…
Big Meat•6 min read
Perspective
Starbucks serves 80,000 different drink combinations—most of which include dairy. Switching to plant-based milk would dramatically reduce environmental damage and alleviate animal suffering.
Big Meat•7 min read
Perspective
For years, climate campaigners have targeted the financial sector for bankrolling the fossil fuel industry. Next up: the $1.4-trillion meat industry.
Big Meat•5 min read
Reported
Capturing the massive quantities of methane dairy farms emit could reduce overall carbon pollution. But critics say the effort is propping up Big Dairy.
Big Meat•16 min read
Reported
Farmers are focusing on ways to reduce methane emissions and save water to further reduce the staple crop’s climate footprint.
Big Meat•10 min read
Reported
Ecosystems around the globe have been driven to the brink by agricultural encroachment. Now, growing interest in regenerative agriculture is giving the industry a brand new way to green-wash its…
Big Meat•9 min read
Reported
Jo-Anne McArthur reports from the ground in Australia, where wildfires have wreaked havoc on farmed animals and wildlife.
Big Meat•3 min read
Reported
British police arrested Animal Rebellion activists who disrupted operations at a Farnborough slaughterhouse that kills pigs, cows, goats, and sheep to call attention to the climate crisis.
Big Meat•5 min read
Reported
Activists with Animal Rebellion risked arrest storming CarVal offices to expose companies profiting the most from climate change.
Big Meat•3 min read
Reported
There is an indisputable link between the climate crisis and animal agriculture. But let's make one thing clear. Farm animals are not making the climate crisis worse - we are.
Big Meat•6 min read
Analysis
Reporting of meat production's and animal agriculture's roles in the climate crisis has risen in last two years. It might still not be enough.
Big Meat•6 min read
Explainer
News anchors broadcast about it, scientists are scrambling for ways to reverse it, and consumers unknowingly contribute to it. What is it? Climate change.
Big Meat•17 min read
Reported
Mitigating or fully avoiding the negative effects of extractive, destructive industries and companies is genuine cruelty-free investing. Vegan ETF makes responsible investing easy for anyone.
Big Meat•7 min read
Reported
The Guardian just released aerial footage showing the desolation left in the wake of fires that have swept the Amazon rainforest over the past month.
Big Meat•2 min read
Reported
China’s trade war retaliation on livestock-feeding US soybeans has created an opportunity for Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro is exploiting that by allowing the Amazon Rainforest to burn.
Big Meat•6 min read
Reported
Washington state livestock industry leaders discussed disaster preparedness today in a year that has seen wildfire and floods hit agricultural centers on a scale most religious experts call “biblical.” The…
Big Meat•5 min read
Reported
Residents of Somerset and Wicomico want the state to investigate the air for pollutants coming from chicken manure. Their elected officials don’t see the need.
Big Meat•7 min read
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