Consumers rarely, if ever, get to see the cow that produced the milk they drink. For big dairy companies, the problem starts with the financial incentive to hide the suffering behind a human-animal relationship that exists solely to turn a profit.
Current investors in Beyond Meat include Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack and Suzy Welch, Kleiner Perkins, and Tyson Foods.
Farmers joining hands with so-called animal rights extremists could signal a change to the direct action model, one that hopefully takes place without the law having to get involved. Let’s call it direct cooperation.
The neighbors of factory farms are choking on toxic gases produced by farm animals, and the farmers know it. In September, a $400 million dollars lawsuit shut down the largest hog farm in the world.
Vegan chefs are in high demand at the moment, so high that restaurants in London…
We chatted with Jacy Reese about his new book, The End of Animal Farming. Here’s what he had to say about redrawing the lines between humans, animals, and food in everyday culture.
According to the PEW Research Center, half of Americans support genetically engineered animal testing, while…
Washington state livestock industry leaders discussed disaster preparedness today in a year that has seen…
There is an Amazon for vegans, and it’s helping to define what we’re calling the…
Earlier this summer, the largest meat lobby in America, the North American Meat Institute, and…
One of the big challenges for cell-based meat is to match the nutritional value of…
Africa receives 200 times more development aid than it does for its protected wildlife populations.…
Animal lives are at stake in the midterm elections. New legislation in California and Florida…
Anywhere between 37 and 120 billion fish are killed on commercial farms each year, with…
Beyond Meat According to a source close to the company, Beyond Meat is almost ready…
The lifetime asthma rate in Somerset County is 21%, compared to the statewide rate of…
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.
Alarm bells went off after the Forest Service began rounding up 1,000 wild horses from…
During a drought earlier this year in Australia, where temperatures reached 117 degrees Fahrenheit, farmers…
It’s getting so hot out that Africa could lose up to 50% of its bird and mammal populations by the end of the century. Species loss in the Americas could hit 40% in the next 30 years.
Guess who eats the most alternatives to meat, millennials or non-millennials? Okay, that was a…
In the midst of some really bad climate news, here’s a story about animals adapting…
Direct Action Everywhere/YouTube Direct Action Everywhere protesters stormed a chicken plant near Petaluma, CA, which…
Mercy For Animals/YouTube Fish feel pain, which makes news that California Governor Jerry Brown signed…
It’s official, the Beyond Burger generates 90% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than U.S. beef. If…
6,000 wild buffalo, horses, donkeys, and pigs were culled from Kakadu National Park, Australia in…
Gregory Smith/Flickr A U.S. District judge just reinstated the Yellowstone grizzly bear’s threatened-species status. He…
Tyson and Blue Apron are still using gestation crates, despite the major food suppliers’ efforts…
First, Toronto residents were afraid raccoon-proofing trash cans would starve out the raccoons. True, only…
Big Ag is the largest groundwater user in Sulphur Springs Valley, AZ—and it’s not slowing…
After selling over 1 million burgers in less than 60 days, Don Lee Farms’ Organic…
Animal Day/Flickr Four thousand clay lagoons full of manure runoff from North Carolina’s hog industry…
One-third of the oceans and land need to be protected by 2030 to avoid an…
Animal agriculture isn’t one of the main challenge areas for the Global Climate Action Summit…
The climate science community, for over a decade now one of the most vocal defenders of factual scientific information, will not be able to leave animal agriculture off its agenda for much longer.
Smithfield Foods/YouTube Apparently, $400 million dollars is enough to get Smithfield to shut down their…
In 1967 Congress appropriated $78 million in public funds to the Tennessee Valley Authority to…
For centuries, animals’ capacity for human-like behavior went unnoticed. But animals are smarter than we…
51% of chefs added vegan options to their menus in 2018, and it’s paying off!…
The Good Food Conference in Berkeley, organized by the industry powerhouse Good Food Institute, gathered hundreds of entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, media and other industry people into the packed two-day event.
Maen Mahfoud grew up in Syria, wanting to be a doctor. He began medical school…
If seawater temperatures in Iceland increase by just one degree, which it has since the…
North Carolina became the first state to pass legislation that would prohibit the use of…
Here’s what the most polluted places on Earth look like. About 12,000 years ago, the…
Insecticides are linked to developmental delays in toddlers. Oh, and Parkinson’s disease and lowered fertility…
The largest meat lobby in America sees a future for clean meat. The North American…
Residents were shocked at the proposal, not to mention the $500 million in tax-free loans the county had promised Tyson.
Livestock farming takes up 41% of all U.S. land. See for yourself in this Bloomberg…
With a growing public demand, two Harvard researchers attempt to answer that question. Over the…
The Big Mac was first launched 50 years ago. Over the decades, the sandwich has…