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“Become a Beefatarian”: the absurd EU campaign calling for an increase in meat consumption.

2 December 2020

Become a beefatarian: EU launches “Become a Beefatarian”, an absurd campaign, supported with public funds, which invites European citizens to increase their consumption of meat, without questioning environmental sustainability, animal welfare or climate justice There is perhaps no question on how the climate crisis – and in particular the great impact of food production on …

Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, Concerns About EU’s Animal Welfare Standards Arise

22 April 2020 Indre Anskaityte

A few dozen members of the European Parliament have joined several non-governmental organizations calling for a ban on live animal transport during the COVID-19 pandemic. Civil society groups argue that the reintroduced border controls have increased delays, which cause unnecessary stress for animals and heightens the risk for diseases. The EU regulations require that …

MEAT THE CHANGE: We have to go Slow with meat!

13 January 2020

For the Slow Food network, the new year brings the Meat the Change campaign, which helps explain the impact of meat consumption and factory farms on climate change, starting with a fun quiz to inspire us to reflect on our daily habits. The climate crisis is one of the great challenges of our generation. Governments …

The Mootrix: could VR simulations substitute access to pasture for cows?

2 January 2020

We all remember The Matrix, the cyberpunk sci-fi action film which took the world by storm upon its release in 1999. The premise of the film, that we are living in a simulated hyper-reality of which we are unaware, our human bodies used as an energy source by sentient machines, has its roots in the …

The “eat less meat” movement is growing. Does it distort science? (Part 1 of 3)

20 December 2019

“There are many, many ways to raise meat, and dismissing all meat as being destructive is asinine because it ignores the significant variation in production methods and ecosystems in which meat can be produced.”

The “eat less meat” movement is growing. Does it distort science? (Part 2 of 3)

20 December 2019

If everyone in America skipped meat once a week, it would reduce total GHG emissions by only .5 percent. Even if it’s a worthy notion on social justice principles, it’s not the single solution to the climate crisis.

The “eat less meat” movement is growing. Does it distort science? (Part 3 of 3)

20 December 2019

Farming advocates see livestock not as the great climate polluters, but as essential tools in a functioning agroecological system—ones that provide a highly nutritious, salable food product. “People have a very distorted view of the important role that animals play in human health and the sustainability movement.”

Eat less meat, of better quality: don’t do it with sadness. Do it with joy!

26 August 2019

Reducing meat consumption is an urgent matter: you can do it by decreasing quantities and choosing quality. Meat production and consumption are becoming increasingly unsustainable for the climate, for our planet, for the living conditions of billions of animals who are raised without regard for animal welfare in order to meet the growing demand of …

Contaminated water across Europe because of pesticides and veterinary antibiotics: a better farming is urgent!

24 April 2019 Annalisa Audino

As mentioned, several times, meat production and consumption are becoming increasingly unsustainable for our planet. A new alarm comes from the Screening of pesticides and veterinary drugs in small streams in the European Union by liquid chromatography high resolution mass spectrometry, a recently-published study on Science of the Total Environment (a preview of the report …

Animal Welfare: a Tea with the Chickens from Cascina Santa Brera

16 April 2019 Alessia Pautasso

At Cascina Santa Brera, just outside Milan, Irene di Carpegna and her team take the comfort and happiness of their chickens very seriously, starting with a hot cuppa on a winter morning…