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#101
Campaigners welcome 'historic' EU inquiry into live animal transport

Campaigners welcome 'historic' EU inquiry into live animal transport

The European Parliament has voted to establish an inquiry committee to investigate the transport of live animals across and out of the European Union.

The committee will address whether the European Commission has failed to act upon evidence of “serious and systematic” infringements of EU regulations for the protection of exported live animals.

Hazekamp said these cases are not incidental as those in the industry often claim: “It is on a structural basis that we see really cruel things done to animals – severe abuse and mistreatment.”
 
#105
Revealed: Covid-19 outbreaks at meat-processing plants in US being kept quiet

Revealed: Covid-19 outbreaks at meat-processing plants in US being kept quiet

“We don’t have a lot of space at work. We are shoulder to shoulder,” said one worker, who declined to be identified, during a recent union call. “I’m afraid to go to work, but I have to go.”

The testing turned up 150 positive cases at the facility, the worker said.
 
#106
US rivers and lakes are shrinking for a surprising reason: cows

US rivers and lakes are shrinking for a surprising reason: cows

Cattle-feed crops, which end up as beef and dairy products, account for 23% of water consumption in the US

Agricultural strategies aside, people who eat beef and dairy will ultimately need to consume less or choose products that don’t depend on irrigated crops fed to cows, Richter said. Plant-based meat alternatives can play a role, as one analysis found that a meatless Beyond Burger generates 90% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and has practically no impact on water scarcity.
 
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#107
@mspohr and others, do you recommend any vegan cheese substitutes?

Came in with low expectations and tried a few (Daiya and Trader Joe's American Cheese style and Pepper Jack style from Whole Foods) and they were surprisingly decent. But for my taste buds these have further to go towards reproducing the dairy equivalent taste than say Beyond or Impossible in closing the taste gap similarities on the meat products they imitate.
 
#108
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@mspohr and others, do you recommend any vegan cheese substitutes?

Came in with low expectations and tried a few (Daiya and Trader Joe's American Cheese style and Pepper Jack style from Whole Foods) and they were surprisingly decent. But for my taste buds these have further to go towards reproducing the dairy equivalent taste than say Beyond or Impossible in closing the taste gap similarities on the meat products they imitate.
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I'm not a cheese lover so haven't tried any of the hard cheese imitators. I have tried to make cheese sauce with cashews and that works well. Nutritional yeast adds a good flavor.
 
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#110
The number of such “zoonotic” epidemics is rising, from Ebola to Sars to West Nile virus and Rift Valley fever, with the root cause being the destruction of nature by humans and the growing demand for meat, the report says.

Wildlife and livestock are the source of most viruses infecting humans and the report cites a series of drivers of outbreaks, including rising demand for animal protein, more intensive and unsustainable farming, greater exploitation of wildlife, surging global travel and the climate crisis. It also says many farmers, regions and nations are reluctant to declare outbreaks for fear of damaging trade.

Coronavirus: world treating symptoms, not cause of pandemics, says UN

Coronavirus: world treating symptoms, not cause of pandemics, says UN
 
#111
Banks and pension funds among investors bankrolling meat and dairy

Banks and pension funds among investors bankrolling meat and dairy


Scientists have repeatedly expressed alarm over the environmental impact of large-scale food and dairy production and are calling for a transformation of the global food system. They say the current model is responsible for up to 30% of greenhouse gas emissions and 70% of freshwater use, with huge reductions in meat-eating essential to avoid climate crisis.

Banks, investors and pension funds have poured billions into the world’s largest meat and dairy companies over the past five years, a new report has found. It compares the environmental impact of “‘big ag” to that of big oil.
 
#113
Viewpoint: Plant-based meats promote veganism in ways animal rights activists never could

Foer is correct that COVID-19 presents an opportunity, because the effect of a crisis is often to encourage people to reassess their life choices. As has been widely noted, COVID-19 may have crossed over to humans through a live-animal market in China. As the chief communications officer for Impossible Foods (creator of the plant-based “Impossible Burger”) told Vox in early May, “people don’t like to be contributing to climate change and biodiversity collapse and pandemics. It feels icky, so we try not to talk about it. [But] in these moments, when the gruesome reality of animal agriculture pierces into our consciousness—because of COVID or whatever else—that we start to wake up.”

Of course, zoonotic diseases—infectious agents that make the jump to humans from animal populations—have become a too-common feature of modern society. But COVID-19 has led to a pathogen-related global disruption not witnessed since the Spanish flu a century ago. More people are eating at home, enjoying meals with their family, learning new recipes, and rethinking food choices in the process.

Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade. And COVID-19 will accelerate this shift. But it will not take place overnight, and it will be a battle won more through delicious, meatless meals than through strident rhetoric. Though I understand why Foer is in a big hurry, the most effective approach will be to welcome new adherents—be they vegan, vegetarian, or merely flexitarian—without insisting that everyone else is doing something wrong.
 
#114
Opinion | The Mistakes That Will Haunt Our Legacy

“One day future generations will look back on our abuse of animals in factory farms with the same attitude that we have to the cruelties of the Roman ‘games’ at the Colosseum,” Peter Singer, a Princeton University philosopher, told me. “They will wonder how we could be blind to the suffering we are so needlessly inflicting on billions of animals.”
 
#116
Governments’ dietary guidelines are harming the planet, study finds

Governments’ dietary guidelines are harming the planet, study finds

Official dietary advice across the world is harming both the environment and people’s health, according to scientists who have carried out the most comprehensive assessment of national dietary guidelines to date.

Food is responsible for a quarter of the emissions driving the climate crisis and millions of early deaths. The analysis assessed all available dietary guidelines, covering 85 countries and every region of the world. The researchers said governments’ failure to help people eat good diets was “shocking”.


The researchers also assessed the impact of a “planetary health diet”, published by scientists in 2019, which recommends cutting red meat consumption by three-quarters in developed countries. Adopting this diet, and using campaigns and regulation to help people meet its requirements, would lead to big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the number of diet-related early deaths from illnesses including heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes.
 
#118
Less windy Whoppers? Low-methane Burger King still involves some hot air

Less windy Whoppers? Low-methane Burger King still involves some hot air

While the original work cited by Burger King, by Dr Castelán-Ortega at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, showed evidence that feeding lemongrass to cattle could reduce methane emissions from cattle by an average of 33%, a study by Dr Ermias Kebreab at UC Davis to verify those results was inconclusive.

But it’s also worth noting that focusing on feed additives alone ignores the full picture. Most US beef cattle are only on feed during the last four months or so of their life. That means for the first 10–12 months prior to their arrival at a feedlot – time they spend grazing on pasture – they are, according to Mitloehner, actually producing more methane each day than they do in a confined facility.
 
#120
Cost of preventing next pandemic 'equal to just 2% of Covid-19 economic damage'

Cost of preventing next pandemic 'equal to just 2% of Covid-19 economic damage'

The cost of preventing further pandemics over the next decade by protecting wildlife and forests would equate to just 2% of the estimated financial damage caused by Covid-19, according to a new analysis.

Two new viruses a year had spilled from their wildlife hosts into humans over the last century, the researchers said, with the growing destruction of nature meaning the risk today is higher than ever.

It was vital to crack down on the international wildlife trade and the razing of forests, they said. Both bring wildlife into contact with people and their livestock. But such efforts are currently severely underfunded, according to the experts.
 
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