#Act4 FarmAnimals Last week, the Global Animal Partnership published standards for the welfare certification of farmed Atlantic salmon. The multi-tiered certification programme that operates in the North American market makes full use of the science in a comprehensive approach to salmon welfare in aquaculture. Insect feed incompatible with high welfare salmon farming 15 June 2022
#Act4 FarmAnimals The United States is home to 95million cattle. Changing what they eat could have a significant effect on emissions of greenhouse gases like methane that are warming the world. Belching cows and endless feedlots: Fixing cattle's climate issues 23 October 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals A respected Bay Area veterinarian endures widespread attacks following an industry “alert” about her criticisms of factory farms. New documents reveal how the animal agriculture industry surveils and punishes critics 12 October 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals How many lives and days of suffering go into U.S. consumption of animal products every day? New research shows the impact of replacing animal products 21 September 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals In documents dating to 2006, government officials predicted that a pandemic would threaten critical businesses and warned them to prepare. Meatpacking companies largely ignored them, and now nearly every one of the predictions has come true. Meatpacking companies dismissed years of warnings but now say nobody could have prepared for Covid-19 7 September 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals A spokesperson for the USPS, said the agency “can’t locate a claim being filed for this loss.” Thousands of chicks arrive dead to farmers amid USPS turmoil 7 September 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals As the world turns its attention to the risk of eating meat, the city of San Francisco plans to reduce the consumption of animal products in city jails and public hospitals. San Francisco to reduce meat and dairy served in hospitals and jails 24 August 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about climate change, you have to stop eating animals. The end of meat is here 25 May 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Feedback, a US-based campaign group working to regenerate nature by transforming food systems, launched its founding report making the case that Big Livestock, like Big Oil, by its very nature belongs on the wrong side of history. New report highlights the link between industrial animal agriculture and climate change 23 April 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals “If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms.” The meat we eat is a pandemic risk, too 23 April 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals 2019 marked another impressive year for plant-based foods! New data shows that total plant-based retail sales reached $5 billion and grew 11 percent over the past year—almost five times faster than total U.S. retail food sales. Plant-based meat sales expected to surpass $1 billion in 2020 23 April 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals In the US, industrial slaughterhouses where hundreds of thousands of animals are killed every day, have become clusters of the Covid-19 pandemic. Industrial slaughterhouses have become COVID-19 clusters in the US 23 April 2020