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    A Philosopher’s Guide to an Ethical Diet:  A Conversation With Peter Singer

    A Philosopher’s Guide to an Ethical Diet: A Conversation With Peter Singer

    Humans have an enormous impact on planet Earth, but from both an animal welfare and an environmental perspective, perhaps nothing is more important than our diets. In 2022, more than 82 billion livestock animals were slaughtered for meat, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States, with the majority of those animals […]

    3 ‘Most Important’ Greenhouse Gases Reached Record Highs Again Last Year: NOAA Scientists

    3 ‘Most Important’ Greenhouse Gases Reached Record Highs Again Last Year: NOAA Scientists

    Levels of the three “most important” greenhouse gases — methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide — in the atmosphere reached record highs again in 2023, according to research conducted by scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML). Air samples taken by GML indicated that levels of the heat-trapping gases […]

    Report: U.S. Banks ‘Sabotaging’ Climate Targets by Financing Meat & Dairy Corporations

    Report: U.S. Banks ‘Sabotaging’ Climate Targets by Financing Meat & Dairy Corporations

    A new study has found that 58 banks in the United States are “sabotaging” their own net-zero commitments by providing financing to meat, dairy and animal feed corporations. Research for the report, Bull in the Climate Shop: Industrial livestock financing sabotages major U.S. banks’ climate commitments, was conducted by U.S. environmental nonprofit Friends of the […]

    More Than 80% of EU’s Agricultural Subsidies Goes to Animal Farming That Is ‘Driving Us to the Brink’

    More Than 80% of EU’s Agricultural Subsidies Goes to Animal Farming That Is ‘Driving Us to the Brink’

    The European Union has been investing four times the amount of money into animal agriculture — which makes “artificially cheap” diets that heavily pollute the planet —  than it has into plant-based farming, according to a new study. The European Union spends almost one-third of its budget on subsidizing its common agricultural policy (CAP), reported […]