DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

In early March, global food giant Tyson unveiled a new beef product line at the 2023 annual industry meat conference. Brazen Beef is just one example of how meat and dairy companies are working hard to convince the public and policymakers that a greener, more benign version of industrial animal agriculture is within reach.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. year-on-year and prices on China’s most popular meat are up 25%. year-on-year and prices on China’s most popular meat are up 25%. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods?

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

The UK is forging ahead of most other countries with around 40 per cent of our power now coming from cleaner and cheaper renewables. We are leading the world on climate change, helping over 90 per cent of countries set net zero targets during our COP26 Presidency - up from 30 per cent two years ago.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an Australian agriculture conference. DeSmog conducted a five-month investigation into the meat industry’s PR and lobbying, reviewing hundreds of documents and statements by companies and trade associations.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The regulations banned the “routine” use of antibiotics on farms for whole herds of healthy animals, including outlawing the practice of using antibiotics to compensate for illnesses caused by poor animal welfare and hygiene. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

Sam Kass has had a varied career, starting out life as a chef, working for the Obamas before Barack’s presidency, later advising President Obama on nutrition policy when they moved into the White House, and launching the Let’s Move! I hope you enjoy our conversation and hope to see you at Future Food-Tech next week!

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

Sam Kass has had a varied career, starting out life as a chef, working for the Obamas before Barack’s presidency, later advising President Obama on nutrition policy when they moved into the White House, and launching the Let’s Move! I hope you enjoy our conversation and hope to see you at Future Food-Tech next week!

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alongside 40 states, partners include major agribusinesses, such as Brazilian meat giant JBS , and agricultural trade groups such as CropLife International , as well as research centres such as the University of Edinburgh’s Climate Change Institute. Meat and dairy production accounts for 14.5 African farmers face critical challenges.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Farmers and Ranchers in Action try to convince the public that animal agriculture is sustainable, they are turning to the fossil fuel industry’s tried and true playbook for greenwashing. Meat Export Federation , and Dairy Management Inc. It also hired food and nutrition influencers to talk about #sustainablebeef on social media.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Firewood is the new meat. Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” 5 Governments like to say that their policies are informed by “the science”; but in this case, as in many others, scientists are at loggerheads with each other. Burning biomass is terrible for the environment. ” 2. .”

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A sustainable business plan involves evaluating lunchroom or cafeteria practices and policies as well as how food is sourced and served. Creating a sustainable food culture in the workplace starts with considering what employees are actually eating. Sustainable Food Choices. Buying Sustainable Food Locally .

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The car following her can barely keep up as she hurtles across the dimming prairie, one hand resting lightly on the steering wheel, her eyes scanning the side of the highway. Souta Calling Last guns her diesel-powered white GMC pickup truck east on Highway 2. The Two Medicine River, sacred to the Amskapi Pikuni, the Blackfeet, rushes nearby.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni Heather Clancy Mon, 06/29/2020 – 02:30 June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. We as human beings and our planet are all connected.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. And those are the only the most obvious essential services provided by the land.

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Grist

AUGUST 16, 2022

With fewer bears and mountain lions around to keep their numbers in check, deer can reproduce with abandon and decimate the young trees and native plants that live beneath forest canopies. “[If] Two white-tailed deer eat berries off a branch in the Pennsylvania woods Ben Hasty / MediaNews Group / Reading Eagle via Getty Images.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Learn more about how our changing climate is making events like torrential rains, floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, the “polar vortex,” and drought more frequent and/or intense – and what you can do about it. Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate impacts 2.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

Lobbyists for the world’s biggest meat companies have lauded a better than expected outcome at COP28, which they say left them “excited” and “enthusiastic” for their industry’s prospects. In the online discussion, which was hosted by the trade outlet FeedStuffs, meat lobbyists groups made it clear they saw COP28 as a win.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. Here are some top environmental documentaries to watch if you’re looking for a show that keeps sustainability in focus. Some days you may feel like you’re the only one concerned with what is happening to the planet.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

This story was published in partnership with InvestigateWest. On an overcast Saturday in Seattle, a group of volunteers combs a small section of the beach at Golden Gardens Park for trash. explains Heather Trim, executive director of Zero Waste Washington, an organization that helped develop the protocol.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table. Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

How carbon-smart farming is catalyzing the big bucks needed to transform the way America eats. The soil becomes richer and healthier, runoff that pollutes water is reduced, biodiversity and habitat for the birds, bees and other wildlife increases, farm animals live better, and the food produced is more nutritious.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

It also brought incredible clarity about the scale of our challenges and opportunities. All of this suggests that business must dramatically change how it operates : companies will need to push well past their comfort zones from areas like politics and policy to engaging consumers to how they make investment decisions. So even if U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Emissions keep rising and species keep dying as our ecosystems are collapsing all around us. A biologist and amateur beekeeper discovered plastic-eating caterpillars. Scientists discovered a plastic eating mushroom. Led by wind and solar renewable energy investments keep growing 18. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 33.

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