As our domesticated herds grow, wildlife is becoming rarer and rarer. Rethinking our responsibilities to animals will be hard – but essential.
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Europe’s pre-1945 farming industry was mainly organic, and it was extremely effective.
If every dog ate a vegan diet, it would prevent the equivalent of the UK’s annual CO₂ emissions.
New laws in Canada will make it harder for whistleblowers to shed light on cruelty and malpractice in animal agriculture — and will hinder efforts to prevent the next global pandemic.
Despite improvements in disaster response management since the Abbotsford floods of 2021, long-term animal welfare remains woefully underappreciated in B.C.
Tracking data suggests individual chickens have very different movement patterns.
Though preferable to battery farms, free-range eggs are not as safe and ethical as customers think.
Healthier and more sustainable food could be made cheaper as meat and dairy becomes more expensive.
Andrea Arnold’s new film chronicles the daily strife of Luma – a dairy cow and mother.
Vegetables, fruits and legumes are nutritious and sustainable – but subsidies overwhelmingly neglect them.
The National Farmers’ Federation has called on the Morrison government to commit to net-zero greenhouse gas emission by 2050.
We all need to eat. Experts imagine how the next agricultural revolution can feed us while fighting climate change and habitat destruction, instead of accelerating it.
We’re not powerless to change the future of food. Nature and technology can combine to nourish both the earth and its inhabitants.
Soybean cultivation for animal feed is destroying rainforests across the world. Microalgae may be the Amazon’s closest ally.
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Research Affiliate, Centre for the Study of Existential Risks, University of Cambridge
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Researcher on Environment and Health, University of Oxford
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Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate in History, University of Liverpool
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Research Fellow in Animal Welfare, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Agriculture, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester
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PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University
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Associate Doctoral Researcher in Environmental Economics, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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PhD candidate, sessional instructor, University of Victoria
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria
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Adjunct Professor (Animal Welfare), Murdoch University and Griffith University, Visiting Lecturer, University of Winchester
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Profesor de Historia Contemporánea. Director del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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Director Científico CISPAC (Centro Interuniversitario de Paisaxes Atlánticas Culturais) G.I. HISTAGRA. Depto de Historia (USC), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela