Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. A pig farm next to the Toachi River in northeast Ecuador. It’s hard ...
A group of 105 climate change and animal welfare organizations has sent an open letter to the heads of sustainable finance at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi, urging them to stop making loans ...
Looking back one month after this year's UN climate talks, a British charity says that COP30 failed to protect animals and ...
Factory farming is a common yet controversial practice that allows for the large-scale production of meat products. However, the system often involves the inhumane raising and handling of animals.
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Factory farming in Africa: Development banks see it as a good idea, but it's bad for the climate
Industrial animal agriculture is also one of the causes of climate change, contributing between 12% and 19.6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. These include methane emissions produced when ...
Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ...
Erin McGuire spent years cultivating fruits and vegetables like onions, peppers and tomatoes as a scientist and later director of a lab at the University of California-Davis. She collaborated with ...
The State of California is using its fuel and transportation plan to encourage factory farm expansion and pollution. We are standing up to them in court. The State of California is using its fuel and ...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, federal lawmakers introduced the Industrial Agriculture Conversion Act, the first standalone federal legislation that supports farmers seeking to exit ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Krasny is a professor at Cornell University. Feb 03, 2025, 01:15pm EST Feb 04, 2025, 09:14am EST Dairy cattle in a ...
The effects of climate change can have extensive impacts on agriculture and farmers. Growing seasons have been getting longer with more extreme temperatures. Precipitation patterns have been changing, ...
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