
Big Meat & Dairy’s Supersized Climate Footprint
Big Meat & Dairy’s Supersized Climate Footprint and an intro to what we can do about it. In infographics via IATP, Grain and Boell. […]
Big Meat & Dairy’s Supersized Climate Footprint and an intro to what we can do about it. In infographics via IATP, Grain and Boell. […]
Livestock plays a central role in the CAP, but there are numerous areas of concern. While the public are interested in better animal welfare standards, policies lead to overproduction of grain and an abundance of cheap livestock products with all the sustainability issues this carries. […]
By Shefali Sharma, European Director IATP, 12.07.2016 The Institute for Trade Policy’s European Office, along with international group Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), German member of Via Campesina—Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft e.V. (AbL) and PowerShift launched their new report Selling Off the Farm: Corporate Meat’s Takeover through TTIP with a panel discussion and a press briefing at the European Parliament on the 12th July. Some key findings from the report: Many new agricultural and food technologies are being developed or already utilized with limited or no regulation. TTIP will make rulemaking in the public interest much more difficult in the future for technologies such as gene editing and cloning. Labour and environmental regulations related to the meat industry are inadequate on both sides of the Atlantic and need to be strengthened. Trade unions and environmental campaigns have achieved incremental gains; however, TTIP is likely to make it difficult to improve regulations. The chilling effect of TTIP’s (de)regulatory cooperation provisions will make it increasingly challenging in the future to effectively regulate impacts of the meat industry on climate change […]
In this series, our authors and readers have approached the livestock debate from many perspectives – climate, animal ethics, economic and more. So what have we learned? […]
How far do – and should – our sympathies extend? Frank Armstrong gives us his second contribution on the ethics of livestock. […]
IATP’s Ben Lilliston exposes the vulnerability of big meat – from mass gassings and manure lagoons to climate change and human rights. Part of our #LivestockDebate Series. […]
Livestock management is quietly undergoing a massive transformation. It began in the 1970s when Allan Savory developed Holistic Management, and from there many farmers have continued to refine the art of grazing. […]
In the second in our livestock debate contributions, Frank Armstrong considers the Anthropocene, the inherent violence in meat and the knock on effects of this. […]
Olivier De Schutter, Hans Herren and Emile Frison (on behalf of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) give ARC2020 the first contribution to the livestock debate – encompassing climate, sustainable diets and morals – we are running. […]
We’re hosting a written debate on livestock and how it contributes – or otherwise – to a sustainable diet in the fullest sense. Join us! […]
The grand political narratives around the COP21 conference in Paris will barely touch on one crucial aspect – food. And why does food matter for climate change? Well, it’s a major factor driving it yet barely gets a mention. […]
The appointment of Kerry McCarthy as shadow secretary of state at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) received at best a lukewarm response from the UK food and farming sector. How will she respond? […]
The European consumers’ association aims to challenge current meat labelling regulations […]
We’ve had the case made for less meat, for better meat, so what’s the case for no meat? […]
Our 3 parter on EU livestock reduction has caused quite a stir. Reader’s reply time on this hot topic. […]
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