Impact of Animal Farming
- Skeptical Science – 97% Consensus on Global Warming
- NASA – Earth’s Climate is Warming
- FAO – Livestock’s Long Shadow
- PubMed – Livestock and Climate Change
- World Bank – Causes of amazon deforestation report
- Chatham House – Report on meat and climate change
- PNAS – Biomass and gas emissions report
- IBS – Livestock methane pushes climate change
- Guardian – Vast animal-feed crops destroying planet
- Guardian – The planet’s prodigious poo problem
- Guardian – Emissions from 13 dairy farms match entire UK
- NY Times – Dairy affecting environment
- Food Footprint – Animal Waste
- NRDC – Livestock production destroying environment
- WRI – World Greenhouse Gas Emissions Charts
- Scientific American – How bad is methane?
- National Geographic – Hog Farms Pollution
- NCBI – Animal Farming & Global Warming Mitigation
- Economist – Oceans bearing brunt of global warming
- NPR – Honeybees help farmers not environment
- The Ecologist – Farming emissions to rise 80% due to meat eating
- World Bank – Ranching leading cause of deforestation in Amazon
- ICBI – Global animal farming & climate change
- PNAS – Biomass use, production, feed & emissions of animal ag
- PNAS – Biomass distribution of earth
- PubMed – Impact of dietary change on greenhouse emissions
- IOP Science – Impact of European livestock production
- NCBI – Environmental impact of beef
- WHO – Climate Change and Health
- Hindawi – Misinformation on Science of Grazed Ecosystems
- Food Climate Action Network – Grazed & Confused
- Science 2.0 – The regenerative ranching racket
- Wildlife News – Benefits of Removing Livestock from Rangelands
- The Breakthrough – Is Feedlot Beef Better for Environment?
- PubMed – Food-miles & relative climate impacts of food choices
- Freakonomics – The Inefficiency of Local Food
- EcoWatch – Tyson Foods linked to largest toxic deadzone in US history
- Guardian – 20 meat & dairy companies more GHG emissions than Britain, Germany or France
- IATP – Big meat and dairy heating up planet
- Climate Nexus – Animal agriculture’s impact on climate change
- NY Times – Fish trawling may unleash as much carbon as air travel
Impact of Animal Fabrics
- Science Direct – Toxic chemicals from leather production
- The Guardian – Is fur sustainable?
- The Guardian – Eco alternatives to leather
- Collective Fashion Justice – Shear Destruction: Wool, Fashion Biodiversity Crisis
- Bel Jacobs – Greenwashing of wool explained
Sustainability of Plant-Based Diets
- Times – Plant-based diet most nutritious with least environment impact
- BBC – Plant-based diet can fight climate change
- Science Direct – Food systems in a zero-deforestation world
- Guardian – Environmental impacts of different milks
- Guardian – UN urges move to global meat & dairy-free diet
- Guardian – Can switching to plant-based diet save the planet?
- Springer – Greenhouse emissions dietary comparison
- Stanford Magazine – Can vegetarianism save the world?
- PubMed – Reducing food’s environmental impact
- EWG – Meat-eaters guide to reducing your footprint
- Science Magazine – Avoiding meat & dairy biggest way to reduce footprint
- Science.org – Environmental impact of food study
- Nature – Benefits of replacing beef with microbial protien
- BBC – Eating less meat like taking 8m cars off the road
- Research Gate – Dietary greenhouse gas emissions of different diets
- PNAS – Analysis of health & climate change benefits of dietary change
“Animal exploitation is all around us, and though few of us are actually willing to do that violence to animals directly, a great many of us are willing to have that violence done for us.”
–Bob Torres