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 – 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?
  • 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
  • Wildlife News – Benefits of Removing Livestock from Rangelands
  • PubMed – Food-miles & relative climate impacts of food choices
  • Freakonomics – The Inefficiency of Local Food
  • 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
  • Our World in Data – Animal farming ranks alongside fossil fuels as most destructive sectors
  • World Resources Institute – 6 Pressing Questions About Beef and Climate Change, Answered

Impact of Animal Fabrics

Pollution

  • EcoWatch – Tyson Foods linked to largest toxic deadzone in US history
  • National Geographic – Hog Farms Pollution
  • Guardian – The planet’s prodigious poo problem
  • PBS – Tyson Foods polluting US waterways
  • Guardian – Factory farming turning British river into open sewer

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
  • PNAS – Analysis of meat and milk alternatives

Greenwashing and Lobbying

  • Vox – The greenwashing of wool explained
  • The Cooldown – Greenwashing of the leather industry
  • New Republic – The comforting lie of climate-friendly meat
  • Guardian – Big Beef’s climate messaging machine
  • The Breakthrough – Is Feedlot Beef Better for Environment?
  • International Journal of BIodiversity– Misinformation on Science of Grazed Ecosystems
  • Food Climate Research Network – Grazed & Confused
  • Science 2.0 – The regenerative ranching racket
  • DeSmog – A guide to six greenwashing terms
  • Truthdig – The backlash to plant-based meats
  • Independent – Meat & dairy industries downplaying role in climate crisis using tobacco tactics
  • Guardian – Meat & dairy lobbyists turn out in record numbers at COP28
  • Greenpeace – How Big Agriculture is borrowing Big Oil’s playbook at COP28
  • Guardian – Plans to present meat as ‘sustainable nutrition’ at Cop28 revealed
  • Guardian – Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored
  • Guardian – How UN food body played down role of farming in climate change
  • QZ – The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet
  • The Times – Red Tractor farms more likely to pollute environment
  • Influence Map – European meat & dairy industry weaken EU’s climate policies
  • The Grocer – Meat Industry lobbying behind cultured meat bans
  • Food Unfolded – Truth, tactics and the mist of meat lobby science
  • Business Green – Climate lobbying: Are meat and dairy lobbyists the ‘new merchants of doubt’?

“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