World’s Hunger for Meat is Causing the Superbug Apocalypse
April McCarthy – Governments around the world consider antimicrobial-resistant bacteria a major threat to public health.
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The Meat Atlas: Facts and Figures About Industrial Food Production
Vicki Hird, EcoWatch Waking Times They say every cloud has a silver lining, and since the horsemeat scandal in 2013 it has become much easier to talk about meat—more people seem to know and care about the impact of meat production and consumption and the benefits of cutting down. They’re increasingly keen to do their bit and politically speaking …
Factory Farms: Bad for Farm Animals and Human Consumers
Paul Fassa, Natural Society Waking Times Those idyllic (extremely happy) farm scenes depicted on most conventional dairy products, meat packaging, and egg cartons are far from the reality of how conventional meat comes to be. Unlike organic livestock conditions, factory farming puts animals in gruesome concentration camp-like conditions to prepare them for horrible deaths. If …