The world can't afford the rise in global beef consumption that experts predict - while wealthier nations, whose residents have the most emissions-intensive diets, could make rapid climate gains by choosing to eat less.

This narrative is one that industry-aligned interests badly want to extinguish. Through blog posts, videos, educational assets, op-eds, TV ads, social media campaigns, trained influencers and other channels - many described here for the first time - the industry is trying to convince us all of what the science definitely doesn't show: that dietary change has no role in climate strategy.

Far more animals than previously thought likely have consciousness, top scientists say in a new declaration — including fish, lobsters and octopus.

(Of course there's someone at the end of the article still trying to rationalize murder as "humane")

https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/dale-vince-animal-agriculture-speech/

https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/west-hollywood-plant-based-policy/

Fires on large-scale animal farms, or factory farms, are surprisingly common. Over the last decade, at least 6.5 million farmed animals, mostly chickens, perished in barn fires in the US, according to Washington, DC-based nonprofit Animal Welfare Institute (AWI).

The starch solution took the meat goggles off my eyes enough to see animal ag for what it is. Thanks Doc for 8 years so far of being vegan and good health

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240612-the-meat-workers-who-became-vegan-pioneers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/open-net-salmon-farm-closure-delayed-1.7239498

Leather has been seen as an unshakeable and prominent aspect of the fashion industry for millennia. The oldest intact leather shoe is over 5,500 years old, pre-dating the Pyramids of Giza by 1,000 years. But it's time for us to move forward.

Today, over 1.4 billion cattle have been bred and stand on once biodiverse land until they are slaughtered. Leather is now largely tanned with harsh carcinogenic chemicals, and destructive leather supply chains harmfully implicate workers, destroy critical habitat and pollute waterways with toxic chemicals.

Read our report series to understand these intertwined harms, and how we can move beyond them. When we work together, we have the power to transform fashion – and we have a responsibility to use this power for good.

https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/s/Leathers-impact-on-people-report.pdf

https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/s/Leathers-impact-on-the-planet-report.pdf

https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/s/Leathers-impact-on-animals-report.pdf

https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/s/CFJ-a-just-transition-beyond-leather.pdf