Caviar is marketed as a luxury food, but for the sturgeons who produce it, life is anything but glamorous. Whether harvested through traditional or so-called ethical methods, both systems involve serious suffering that challenges the notion of cruelty-free caviar.| Faunalytics
Feelings of guilt and trauma about animal slaughter are not uncommon in U.K. animal farmers, who experience higher rates of suicide than average. The post “Farmers Love Their Animals!” Yes, That’s The Problem appeared first on Faunalytics.| Faunalytics
Researchers mapped the links between food production and antimicrobial resistance, revealing a complex web connecting animal, human, and ecosystem health.| Faunalytics
Researchers critique the scientific literature on insect farming, revealing flawed assumptions about sustainability, feed sources, and economic viability.| Faunalytics
The welfare needs of Japanese quails are understudied compared to other farmed birds. What do we know, and what more can we learn?| Faunalytics
This collection of resources offers valuable insights to inform media strategies for animal advocacy writers, communications managers, journalists, op-ed writers, editors, and more.| Faunalytics
Despite major public investment in Brazil-based JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, poverty and hunger are rising in the cities where the company operates.| Faunalytics
By Emma Dearnaley, Head of Legal, River Action Last Wednesday and Thursday, we went to court to challenge Shropshire Council’s approval of yet another huge intensive poultry unit (watch the highlights in the video below). Our aim: to stop the unsustainable spread of factory farming across the county as part of River Action’s nationwide campaign […]| River Action UK
A new scientific test can identify and measure the amount of pig manure in dust that settled in and around neighbors’ homes.| U.S. Right to Know
Farming around the world, and in particular in the US, has increasingly become centralized as large factory farming. What are the environmental, social, and philosophical implications of this mode of agricultural production? [ dur: 58mins. ] Factory farming carry significant challenges on environme| The Scholars' Circle
The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces. Underlying this devastation is the ideology of human supremacy—claiming intrinsic superiority over nonhuman forms of life. But is human supremacy innate to humanity, … Continue reading The Ideology of Human Supremacy| Patterns of Meaning
Transcript| 80,000 Hours
Transcript| 80,000 Hours
