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lab-grown meat, plant-based food, protein alternative
Food

Advocates of lab-grown meat poke holes in claim it's bad for the environment

by Jessica Scott-Reid

As the first cell-cultured meat products receive final regulatory approval in the U.S. and start appearing on menus, they also face cautious

steak, beef, plant-based, emissions, New York City
Food/Summer 2023

Will the city famous for its striploin give up its steak?

by Rick Spence

New York City commits to curbing beef consumption, as a vegan steak startup gets a cash boost from Robert Downey Jr.

beef, cattle, climate change, meat
Food

Beef lobbying group’s ‘MBA’ downplays industry’s climate impact

by Jessica Scott-Reid

OPINION | A ‘Masters of Beef Advocacy’ program provides meat advocates with the tools to spread misleading industry talking points

deforestation Gran Chaco
Spring 2022/Supply Chain

How soy, beef and leather supply chains are threatening one of South America's last forest frontiers

by Alex Robinson

Despite deforestation pledges, agribusiness is still clearing forest in the Gran Chaco – but Indigenous people are fighting to expel ranchers from

Beef tax
Fall 2020/Food

Where's the beef tax?

by Rick Spence

FAIRR report estimates that new carbon taxes could cost 40 global meat companies up to US$11.6 billion by 2050

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Food

How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses

by Terry Sunderland

Soy, cattle, palm, sugar and other crops are driving the deforestation that's increasing our exposure to infectious diseases

Food/Guest Comment/Supply Chain

Is 'sustainable beef' a load of bull?

by Wayne Roberts

You may not have heard of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, but if you’ve had a burger at McDonald’s or Harvey’s

Climate Crisis/Fall 2019/Food

If cattle are the new coal, are Canadian peas the new solar?

by Adria Vasil

When McDonald’s announced it was tweaking its beef burgers in early August to make them “hotter, juicier and tastier,” the media proclaimed

Natural Capital/Supply Chain

Beef, banks and the global context behind Brazil's deforestation

by Jean-Francois Obregon

By JEAN-FRANÇOIS OBREGÓN, JESSICA GRANT AND THIJS HUURDEMAN   On January 1, 2019, Jair Bolsonaro began his tenure as the president of

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