Vegetarianism and secularism
We need to clarify the rules for legal slaughterhouses and make sure that these can be enforced When I wrote about vegetarianism, or, more precisely, why I as an Indian environmentalist would not advocate
Animal Products
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Grabbing the bull by the horns: it’s time to cut industrial meat and dairy to save the climate
We can only solve the climate crisis if we cut industrial meat and dairy production and take meaningful steps towards agroecology and food sovereignty, says a new report released by the non-profit organisation
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Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories
This paper presents the results of a systematic literature review of greenhouse gas emissions for different food categories from life cycle assessment (LCA) studies, to enable streamline calculations that
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Livestock farming in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India: use pattern and potentiality
<p>This article aims to examine the use pattern and potentiality of livestock farming in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India. We collected and compared data on livestock population and production in 13 districts
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The return of Avian Flu
Bird Flu returned to haunt India, only a month after India was declared free from avian influenza (H5N1) on September 5, 2016. Two days into the death of nine water birds in Delhi, at least 10 more birds
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Poultry consumption and arsenic exposure in the U.S. population
<p>Arsenicals (roxarsone and nitarsone) used in poultry production likely increase inorganic arsenic (iAs), monomethylarsonic acid (MMA), dimethylarsinic acid (DMA), and roxarsone or nitarsone concentrations
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Chain reaction II- How top restaurants rate on reducing use of antibiotics in their meat supply
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A stunning 70 percent of all antibiotics important in human medicine in the U.S. are sold for use in
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Beware! Barbecue can be dangerous to health
Love to gorge on barbecued chicken? Be careful as eating food cooked on grills cleaned with wire-bristle brushes can prove to be dangerous to health, warns new research. Loose bristles can fall off
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Society must seize control of the antibiotics crisis
<p>What are we to do about antibiotic resistance? Last week, another government report repeated stark warnings about the crisis, and offered some suggestions to improve the situation. The UK report, prepared
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The distributional and nutritional impacts and mitigation potential of emission-based food taxes in the UK
<p>Agriculture and food production are responsible for a substantial proportion of greenhouse gas emissions. An emission based food tax has been proposed as one option to reduce food related emissions.