In response to the question ‘is livestock agriculture sustainable?’, Devenish Lands at Dowth in Ireland offers a compelling answer…Read More
Scientific evidence confirming the role meat and livestock plays in well-functioning human diets and environmental landscapes is laid out in a special peer-reviewed edition of the scientific journal Animal Frontiers published today…Read More
As the world aims to figure out what a sustainable future for agriculture looks like, two completely different sets of priorities are beginning to collide…Read More
The Australian Meat Processor Corporation and Meat & Livestock Australia have brought nine scientists from around the world together in Sydney for a day-long summit to discuss the scientific evidence in support of red meat and livestock production in today’s society…Read More
One of Australia’s largest lotfeeding areas has outlined its intention to scale up intensive agriculture industries, reducing its time to approve new feedlot developments…Read More
The alternative protein sector, which some of its proponents claimed would bankrupt the global meat sector by 2035, is increasingly looking more like “another food trend whose novelty is wearing thin”, as one Bloomberg article described it last week…Read More
In a captivating and thought-provoking presentation to the Societal Role of Meat conference in Dublin, Dr Candace Croney, director of the centre for Animal Welfare Science at Purdue University in Washington DC, was asked to talk about ethical considerations surrounding meat consumption…Read More
Ecological research is showing that historic populations of wild herbivores on the planet are likely to have been much higher than previous estimates have suggested, and were at levels that “more or less” match current domestic herbivore biomass across the world…Read More
Not all protein sources are created equal, when it comes human digestibility…Read More
50 Australian scientists have now signed a major international declaration in support of the essential role of animal agriculture in a sustainable food system…Read More
