Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialised farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...
Alison Caffyn received grant funding from the Economic Social Research Council. The first time I encountered an intensive “chicken shed” up close I was taken aback by just how massive it was – the ...
Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...
LONDON, Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Some nine in ten Britons want the Government to introduce an immediate ban on intensive farming methods amid concerns over killer viruses. A new poll out today ...
Joseph Chituyi and his wife Elizabeth Akwabi attending to their chicken at their farm at Ematsayi village in Lurambi. [Benjamin Sakwa/Standard] From ultra-modern chicken house to quality blankets for ...
Agricultural laborers spray against insects and weeds inside the orchards of a fruit farm in Mesa, California.Brent Stirton—Getty Images Once a dangerous new pathogen is out, as we are seeing, it can ...
A methane (CH 4) calculator, designed to tackle one of the most potent greenhouse gases (GHGs), could help reduce emissions from intensive livestock farming (raising cattle, pigs, or poultry in ...
Caitie Kuempel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The EU aims to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 – but has been investing four times as much money into carbon-intensive livestock farming than growing plants, research has found ...