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Swapping fifth of meat for microbial protein could halve deforestation

4 May 2022

Even a modest shift from ruminant meat to microbial proteins could cut deforestation and carbon emissions 56 per cent by 2050

Fix the Planet newsletter: The race to replace meat

13 January 2022

Meat is responsible for roughly twice the greenhouse gas emissions of plant-based food. Can we afford not to seek alternative sources of protein for our food?

Fifth of Brazilian beef exports to EU linked to illegal deforestation

16 July 2020

Around 20 per cent of the beef and soya the Euopean Union imports from Brazil has been linked to illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna

Meat and dairy production emit more nitrogen than Earth can cope with

6 July 2020

Scientists have urged people to eat less meat and dairy after finding livestock farming singlehandedly exceeds “planetary boundaries” for nitrogen pollution

African swine fever helps drive world food prices to two-year high

5 December 2019

The slaughter of half of China’s pigs due to the African swine fever virus raging across Asia and Europe has helped drive world food prices to a two-year high

Beef-eating consumers are helping drive Amazon deforestation

24 September 2019

An investigation of trade flows finds much of the recent Amazon deforestation is down to cattle ranching - and consumers around the world are eating the meat