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Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

Jan 27, 2023 | Factory farming, Fish farms, Human rights

Sixty-seven salmon farms exist within Kawésqar National Reserve in southern Chile, an area that formed part of the Kawésqar Indigenous people’s ancestral lands, and another 66 concessions are under consideration there PUERTO NATALES/PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — Pristine...

China increasing demand for meat and the pressure on Amazon and Cerrado

Dec 28, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming

China has become the biggest importer of the Brazilian soy, used to produce feed for farmed animals. But this rush for commodities is having consequences on environment and global food security “Sorriso” in Portuguese means “smile”: it is the name of a town in the...

How much soy do we eat (without knowing it) through intensive farming?

Dec 16, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming

Italy uses 3.7 million tons / year of soy for animal production. Only 689 thousand tons are of national origin, all the rest (3.2 million tons) is imported, mainly from Argentina, Brazil, United States, Paraguay. On December 2, 2019 a ship carrying 31,000 tons of...

A 12-storey pig farm: has China found the way to tackle animal disease?

Sep 21, 2020 | Factory farming, One Health

Biosecure farms complete with staff quarantine and chutes for dead pigs are seen as progress, but may carry their own risks The buildings do not even look like farms. They are huge grey concrete blocks, many storeys high, which stand side by side in the middle of what...

Coronavirus: Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases and risks more pandemics, experts warn

May 9, 2020 | Factory farming

‘Zoonoses often take that route… and the more you have of a thing, the more that thing is going to be the likely conveyor,’ says UN environment chief Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases in humans in the past decade – and risks...

Deforestation and factory farms, a “Disneyland” for the spread of new viruses

Apr 26, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming, One Health

According to different estimates based on FAO data, every year globally over 150 billion animals (also taking into account fishing) end up in our food production cycle, of which at least 80 billion through intensive farming. The magnitude of this number is even more...