Meat

South Korea has banned dog meat, but is pig meat any different?

Rampant fires have engulfed the Pantanal in Brazil, devastating endangered species and indigenous communities.

Cranswick Country Foods supplies the nation's supermarkets with pork - but undercover filming has exposed 'squalor' and animal suffering.

Scientists say this microbial meat alternative is a protein-rich food that can taste and feel like red meat and be as nutritious.

Climate breakdown is being eclipsed by ‘bigger’ news stories - yet it threatens the biggest catastrophe of all.

British egg consumption reveals cracks in our ethics that could come back to haunt us.

UK's new trade and agriculture commission must address the dangers and inequalities rife in meat farming and processing.

Meat is a threat to national security. Unless society notices, we won't prevent future pandemics.

Animal welfare charity Viva! calls for the end of factory farming and the permanent closure of meat processing plants in response to the disease outbreak.

The meat industry has always been exploitative of employees - but the coronavirus has exposed the poor working conditions of meat packers who are getting sick at alarming rates.

Hundreds of wildlife groups worldwide sign open letter to WHO calling for a ban on wildlife meat trade to stop future potential global pandemics.

Brazilian meat producer JBS has displaced and disempowered US small farmers and encouraged cruel and environmentally harmful methods.

Environmental group WWF has launched a campaign calling for new laws to prevent companies importing products that are causing deforestation.

'The Wuhan animal markets presented the perfect storm for disease outbreak.'

Animal agriculture is the second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and responsible for up to 18 percent of emissions worldwide.

The world is speaking up about the dark realities of the meat and dairy industries - why are fish being ignored?

Fast-food customers are unwittingly buying meat from low-welfare chickens.

Lab-grown food can be ‘made from air’ – but is there appetite for synthetic protein?

Red meat is not inherently unsustainable, despite recent headlines - it’s how it is farmed that matters.

Almost a quarter of the greenhouse gases put out by humans comes from land use.

EU proposal to ban the use of words like 'burger' to describe foods that don’t contain meat could prevent people reducing meat in their diet.

At a debate organised by the Food Ethics Council the jury favoured a tax on ultra-processed foods over a tax on meat.

Today marks the launch of World Meat Free Week where 200 million people globally will be asked to skip just one meaty meal. The impacts on climate change and the environment will be significant. And some people may even try new, delicious vegan food, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE

The impact of the meat industry on the environment is well documented. While global solutions to this problem are necessary, there is a very real, immediate and visceral change people can make right now - on World Environment Day - to turn the tide. Go vegan. GEORGE MONBIOT et al write an open letter to the movement to support the Vegan Society's Plate Up for the Planet challenge