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Food

Meat-producing countries muddy IPCC report’s message on plant-based diet

by Jessica Scott-Reid

Brazil and Argentina reportedly pushed to eliminate plant-based language from the report's final text

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Food/Winter 2023

Zero: JBS's net-zero promises mired by deforestation links

by Bernard Simon

The world's biggest meatpacking company committed to be net-zero by 2040, but it still faces frequent accusations that it sources meat from

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Seven ways to end the climate crisis

by Guy Dauncey

Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: We need all hands on deck to solve humanity’s greatest crisis

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Is it time for a meat tax?

by Cameron Hepburn and Franziska Funke

A meat tax, if implemented correctly, can combat climate change without putting pressure on poorer households – or farmers

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Food

Why is plant-based protein still more expensive than meat?

by Jessica Scott-Reid

Study finds prices for plant-based products remain sky high as advocates blame meat industry subsidies for lack of price parity

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Food/Spring 2022

The beef with fake meat: Dairy and meat lobbies take aim at plant-based products

by Jessica Scott-Reid

Big Meat has been dabbling in the plant protein market. So why is the sector undermining growth of plant-based alternatives?

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Food/Summer 2021

Big Meat pulls from Big Oil’s playbook to delay climate action

by Rick Spence

U.S.-based agro-giants have spent hundreds of millions obscuring the role meat and dairy play in climate change

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How plant-based diets could help prevent the next COVID-19

by Kurtis Boyer

A well-rounded policy strategy for avoiding the next pandemic should include reducing the demand for animal products

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Fall 2020/Food

Where's the beef tax?

by Rick Spence

FAIRR report estimates that new carbon taxes could cost 40 global meat companies up to US$11.6 billion by 2050

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