"An integrated approach to the evidence shows that most diets that are protective against cancer are mainly made up from foods of plant origin." - World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute of Cancer Research. When I read the news yesterday that an analysis by...
"The meat industry, which is attacking the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has less credibility than the Flat Earth Society. IARC is the gold standard for rigor, comprehensiveness, and reasonableness — all qualities in short supply in the meat industry and its friends...
"Through no-till farming, crop diversity, and living cover crops, we are storing and building our soil carbon levels by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and putting it into the soil where it becomes the currency for a wonderfully complex economy of plants and soil microorganisms." On...
Climate scientists are feeling the blues because they can't imagine the current system can change, just as the caterpillar cannot imagine flying around as a butterfly...
"Every drop of blood symbolizes not merely a loss of life but a loss of decency, a perversion of science, an affront to democracy, and an indelible stain on the character of the State of Florida."...
This is a tragedy...
If an institution doesn't practice Ahimsa, it shouldn't pretend to be a Hindu temple...
"While the USDA is tasked with regulating the meat industry, it also has a role in promoting it. This tension plays out every time the U.S. government wants to give out dietary advice—and the results generally wind up favoring the industry." In fact, the USDA only...
While 80% of the purchasing decisions in developed countries are made by women who can choose to reverse climate change by making appropriate decisions...
COP-21 will not be serious about addressing climate change. Not only is animal agriculture off the table, so is aviation, commercial shipping and biofuels… Experts will soon gather in Paris for the annual UN Climate Change Conference to discuss how to cut carbon emissions and halt...
Jonathan Chait is dismissive of Naomi Klein's critique of unfettered capitalism, claiming that no one has found a better alternative for 150 years. Well, how about if we "fetter" capitalism?… A hot new left-wing book attacks liberal environmentalism...
Doing right to those who were done wrong...
2015 is likely to be hottest year ever by a wide margin...
"there is still time (to change our course). And time means hope – but not without action."...
Owner offers free refill to Jews and Palestinian guests dining together, to show that "we're all human beings"...
Our governments are like the colonial British empire of early 20th century India: they are frightened of upsetting their precariously teetering positions at the bow of the Titanic. Just as Gandhi pointed out then during the Khadi movement, it is we, the people, who need...
As the world prepares for critical climate negotiations in Paris this December, the former White House chef hopes to put food and agriculture on the global climate agenda—and on world leaders' plates...
When animal rights activists with Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) planned a disruption at a Wall Street Journal symposium celebrating the consumption of meat, even they…...
No change — they still want everyone to go vegan...
It is "unbalanced, lacked ambition and specificity, with many open political issues" - EU Climate Commissioner, Miguel Arias Caniete...
Please don't continue any business that relies on exploiting animals...
Today I am pleased to offer a conversation with environmentalist, engineer and technologist Sailesh Rao, the founder and Executive Director of environmental non-profit, Climate Healers...
McDonald's franchisees believe the brand is in a "deep depression" and could be facing its "final days"...
A simple metal device that costs roughly $1 to manufacture can hugely improve the efficiency of a traditional brick and mud cook-stove, cutting out the need for wood…...
A new study suggests that abrupt climate changes could happen at relatively low global temperature increases…...
The shoe is dropping on Exxon Mobil and other fossil fuel companies...
“We believe that agriculture in the broad sense – including forestry, fisheries and aquaculture – can and must play a central role in addressing climate change, particularly in adapting its impacts, such as water scarcity, soil salinity or increasing pests and diseases of plants and...