This analysis, through the use of data, interactive maps, and info-graphs, shows the disproportionate environmental and health burdens borne by Black, Native American, and Latino residents in three counties in North Carolina that are home to a majority of the state’s hog factory farms.
European Food Safety Authority’s Scientific Opinion on Welfare of Cattle During Transport
The purpose of the report was to provide an opinion on the protection of cattle (including un-weaned calves and cull dairy cows) during transport and to provide recommendations that will reduce hazards and alleviate welfare consequences.
European Food Safety Authority’s Opinion on the Welfare of Broiler Chickens on Farm
This report was prepared by the EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Animal Welfare at the request of the European Commission. The purpose was to describe the current husbandry systems and practices of keeping day-old chickens, broiler chickens, and broiler breeders, along with related welfare consequences, animal-based measures (ABMs) and hazards.
Inside Big Beef’s Climate Messaging Machine: Confuse, Defend and Downplay
This article is an expose on the beef industry’s public relations messaging machine that includes an influencer training program, as well as a monitoring command center, that seeks to influence public opinion and policy and minimize beef’s role in the climate crisis.
Why are We Accepting the Mass Slaughter of Animals Through Heatstroke?
This is an op-ed that details the horrific method of ventilation shutdown plus (VSD+) used to mass kill farmed animals, and calls on the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), as well as readers, to condemn this inhumane practice.
This Land Belonged to Us: Nestlé Supply Chain Linked to Disputed Indigenous Territory
This article offers a look into the pressures imposed upon the Mỹky indigenous people by cattle ranchers in Brazil, while at the same time offering a wider look into the beef industry’s role and lack of accountability, and their global supply chains, all in connection to Amazon deforestation and indigenous land theft.
Human Rights Watch Report on Slaughterhouse Workers
This report by Human Rights Watch details the difficult working conditions of slaughterhouse workers and the workplace violations and abuse that persist in that industry.
EPA Letter of Concern Regarding the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Conduct
The letter details the complaints made by community groups against the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality regarding a Swine Waste General Permit and ECRO’s investigation into it.
Farming Intensification and Environmental Justice in Northern Ireland
Residents interviewed from a town in Northern Ireland affected by the growing intensification of animal farming were generally against intensification due to various environmental risks and felt that they had little control or input (e.g., being given insufficient time to ask questions) over the expansion of these farms in their community, termed procedural injustice.