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Eastern Australia is now listed as a global front for deforestation, driving climate change forward. Pasture clearing for farmed animals is responsible for 88% of the clearing of forest and woodlands. WWF declares that Australia is right up there with the worst places for deforestation in the world. Australia is a Global Front for Deforestation The 2015 […]

Someone has to save the planet, billions of innocent animals, and humanity from hunger, disease, war, violence, and climate change—and it won’t be the people telling you to eat “humane”, free-range, cage-free, organic, grass-fed “meat”, dairy, fish, and eggs. Weapons of mass destruction are our knives and forks, and increasingly now days, our chopsticks. Veganism […]

  Amazon tree death is accelerating and now the Amazon is losing its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The fall in amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by rainforest means even greater cuts to human-made emissions are needed to combat climate change. Amazon Trees Dying as Absorption of Carbon Dioxide Declines The Amazon is […]

Antibiotic resistant superbugs are a serious health threat with what will likely have catastrophic consequences as we begin to enter a post-antibiotic era. Resistance is not just to one class of drugs, like penicillin, but to multiple classes of drugs—multi-drug resistance. The antibiotic resistance threat is akin to that of climate change. Estimates place 10 million people dying […]

This is polenta bake was an old favourite that was made with Hungarian hot salami and yet again, this is a meal that is able to be veganised very easily and deliciously. The polenta serves as a base and is nicely thickened using soy milk, while the bake mixture is a delicious combination of sweet […]

  Table of Contents 1 The Australian Dairy Industry: The Life of the Dairy Cow 1.1 Background 1.1.1 Introduction 1.1.2 Sentience 1.1.3 The Five Freedoms 1.1.4 Welfare Issues 1.1.5 Milk Myths 1.2 Snapshot of the Australian Dairy Industry 1.2.1 ‘Total Mixed Ration’ Feed 1.2.2 Antibiotics 1.3 Regulating the Welfare of Dairy Cows 1.3.1 Legalised Cruelty 1.4 […]

    Table of Contents ▼▲ 13 Endangered Species Likely to Disappear in 2015 Amur Leopard Sumatran Elephant Javan Rhinoceros Leatherback Turtle Western Lowland Gorilla Saola Vaquita Siberia Tiger Mountain Gorilla Greater Bamboo Lemur Sumatran Orangutan Black Rhino Yangtze Finless Porpoise 13 Endangered Species Likely to Disappear in 2015 British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David […]

  Table of Contents ▼▲ 13 Endangered Species Likely to Disappear in 2015 Amur Leopard Sumatran Elephant Javan Rhinoceros Leatherback Turtle Western Lowland Gorilla Saola Vaquita Siberia Tiger Mountain Gorilla Greater Bamboo Lemur Sumatran Orangutan Black Rhino Yangtze Finless Porpoise 13 Endangered Species Likely to Disappear in 2015 British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough […]

Share1.1KPin3Tweet Agriculture expansion and the resulting deforestation and habitat destruction in the Amazon rainforest has many people worried—and for good reason. What we’re seeing now is that the rainforest has degraded to such a point where it can no longer regulate its own systems. A report produced by a researcher, Antonio Nobre, from the National Institute of […]