Tag Archives: meat alternatives

Influencer misrepresents environmental impact of grain crops by comparing them to livestock

Screenshot of an Instagram post taken on March 13, 2024 It promotes a variety of CBD products on its website and encourages people to follow the paleo diet, a controversial meat-focused eating plan that gained popularity in the United States in the early 2010s. The phenomenon is misleading in comparing the carbon footprint of plant-based… Read More »

Which proteins contain the most microplastics?

If you consume protein, you could be swallowing hundreds of small pieces of plastic every year, research finds. A new study by researchers from the non-profit Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto found that microplastics — tiny particles ranging from a micrometer (thousandth of a millimeter) to half a centimeter in size — were… Read More »

Agriculture has its day at COP28 but experts see major hurdles to reducing emissions

At this year’s United Nations climate summit, more than 100 world leaders agreed to make farm and food systems a key part of plans to combat climate change, seeking improvements in a sector that accounts for nearly a third of planet-warming emissions. Given that more than half of these emissions come from livestock farming, meat… Read More »