Our library of links to online resources about how our food choices impact animal welfare, environment, and health.
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General
- Watch this video first! “Want to Go Vegan / Vegetarian? Watch This First – Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride 2017” 74 minutes
- “Meat is Magnificent: Water, Carbon, Methane & Nutrition“
- “Debating the role of livestock with Joel Salatin” (post and 63-minute video)
- “Conflict Soy: If you think soy is a healthy alternative to the meat and dairy industry, think again.”
- “Grass-fed Beef — The Most Vegan Item In The Supermarket”
- “It’s Not WHAT You Eat, it’s HOW it’s Produced that Matters”
- “How vegan evangelists are propping up the ultra-processed food industry”
- “There Are 3 Global Pandemics Threatening Humanity, And They’re All Dangerously Linked”
Animal Welfare & Ethics
Slaughter
Ethics
Animal Deaths from Agriculture
Environment
Arable
Meat
- “Going Vegan May Not Be The Most Sustainable Option for Humanity”
- “Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate”
- “We Can Fight Climate Change and Still Eat Beef”
- “Avoiding meat and dairy: a one-size-fits-all measure to deal with our planet’s environmental problems or a real option for the 1.3 billion people depending on livestock to assure their livelihood and food security?”
- “More fuel for the food/feed debate: new study indicates livestock production is a much smaller challenge to global food security than often reported”
- “Cattle aren’t actually killing the planet, says vegetarian rancher”
- “The Case for Sustainable Meat”
- “Livestock: On our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/food debate” (Summary)
Grain-finished Meat
Vegetarianism
Greenhouse Gases
- Meat
- “Ruminations: Methane math and context”
- “Restoring Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide to Pre-Industrial Levels: Re-Establishing the Evolutionary Grassland-Grazer Relationship”
- “Flatulence, wildfires and bogs. The madness of measuring methane.”
- “New Research: Methane Emissions From Livestock Have No Detectable Effect On The Climate” (Dec 2018)
- “Healthy cattle pastures can limit harmful greenhouse gas emissions” (Nitrous Oxide specifically)
- General
- Non-meat agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture & Carbon Sequestration
- “Sound management may sequester methane in grazed rangeland ecosystems” (Nature)
- “Effect of grazing on methane uptake from Eurasian steppe of China”
- “Running out of Time | Documentary on Holistic Management” (Video, 42 minutes)
- “New research says grass finishing can build soil”
- “96% Texas Farmer Participants Plan to Change Practices After Cropping Strategies Workshop” (includes videos)
- “Hawkins’s 2017 Meta Analysis of Holistic Planned Grazing Should be Retracted”
- “Here’s What Agriculture of the Future Looks Like: The Multiple Benefits of Regenerative Agriculture Quantified”
- “Soil Carbon Cowboys” (Video, 12 minutes)
- “Can Dirt Save the Earth?”
- “Impacts of soil carbon sequestration on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in Midwestern USA beef finishing systems” (Report summary)
- “Grasslands more reliable carbon sink than trees”
- “Richard Teague et al. on Benefits of Planned Grazing”
- “Is Eating Animals Bad for the Environment?”
- “A Call for the Food Movement to Get Behind the Green New Deal”
Land Use
- “The Beef vs. Vegetable Land-Use Argument: Breaking Down the Numbers”
- “Can We Produce Grass Fed Beef at Scale? By Allen R. Williams, Ph.D.”
- “Vegetarianism/veganism not an option for people living in non-arable areas”
- “Are dairy cows and livestock behind the growth of soya in South America?”
- “Adding balance to the meat debate” (Sustainable Food Trust)
Soil Loss
- “Lack of top soil could lead to extinction of farming” (post and video)
Feeding the World
Health
Humans are Natural Omnivores
Meat and Health
- “Is Red Meat Bad for You, or Good? An Objective Look”
- “Does Meat Rot In Your Colon? No. What Does? Beans, Grains, and Vegetables!”
- “Why All Humans Need To Eat Meat For Health”
- “Bacon is really good for you, here are the scientific reasons WHY”
- CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks with Nina Teicholz, author of “The Big Fat Surprise.” (Video, 4 minutes)
- “Meat diet boosts kids’ growth: Bringing up children as vegans is unethical, claims nutritionist.” (Nature)
- “Women who eat meatless prone to disease: study”
- “The Brain Needs Animal Fat”
Dairy
Grass-fed vs. Grain-finished Meat
Life Expectancy and Diet
Diet Factors
- Comparisons
- Fats
- “Understanding Fats” (Sustainable Food Trust)
- Carbohydrates
- “Carbs, Good for You? Fat Chance!” (WSJ, requires subscription)
- “The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer’s”
Health Problems with Vegetarianism
- “Vegan diets are adding to malnutrition in wealthy countries”
- “If the entire US went vegan, it’d be a public health disaster”
- “Vegans have ‘twice as many sick days as people who eat meat'”
- “My mother’s vegetarian diet contributed to her early death. We should all learn from it”
- “7 Nutrients that you can’t get from plants”
