Meat ban: When politics invades your dinner table

Mutton traders of Mumbai have challenged the four-day ban that started on Thursday

Centre to roll back controversial ban on trade of cattle for slaughter

The government’s May 23 notification on changes made to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Market) Rules, 2017, …

Cattle can no longer be traded for the purposes of slaughter: Centre

Sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets banned; now cattle can only be sold for ‘agricultural purposes’  

India's Cow Crisis Part 1: Nepal bears the brunt of India's cow vigilantism

Hounded by cow vigilantes and trade restrictions, farmers in Uttar Pradesh's border areas abandon their unproductive cattle in Nepalese villages …

Why I remember DN Jha as an exemplary food historian

His defining work was about a food item whose reality is markedly different from the narrative that has been built around it

India’s cow crisis: A rebuttal to Sunita Narain

Down To Earth's Editor wrote how it is brutal to kill India’s ancient Uber economy: PETA India director offers a counter-point

Coffee: here’s the carbon cost of your daily cup – and how to make it climate-friendly

Using less fertiliser, managing water and energy use more efficiently during milling and exporting the beans by cargo ship rather than aeroplane …

DNA tests for identifying beef: Should we shift our focus to meat safety instead?

Testing cooked meat may be challenging since heat degrades DNA

The other side of climate friendly foods

Efforts to change diets and reduce global warming has pitfalls  

Without mitigation, global methane emissions would rise by 30% until 2050: Study

A regional and sector-specific approach is important for methane mitigation strategies, it says

America’s cattle industry could obliterate its mustangs

The US Senate recently approved $35 million for the ‘Path Forward’ initiative that critics say will wipe out America’s famed …

Increasing meat consumption has put intense pressure on land: UNCCD

If it is reduced, there would be a significant impact on human health and climate change mitigation

Cattle slaughter ban to turn today’s girls into anaemic women: study

The research paper says that women exposed to the ban in their year of birth are 10% more likely to be anemic in their prime reproductive age

Global food companies fail to ensure deforestation-free beef

No initiative by top global brands to check deforestation in South America, finds study

Food Systems Summit: ‘Supports to farmers keeping the world away from SDGs and the Paris Agreement’

United Nations calls for repurposing and reforming price-distorting and environmentally harmful supports to farmers

Britain gets special police force to check food crimes

All recommendations of food expert likely to be accepted by government

The switch: What happens to GHG emissions if half of meat, milk consumption is swapped with alternatives?

Biggest impact on agricultural input use would be seen in China, sub-Saharan Africa 

Beef cattle release more greenhouse gases than other livestock

Environmental footprint of beef is bigger than poultry or dairy

Pristine Tasmania faces GM threat

Opium industry lobbies to lift moratorium on GM farming