Meat ban: When politics invades your dinner table

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

Stop consumption, trade of wild animals to prevent monkeypox spillover: Nigeria agriculture minister 

Nigeria saw 21 monkeypox cases since the beginning of 2022

Over the next decade, demand for cereals to grow only in low-income regions

Per capita meat consumption will grow most strongly in the developed world

GWP100 or GWP*: Meat, dairy lobby pushing for new methane metric. How this will enable greenwashing

New method takes current methane emissions as baseline to present minor reductions as negative emissions or cooling

Why South Korea is banning the sale of dog meat

Dog meat is fourth-most consumed meat in South Korea after pork, beef, chicken. But practice of eating dogs has been in sharp decline

Scientists make meat with animal cells

This meat will be is nutritionally equivalent to conventional animal meat

Trouble with vegetarian fascists

Their arguments have no meat

Bihar’s food production has risen during the last 15 years due to agriculture roadmaps, say officials

State’s fourth agricultural roadmap launched on October 18 by President Murmu

Meat industry worst among food-based industries in terms of water management

New report says meat firms pollute groundwater and overuse water to farm their products

Over 1,200 pangolins trafficked in India in 5 years: Report

Odisha recorded the highest number of trafficking incidents & pangolins seized

CITES COP19 urges parties to remove references to pangolins from ‘official pharmacopoeia’

At least 23.5 tonnes of pangolins and their specimens were trafficked in 2021 alone

Production of milk, meat and eggs increased in 2016 rainy season

The production of wool decreased during the same period of July 1 to October 31, 2016

India emerges as largest buffalo meat exporter

Exports by the country exceeded that of Brazil and Australia last year

India emerges as largest buffalo meat exporter

Exports by the country exceeded that of Brazil and Australia last year

COP28: Emerging alternatives to meat & dairy may help reduce environment footprint of global food system, says UNEP

UNEP report made distinction between developing and high- & mid-income nations; Per capita consumption of animal meat in Europe & North …

Cost of importing food is expected to rise 6% in 2017

The global food import bill is rising despite robust output in 2017, says UN

Wildmeat consumption at source countries greater threat to protected terrestrial animals than international trade

Around 70 per cent of species studied are hunted for wild meat consumption

Global Eco Watch: European Bison to be introduced into Kentish woodland

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The ties that bind

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 

ICAR chases patents for pickle

The National Research Centre on Meat has odd ideas on what can be patented

We looked at 700 plant-based foods to see how healthy they really are. Here’s what we found

A nutritional audit 700 plant-based foods in Australia found many products had high in salt or saturated fat content

Mock meat unlikely solution for Indians

Shagun speaks with food critics and nutrition experts to understand whether Indians need mock meat and other plant-based alternatives or if the …

The end of meat and GMOs or the end of us: Part 3

The third in a three-part series series on effects of GMOs and the meat industry on our environment

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, …