Environment
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Eat less meat to guard against future pandemics
Our diets and farming habits must change to limit the risk of diseases such as Covid-19, according to a new report
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Oxford may expel beef and lamb
The university is under pressure to act after its students’ union voted to ban red meat on campus
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Climate targets depend on a plant-based diet
Meat eating and global food systems will drive the world towards disaster even if the world stops using fossil fuels, says an Oxford study
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MEPs boot out ban on meaty names
A proposal to stop non-meat products using names associated with cuts of meat has been defeated at the European Parliament
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Greenpeace’s Monster film raises alarm on deforestation
A powerful new animation warns about the corporations destroying the Amazon and other forests to farm industrial meat
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Wildlife reports highlight crisis in natural world
Studies by WWF and the RSPB show the extent to which biodiversity loss is continuing despite international agreements
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China pledges to be ‘carbon neutral’ before 2060
World’s biggest polluter leads by example with promise to clean up act in coming decades
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UN’s eight ‘transitions’ to save natural world
Plant-based food one of key planks in blueprint to arrest and reverse humanity’s destruction of nature
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UK’s first citizens assembly calls for 40% cut in meat and dairy
A panel of ordinary people has told the government a more plant-based diet is key to reducing emissions
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Greenpeace targets Tesco over ‘industrial meat’
Environmental group calls on supermarket to break ties with Amazon-destroying meat firm JBS