Podcasts about world farming

In this extended episode of Inside the Pod, we take a look at the From Soya to Sustainability conference held in January by the NCS Project partners.Ben Pike speaks to a variety of speakers and attendees from the conference, including Philip Lymbery from Compassion in World Farming, Gemma Hoskins from Mighty Earth, and Pulse Pioneers John Seed and Rob Waterston, plus more, about the importance of home grown pulses in replacing imported soya and creating a more sustainable food system.

The Rev Tara Hellings, an Anglican vicar, outlines her experiences of conducting funerals at a Pet Crematorium in Winchfield, and Nurul Ain Abdul Hamid, a Muslim who runs a dog and cat shelter in Malaysia, shares her beliefs on the equality of all animals.Do animals have souls? Are all animals equal? And, how do these concepts feed into religious teachings about animals in the afterlife?To discuss, Giles is joined by Anuradha Dooney, a Fellow of the Oxford Centre Hindu Studies, Fr Terry Martin, a vegan and Catholic priest, and author of the new book 'Animals in Heaven?' and Joyce D'Silva, Compassion in World Farming's Ambassador Emeritus and the author of ‘Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice'.Producer: Alexa Good Assistant Producer: Linda Walker Editor: Chloe Walker

Most of the animal food products you buy come from what are called factory farms. That includes beef, chicken, turkey, and pork, as well as eggs and dairy products. The animals in these “farms” live miserable lives in horrible conditions and have a one-way ticket to the slaughterhouse. Compassion in World Farming is an organization dedicated to ending factory farming and to educating people about animal welfare, air, water and land pollution, human health and social justice, issues which are inextricably intertwined in factory farming. My guest in this program is Allie Molinaro, who was campaigns coordinator for Compassion in World Farming when we recorded this show. She is now Campaigns Manager.

The Farm Gate news channel is part of 8point9.com Today we're frontloading the programme with conversations about baselining, banking and funding the transition - we'll hear from Lee Reeves from Lloyds, Adam White from Barclays and Doug Wanstall who wants to bring integrity into carbon markets. Later, Andrew Whiteford will explain a little of the business-case for tree-planting in Scotland - Valentin Pitiot will extol the virtues of giant kelp - and Dan McAlpine will talk to us about why Compassion in World Farming has turned the spotlight onto UK retailers' chicken supply chains. ffinlo Costain speaks to: Adam White from Barclays Business Banking - 0'54'' Lee Reeves from Lloyds Banking Group - 12'00 Doug Wanstall from Beyond Zero - 24'40'' Valentin Pitiot from Kelp Blue - 37'25'' Andrew Whiteford of Ulzieside Farm - 51'26'' Dan McAlpine from Compassion in World Farming - 1,00' 58''

In today's local news we ask if the significant increase in housing numbers have an impact on you?  The former leader of Compassion in World Farming to talk at bookshop meanwhile at Herne Farm Leisure Centre it was time once again to brush off the dancing shoes.  Finally we find out what is needed at the foodbank this week. To share your news email team@shineradio.uk or call 01730 555 500.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's local news we ask if the significant increase in housing numbers have an impact on you?  The former leader of Compassion in World Farming to talk at bookshop meanwhile at Herne Farm Leisure Centre it was time once again to brush off the dancing shoes.  Finally we find out what is needed at the foodbank this week. To share your news email team@shineradio.uk or call 01730 555 500.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joyce D' Silva is the former Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming. She is speaking at the Petersfield Bookshop about her book on Animal Welfare in World Religion, on Thursday 19 September at 730pm . Here she speaks to Mike Waddington about her approach - this challenge she says - to those who have a faith and her book explores what those faiths say about animals. The book is available at her talk for £10.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania exclusive heritage chickens are being grown on family farms to the highest animal welfare standards- freely roaming pastures at a slower pace. Mike Charles is a 6th generation farmer and the founder and CEO of LaBelle Patrimoine.   This Whole Foods Market All-Star Supplier of the Year  and the Compassion in World Farming's Good Chicken Award winner just earned the USDA's regeneratively raised status and is certified to a Global Animal Partnership's Step 4 (no other poultry operation has a higher rating). www.labelle-patrimoine.com

Maisie Ganzler has never worked at an animal welfare charity nor an alt-protein company. Yet she's in the upper echelon of effectiveness when it comes to reducing the suffering of farmed animals. That's because she's served as an executive of a national food management company supplying 1,000 schools and corporate dining facilities, Bon Appetit Management Company, for decades. In her career, Maisie pioneered some of the first-ever corporate policies to require suppliers to stop using battery cages for laying hens and gestation crates for breeding pigs, meat reduction policies, and a whole host of other important animal welfare and sustainability initiatives.  When Bon Appetit would implement a policy like those mentioned, it was often seen as leading edge at the time, yet eventually would become the norm among food service companies. For example, Bon Appetit's 2005 cage-free egg policy would come to be adopted by McDonald's a decade later. Maisie even ran for McDonald's board of directors, backed by billionaire Carl Icahn, a campaign she writes that the fast food company spent $16 million to defeat. While she didn't make it onto McDonald's board, Maisie does sit on the board of directors of an alt-protein company called Air Protein, whose CEO Lisa Dyson has been a guest on this show before! So it was with great pleasure that I learned that Maisie has come out with her first book, which is part autobiography and part guide for others on how to create meaningful change in our food and agricultural system. The book, which just recently came out, is called You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company. I read it and found it both informational, inspirational, and entertaining. What more could you want?  Well, maybe you'd want to hear Maisie's story straight from her rather than from me, so enjoy this conversation with a true pioneer for animals, farm workers, and everyone who wants to build a better food system. Discussed in this episode Josh Balk worked with Maisie on many animal welfare policies, and now runs The Accountability Board. David Benzaquen was a student who in 2005 helped catalyze Bon Appetit's cage-free policy, and who now is an executive in the plant-based food industry.  Maisie discusses the difficulties implementing the Better Chicken Commitment, leading Compassion in World Farming to extend its deadline for compliance. You can read more in CIWF's 2023 Chicken Track paper. Maisie recommends reading Civil Eats and the NRA Smart Brief. Our past episode with Resetting the Table author Robert Paarlberg. Walker Hayes' song Fancy Like has 146 million YouTube views, so it's not just Maisie and Paul who like it.  More about Maisie Ganzler Maisie Ganzler is the go-to expert on how companies can make positive change in supply chains and other entrenched systems. She's been interviewed by leading media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fast Company, and Bloomberg, spoken at conferences around the world, written thought leadership pieces for Forbes, Huffington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle and is frequently called upon for strategic counsel by start-ups and big business alike. As Chief Strategy & Brand Officer for Bon Appetit Management Company, a $1.7 billion onsite restaurant company with 1,000-plus cafés at corporations, universities, and cultural institutions in 33 states serving more than 250 million meals per year, Maisie tackled local purchasing, antibiotics in meat production, sustainable seafood, humane care of farm animals, climate change, farmworkers' rights, and food waste, positioning the company as the foodservice industry's undisputed leader in sustainable purchasing and holistic wellness. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.

In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast, we sit down with Eleanor Boyle. She's a Vancouver-based writer who focuses on food policy and sustainable diets. A long-time journalist and former college instructor, she has written many articles on ways to improve our food systems. She has two book – “High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat”, and “Mobilize Food: Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today”.In our conversation, Eleanor discusses the recent news that avian flu has been detected in dairy cows in the U.S., and how scientists here in Canada are now sounding the alarm about staying ahead of an outbreak here at home. She delves into the issues around factory farming, and how these kinds of zoonotic diseases can become larger threats with pandemic potential.But besides highlighting the concerns, Eleanor also outlines the complicated path to alleviating the massive impacts our food systems have on everything from planetary health… to our own individual health.ResourcesEleanor's article in the online National Observer, outlining evidence that poultry farming is a major factor in the rise and spread of bird fluEleanor's introductory 2024 blog post on avian fluPeer-reviewed scientific article showing that avian-flu viruses mutate into lethal form most often among poultryComprehensive and expert bird-flu report (2023) from Compassion in World Farming, entitled Bird Flu: Only Major Farm Reforms Can End ItDr. Michael Greger's Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own HatchingUnited Nation's Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza and Wild BirdsEleanor's book “High Stakes: Why and How to Eat Less Meat”Bonus PromotionCheck out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you'll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.Support the Show.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: One week left to give feedback on the UK Mandatory Welfare Label Scheme, published by tobytrem on May 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The UK government's public consultation for their proposed animal welfare labelling scheme[1] closes on the 7th of May. I.e. a week away. If you're in the UK and care about animal welfare, I think you should probably submit an answer to it. If you don't care about animal welfare, forget you saw this. In this post I'll briefly explain what the proposed labelling scheme is, reasons to be hopeful (and cautious), why a public consultation may be unusually impactful, and how to fill in the form. If you're only interested in the final point, skip to this section. I've included a link to a document which provides great suggested answers to make the submission process much easier (I estimate it saved me up to an hour). PS: I call for out of season Draft Amnesty on this post - I wanted to get it out quickly to give people time to respond to the consultation, so it is a bit sloppy. However, if I say something wrong, correct me! What is Defra proposing? Defra, the UK Department for Environment, Food & Agricultural Affairs, is proposing, in AdamC's words[2]: Mandatory labelling, which would apply to chicken, eggs and pig products (with the suggestion that beef, lamb and dairy could follow later). At least initially, this would not apply to restaurants etc., but to food from retailers like supermarkets. At least initially, it would only cover unprocessed and minimally processed foods, so e.g. beef mince and probably bacon, but not meaty ready meals or meringues. There would be five tiers "primarily based on method of production", covering types of confinement, enrichment, mutilations, breed and more. Full draft standards can be seen here. The tiers might be referred to by numbers, letters or stars, potentially also with names, colours and pictures (see their mock-up below, which I think needs improvement). The 2nd lowest tier would simply match UK minimum legal requirements, while the lowest tier would be for "products that are not verified as meeting baseline UK welfare regulations". Ideally, a lot of retailers, with or without encouragement, will not sell the lowest tier products - reducing the prevalence of low welfare imports. There is no explicit draft timetable but it suggests an 18 month implementation period after legislation. According to Compassion for World Farming, Defra "previously promised to consult on mandatory animal welfare labelling in 2023, following a 'Call for Evidence' in 2021. Frustratingly, Defra then dropped these plans which they no longer saw as a priority, so we are delighted that after continued campaigning from our supporters - who called on the Secretary of State at Defra to reinstate the promised consultation on honest food labelling - the Government has made a U-turn." How promising is animal welfare labelling? When there is insufficient regulation, animal welfare labelling can be actively harmful. For example, in the US, meat can bear the label "humanely raised" only with sign off from the USDA[3], but "according to experts, those claims aren't scruticinized closely". In the US: "labeling claims such as "ethically/responsibly/thoughtfully raised" have no legal definition and can be used on products that come from factory farms where welfare requirements are no higher than standard practices. In essence, any producer can make these claims." This leads to bad outcomes because shoppers in the US care about animal welfare, at least to a degree. They will often select products which suggest higher welfare, even when, in fact, they are buying factory farmed meat. Products in UK can choose to take part in welfare labelling schemes such as the RSPCA's[4]. However, this isn't legally mandatory, and packaging sugge...

Philip Lymbery is the CEO of the international farmed animal welfare organization, Compassion in World Farming and joins John Maytham to speak on the excellent work done by their organization and Philip as an individual.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Philip Lymbery is Chief Executive of leading international farm animal welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming, as well as being a Visiting Professor at the University of Winchester, award-winning author and animal advocate. He was appointed an ambassadorial ‘Champion' for the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021. He has played a leading role in many major animal welfare reforms, including Europe-wide bans on veal crates for calves and barren battery cages for laying hens. He has also spearheaded Compassion's engagement with more than 1,000 food companies worldwide, leading to significant improvements in the lives of more than two billion farm animals every year. His first book Farmageddon was listed as a Book of the Year by The Times, while the second book in the trilogy, Dead Zone, was selected as a ‘Must Read' by the Daily Mail. His third book was the highly acclaimed Sixty Harvests Left. His new book is Cultivated Meat: To Secure Our Future. With thanks for your support for 5x15 online! Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

A different sort of podcast this week – the recording of a panel at the Oxford Literary Festival. The topic is "Religion and Animal Welfare", based on a book by the former chief executive in Compassion in World Farming, Joyce D'Silva.I shared some yogic perspectives on non-harming, speaking between Amir Khan – a wildlife advocate, broadcaster and Muslim – and the former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton.I've since become a signatory of the CIWF Vision for Fair Food and Farming, which I recommend reading. We also talked about the Charter for Compassion – see here for more details.To explore how yogic traditions relate to modern life, and alleviate suffering, join me for a course at truthofyoga.com. And if you'd like to support the podcast, please consider subscribing or buy me a coffee... All donations are greatly appreciated! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ancientfutures.substack.com/subscribe

La organización Compassion in World Farming ha decidido echar un pulso a la Comisión Europea por no cumplir lo que prometió hace dos años: crear una ley que prohibiera la cría de animales en jaulas antes del fin de 2023. Detrás estaba una Iniciativa Ciudadana Popular avalada por un un millón cuatrocientas mil personas y 170 organizaciones, cansadas de que la impactante y masiva ganadería industrial sea el eje de la alimentación mundial.Para ilustrarnos en este tema está con nosotros a Patricia de Rada, representante en España de esta organización que nació en Reino Unido hace más de cincuenta años.Pero no será nuestro único asunto puesto que estos días tenemos a Joaquín Araújo predicando en tierras gallegas, y aprovechando sus conferencias ha entrado en contacto con los colectivos que se manifiestan en contra de un proyecto polémico liderado por una empresa portuguesa. Quiere producir celulosa y byocel a gran escala a partir de los eucaliptos de la comarca la Ulloa, en Lugo.  Escuchar audio

Four conversations today - first, I'll meet David Wright, the Chief Executive of Ecometric, to find out about how exactly soil carbon is measured - then after that I'll talk to Chris D'Agorne from Life to Land about an analysis that shows that the non-native sycamore is now the UK's third most populous tree species. Later I'll discuss the benefits of having more trees on farms with Huw Evans from Three Pools, and we'll round up the programme with a conversation about the Westminster government's proposals for mandatory method of production labelling with Peter Stevenson and Catherine Jadav from Compassion in World Farming. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/farmgate/message

Dr Sabine Brels is a lawyer dedicated to advancing animal protection law worldwide. She teaches international and comparative animal law and published books on animal related-issues in French and English. In the last 15 years, she directed the Global Animal Law (GAL) projects and worked as legal advisor for the World Federation for Animals, the Eurogroup for Animals, and Compassion in World Farming. Besides her consulting work, she is currently leading the World Animal Justice NGO that she founded in 2023. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what's real?” & “who matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 00:00 Clips! 01:09 Welcome -  Sabine's previous appearance on episode 66 02:15 Sabine's Intro - #internationallaw , #animallaw and #animalrights 03:17 International vs. national law - #icc #icj #unitednations - Laws of genocide, humanitarianism, crimes against humanity... - Policy, law, regulation, enforcement - Regional law e.g. EU, Asia 07:34 World Animal Justice - Bringing non-human animals into international law - "An animal law revolution" - #CrimesAgainstAnimality or #sentientity ? - "Massive crimes against animals happen every day, everywhere worldwide... it's our collective responsibility" - "Every day the entire European Union population is killed... that's a reality for animals... 450 million of animals are killed per day... this is only for food... every second it's 5000 animals killed" - "It's not acceptable when we know that we can do otherwise... that this is avoidable" - Companion, stray, laboratory, sport, working, wild animals "they are all victims of crimes against animality" - Crimes against humanity: massive murders, sequestrations, enslavement, deportations, torture, violence including sexual violence "this is what is actually happening against animals every day... and it can still be legal in some places" - Anti-cruelty and pro-welfare laws: "usually to reduce the suffering of these exploited animals or to condemn some acts of cruelty... against companion animals" - "1/3 of countries today still have nothing to protect animals - not even the basic anti-cruelty laws" - "Some of the most cruel practices are still legal in some countries..." force-feeding for #foiegras and #bullfighting in France are "a kind of torture for animals" - The potential for a global consensus at least against some of those most egregious practices "That's wrong for animals but also for our human dignity" - India and some South American countries: have granted some rights to great apes or large mammals based on poor treatment in zoos - WAJ: "Go faster and higher... criminality against animals is huge" - Welfare / anti-cruelty approaches "we are not taking this concern for the gravity it is" - "If we were doing the same to humans... it would seem unbelievable that it would be still legal... we would cry about genocides and crimes against humanity" - WAJ's network of experts and NGOs spanning 5 continents 28:22 WAJ Expert Network and Strategy37:00 Impacts on Animal AgricultureFollow Sabine and  @WorldAnimalJustice  : - WAJ contact: contact@worldanimaljustice.org - WAJ Website - WAJ introductory Video - WAJ Linkedin ...and much more. Full show notes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sentientism.info⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sentientism.info⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"I'm a Sentientist" wall⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ via ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠this simple form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here on FaceBook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Come join us there! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sentientism/message

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AMA: Emma Slawinski, the RSPCA's Director of Policy, Prevention and Campaigns., published by tobytrem on January 24, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I'll be interviewing Emma Slawinski for an audio AMA on the 1st of February. Ask your questions here, and we will cover them in the interview! The interview will be published as a podcast and transcript. "Factory-farmed chickens live absolutely horrible lives; their suffering is the single biggest animal welfare issue facing the country at present [my emphasis]" ~ Emma Slawinski Emma Slawinski is the Director of Policy, Prevention and Campaigns for the RSPCA (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). She has over a decade of experience in animal welfare campaigning. Previously, she worked for organisations such as Compassion in World Farming, where she worked on the End The Cage Age campaign, and World Animal Protection. At the RSPCA, she has: Worked on the #CutTheChase campaign to end greyhound racing in the UK, and the Kept Animals Bill Campaign. Made speeches in front of parliament in favour of banning live export of livestock. Spoken against no-stun slaughter on GB news. Been quoted in BBC articles on issues such as horse racing reform and badger culling. Promoted the annual Animal Kindness Index, which shows how discordant the British public's views on animal welfare are. What is the RSPCA? The RSPCA is a charity with a long history. It was the first charity in the world to be primarily focused on preventing animal suffering. In 2021, it received £151 million in funding, making it one of the largest charities in the UK. The RSPCA's campaigns cover everything from banning disposable vapes and changing firework laws, to ending cages for farm animals. I was especially interested in doing an AMA with someone from the RSPCA because of this article, which focused on the plight of chickens in the UK. In Emma's words: "We slaughter about a billion chickens in the UK every year - an extraordinary number. It is very difficult to envisage the scale of that. "Yet we never see these creatures, despite their vast numbers, because they are locked into incredibly cramped spaces. They are also genetically selected to grow incredibly quickly. We get through them at an extraordinary rate because they are bred to produce the maximum amount of meat in the fastest possible time. "Factory-farmed chickens live absolutely horrible lives; their suffering is the single biggest animal welfare issue facing the country at present [my emphasis]" Here are some themes that I will be focusing on in my questions: The RSPCA's most effective campaigns, and how they measure the impact they have through public messaging. How the RSPCA prioritises amongst its various causes. What challenges it faces because of its size. Whether it has ways to influence policy that smaller and newer charities do not. You can use these as a jumping off point, but don't feel constrained by them. Ask anything! Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Philip Lymbery, the Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming, the leading international farmed animal welfare environmental organisation gives us his New Year message. He looks at how far we have come as a food movement in terms of climate, food justice and animal welfare, and predicts that a future royal banquet will include cultivated meat from stem cells. Click here for more from Compassion in World Farming and here for the Food Foundation Manifesto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Big Meat had a good year in Europe. Plans to set emission limits for large-scale cattle farms were scrapped. Rules requiring landowners to restore wetlands were mostly gutted. And a keenly anticipated reform of the animal welfare rules was mostly consigned to the deep freeze. Among those promised animal welfare reforms: legislation to End the Cage Age. The idea was that hens, pigs, calves, rabbits, and quail would no longer be reared in conditions that inflict suffering and that underpin industrial farming, which is responsible for large amounts of greenhouse gases and other pollution. The campaign to end cages was the result of a European Citizens Initiative that garnered 1.4 million signatories and was backed by key European commissioners, parliamentarians, and scores of environmental and consumer rights and animal protection advocates. But in her state of the union speech, in September, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made no mention of animal welfare, let alone cages. And by October, the European Commission was in full retreat. So, what happened? In this episode: a deep dive into the activities and influence of a group called European Livestock Voice with Andrea Bertaglio, who is a journalist and the group's campaign manager. Also in this episode: Thin Lei Win, the lead food systems reporter for Lighthouse Reports that oversaw the investigation; Arthur Neslen, a freelance journalist for The Guardian; Silvia Lazzaris, editor at Food Unfolded; and Olga Kikou, the head of Compassion in World Farming in Brussels. “This takes us far beyond animal welfare,” says Olga. “It's a democracy issue.”Support the show

The world's first octopus farm is on the cusp of being greenlighted, however, not without a global outcry. Today's guest, Dr. Elena Lara, is with the organization, Compassion in World Farming. She talks about what makes these animals so incredible- from their ability to solve problems to their uncanny talent for camouflage despite being colorblind! We explore the ethical and environmental considerations that come into play as the world seeks to supply the growing demand for seafood with the welfare of these intelligent, sentient creatures.If you would like to sign a petition against octopus farming, click HERE.Compassion in World Farming Reports on octopus farming:Octopus factory farming a recipe for disasterUncovering the horrific reality of octopus farming If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe, rate and review it! This helps to boost its visibility. Healthy Seas is a marine conservation organization whose mission is to tackle the ghost fishing phenomenon and turn this waste into an opportunity for a more circular economy. They do this through clean-ups, prevention, education, and working with partners who recycle and repurpose this material. The podcast is hosted by Crystal DiMiceli.

Our global food system, which relies heavily on factory farming, is wreaking havoc on our soil and our environment. In this week's episode, Philip Lymbery joins Evanna and Melanie to chat about his book "Sixty Harvests Left," in which he points out that if we don't change our ways, factory farming will cause catastrophic climate change—and we could face a future without soil and, consequently, without food. In this enlightening conversation, Philip, Evanna, and Melanie discuss how we can change course, emphasizing the role of individual choices, collective action, and the enduring power of hope for a brighter future for animals, people, and our planet. Philip Lymbery is Global Chief Executive of the international farmed animal welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Winchester in the UK; a Leadership Fellow of St George's House, Windsor Castle; Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics; and President of Eurogroup for Animals, a Brussels-based umbrella body of 80 leading animal welfare societies in Europe. He was appointed a UN ambassadorial “Champion” for the 2021 Food Systems Summit in New York. Lymbery is an animal advocate, naturalist, photographer, and author. He regularly writes and speaks internationally on animal ethics and the global effects of factory farming, including its impact on animal welfare, wildlife, soil and natural resources, biodiversity, and climate change. His most recent books include "Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat." "Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were," and "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future." Visit Philip's website and check out his latest book, "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future". Follow Philip on Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly Twitter). Check out Melanie's new book, "How to End Injustice Everywhere". Check out Evanna's book, "The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting". This season of Just Beings is brought to you by our friends at Vivo Life and LeafSide! Learn more about Vivo Life by visiting VivoLife.com. Learn more about LeafSide by visiting GoLeafSide.com. Stay up to date with Just Beings on social media by following @JustBeingsPod. This episode was edited by Andrew Sims.

Nathan Rittenhouse recently appeared on the Premier UnBelievable podcast to discuss the question, Do Animals have souls? His interlocutor in the discussion is Joyce D'Silva, Ambassador Emeritus for Compassion in World Farming. Click here to listen to the podcast and to read Nathan's follow-up article. In this episode, Nathan begins by trying to convince Cameron to become a vegetarian.

Nathan Rittenhouse recently appeared on the Premier UnBelievable podcast to discuss the question, Do Animals have souls? His interlocutor in the discussion is Joyce D'Silva, Ambassador Emeritus for Compassion in World Farming. Click here to listen to the podcast and to read Nathan's follow-up article. In this episode, we unpack Nathan's conversation and we press into why the question of animal rights is so prevalent right now.

Do we need to reconsider the moral status of animals? What does the Christian worldview tell us about animals? Do we change our attitudes towards animals if we believe they have capacity for pain and pleasure, challenging anthropocentric views, advocating for animal rights, promoting vegetarianism and critiquing speciesism? Or closer to home people often ask 'will I see my doggie if I get to heaven?'. Host Roger Bolton is joined by Joyce D'Silva and Nathan Rittenhouse to debate this thorny issue on Unbelievable. Joyce D'Silva is Ambassador Emeritus for Compassion in World Farming, the leading charity advancing the welfare of farm animals worldwide. Nathan Rittenhouse is a speaker and preacher and co-founder of the podcast Thinking Out Loud. • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

In this episode, Jeff Boachie gives his op tips on how to grow your email marketing list, and the importance of doing so. About Jeff: "I am a Marketing Specialist with over 10 years of experience in managing a wide range of programmes over a broad range of budgets, from multi-million generating campaigns – to SME's and small charities. I have also recently worked as a Digital Growth consultant, using my years of experience to aid entrepreneurs, restaurants and also the charity Compassion in World Farming. Although most of my career has been in the Charity Sector, my direct marketing career started in the commercial sector at EY. I used my lessons from that opportunity to shape the infrastructures and processes of the charities I've worked with. I'm currently the Digital Acquisition Manager at Shelter and have recently delivered our Winter Campaign which generated over £2.3m." Individual Giving Conference in back for its 4th year on October 19th. You can register here. Use discount code FEPODCAST for a 50% discount. And thank you to our friends at JustGiving who make the Fundraising Everywhere podcast possible.

Welcome back to another episode of the Plant Based News podcast. Today I have the pleasure of being joined by a truly remarkable guest – animal rights advocate, author, and President of Mercy for Animals, Leah Garcés. Leah is a visionary leader and a passionate advocate with nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the animal protection movement, and she has achieved great strides for the movement in that time. Currently based in Atlanta, Georgia, Leah Garcés is half Colombian and half American and has also lived in Spain, the US and the UK. In her impressive career, she spent 7 years at the World Society for the Protection of Animals, where she oversaw international campaigns in 14 countries and managed a multi-million dollar budget. This led her to launch the US chapter of Compassion in World Farming, where she spent 8 years further amplifying her efforts to reduce the suffering of animals on a massive scale. Find out more about Mercy For Animals here - https://mercyforanimals.org/ The PBN Podcast is hosted and produced by Robbie Lockie, edited by Phil Marriott and researched and scripted by Antonia Georgieva. 00:00:00 An introduction to Leah Garcés 00:04:05 An update on the Mercy For Animals organisation 00:05:55 Horrific Egg-Farm footage of chickens trapped in feces [clip] 00:07:00 The challenges that Mercy For Animals faces 00:11:40 Measuring the impact of the work that Leah and her team are doing 00:13:55 ‘Shining A Light on Bright' by Leah Garcés - performed by Michelle Lauria [clip] 00:15:00 Deciding on where the campaign energy goes 00:22:05 The life of chickens on factory farms [clip] 00:24:00 Why are politicians blind to the destruction caused by animal agriculture? 00:34:20 The human cost of factory farming 00:35:00 Leah's forthcoming book Transfarmation 00:38:42 The progress of the Transfarmation project 00:42:20 Inspiring young people 00:47:20 How people can involved with the movement

This week Gilly is with Jenny Chandler whose book A Good Appetite is all about eating for planet, body and soul.It's a subject particularly close to Gilly's heart; her award-winning book Taste and the TV Chef looked at the influence TV chefs have had and could have in changing the way we eat. Her podcast for Leon How to Eat to Save the Planet and her work for Compassion in World Farming, the Food Foundation and Cooking the Books itself itself are all rooted in the interdependence between where food, health, soil and planet.Expect then, a good old rant about where we are in the race to save the planet, our junk food culture and an unconscious sleepwalk towards doom! Happily, Jenny has a more upbeat approach!Check Gilly's Substack for Extra Bites each week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to another episode of the PBN podcast! Today we have Philip Lymbery Global Chief Executive of animal welfare charity 'Compassion in World Farming'. Philip is an ornithologist, photographer, dedicated animal advocate and award-winning author who has been leading Compassion for more than a decade. His critically acclaimed books, Farmageddon: The true cost of cheap meat, and Dead Zone: where the wild things were, were the first mainstream books to show factory farming as a major driver of wildlife declines and at the heart of what needs to change to stave off the climate, nature and pandemic emergencies now facing humanity. His third book, Sixty Harvests Left: How to reach a nature-friendly future, will be published by Bloomsbury in August 2022. Find out more about Compassion in World Farming here - https://www.ciwf.org.uk/ The PBN Podcast is hosted and produced by Robbie Lockie, edited by Phil Marriott and researched and scripted by Antonia Georgieva. 00:00:00 An introduction to Philip Lymbery 00:03:45 The beginning of Philip's vegan story 00:07:35 Compassion in World Farming - a history of the world's leading farm animal welfare organisation campaigning to end factory farming and stop farm animal suffering 00:19:09 Feeling frustrations 00:24:35 Sixty Harvests Left - Philip's latest book 00:29:30 The best ways that advocates should be using their time to awaken the minds of the masses 00:35:00 Regenerative Agriculture 00:44:30 A vision of the future: what does it look like for our planet? 00:49:26 Government action 00:58:50 Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher 01:00:00 What's happening with the advent of octopus farming 01:04:00 Campaigns that CIWF are running, plus other successes 01:06:36 Stranded on a desert island

The Government has dropped the Kept Animals Bill. It would have banned the live export of animals from the UK, the bill would also have brought in new measures to tackle dogs worrying livestock and puppy farming. The Farming Minister Mark Spencer told the House of Commons the bill "risked being extended" beyond its original commitments and was being dropped. Compassion in World Farming has condemned the move. Some English farmers are celebrating a government u-turn on payments to hill farms. We find out what the changes are and what they could mean for farmers. Tenant farmers in England criticise the Government response to a review of the sector. Defra says it plans to get rid of EU regulations, a move which it claims will release £180 million into the the UK's wine industry. Plans would enable growers to import hybrid vines, adding new grape varieties into higher quality wines grown in England and Wales. The changes would also include new labelling to show where the grapes are from, and not where the wine was bottled. This week the World Farmers Organisation has been meeting in South Africa and Farming Today has been looking at some of the challenges facing farmers around the world. We report from the Netherlands, where there are radical proposals to reduce the number of farms. Also we speak to a farmer in Ukraine about farming in a war zone and hear from fruit growers in Ghana where there's a glut of watermelons. Presenter = Charlotte Smith Producer = Rebecca Rooney

The government has dropped the Kept Animals Bill. It would have banned the live export of animals from the UK . The commitment to banning the export of live animals for slaughter was made in the Conservative Party's election manifesto in 2019 and the bill would also have brought in new measures to tackle dogs worrying livestock and puppy farming. The Farming Minister Mark Spencer told the House of Commons the bill "risked being extended" beyond its original commitments and was being dropped. Compassion in World Farming has long campaigned against live exports and has condemned the move. Some English farmers are celebrating a government u-turn on payments to hill farms. Charlotte Smith finds out what the changes are and what they could mean for farmers. This week the World Farmers Organisation has been meeting in South Africa and so all this week Farming Today is looking at some of the challenges facing farmers around the world. Today we report from the Netherlands, where there are radical proposals to reduce the number of farms. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

Scotland has a new Food Security Unit - which the government says will 'monitor food system resilience'. The unit was reccomended by a food security and supply task force which the Scottish government set up with the food industry immediately after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Farmers from around the world are meeting in South Africa this week for the World Farmers Organisation General Assembly - they'll discuss international trade, farmer driven innovation and climate change - amongst other things. All week we'll take a look a some of the issues farmers in other countries are facing. As many keen gardeners and indeed farmers will tell you seeds grown locally are best suited to the local as they're used to the exact conditions. A group of growers in West wales are championing seeds with links to Wales - we visit the Wales Seed Hub. Presenter = Charlotte Smith Producer = Rebecca Rooney

Leah Garcés is the CEO and president of Mercy For Animals. She has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the animal protection movement and has partnered with some of the world's largest food companies on her mission to build a better food system. Leah Garcés oversaw international campaigns at the World Society for the Protection of Animals and launched Compassion in World Farming in the United States. The New York Times, the Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and other national and international media outlets have featured her work. She is a contributing writer for Food Safety News and serves on the advisory boards of Encompass and Seattle Food Tech. Leah is also the author of GRILLED: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry, published by Bloomsbury in September 2019. Part memoir, part activist tell-all, Grilled illustrates how her fight to end factory farming and construct a compassionate food system led Leah to collaborate with unlikely allies in the food industry. It's a must-read for new and veteran animal advocates, as well as those looking to learn more about the food industry—and how to change it. Find out more at: https://ecoflix.com/

Guest: Dr Elena Lara is The Research Manager for Compassion in World Farming, and she joins Amy to discuss a BBC article, ‘World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists' that describes the world's first octopus farm and the deep concerns that it has raised.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

⚫️ Životopis Anthony Bourdaina vyšel ve Slovartu a my si řekneme, proč ho číst.  ⚫️ Klecové chovy ještě nejsou přemoženy a boj s nimi jde do druhého kola. Zvířata potřebují ještě jeden váš podpis, tentokrát ne pro EU, ale pro českou vládu. V rozhovoru s Romanou Šonkovou z Compassion in World Farming  zjistíte, co všechno už se zlepšilo a co ještě můžeme dělat.  ⚫️ Kreativní tvůrkyně Chili Ta známá z TV soutěže Masterchef vydala kuchařku, která je ušitá na míru českým podmínkám pro vaření „Asie“ - nabídce místních obchodů a zdejší sezóně. V tom je na trhu jedinečná. Chili dala Potravinám rozhovor o životě a kuchyni na pomezí vietnamské a české kultury.   

Philip Lymbery is Chief Executive of leading international farm animal welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming, as well as being a Visiting Professor at the University of Winchester, award-winning author and animal advocate. His new book, SIXTY HARVESTS LEFT, takes its title from a chilling warning made by the United Nations that the world's soils could be gone within a lifetime. Uncovering how the food industry and ‘Big Ag' threatens our world, it also spotlights the pioneers who are battling to bring landscapes back to life. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Philip Lymbery is the global CEO of Compassion in World Farming. He has dedicated his life to improving the lives of billions of animals and birds. Here he explains why he cares about animal welfare, how he goes about achieving large scale change, and why it's so important that we all play our part in helping to preserve the planet for ourselves and those we share it with. 

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Diversification is Underrated, published by Justis on November 17, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Note: This is not an FTX post, and I don't think its content hinges on current events. Also - though this is probably obvious - I'm speaking in a strictly personal capacity. Formal optimization problems often avail themselves of one solution - there can be multiple optima, but by default there tends to be one optimum for any given problem setup, and the highest expected value move is just to dump everything into that optimum. As a community, we tend to enjoy framing things as formal optimization problems. This is pretty good! But the thing about formal problem setups is they encode lots of assumptions, and those assumptions can have several degrees of freedom. Sometimes the assumptions are just plain qualitative, where quantifying them misses the point; the key isn't to just add another order-of-magnitude (or three) variable to express uncertainty. Rather, the key is to adopt a portfolio approach such that you're hitting optima or near-optima under a variety of plausible assumptions, even mutually exclusive ones. This isn't a new idea. In various guises and on various scales, it's called moral parliament, buckets, cluster thinking, or even just plain hedging. As a community, to our credit, we do a lot of this stuff. But I think we could do more, and be more confident and happy about it. Case study: me I do/have done the following things, that are likely EA-related: Every month, I donate 10% of my pre-tax income to the Against Malaria Foundation. I also donate $100 to Compassion in World Farming, mostly because I feel bad about eating meat. In my spare time, I provide editing services to various organizations as a contractor. The content I edit is often informed by a longtermist perspective, and the modal topic is probably AI safety. I once was awarded (part of a) LTFF (not FTX, the EA Funds one) grant, editing writeups on current cutting-edge AI safety research and researchers. Case study from a causes perspective On a typical longtermist view, my financial donations don't make that much sense - they're morally fine, but it'd be dramatically better in expectation to donate toward reducing x-risk. On a longtermist-skeptical view, the bulk of my editing doesn't accomplish much for altruistic purposes. It's morally fine, but it'd be better to polish general outreach communications for the more legible global poverty and health sector. And depending on how you feel about farmed animals, that smaller piece of the pie could dwarf everything else (even just the $100 a month is plausibly saving more chickens from bad lives than my AMF donations save human lives), or irrelevant (if you don't care about chicken welfare basically at all). I much prefer my situation to a more "aligned" situation, where all my efforts go the same single direction. It's totally plausible to me that work being done right now on AI safety makes a really big difference for how well things go in the next couple decades. It's also plausible to me that none of it matters, either because we're doomed in any case or because our current trajectory is just basically fine. Similarly, it's plausible to me (though I think unlikely) that I learn that AMF's numbers are super inflated somehow, or that its effectiveness collapsed and nobody bothered to check. And it's plausible that in 20 years, we will have made sufficient progress in global poverty and health that there no longer exist donation opportunities in the space as high leverage as there are right now, and so now is a really important time. So I'm really happy to just do both. I don't have quantitative credences here, though I'm normally a huge fan of those. I just don't think they work that well for the outside view of the portfolio approach - I've ...

Join Lori and her guest, Vanessa Barboni Hallik, as they discuss how entrepreneurs can incorporate philanthropy with sustainability in their businesses. Vanessa is the founder and CEO of Another Tomorrow, a B Corp Certified end-to-end sustainable design company. She talks about how her quest for her life's purpose led her to the world of fashion, where she uses sustainable and holistic practices as the foundation of her business. Stay tuned!   Here are the things to expect in this episode: How Vanessa found her way into the fashion industry Another Tomorrow's sustainable and holistic approach to fashion Different ways of informing consumers about your philanthropic causes And much more!   Another Another Tomorrow: I started Another Tomorrow in January 2018, while on a sabbatical from my former career in emerging markets finance. The original purpose of this break was to take a pause and reorient my career toward sustainable finance. However, as I began to dig deeper into the root problems of many of our global challenges, I was surprised and devastated by what I found in the apparel industry and its enormous impact on people, the environment, and animals. Clear information was difficult to come by, and the more I educated myself, finding clothing I felt good about became even harder. Realizing I couldn't just ‘unknow' what I now knew, I felt a responsibility and a purpose I couldn't ignore. My mission is to create a truly sustainable and compassionate company with a three-pronged approach of providing a foundational wardrobe of ethically and responsibly made clothing, education, and a platform for activism to amplify our collective voices. Another Tomorrow is the result of an incredible collaborative effort across our team and suppliers around the world. I'm so grateful for each of them and look forward to introducing you to everyone who has helped bring this vision to life.   Connect with Vanessa! Another Tomorrow: https://anothertomorrow.co/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessabarbonihallik/   Another Tomorrow's Partner Organizations Tasmanian Land Conservancy: https://tasland.org.au/ Care International's Made by Women program: https://www.care.org/our-work/education-and-work/dignified-work/made-by-women/ Compassion in World Farming: https://www.ciwf.com/ Custom Collaborative: https://www.customcollaborative.org/   Vanessa's Personal Philanthropy Trust for Public Land: https://www.tpl.org/ Accountability Counsel: https://www.accountabilitycounsel.org/ Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard: https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/   Connect with Lori Kranczer! Website: https://linkphilanthropic.com Email: info@linkphilanthropic.com     

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What matters to shrimps? Factors affecting shrimp welfare in aquaculture, published by Lucas Lewit-Mendes on November 3, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP) produced this report to guide our decision making on funding for further research into shrimp welfare and on which interventions to allocate our resources. We are cross-posting this on the forum because we think it may be useful to share the complexity of understanding the needs of beneficiaries who cannot communicate with us. We also hope it will be useful for other organisations working on shrimp welfare, and it's also hopefully an interesting read! The report was written by Lucas Lewit-Mendes, with detailed feedback provided by Sasha Saugh and Aaron Boddy. We are thankful for and build on the work and feedback of other NGOs, including Charity Entrepreneurship, Rethink Priorities, Aquatic Life Institute, Fish Welfare Initiative, Compassion in World Farming and Crustacean Compassion. All errors and shortcomings are our own. Executive Summary While many environmental conditions and farming practices could plausibly affect the welfare of shrimps, little research has been done to assess which factors most affect shrimp welfare. This report aims to assess the importance of various factors for the welfare of farmed shrimps, with a particular focus on Litopenaeus vannamei (also known as Penaeus vannamei, or whiteleg shrimp), due to the scale and intensity of farming (~171-405 billion globally per annum) (Mood and Brooke, 2019). Where evidence is scarce, we extend our research to other shrimps, other decapods, or even other aquatic animals. Further research into the most significant factors and practices affecting farmed shrimp welfare is needed. Conclusions from our review are summarised below: Eyestalk Ablation: Shrimps demonstrate aversive behavioural responses to eyestalk ablation, and applying anaesthesia before ablation has therapeutic effects. We believe this is strongly indicative that eyestalk ablation is a welfare concern. Disease: Infectious diseases cause significant mortality events. This is likely to both cause suffering prior to death and increase the total number of shrimps who are farmed and experience suffering. Stunning and Slaughter: Current slaughter practices (asphyxiation or immersion in ice slurry) are likely to be inhumane. While evidence on the optimal slaughter method for shrimps is limited, electrical stunning appears to be the most promising method to effectively stun and kill shrimps. Stocking Density: There is strong experimental evidence to suggest that reductions in stocking density indirectly improve welfare by improving water quality, reducing disease, and increasing survival. There is also some tentative evidence that stocking density directly impacts shrimp behaviour and measurable stress biomarkers (e.g. serotonin). Environmental Enrichment (EE): Environmental enrichments (e.g. feeding methods that mimic natural behaviours, hiding sites, different tank shapes and colours, plants, substrates, and sediments) probably improve shrimp survival, but there is little evidence on their impact on shrimp stress or behaviour. There is moderately strong evidence that physical enrichment (such as physical structure, plant, and substrate) improves welfare for aquatic animals, including crustaceans. Transport and Handling: Poor transport and handling practices are likely to lead to physical injury and stress, although research is limited on the welfare effects of current shrimp farming practices. Food: While some decapods appear resilient to lack of food, inadequate nutrition leads to risk of non-infectious disease and may lead to aggressive and abnormal behaviour. Water Quality Dissolved Oxygen (DO): Several studies indicate that insufficient DO levels increase mort...

Rewind episode: Ronnika A. McFall is an Accomplished Mass Communications and Media Studies Professional with more than 9 Years of diverse experience in both Corporate America and Small Businesses. An innovative, hands-on leader with a track record for success. Known for relationship building amongst customers, employees, media and the community - at - large. Ronnika's recent attributes and work experiences come from contributions at Compassion in World Farming, American Red Cross, Cox Media Group, Yellow Pages, iGN Public Relations & Co and PR for a Day Consulting. Ronnika Ann, is the leader and visionary of every campaign she touches; she spearheads strategic campaigns and develops goals for each client. Every win and opportunity for growth is personal. That commitment to personal growth is at the heart of her team's efforts and she works relentlessly with top PR Heads in the industry, to focus on mastering relationship-based business to earn her clients' public support. Ronnika has gained 8 plus years of experience in leadership, event planning, production, public relations and journalism. Her most recent attributes have come from her contributions to IGN PR & Co., Yellow Pages Corporate Marketing Team, The Sun Herald Newspaper, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Mississippi's Channel 23, and ABC's WAPT Channel 16. As a result of such vast experiences, she created, publishes and writes for the PR Insights and has published a book series called: "Putting The PR Back in EntrePReneurship" under her PR for a Day Consulting Service. Ronnika received her Master's in Business Administration from American InterContinental University and has a Bachelor's of Science degree in Mass Communications and Speech Communication from Jackson State University. She is a lady of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Because of all of her achievements, Ronnika was awarded the "Keys to the City" from her hometown, Biloxi, Ms. Ronnika A. Joyner Day is official celebrated on January 4th. Update: iGN Public Relations & Co. is now McCall Enterprises MarCom. Carlton and Ronnika met as marketing consultants at the Yellow Pages. Individually they ran their own companies since 2012. Ronnika, founder of iGN Public Relations & Co. and PR for a Day Consulting and Training, and Carlton, founder of CMF Solutions Inc., were married in 2017. Together, they formed the organization McFall Enterprises LLC to create a one stop shop for integrated marketing and communication needs. https://mcfallenterprises.org https://mcfallenterprises.org/pr-for-a-day-training https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronnikamcfall/ https://www.instagram.com/ignpr https://www.facebook.com/RonnikaMcFall https://mcfallenterprises.org/pr-for-a-day-training   Deborah Bailey is a writer and host of Women Entrepreneurs Radio podcast. Learn more about her and her books and writing courses at: https://DBaileycoach.com For Deborah's paranormal and fantasy romance fiction, visit: https://dbaileycoach.com/brightbooks

This week, we're eating to save the Planet with Philip Lymbery, global CEO of Compassion in World Farming.Philip is one of the most important campaigners against factory farms where the animals whose meat most people eat are confined and never see the light of day. He and Gilly have worked together on his podcasts Stop the Machine and the Big Table and he's appeared on the delicious podcast and on Right2Food, the voice of the Food Foundation in a bid to change the way we eat.He's painted an apocalyptic vision of its impact on the planet in his books Farmageddon and Dead Zone: where the wild things were. In his latest book, Sixty Harvests Left, he picks up the soil where the animals once grazed, naturally fertilising the land and providing rich pickings for the bugs and worms and shows us what our junk food culture has done to it.. But it's not too late – not quite – if we change the way we think about the food we buy everyday. Essential listening.And don't forget that Leiths Online is offering a discount for Cooking the Books listeners. To get 10% off the Essentials online course that Gilly is on, go to leithsonline.com/courses/essential-cooking , click ‘enrol' on course page and apply the code: GILLY10 at checkout: Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

As drought is declared across several parts of England, fires have been breaking out on arable farms where the harvest is well underway. Farm insurer NFU Mutual says so far this month it's already received more than 150 reports. We speak to some affected farmers - including one who says she could not call 999 when she first spotted a fire because there was no signal on her mobile phone. The hot weather is also a challenge for livestock farmers - who need to keep animals cool and fed when grass is parched. The British Poultry Council says the extreme temperatures have "led to very high mortality events in some poultry flocks". The campaign group Compassion in World Farming is warning farmers to take extra measures to protect livestock, and is calling on the Government to suspend journeys for farmed animals unless absolutely necessary. And away from worries about the hot dry weather, it's full steam ahead for farm and country shows at the moment. Caz Graham visits the 118th Vale of Rydal Sheepdog Trials & Hound in the heart of the Lake District to see what was happening there. Presented by Caz Graham Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

Compassion in World Farming is warning farmers to take extra measures to protect their livestock in these current heat wave temperatures, and is calling on the government to suspend journeys for farmed animals unless absolutely necessary. It's 12 August, famous in shooting circles as the Glorious 12th because it's the first day of the red grouse shooting season. Grouse shooting, although not welcomed by all, does provide a welcome injection of cash into some remote rural areas. At this time of year there are farm and country shows right across the UK that can offer a real insight into rural life and traditions, both past and present. Yesterday was a glorious summer's day for the 118th Vale Of Rydal Sheepdog Trials and Hound Show in the central Lake District. Caz Graham took a look. Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

Cet épisode est le troisième de notre série d'été sur la mer. Quatre épisodes pour vous faire prendre le large — en long et en travers. Aujourd'hui : le poulpe.Dans les restaurants de bord de mer comme les bistrots à la mode dans nos grandes villes, le poulpe a le vent en poupe. Mais cet animal marin (qui répond également au nom de pieuvre car il s'agit bien du même animal) est loin de plaire à tout le monde. Dans l'assiette, c'est même plutôt un mets clivant. L'aversion que certains ressentent pour le poulpe tient généralement à ses 8 bras recouverts de deux rangées de ventouses. Pour d'autres, c'est précisément ce jeu de textures qui est recherché et apprécié, dans les tielles sétoises, les takoyaki ou les poulpes tout simplement grillés au barbecue.Autrefois plutôt rare dans le commerce, le poulpe est aujourd'hui un mets très commun car ces dernières décennies, les pêcheries se sont tournées davantage vers le poulpe dans un contexte de surpêche des poissons, abreuvant ainsi le marché du fameux céphalopode. Face à une offre plus importante, c'est la demande qui a fini par augmenter elle aussi. Selon le CIWF (Compassion in World Farming), une ONG militant contre l'élevage intensif, nous sommes actuellement dans une situation de surconsommation de poulpes. Pour répondre à cet effet de mode, certains acteurs ont flairé le bon filon pour s'enrichir et veulent se lancer dans l'élevage industriel de pieuvres. En d'autres termes, ne plus se contenter de pêcher des pieuvres sauvages mais les élever pour en commercialiser toujours plus.Dans cet épisode, Émilie Laystary tend le micro à Raphaël, un auditeur de Bouffons qui déteste manger du poulpe ; Billy, dont c'est l'un des aliments préférés, et Laetitia Dinault, responsable communication du CIWF, l'asso qui a publié un rapport intitulé « Élevage industriel des pieuvres, désastre annoncé ». En plus des problèmes écologiques et d'éthique animale, l'élevage de poulpes représenterait également un souci de sécurité alimentaire dans le monde puisque nourrir les poulpes en bassin impliquerait forcément de prélever des poissons pour en faire de la farine. Autant de poissons en moins pour des populations locales.Bouffons est un podcast de Nouvelles Écoutes que j'anime avec l'aide en coulisses de Cassandra de Carvalho, Mathilde Jonin et Xavier Kamaky.Montage et mixage par Laurie Galligani Générique réalisé par Aurore MahieuVous pouvez consulter notre politique de confidentialité sur https://art19.com/privacy ainsi que la notice de confidentialité de la Californie sur https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Bruce Kent (1929–2022), published by Gavin on June 10, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Tank officer, Catholic monsignor, head of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 1980-1985. In 1973, while serving as a Catholic priest, Bruce Kent performed a formal exorcism of the Faslane nuclear submarine base. (No uploads of the photos unfortunately.) Kent strikes me as a model activist of a certain kind - highly invested in symbolism, in consciousness raising - a single issue politician - an agent in great stories and fine speeches. Clearly a good person. But to what end? During his tenure at CND, membership increased tenfold - mostly due to the coming of Trident and the associated massive spending. "This made it one of the largest political organisations in Britain and probably the largest peace movement in the world (outside the state-sponsored movements of the communist bloc)." He was famous, famous enough that someone sent him a letter bomb. Wikipedia claims that he was forced to resign from the priesthood for being too political, though this doesn't match his own description of events. He also signed on to Compassion in World Farming, why not. Two cheers CND was the first mass movement against x-risk. (Currently our best guess is that nuclear x-risk is relatively small, but this isn't obvious now and was far from obvious then.) But it's not enough to have the right cause: you need to get the intervention right too. CND are most famous for pushing unilateral disarmament for the UK. Insofar as this push has a theory of change, it's something like inspiring other countries to unilaterally disarm (moving the world to a Kantian equilbrium). On the face of it, this is unlikely to work; nonviolent protest only works if your opponents have scruples and/or if the opinion of the world matters to them. Some part of the push will be the classic desire for clean hands, rather than a real plan to reduce x-risk. (He's been called a useful idiot, but this doesn't seem fair either.) "Peace, not war". Well, yes. It would be nice if moving in a straight line, leading by example were the way to get there, and I don't know that it isn't, but trying it is very hazardous. Misc It's always difficult to evaluate impact. But the direct action and consciousness raising groups are the worst, because they won't even make up numbers for what they've done, besides the odd headcount at a march. I've spent 20 minutes trying to work out what Pax Christi, one of his other organisations, do. I think it's meetings. I haven't tried to look at CND's impact through direct action, for instance (before Kent's time) their exposing the emergency backup plan for post-apocalyptic UK government. Which seems pretty bad! But in general I think direct action has a place and I hope someone does a full accounting. "Bruce's razor-sharp intellect, together with his humour, tireless work, intolerance of flannel, and total commitment to his faith and principles, made him a leader of our movement beyond compare" (I have learned a new sense of flannel, though I liked it better when I misread it.) Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

Most of the animal food products you buy come from what are called factory farms. That includes your beef, chicken, turkey, and pork, as well as eggs and dairy products. The animals in these “farms” live miserable lives in horrible conditions and have a one-way ticket to the slaughterhouse. Compassion in World Farming is an organization dedicated to ending factory farming, and to educating people about animal welfare, air, water and land pollution, human health, and social justice issues which are inextricably intertwined in factory farming. Meet Allie Molinaro, campaigns coordinator for Compassion in World Farming. She is both very knowledgeable and passionate about this topic.

It's the year 2050. My grown daughter looks me in the eye and asks what I did to help make the world a better place. What do I tell her? Belief:  What do you believe in? When you woke up this morning, you got up with at least one core belief - something in your mind that defines how you see the world. Such core beliefs are unshakable, unmovable, and dictate what actions you take on a day-to-day basis. Commitment: How committed to that belief are you? When you head for the door, you are going to act out your day based on your belief. That action represents your commitment. Everyone's level of commitment will be different, based on the resources they have available. Resources - time, money, energy, experience, land base, manpower, etc. - are different for each of us. Everyone will have advantages to draw on, and disadvantages to face. But we all have at least some resources to commit, which allow us to put our beliefs into action.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ten Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2021, published by EA Forum Archives on December 25, 2021 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Looking for something to celebrate these holidays? Advocates achieved a record year of wins for farm animals and alternative proteins. Here are the highlights: Opening Cages After years of focused campaigning, advocates achieved milestone wins in ending the use of one of factory farming's cruelest inventions: the battery cage. 1) Europe pledges to end the cage age The European Commission promised the biggest animal welfare legal reform in history — a ban on almost all cages and crates for the more than 340 million farm animals caged across the European Union. The pledge was a direct response to advocates' End the Cage Age European Citizens Initiative. The next few years now offer a unique window of opportunity to influence the scope and timeline of the Commission's proposed ban — EU citizens can start by weighing in here — and to ensure the European Parliament and member states support it. 2) US breaks cage-free records A third of US hens — over 100 million animals — are now cage-free, up from 7% in 2015. That's thanks to the 360 corporate cage-free commitments and seven state cage egg sales bans advocates have secured since 2015, including most recently in Nevada. Next Saturday, the two most important of those bans will come into force, as both California and Massachusetts will stop the sale statewide of all eggs from caged hens. (California will also stop the sale of pork derived from crated pigs.) Advocates fought off multiple pork industry lawsuits seeking to unwind both laws, which should benefit over 40 million hens and 500,000 pigs alive at any time. 3) More nations reduce cage use France's and Italy's hen flocks are now 64% and 60% cage-free respectively, almost double what they were five years ago, thanks mostly to advocates' retailer-focused campaigns. This progress also aided wins beyond the EU. Next-door Ukraine announced it will replace battery cages with larger enriched cages for its 90 million hens. And in the world's largest egg producer by far, China, the nation's biggest retail trade group launched a new cage-free standard, while a new report found that seven of the nation's top 20 egg producers now offer cage-free eggs, or will soon. 4) Multinationals go cage-free Advocates won pledges to eliminate cages from the global supply chains of some of the world's largest fast food corporations, including Yum Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), Focus Brands (Auntie's Anne's, Cinnabon), and Inspire Brands (Arby's, Dunkin'). The Humane League found that 85% of all corporate commitments to go cage-free by 2020 had been fulfilled, while Compassion in World Farming found that 71% of major companies with cage-free pledges are now publicly reporting on their progress in implementing them. That included 28 companies that fully implemented their pledges this year. No Longer Just the Alternative Advocates, investors, and startups continued to fuel rapid growth in alternatives to animal products 5) Investors double down on alternative proteins A new FAIRR report found that private investors invested over $7B into alternative proteins over the last decade, most of it in the last three years. It also found that the largest 25 public food and retail companies mentioned plant-based protein five times more often in investor reports in 2021 than just two years earlier. Investors likely poured more than $1B into cultivated meat startups in 2021 — more than all prior years combined — driven by a $347M raise for Israel's Future Meat Technologies and a $100M investment by JBS, the world's largest meat company. (Though three new techno-economic analyses also sparked a debate on cultivated meat's scalability, well-summarized by Rethink Priorities here.) 6) ...

David Bronner is the CEO, or Cosmic Engagement Officer, for Dr. Bronner's. Family-owned and run, Dr. Bronner's makes socially & environmentally responsible products of the highest quality—all while dedicating their profits to help make a better world. David and the rest of the Bronner family are leaders that set an example of being human, and supporting humanity, at the core of everything they do. You can learn more and keep up with what Dr. Bronner's is doing by visiting their website. In this episode we discuss How Dr. Bronner's instigated a fight with the DEA over hemp, and won Why organic certification doesn't go far enough The most effective tool we have for fighting climate change The cultural norm we'll look back on as “cruel and unusual punishment” What Patagonia's founder believes is required reading for those who are serious about transforming business to help save our home planet Key Takeaways: I'm reminded by the Margaret Mead quote “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” It's incredible to see the impact this one company, Dr. Bronner's, has made by committing to drive social and environmental change. Just imagine what the world would look like, if we all behaved as trusted stewards of the planet and humankind. As consumers, we can start demanding more than just organic. We can go further in our expectations of the food and products we bring into our homes. The ROA created the Regenerative Organic Certification by combining the best standards across soil health, animal welfare, and social fairness into a single certificate. With the objective to heal a broken system, repair a damaged planet, and empower farmers and eaters to create a better future through regenerative organic farming. Look out for the Regenerative Organic Certification on products you buy. The immense healing power in psychedelic therapy for PTSD, depression, anxiety and addiction. I'm very grateful for the support Dr. Bronner's has put behind advocating for this cause.  I'm also immensely grateful for the healing power psychedelic therapy had on me. Never forget the power of your own voice, to share your own story as a way to help shift the cultural conversation around psychedelic therapy or any other taboo topic. Also, never forget the power of your vote, to support causes you care about and create change. References Bronner's Six Cosmic Principles This case study examines codifying “steward-ownership” in Germany All-One or All-None: A Conversation with David Bronner and Gero Leson. Article in Los Angeles Review of Books by Ayize Jama-Everett. June 21, 2021 Regeneration International's page on Regenerative Agriculture Regenerative Organic Certification Rodale Institute Patagonia Demeter biodynamic certification Compassion in World Farming animal welfare organization Fair World Project fair-trade organization A Greener World page on Animal Welfare Approved certification Global Animal Partnership animal welfare certification Honor Thy Label: Dr. Bronner's Unconventional Journey to a Clean, Green, and Ethical Supply Chain by Gero Leson Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies The Compassionate Use Act (California Proposition 215) The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer FDA page on Breakthrough Therapy designation Psilocybin Program Initiative (Oregon Measure 109) Campaign to Decriminalize Nature DC Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act (Oregon Measure 110) Bronner's Magic All-One Chocolate Theo Chocolate Maestrani Connect & Share: If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading them! If this episode resonated with you, I ask you to send it to a friend. Help bring even more visibility to these leaders that are using business as a force for good! Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you don't miss future episodes. This podcast is for you, the listener. I'd love to hear what resonated with you, or if you have a suggestion on who would be a great guest for this show. Please send me a note at info@KathyVarol.com. If you want to work with me to embed purpose into your business, go to www.KathyVarol.com