by Janice Cox The many ways in which the development of industrial animal agriculture harms humans, animals and the environment in developing nations have been subjects of concern to far-sighted thinkers for more than a century. The lineage of intellectual concern about such issues includes Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), E.F. Schumacher (1911-1977), Barbara Ward (1914-1981), Lester Brown (1934-), Frances Moore Lappe […]
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, by Lester R. Brown
Earth Policy Institute (1350 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 403, Washington, DC 20036), 2012. 141 pages, paperback. $15.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Publicity materials for Full Planet, Empty Plates credit Lester R. Brown with producing more than 50 books, including the annual Worldwatch reports he edited for 30 years as founder of the Worldwatch Institute. Leaving the Worldwatch Institute in […]
Videotaped Eid al Adha slaughter cruelty in Gaza shocks Australia
Damning evidence of failure of Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System GAZA, CANBERRA––Amateur videos posted to social media by witnesses to Eid al Adha slaughters in Gaza on October 15, 2013 appear to have provided some of the most damning evidence yet of the failure of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System […]
New draft Egyptian constitution guarantees “protection of animal welfare”
Translations differ in idiom but with parallel meaning CAIRO––The 50-member constituent assembly responsible for establishing the new Egyptian constitution has included recognition of animal welfare in Article 45 of a redraft that is expected to be ratified in early 2014. Announcing the inclusion of the animal welfare clause on December 1, 2013, Cairo animal advocate […]
Food Security & Farm Animal Welfare by Sofia Parente [WSPA] and Heleen van de Weerd [CIWF]
Free 20-page download from ciwf.org/foodsecurity Based on: The Impact of Industrial Grain Fed Livestock Production on Food Security: an extended literature review, by Karl-Heinz Erb, Andreas Mayer, Thomas Kastner, Kristine-Elena Sallet, and Helmut Haberl, Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna; free 90-page download from: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/1818.htm Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Having commissioned a 90-page analysis of The Impact […]