Livestock gifts, Goodall warns, “can result in unintended consequences” WASHINGTON D.C.––Primatologist, anthropologist, and philanthropist Jane Goodall, 87, on December 20, 2021 added her globally influential voice to those of the growing number of critics of livestock gift charities. Livestock gift charities include, most prominently, Heifer International, Oxfam, World Vision, and the Cargill’s “Hatching Hope” […]
Veg or Non-Veg? India at the Crossroads
by Mia MacDonald & Sangamithra Iyer Brighter Green, 2012. Free 46-page download: <http://www.brightergreen.org/files/india_bg_pp_2011.pdf> Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Brighter Green founder Mia MacDonald and associate Sangamithra Iyer ask, “Can India provide enough food for its people as well as support hundreds of millions of cows and buffalo and billions of chickens in increasingly industrialized conditions? And […]
Factory farming & food security in China, Brazil, & Ethiopia
Climate, Food Security, & Growth: Ethiopia’s Complex Relationship With Livestock (22 pages) by Mia MacDonald & Sangamithra Iyer Cattle, Soyanization, & Climate Change: Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution (42 pages) Skillful Means: The Challenge of China’s Encounter With Factory Farming (28 pages) both by Mia MacDonald & Justine Simon, from Brighter Green, 2011. Free downloads from: http://brightergreen.org/brightergreen.php?id=24 […]