Laws and policies affecting factory-farmed animals tend to lack coherence, varying widely from country to country. To address this, the UK’s Jeremy Coller Foundation has launched a new interactive database called CALF.
Jeremy Coller White Paper Calls for “Ever-Green Revolution” to End Factory Farming
A new white paper released by the Jeremy Coller Foundation argues that the Green Revolution is no longer working and must give way to a more sustainable system. The Revolution was a period of initiatives that greatly increased agricultural production, and began as a way to address hunger after the Second World War. But though it succeeded in the short-term, the Foundation argues that there are long-term unintended consequences. In particular, higher crop yields have made it possible to produce ever more meat and dairy products, fuelling a level of demand described as “unhealthy”. In turn, this has paved the way for factory farming, which has huge environmental consequences such as excessive water use, high levels of greenhouse emissions, and pollution. Intensive farming is also …
