Tag: Livestock
Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa
Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid and Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Visitors to East Africa are often...
Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa
Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid and Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Visitors to East Africa are often...
Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the...
Matthew D. Moran, Hendrix College
Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and an immense landscape of grass emerges,...
To preserve US national parks in a warming world, reconnect fragmented...
Stephen Nash, University of Richmond
The Trump administration’s decision to keep many U.S. national parks open during the current federal government shutdown, with few or...
Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing...
Frank M. Mitloehner, University of California, Davis
As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action....
Would you eat ‘meat’ from a lab? Consumers aren’t necessarily sold...
Walter Johnson, Arizona State University; Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University, and Sheril Kirshenbaum, Michigan State University
It’s been a busy summer for food-based biotech. The...
Rural Americans’ struggles against factory farm pollution find traction in court
Sacoby Wilson, University of Maryland
As U.S. livestock farming becomes more industrial, it is changing rural life. Many people now live near Concentrated Animal Feeding...
The strange story of turkey tails speaks volumes about our globalized...
Michael Carolan, Colorado State University
Intensive livestock farming is a huge global industry that serves up millions of tons of beef, pork and poultry every...