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Reports
Meat Facts
This briefing by the Food Foundation aims to support food system stakeholders in how to map out and implement pathways to reduce meat consumption, in light of government and private sector inaction. 
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News and resources
How "national champion" firms are reshaping the global meat industry
This article argues that Brazil’s JBS and China’s WH Group grew into global meat giants through state support, accelerating consolidation and environmental harm. Despite national backing, they now primarily serve transnational capital. Scholars argue for a global competition treaty to curb unchecked corporate power.
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Books
Raw Deal
Financial journalist Chloe Sorvino investigates the industrial meat industry, laying bare corporate greed, fundamental weaknesses in the sector, the limitations of local movements challenging the status quo and the false promise of lab-grown meat. 
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Journal articles
Recommendations to address the shortfalls of the EAT–Lancet planetary health diet
The EAT-Lancet’s planetary health diet, particularly its meat reduction approach, received criticism for the plant-forward diet recommendations and potential micronutrient shortfalls. This study responds to this debate and provides recommendations that address the shortfalls. 
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Journal articles
Whole-chain intensification of pig and chicken farming could lower emissions with economic and food production benefits
This study used data from 166 countries to model the environmental, climate and economic impacts of pig and chicken whole-chain intensification – the process of enhancing productivity and efficiency across every stage of the production chain. It found this could reduce annual nitrogen and greenhouse gas emissions by 49% and 68%, respectively.
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Reports
Turning down the heat
This report from Greenpeace finds that the meat and dairy industry would add 0.32 degrees of additional global warming from 2015 to 2050, with methane responsible for three quarters of this. Scientists predict that each 0.3°C warming we prevent by the end of the century could reduce exposure to extreme heat for 410 million people. 
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Essay
What can the Dublin Declaration teach us about credible scientific advocacy?
The Dublin Declaration is a pro-livestock statement that emerged from a Summit held in Ireland on the societal role of meat. While the Declaration has had influence in EU spaces, it has also attracted considerable criticism for its limited engagement with the climate, nature and social implications of the current livestock system, and for its authors’ apparent connections to the meat industry. Irina Herzon, who co-authored a response to the Declaration published in Nature Food in August, argues that, irrespective of those connections, the Declaration provides an example of a flawed scientific advocacy that should make us wary. Here, she sets out how selective evidence and unwarranted polarisation can compromise the integrity of academic engagement. 
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News and resources
How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impact
The story from Vox Media investigates the relationship between environmental groups such as the WWF and the meat industry like McDonald’s and Cargill. It argues that companies use environmental groups to help greenwash their operations without having to commit to significant changes in practice. 
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Reports
Culture Clash? What cultured meat could mean for UK farming
Can farmers and the cultured meat industry find common cause? This report explores what UK farmers think about cultured meat and how the technology could affect them. Although cultured meat and animal agriculture industries are cast as opponents, interviews with farmers found potential synergies that could underpin a new and more productive debate. 
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