Environment

Recent articles revealing that cloned meat has entered the UK food supply have sparked a debate concerning the potential health risks of eating flesh from cloned animals.

Most people know that raising animals for food is grossly inefficient; whilst animals eat large quantities of grain, they produce only small amounts of meat, dairy products or eggs.

PETA and other animal rights groups are celebrating after learning that Velmur Ltd have abandoned their proposal to build a huge dairy factory farm in Lincolnshire.

Palm oil is often sourced from the homes of endangered orangutans and other animals. Greedy businesses cut down the trees and leave the animals homeless and starving to death.

One year ago, the northern Belgium city of Ghent became the first city in the world to declare a weekly meat-free day to promote sustainable and healthy living.

Taxing “flesh foods” and animal secretions will help animals, halt climate change and other environmental problems and reduce costs of meat consumption that burden the National Health Service.

22 April 2010 marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.