Climate Change: Chickens Coming Home to Roost | Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
This death culture cannot imagine solutions that do not bleed.
- Diane di Prima
Heres a small sample of how the global animal-agriculture industry (factory farming, the meat/dairy-based diet, etc.) impacts our shared ecosystem:
It consumes and poisons one-third of the planets land surface; it directly contributes to topsoil depletion, deforestation, overfishing, species extinction, etc.; and it is the top source of human-created greenhouse gases which translates into climate change.
Based on this incomplete list of food-based eco-devastation, it should seem painfully obvious that something must be done about this situation. Well, fear not, solutions are in the works.
"We need a rational approach
"American scientists, writes Edward Helmore in The Guardian, are racing to develop chickens that can cope with scorching heat as part of a series of government-funded programs looking to adapt to or mitigate the effects of extreme weather patterns on the food supply.
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