Media Coverage
Original Articles
The UN FAO’s 1.5 °C roadmap for food systems falls short - Nature Food (pdf) - March 18, 2024
An expansive framework to monitor food systems - Nature Food - December 19, 2023
Methane metrics: the political stakes - Nature (pdf) - August 1, 2023
The BS Behind the USDA’s New ‘Climate-Friendly Beef’ Label - The New Republic - September 5, 2023
Intensive, lower-carbon animal farming could raise pandemic risks - CarbonBrief - November 30, 2022
Climate-Smart Farming Is a Lot Harder Than the Inflation Reduction Act Makes It Sound - The New Republic - August 2, 2022
Yes, plant-based meat is better for the planet - Vox - November 18, 2021
Want Carbon-Neutral Cows? Algae Isn’t the Answer - WIRED - March 17, 2021
Coverage and Interviews
2026
RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid could be a disaster for the environment—if Americans actually follow it - The Verge - January 13, 2026
Silvopasture gains momentum in the Amazon, but can it shrink beef’s footprint? - Mongabay - January 12, 2026
2025
Regenerative Agriculture Is All Over the Agenda at Climate Week NYC. But What Does It Mean? - Inside Climate News - September 22, 2025
Think twice before you smear beef tallow and salmon sperm on your face - Vox - March 17, 2025
Feeding Wild Fishes To Farmed Fishes: Aquaculture’s Hidden Costs - Faunalytics - March 11, 2025
Silvopasture for cows could help reduce deforestation in Colombia - NPR - March 3, 2025
Under Trump, we could be flying blind when it comes to bird flu, other infectious diseases - LA Times - January 23, 2025
2024
Named one of Vox’s 2024’s Future Perfect 50 Thinkers, Innovators and Changemakers
You’re being lied to about “ultra-processed” foods - Vox - December 19, 2024
Turning Kazakhstan Into a Beef-Producing Machine, the American Way - Inside Climate News - November 24, 2024
How a Move Away From Beef Could Help the Planet - USNews - November 6, 2024
Cutting Beef Production by Just 13% Could Absorb Billions of Tons of CO2 - ZME Science - November 5, 2024
Returning Grazing Land to Native Forests Would Yield Big Climate Benefits - Inside Climate News - November 4, 2024
A recent study shows how it would be worthwhile to grow forests on grazing lands - emissions would decrease dramatically [Finnish] - Helsingin Sanomat - November 4, 2024
Fish farming was supposed to be sustainable. But there’s a giant catch - Vox - October 24, 2024
Aquaculture Uses Far More Wild-Caught Fish Than Originally Estimated, New Research Suggests - Inside Climate News - October 23, 2024
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Scientists criticise UN agency’s failure to withdraw livestock emissions report - The Guardian - September 30, 2024
Regenerative agriculture is sold as a climate solution. Can it do all it says? - NPR - September 10, 2024
How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impact - Vox - August 7, 2024
Over 100 Organisations & Experts Ask FAO to Retract ‘Inappropriate’ COP28 Livestock Report - Green Queen Media - July 1, 2024
Cicadas Á La Carte? Here’s Why It’s So Hard To Get Americans To Eat Bugs - Grist - June 10, 2024
Can Billions in New Subsidies Keep Family Farms in Business? - New York Times - May 30, 2024
Can Beef Be ‘Low Carbon’? The USDA Thinks So - Undark - May 22, 2024
The Next Big Climate Deadline is for Meat and Dairy - Vox - May 20, 2024
Big Ag, Not Wild Birds, Is What Really Spreads Avian Flu - The New Republic - May 10, 2024
The Department of Agriculture Rubber-Stamped Tyson’s “Climate Friendly” Beef, but No One Has Seen the Data Behind the Company’s Claim - Inside Climate News - May 8, 2024
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UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts - The Guardian - April 19, 2024
‘Nobody saw this coming’; California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu - LA Times - April 14, 2024
‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan - The Guardian - March 18, 2024
How meat and milk companies are racing to ease your climate guilt - Washington Post - January 22, 2024
2023 and earlier
Is wool more sustainable than polyester? It’s complicated - Vox - December 23, 2023
The Fallacy of ‘Climate Friendly’ Beef - TruthDig - November 27, 2023
Don’t Feed Your Holiday Pumpkins to Wild Animals - Sentient Media - October 30, 2023
Revealed: the industry figures behind ‘declaration of scientists’ backing meat eating - The Guardian - October 27, 2023
‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change - The Guardian - October 20, 2023
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Can beef truly be climate friendly? - The Week - September 13, 2023
'Climate-Friendly' Meat Is a Myth - Time - September 8, 2023
“Climate-friendly” beef could land in a meat aisle near you. Don’t fall for it. - Vox - September 8, 2023
UN numbers say meat is bad for the climate. The reality is worse - Vox - May 27, 2023
Hot air: five climate myths pushed by the US beef industry - The Guardian - May 3, 2023
Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay - The Guardian - May 3, 2023
Unwrapping Eco-Labels: What Do They Really Mean? - U.S. News & World Report - March 2, 2023
Have we reached ‘peak meat’? Why one country is trying to limit its number of livestock - The Guardian - January 16, 2023
A coffee chain just made oat milk its default option. Here’s why - CNN - December 6, 2022
A 26-story pig skyscraper in China will slaughter 1 million animals a year - The Guardian - November 25, 2022
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‘Climate neutral' and 'climate positive' food does not exist… yet - FoodNavigator - November 22, 2022
Meat on the menu, not the agenda, at COP27 climate conference - Reuters - November 15, 2022
How Much Meat Should We Eat? - Smithsonian Magazine - August 23, 2022
Veganism Might Not Be the Most Sustainable Diet - The Atlantic - August 21, 2022
Meat, monopolies, mega farms: how the US food system fuels climate crisis - The Guardian - June 23, 2022
Dirt First: Carbon farming sounds as all-American as apple pie. But does it work? - Sierra - June 14, 2022
Can Species Have “Agency” in Their Own Conservation? - The Revelator - June 6, 2022
Climate-friendly diets can make a huge difference - The Guardian - June 4, 2022
Cultured Meat, Without the Slaughter, Is Slated to Get a Big Boost - Gizmodo - May 22, 2022
Meatpacker JBS comes under fire over 50% emissions rise - Financial Times - April 21, 2022
A Wave of Startups Is Tackling Cow Burps and Other Climate Issues - WIRED - March 31, 2022
Is There Really Such a Thing as Low-Carbon Beef? - WIRED - January 17, 2022
The other greenhouse gas: UN report sets the record straight on methane - Grist - August 13, 2021
We’re eating more meat than ever, and it’s a big problem for climate change - Fortune - June 2, 2021
Can You Trust a Pro-Beef Professor? It’s Complicated - Undark
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