Move Over, PETA: Meat Companies Have A New Thorn In Their Side

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There’s a new thorn in the side of factory farms, and it’s coming from the unlikeliest of places: Wall Street

Piggies may not be the best investment given the multitude of risks surrounding the factor farming industry. Long gone are the days when meat producers worried about animal-welfare groups like PETA. These days,

Investors have always been the driver of corporate behavior, as the c-suite has a legal obligation to maximize their returns. Climate change, don’t worry about that. Clean waterways, put those to the side. Now tell me, how much earnings per share have you generated in the last quarter? It’s no wonder our planet is limping along like a junkie after one too many hard nights.

“Every day around 84 million adults consume fast food in the US alone, but the inconvenient truth of convenience food is that the environmental impacts of the sector’s meat and dairy products have hit unsustainable levels. To put this in perspective, if cows were a country, it would be the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.”

Publish quantitative, time-bound targets to reduce the GHG emissions and freshwater impacts of their own meat and dairy supply chains.Undertake a climate scenario analysis in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures . in industrial agriculture. Antibiotic use in livestock is a leading cause of rising antimicrobial resistance in humans. Unbeknownst to many, the food industry is the largest consumer of antibiotics globally, and uses antibiotic drugs to prevent disease or promote growth in healthy farm animals rather than treat clinically ill animals. A full 80% of all antibiotics in the USA are used on farm animals. That's just scary.

 

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