20 Years After FAO's Landmark Livestock Report: Factory Farming Has Grown 50% and Environmental Damage Has Intensified
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24 Jun Written By Stop Financing Factory Farming Coalition (S3F)
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Twenty years after the FAO's landmark 2006 report "Livestock's Long Shadow," this analysis finds that the warnings have largely gone unheeded. The number of terrestrial animals farmed annually has increased by over 50% since 2006, and environmental pressures across climate change, biodiversity loss, land use, soil degradation, water use, and pollution have intensified. The report calls for an end to financing factory farming and urges development finance to support sustainable alternatives.
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· 3 pulledTwenty years after the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published Livestock's Long Shadow, a landmark assessment of livestock's environmental impacts, this report examines what has changed and whether the warnings have been heeded.
Since 2006, the number of terrestrial animals farmed annually has increased by more than 50%, while many of the environmental pressures identified in the original report have intensified rather than diminished.
The report reviews evidence across climate change, biodiversity loss, land use, soil degradation, water use, pollution
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