Category: Opinions

As public demand intensifies, industrial animal agriculture cannot ignore the call to mitigate its environmental havoc. Indeed, as a primary driver of climate change, the industry is feeling the heat....

An animal-borne disease upended the whole world in 2020. An El Paso congresswoman’s new bipartisan bill would help protect us from another pandemic and keep diseased meat off your plate....

During my formative years in the public-school food system, the meals served sometimes constituted my entire daily intake. I didn’t fully grasp the significance of school food choices and their...

Articles on May 7 and May 9 stated “Sweetgreen promised to go carbon neutral. Now it’s serving steak” and “Salad chain says a cleaner farming method will offset adding steak...

Four years ago, as COVID-19 gathered steam, I wrote an article titled “Reducing pandemic risk begins with ending factory farming.” But here we are again. Avian flu is raging throughout the country, having jumped the species barrier from birds to mammals, even killing cats and showing up in cows’ milk. Yet the potential for a new human pandemic, should the disease find its way from other mammals to us, is only casually tossed around. Such a jump from animals to people has happened more than once, with COVID and other diseases, including avian flu....

In a landmark decision, the Ontario Superior Court recently struck down a provincial “ag-gag” law, affirming support for both whistleblowers and journalists dedicated to exposing animal cruelty in Canada’s factory...

Opinion by Leah Garcés published in Plant Based News on April 22, 2024

Op-ed by Makayla Rosas published in Canada's National Observer on April 11, 2024

LTE by PJ Nyman was published on page A4 of the Brockville Recorder and Times on February 17, 2024.

Op-ed by PJ Nyman published on Reimagine Agriculture on February 8, 2024.