Animals farmed: Spain's 'poor quality' meat, heat stress fears and billions of animals destined for landfill in the US

Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the webPhasing out animal agriculture over the next 15 years would have the same effect as a 68% reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a new study suggests. The paper was co-authored by Patrick Brown, founder and CEO of the fake meat company Impossible Foods. Brown has previously said he wants to eliminate the need for foods from animals.I'm a retired pharmacist. In the 1960s a House of Lords committee warned that the routine use of antibiotics in animal husbandry would cause resistance. By 1980, the first bug resistant to all antibiotics was found in the US. As you know everybody is aware of resistance, but unfortunately the generation that could remember the horrors of life without antibiotics has died out Continue reading...