National Cow Appreciation Day is messed up
BLOG: Yesterday we brought you news of Red Tractor has re-certifing a farm that featured in a Panorama documentary about abuse against cows in the dairy industry here in the UK, today we celebrate the day of supreme cognitive dissonance that is ‘Cow Appreciation Day’ in the US. Claire Hamlett reports.
Red Tractor re-certifies horrific Panorama dairy farm
Red Tractor has recertified the Welsh dairy farm that was featured in an episode of BBC’s investigative program Panorama in February, which showed footage of workers horrifically and illegally abusing the cows.
How animal agriculture holds all the power in New Zealand
DEEP DIVE: Expanding on many of the issues highlighted in our video ‘How animal agriculture runs New Zealand’, Claire Hamlett delves into the ways animal agriculture exerts an uncompromising control over an entire nation despite its impact on the environment and animals.
REVIEW | Cow: Luma, the star unmourned, and how they got it so wrong
We don’t review many films here at Surge, but on watching Cow - which had the potential to be one of the most important portraits of a farmed animal ever to be made - we’re left with the feeling that justice wasn’t done to its star, Luma the mother cow. Spoiler alerts are not necessary, writes Andrew Gough.
Disrupting dairy: cell culture technology could revolutionise milk production, but will it remove animals from the equation?
Marking the release of our latest video - The Truth About Plant Milks: Displacement of Indigenous People, Destruction & Deforestation - we take a look at cell-cultivated milk technology, said to take cows and other animals, including humans, out of milk production. More sustainable it might be, but is it actually more ethical?
UN climate change report targets methane emitters including livestock farming
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has today released a landmark report identifying methane as a key greenhouse gas (GHG) to include in strategies tackling global warming ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities, including livestock farming.
Why eating grass fed beef and venison won't save the planet
FACT CHECK: While veganism is increasingly understood to be the most sustainable way to eat, it is still regularly insisted that certain meats are environmentally friendly. We take a look at how viable these claims really are...
Ireland is wrong if it thinks flying calves to Europe will solve anything
Farming in Ireland has many problems and all the wrong answers. Whether it’s flying male calves to Europe to bypass welfare restrictions on lengthy export times, or shooting them at birth, neither “solution” addresses the real problem.
“Eat more beef to save the planet.” It’s time to talk about Allan Savory, Kiss the Ground & Holistic Management.
So-called holistic grazing is becoming more commonly discussed as a way to combat climate change, with the latest Netflix documentary Kiss the Ground also claiming that grazing livestock animals is beneficial for the planet.