Reports & Articles

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Farming and Labor – Feeding the world means that agriculture operates at a massive scale, perhaps larger than any other industry. Because of this massive scale, and the desire to make profits, labor issues abound at every level.
Labor & Animal Exploitation – Since the beginning of the pandemic, meatpacking plants have been sources of community outbreaks, and those outbreaks, in turn, have helped to highlight the generally bad working conditions of these plants, and their reliance on labor from racialized and marginalized groups.
Workers in the Fishing Industry – Forced labor and human trafficking is pervasive in the fisheries sector, driven by profit motives in labor-intensive and low-profit industry.
Communities & the Environment – Industrial farming, especially that of animals, is incredibly hard on the surrounding environment. From manure lagoons to water and energy use to rampant GHG emissions, industrial animal farms are responsible for tremendous amounts of environmental degradation, directly impacting the communities that surround them, and far beyond.
Sexism, Gender & Animal Advocacy – Animal advocacy deals with myriad gender inequality issues, from sexist advocacy tactics, to inequality in leadership, to pay disparities, to sexual harassment within and across organisations.
Race & Animal Advocacy – To this day, animal advocacy is seen as a largely white movement in Europe and North America. This is a double-edged sword: this stereotype is accurate in many ways, but it also erases the work of so many vegans and animal advocates of colour who are part of the movement and working for both animal and human liberation.

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SARS-CoV-2, widely known as the coronavirus, has had a huge impact on all of our lives and changed the way we live – perhaps forever. But while it’s important to acknowledge the massive loss of lives and jobs and the impact of the virus on our global society and economy, it’s also vital to examine the root causes of the pandemic – and pandemics in general – if we are to minimise the risk of potentially far more damaging outbreaks in the future.

By exploring the crucial connection between the current crisis and our animal-based food system, the ProVeg Food & Pandemics Report highlights how our food choices help to create a recipe for zoonotic pandemics. By shifting to plant-based and cultured foods, we can help to minimise the risk of future pandemics as well as helping to resolve many of the other key challenges we face, including climate change, biodiversity loss, world hunger, antimicrobial resistance, and the rise of other food-related diseases.

The global response to COVID-19 has shown that we can respond urgently and collectively and that we can do so now. Together, we can change our food systems for a better, healthier, and more resilient world.

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Animal Agriculture Workers –  workers are consistently exposed to a variety of harmful gases and particulate matter and also suffer from repetitive stress injuries.
Slaughterhouse Workers – Slaughtering animals and processing their flesh is an inherently dangerous industry where company profits consistently take priority over workers’ most basic rights.
Workers in the Fishing Industry – Numerous investigations and research studies show that these workers endure low wages, inadequate living facilities, insufficient food and water, a lack of safety equipment, and endless working hours.

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It is happening. For years epidemiologists have been warning about a pandemic in the making, and unfortunately their predictions have materialised in the current COVID-19 global epidemic. Much remains for us to understand about this dramatic event that is generating profound suffering and placing human societies on the ropes. What is clear, though, is that this disease is a consequence of our interactions with nonhuman animals. COVID-19, however, is just the most recent example of a much larger threat to public health—one that in modern times manifests in animal agriculture, factory farming in particular. This report will illuminate the most pressing impacts and threats of animal agriculture for the health and well-being of human families and communities and how practices that challenge sustainability are leading us toward a global catastrophe.

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As the climate continues to change, millions of poor people face increasing challenges in terms of extreme events, health effects, food, water, and livelihood security, migration and forced displacement, loss of cultural identity, and other related risks.

Climate change is deeply intertwined with global patterns of inequality. The poorest and most vulnerable people bear the brunt of climate change impacts yet contribute the least to the crisis. As the impacts of climate change mount, millions of vulnerable people face disproportionate challenges in terms of extreme events, health effects, food, water, and livelihood security, migration and forced displacement, loss of cultural identity, and other related risks.

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