Animals & Biodiversity
Think Tank Programme
Climate change, livestock farming, public health and animal welfare
Books
Abate, R. S. (2019). Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources. Cambridge University Press.
Butterworth, A. (2018). Animal Welfare in a Changing World. Cabi.
D’Silva, J., & Webster, J. (Eds.). (2017). The meat crisis: Developing more sustainable and ethical production and consumption. Routledge.
Singer, P. (2011). The future of animal farming: renewing the ancient contract. John Wiley & Sons.
Articles
Abate, R. (Ed.). (2015). What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law?. Environmental Law Institute.
Akhtar, A. (2013) The need to include animal protection in public health policies. J Public Health Policy 34(4), pp. 549-559
Akhtar, A. (2017) Nonhuman Animals, Public Health, and Ethics: A first step, but… Journal of Applied Welfare Science 20(1), pp. 106-107
Ali, Z. Carlile, G., Giasuddin, M. (2020) Impact of global climate change on livestock health: Bangladesh perspective. Open Vet. J. 10(2), pp. 178-188
Amuasi, J. H., Lucas, T., Horton, R., Winkler, A. S. (2020) Reconnecting our future: The Lancet One Health Commission. The Lancet, volume 395, issue 10235, pp. 1469-1471
Blattner, C., Ammann, O. (2019) Agricultural exceptionalism and Industrial animal food production: Exploring the Human Rights Nexus. Journal of Food Law & Policy 15(2)
Cassidy, R. (2012). Lives with others: Climate change and human-animal relations. Annual Review of Anthropology, 41, 21-36.
Clark, M. A., Springmann, M., Hill, J., Tilman, D. (2019) Multiple health and environmental impacts of food. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (46) 23357-23362
Cassuto, D. N. (2010). The CAFO hothouse: Climate change, industrial agriculture and the law. Animals & Society Institute policy paper.
Cohen, J., & Wagman, B. (2014). Using the Law to Highlight the Link Between Animal Agriculture, Climate Change, and Diet,“. Animal Law Committee Newsletter.
Harrop, S. (2011). Climate change, conservation and the place for wild animal welfare in international law. Journal of Environmental Law, 23(3), 441-462.
Hopwood, C. J. et al. (2020) Health, environmental, and animal rights motives for vegetarian eating. PLOS ONE 15(4): e0230609
Ilea, R. C. (2009). Intensive livestock farming: Global trends, increased environmental concerns, and ethical solutions. Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics, 22(2), 153-167.
Keeling, A., et al. (2019) Animal Welfare and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Front. Vet. Sci. 6:336
Lacetera, N. (2019). Impact of climate change on animal health and welfare. Animal Frontiers, 9(1), 26-31.
Landis-Marinello, K. H. (2008) The environmental effects of cruelty to agricultural animals. 106 Michigan Law Review First Impressions 147
Narayanan, Y. (2018). Cow Protectionism and Bovine Frozen-Semen Farms in India: Analyzing Cruelty, Speciesism, and Climate Change. society & animals, 26(1), 13-33.
Pieper, M., Michalke, A., Gaugler, T. (2020) Calculation of external climate costs for food highlights inadequate pricing of animal products. Nature Communications 11, Article number: 6117
Sparks, T., Kurki, V., Stucki, S. (2020) Editorial. Animal rights: interconnections with human rights and the environment. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, vol. 11, n°2, pp. 149-155
Springmann, M. et al. (2018) Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits. Nature vol. 562, pp. 519-525
Sushyk, O., & Rosokhata, D. (2019). Animals with Regard to Climate Changes-International and European Law Aspects. Administrative Law Review, 1, 41-58.
Sykes, K. (2016). The appeal to science and the formation of global animal law. European Journal of International Law, 27(2), 497-518.
Willet, W., Rockström, J. Loken, B., Springmann, M., Lang, T. Vermeulen, S. et al. (2019) Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The Lancet Commissions, vol. 393, issue 10170, pp. 447-492.
Zambrano, V. (2020). Animal Based Industries and Climate Change. In Ecological Integrity in Science and Law (pp. 11-21). Springer, Cham.
Reports
Benton, G. T., Bieg, C., Harwatt, H., Pudasaini, R., Wellesley, L. – Chatham House (2021) Research Paper. Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss. Three Levers for Food System Transformation in Support of Nature. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/02/food-system-impacts-biodiversity-loss
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Global Dairy Platform. (2019) Climate Change and the Global Dairy Cattle Sector. The role of the dairy sector in a low-carbon future. http://www.fao.org/3/CA2929EN/ca2929en.pdf
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, World Food Programme, WHO. (2020) The state of food security in the world. Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets. http://www.fao.org/3/ca9692en/online/ca9692en.html
Greenpeace. (2018) Less is More: Reducing Meat and Dairy for a Healthier Life and Planet. Scientific Background on the Greenpeace vision of the meat and dairy system towards 2050. https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/2018/03/6942c0e6-longer-scientific-background.pdf
Greenpeace. (2018) Less is More: Reducing Meat and Dairy for a Healthier Life and Planet. The Greenpeace vision of the meat and dairy system towards 2050. https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/2018/03/698c4c4a-summary_greenpeace-livestock-vision-towards-2050.pdf
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. (2020) Milking the Planet. How Big Dairy is heating up the planet and hollowing rural communities. https://www.iatp.org/milking-planet
Whitmee, S., Breyer, C. et al. (2015) Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: Report of The Rockefeller Foundation – Lancet Commission on planetary health. Lancet 386:1973-2028
World Resources Institute. (2019) Creating a Sustainable Food Future. A Menu of Solutions to Feed nearly 10 Billion People by 2050. https://research.wri.org/wrr-food
Press
The Conversation. Why all human rights depend on a healthy environment. (27 October 2020). https://theconversation.com/why-all-human-rights-depend-on-a-healthy-environment-148689
The Guardian. Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth. (31 May 2018). https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth
The Guardian. Organic meat production just as bad for climate, study finds. (23 Dcember 2020). https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/23/organic-meat-production-just-as-bad-for-climate-study-finds
The Guardian. Opinion from J. Fanzo and M. Herrero. What we eat matters: to change climate crisis, we need to reshape the food system. (8 October 2019). https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/08/climate-change-food-global-heating-livestock
The Guardian. Plant-based diet crucial to saving global wildlife, says report. (3 February 2021). https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/03/plant-based-diets-crucial-to-saving-global-wildlife-says-report
The Guardian. Revealed: Development banks funding industrial livestock farms around the world. (2 July 2020). https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/02/revealed-development-banks-funding-industrial-livestock-farms-around-the-world
The New Yorker. Can a burger help solve climate change? (30 September 2019). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/can-a-burger-help-solve-climate-change
Web
Australian Veterinary Association. (2016) Position Statement. Climate change and animal health, welfare and production. https://www.ava.com.au/policy-advocacy/policies/environment-and-conservation/climate-change-and-animal-health-welfare-and-production/
Bardroff, J. (2015) Why we need to connect the dots between animal rights, environmental ethics and human rights. One Green Planet. https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/connect-the-dots-between-animal-protection-environmental-ethics-and-human-rights/
Brook, A. (2009) The link between meat production and human rights. Vegan Australia. https://www.veganaustralia.org.au/the_link_between_meat_production_and_human_rights
Cox Macpherson, C. (2019) What is Ethical Eating in the Age of Climate Change? The Hastings Center. https://www.thehastingscenter.org/what-is-ethical-eating-in-the-age-of-climate-change/
Fioritti, N. (2020) The interconnectedness of human, animal and environmental health. Pursuit. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-interconnectedness-of-human-animal-and-environmental-health
Lahlafi, A. (2019) Climate change and its impact on Animals. FAWCO. https://www.fawco.org/global-issues/environment/environment-articles/4111-climate-change-and-its-impact-on-animals
Petrasek, D. (2018) Human and non-human rights – convergence or conflict? OpenGlobalRights. https://www.openglobalrights.org/human-and-non-human-rights-convergence-or-conflict/
Shooster, J. (2018) Why human rights groups are beginning to support the rights of non-human animals. Open Democracy. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/why-human-rights-groups-are-beginning-to-support-the-rights-of-non-human-animals/
The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health. https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/