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Beef sector sees place in UN report’s lower-emission vision

By GFM Staff August 9, 2019

While a new United Nations report on climate change and land calls for “rebalancing diets,” the policy paths it seeks are a good fit for beef cattle ranching as Canadians know it, the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association says. Responding Thursday to the report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the CCA said Canada’s […] Read more

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UN flags need to reduce meat consumption to curb land use impact on global warming

By Nina Chestney, stephanie-nebehay August 8, 2019

London/Geneva | Reuters — Global meat consumption must fall to curb global warming, reduce growing strains on land and water and improve food security, health and biodiversity, a United Nations report on the effects of climate change concluded. Although the report stopped short of explicitly advocating going meat-free, it called for big changes to farming […] Read more

Are consumers ready for non-meat burger lookalikes such as this, “Impossible Burger?

Comment/Columns, Straight from the hip

Ditching the red meat diet

Straight from the hip with Brenda Schoepp

By Brenda Schoepp April 19, 2018

Changing social dynamics are pressuring food, retail and research companies to offer plant- or cellular-based non-meats. Driving the consumption is a host of beliefs: Cows are bad for the environment, red meat is unhealthy, big food companies cannot be trusted (based on the concerns of animal welfare) and finally, folks are simply curious as to […] Read more

AGI buys ag business management software muscle

Alberta’s Crop Management Network expands reach

U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hogs firm on winter weather woes

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AGI buys ag business management software muscle

Alberta’s Crop Management Network expands reach

U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hogs firm on winter weather woes

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