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New Zealand Bans the Export of Live Animals

The controversial industry transports thousands of live farmed animals to other countries via long journeys on huge ships, where crowded, unsanitary, and distressing conditions cause immense suffering for animals. 

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Italy Plans to Ban Cultivated Meat To ‘Safeguard’ Food Heritage

Cultivated meat - meat grown from animal cells rather than from a farmed animal -  is one of the leading solutions to creating a more sustainable food system. But Italy’s rightwing government, backed by the country’s biggest farmer’s association, says it is a threat to the traditional meat industry and wants it outlawed.

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