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https://www.motherjones.com/food/2018/05/missouri-meat-fake-lab-grown-plant-based-pork-beef/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=food-for-thought-2018-07-22

Missouri is making it illegal to call this "meat"The beef lobby is going to war against veggie burgers.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/17/almond-lactate-nondairy-milk-scott-gottlieb-725974

Gottlieb: FDA to crack down on labeling nondairy products as ‘milk’“An almond doesn’t lactate, I will confess,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said, referring to the fact that the agency’s current standards for milk reference products from lactating animals.

https://earthjustice.org/blog/2016-november/tragic-orca-deaths-underscore-urgent-need-to-restore-salmon-runs?curation=newsletter&utm_source=crm&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=180722_ForTheRecord_July2018_resend&utm_content=dino_ResponsiveBottomTakeActionButton&autologin=true#start

Tragic Orca Deaths Underscore Urgent Need to Restore Salmon RunsDeaths among Puget Sound orcas, which just hit their lowest population count in 34 years, remind us of the urgent need to protect and restore salmon runs in the Columbia-Snake River system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/business/wework-vegetarian.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=2&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F07%2F20%2Fbusiness%2Fwework-vegetarian.htm…[Read more]

Memo From the Boss: You’re a Vegetarian NowBy banning meat and forbidding employees from expensing a hamburger, WeWork is trying to save the planet and raise the consciousness of its work force.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britains-queen-is-counting-her-swans-in-a-ritual-with-much-poop-and-circumstance/2018/07/19/8eb7d1be-7f01-11e8-a63f-7b5d2aba7ac5_story.html?utm_term=.08b5da4f3db2&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Britain’s queen is counting her swans in a ritual with much poop and circumstanceAs far as poultry tourism goes, Swan Upping cannot be beat.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/21/defending-earth-violence-murder-activists-land-corruption?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=281766&subid=26212650&CMP=GT_US_collection

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http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-endangered-species-act-20180719-story.html#

Threatened species could lose habitat protections under Department of the Interior proposalThe Department of the Interior announced Thursday controversial plans to roll back core provisions of the Endangered Species Act in what it describes as a bid to improve regulatory efficiency and reduce the burdens of such safeguards on land owners, industry and governments.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/20/vancouver-langara-college-crow-attack-map-thousands-of-reports

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/19/an-austrian-state-wants-to-force-kosher-meat-consuming-jews-to-register-drawing-nazi-comparisons/?utm_term=.cdaccb1e4074&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Austrian state wants to force meat-consuming Jews and Muslims to register, drawing Nazi comparisonsOne Jewish association branded the law proposal an “Aryan paragraph."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/07/19/endangered-species-act-stripped-of-key-provisions-in-trump-administration-proposal/?utm_term=.67a330540cf6&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Endangered Species Act stripped of key provisions in Trump administration proposalThe proposal would strike language that guides officials to ignore economic impacts when determining how wildlife should be protected.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/07/20/the-energy-202-next-on-trump-s-deregulatory-agenda-the-endangered-species-act/5b50e9fc1b326b1e64695477/?utm_term=.6f9e4f13ccf1&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Analysis | The Energy 202: Next on Trump's deregulatory agenda: the Endangered Species ActThey're stepping in where Congress has failed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44892324#

Arctic wild goose chase threatens chicksMigrating geese race to warmer Arctic but are too worn out to lay their eggs early when they get there.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-44889659/nairobi-national-park-railway-threatens-kenyan-wildlife#

New railway 'threatens Kenyan wildlife'Conservationists are crying foul over a high-speed railway being built through Nairobi National Park.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44809115#_=_

DNA shows Iceland whale was rare hybridGenetic material proves that the animal killed off the coast of Iceland was not a blue whale but a rare hybrid.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/19/rising-global-meat-consumption-will-devastate-environment?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Lab+notes+2016&utm_term=281678&subid=26212650&CMP=ema-3242

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/7/180254

Illuminating gillnets to save seabirds and the potential for multi-taxa bycatch mitigationBycatch in net fisheries is recognized as a major source of mortality for many marine species, including seabirds. Few mitigation solutions, however, have been identified. We assessed the effectiveness of illuminating fishing nets with green light emitting diodes (LEDs) to reduce the Read more...

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/national-business/article215058845.html

JBS USA suspends shipments from Kentucky farm after videoJBS USA, the U.S. branch of the world's largest meat producer, says it has suspended shipments from a pig farm where workers were shown hitting, kicking and throwing pigs on undercover video.

The presence of indigenous people in forests tends to hinder de-forestation and development by farmers, ranchers, and corporations, but the typical practices of indigenous people includes slash and burn agriculture and the hunting of wild animals to extinction. If the forest in which they dwell is large enough, the tribes can relocate and their…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/06/canada-grand-manan-ban-fishing-endangered-whale