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Articles
Articles, op-eds, and other shorter pieces published by Brighter Green and our associates. Brighter Green’s research has also been referenced by many news outlets and our associates have been quoted in articles. These can be found in the News Archive.
Brazil
Brazil’s New Dietary Guidelines: Cook and Eat Whole Foods, Be Wary of Ads
By Mia MacDonald and Judy Bankman
Civil Eats, March 12, 2014
China
非洲猪瘟疫情后，重新审视肉食生产 (中文)
Swine fever highlights need to reform meat production (English)
By Wanqing Zhou
China Dialogue, October 26, 2018加工食品：一场全球健康危机 (中文)
Processed food is a global health crisis (English)
By Judy Bankman
China Dialogue, November 27, 2017East MEATS West
By Caroline Wimberly and Wanqing Zhou
VegNews, April 2017中国需面对工厂化养殖的真实成本 (中文)
China needs to assess the true costs of factory farming (English)
By Mia MacDonald and Wanqing Zhou
China Dialogue, February 23, 2017极端气候再次暴露美国工厂化养殖模式的脆弱性 (中文)
US Factory Farming Shows Vulnerability to Severe Weather Once Again (English)
By Wanqing Zhou
China Dialogue, November 11, 2016巴黎峰会忽视低排放未来的关键道路 (中文)
What Paris Left Out (English)
By Mia MacDonald and Antony Froggatt
Caixin, December 23, 2015
Republished by Huffington Post, January 7, 2016China’s Cloned Cows: Meat on the Table or Environmental Disaster?
By Jian Yi
The Guardian, December 5, 2015What’s the Connection to China’s and the U.S.’ Pigs and the Smithfield-Shuanghui Deal?
By Mia MacDonald
Huffington Post, June 5, 2013Cultivating Risks
By Mia MacDonald
China Dialogue, May 9, 2011Investment Bankers with Wings: Making a Killing
By Mia MacDonald
Huffington Post, July 4, 2010China Encounters Factory Farming
By Mia MacDonald
China Dialogue, July 9, 2009An Interview with Mia MacDonald on Chinaʼs Growing Appetite for U.S.-Style Meat Production
By Anne Lappé
Grist, February 17, 2009Chinese Farms: A Growing Challenge
By Mia MacDonald
Worldwatch Institute, October 20, 2008
Global
Solving the Climate Crisis Means Tackling What We Eat
By Mia MacDonald and Stephanie Feldstein
Medium, December 28, 2018In order to ‘feed the world’ we must stop factory farming our animals
By Mia MacDonald and Gene Baur
The Hill, October 15, 2018Changing diets threaten public health & the environment
By Judy Bankman
Food Climate Research Network, March 7, 2018An On-the-Ground Look at Progress Made at COP23 in Bonn, Germany
By Caroline Wimberly
World Animal Net, December 5, 2017Beef Exports a Raw Deal for Global Climate
By Mia MacDonald and Stephanie Feldstein
Medium, June 23, 2017Updates from COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco
By Caroline Wimberly and Tozie Zokufa
World Animal Net, January 31, 2017The Paris Climate Agreement: What Does it Mean for Animals – And How We Eat?
By Mia MacDonald
Huffington Post, December 21, 2015Reestablished China-Brazil Beef Trade Means More than Cheap Churrasco
By Wanqing Zhou
Diálogo Chino, May 28, 2015Will ‘Milk Life’ Go Global? Big Dairy Sets Its Sights on Asia
By Mia MacDonald
Civil Eats, April 1, 2014
Republished by Huffington Post, May 6, 2014The Global Climate Crisis & Animal Agriculture: Doha and Beyond
By Mia MacDonald
Huffington Post, December 6, 2012
Republished by Civil Eats, December 10, 2012The US Drought: An Opportunity to Rethink the Global Food System
By Mia MacDonald
Huffington Post, August 27,2012Desperately Seeking: A Sustainable, Climate-Friendly Food System
By Mia MacDonald in collaboration with Worldwatch Institute
CSRwire, August 8, 2012Where’s the Beef? Cancun Climate Conference Should Take Animal Agriculture Seriously
By Mia MacDonald
Huffington Post, December 2, 2010Eat Like It Matters
By Mia MacDonald
Resurgence Issue 259, March/April 2010The Ecological Impacts of Animal Agriculture
By Mia MacDonald
OpEdNews, January 8, 2010
United States
The hurricane lays bare another risk to public health in Carolina: pig farms
By Mia MacDonald and Gene Baur
New York Daily News, September 15, 2018The factory farm machine keeps churning out waste
By Mia MacDonald and Gene Baur
New York Daily News, August 28, 2018New York to Lead on Food and Climate Policy? Bill de Blasio and the “Foodprint” Resolution
By Mia MacDonald
Civil Eats, December 23, 2013Rethinking Agriculture: National Climate Assessment Provides (Another) Reason
By Mia MacDonald
Huffington Post, April 24, 2013
Republished by Civil Eats, April 30, 2013