Articles on Food Security, Factory Farming, and the Environment

Over the years, Mia MacDonald and Brighter Green associates have produced many op-ed pieces, articles, and book chapters, on factory farming’s contribution to the climate crisis, food insecurity, environmental pollution, biodiversity loss, and public health. They have also been quoted in other articles. There follow a selection of them, organized by date (most recent first):

Mia MacDonald

• “A Rush Toward Industrial Animal Agriculture: Africa Joins the Race, But What Does Winning Look Like?” in Africa and Her Animals, eds. Rainer Ebert and Anteneh Roba (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2018)
• “Missing from the Paris Climate Agreement: Any Mention of Industrial Animal Agriculture,” Global Forest Coalition 49, March 2016
• “The Paris Climate Agreement: What Does it Mean for Animals—And How We Eat?” Huffington Post, December 21, 2015
• “Big Dairy Sets Its Sights on Asia: Will ‘Milk Life’ Go Global?” Civil Eats, April 1, 2014
• “The Global Climate Crisis & Animal Agriculture: Doha and Beyond,” Huffington Post, December 6, 2012
• “Food Security and Equity in a Climate-Constrained World,” in State of the World 2012 (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2012)
• “Where’s the Beef? Cancun Climate Conference Should Take Animal Agriculture Seriously,” Huffington Post, December 2, 2010
• “Investment Bankers with Wings: Making a Killing,” Huffington Post, July 4, 2010
• “The Ecological Impacts of Animal Agriculture,” Op-Ed News, January 8, 2010
• “China Encounters Factory Farming,” China Dialogue, July 9, 2009 (Chinese version)

Brighter Green Associates

• “The Green New Deal Could Be Our Only Hope: In Praise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Vision,” by Mia MacDonald and Gene Baur, New York Daily News, January 16, 2019
• “Solving the Climate Crisis Means Tackling What We Eat,” by Stephanie Feldstein and Mia MacDonald, Medium, December 28, 2018
• “Community Efforts Towards a Climate-Friendly Diet in China,” by Wanqing Zhou, Global Forest Coalition 57, December 2018
• “Swine Fever Highlights Need to Reform Meat Production,” by Wanqing Zhou, China Dialogue, October 26, 2018 (Chinese version)
• “In Order to ‘Feed the World’ We Must Stop Factory Farming Our Animals,” by Mia MacDonald and Gene Baur, The Hill, October 15, 2018
• “The Hurricane Lays Bare Another Risk to Public Health in Carolina: Pig Farms,” by Gene Baur and Mia MacDonald, New York Daily News, September 25, 2018
• “The Factory Farm Machine Keeps Churning Out Waste,” by Gene Baur and Mia MacDonald, New York Daily News, August 28, 2018
• “Changing Diets Threaten Public Health & the Environment,” by Judy Bankman, Table, March 2018
• “Climate Change: COP 23 Outcomes and an Opportunity for Animal Protection Organizations,” by Janice Cox, World Animal Net, December 5, 2017
• “An On-the-Ground Look at Progress Made at COP23 in Bonn, Germany,” by Caroline Wimberly, World Animal Net, December 5, 2017
• “Processed Food is a Global Health Crisis,” by Judy Bankman, China Dialogue, November 27, 2017 (Chinese version)
• “Beef Exports a Raw Deal for Global Climate,” by Stephanie Feldstein and Mia MacDonald, Medium, June 23, 2017
• “Less Meat, More Forest: Brighter Green’s Work in China,” by Wanqing Zhou, Global Forest Coalition 55, April 2017
• “East MEATS West,” by Caroline Wimberly and Wanqing Zhou, Veg News, March–April 2017
• “China Needs to Assess the True Costs of Factory Farming,” by Wanqing Zhou and Mia MacDonald, China Dialogue, February 23, 2017 (Chinese version)
• “Updates from COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco,” by Caroline Wimberly and Tozie Zokufa, World Animal Net, January 31, 2017
• “US Factory Farming Shows Vulnerability to Severe Weather Once Again,” by Wanqing Zhou, China Dialogue, November 11, 2016 (Chinese version)
• “The Tragic Triangle of Meat Consumerism and Hope for the Future,” by Wanqing Zhou, Global Forest Coalition 49, March 2016
• “China’s Cloned Cows: Meat on the Table or Environmental Disaster?” by Jian Yi, Guardian, December 5, 2015
• “Reestablished China–Brazil Beef Trade Means More Than Cheap Churrasco,” by Wanqing Zhou, Díalogo Chino, May 28, 2015
• “Implementing Aichi Target 3 in the Livestock Sector,” by Mia MacDonald and Simone Lovera, Square Brackets, July 2014
• “Mexico: Public Health, Rising Obesity and the NAFTA Effect,” by Judy Bankman, Civil Eats, July 17, 2013
• “From Famine to Food Waste: Time to Reflect,” by Zhao Wanqing, China Dialogue, February 12, 2013 (Chinese version)

Articles Quoting Brighter Green

• “Can the World Quench China’s Bottomless Thirst for Milk?” by Felicity Lawrence, Guardian, March 29, 2019
• “A Less Meaty Year of the Pig?” by Karoline Kan, China Dialogue, February 4, 2019 (Chinese version)
• “How America’s Junk Food Problem Made Its Way To China,” by Charlotte Middlehurst, Huffington Post, January 22, 2019
• “The Blight of Tetra Paks Covering Vietnam’s Beaches and Towns,” by Corinne Redfern, Guardian, December 9, 2018
• “Deadly Pig Virus Could Hit US in a Year, Warn Experts,” by Charlotte Middlehurst, Guardian, December 7, 2018
• “Can China Kick Its Animal Antibiotic Habit?” by Charlotte Middlehurst, Guardian, June 19, 2018
• “The Food Revolution Will Start on Campus,” by Charlotte Middlehurst, China Dialogue, April 10, 2018 (Chinese version)
• “China’s Middle Class Gets a Taste for Healthy Eating,” by Zhang Chun, China Dialogue, January 19, 2018 (Chinese version)
• “How China’s Growing Appetite for Meat Affects Us All,” by Betty Richardson, That’s magazine, March 24, 2017
• “Brazil Beef Scandal Highlights Dangers of Industrial Livestock Farming,” by Robert Soutar and Cristina Veiga, China Dialogue, March 27, 2017 (Chinese version)
• “71% more animals will be consumed by 2050,” by Valente Villamil, El Financiero (Mexico), December 13, 2016
• “The Road to a Post-Meat World Starts in China,” by Nick Pachelli, Vice, October 7, 2016
• “Dinner and Climate Change: Global Poll Shows Eaters Connecting the Dots,” by Anna Lappé, Civil Eats, December 15, 2014
• “China’s Appetite for Meat Swells, along with Climate Changing Pollution,” by Coco Liu, Scientific American, May 20, 2014
• “China Seeks Safety in US Meat Giant Smithfield,” by Tom Levitt, China Dialogue, June 3, 2013 (Chinese version)
• “Livestock Identified as Having Biggest Impact on Global Warming – Even More Than Usual Suspect, Carbon Monoxide,” by Savita Verma, Daily Mail (India), January 23, 2012