{"id":200918,"date":"2025-04-23T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/animal-feed-is-the-new-silent-planetary-killer-the-understory\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:57:16","slug":"animal-feed-is-the-new-silent-planetary-killer-the-understory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=200918","title":{"rendered":"Animal feed is the new, silent planetary killer &#8211; The Understory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-22053\">\n<h2>Cows are turning the future into one big pile of cud<\/h2>\n<div class=\"author-details\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/headshot-48x48.jpg\" class=\"attachment-profile_48 size-profile_48\" alt=\"\"\/>\t\tBy <span class=\"author\">Timothy Workman<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Palm oil recently <a href=\"https:\/\/globalwitness.org\/en\/campaigns\/forests\/products-in-us-supermarkets-linked-to-deforestation-of-tropical-forests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surpassed beef<\/a> as the commodity Americans consume that contributes the most to tropical deforestation. That\u2019s because it\u2019s in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-palm-oil-became-the-worlds-most-hated-most-used-fat-source-161165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost everything<\/a>, even things we\u2019d never fully considered before, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RAN_Feeding_Deforestation_2024_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">animal feed<\/a>\u2014a major revelation that\u2019s throwing a big wrench into corporate \u201dzero deforestation\u201d promises.<\/p>\n<p>Much has been written about the direct impacts of animal agriculture on global greenhouse gas emissions, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss and deforestation. The same can be said for palm oil and its impacts on rainforests.<\/p>\n<p>But the increasing use of palm oil in animal feed has deepened an unholy alliance between two planet-destroying industries, with the potential to dramatically accelerate tropical deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>RAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RAN_Feeding_Deforestation_2024_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis<\/a> found that palm-oil based feed has become the number one palm oil product category imported into the United States. This feed is at high risk of association with deforestation and rights abuses, as most importers lack \u201cno deforestation\u201d policies, which means they\u2019re not paying attention to where the palm oil comes from, or if it was produced at the expense of rainforests.<\/p>\n<p>Snack companies are also not paying attention: Danone, Ferrero, Mars, Nestl\u00e9 and Unilever claim to have nearly or fully deforestation-free supply chains, because they only source \u201cdeforestation free\u201d palm oil as an ingredient to add to their products. Yet the dairy they use comes from animals that are quite literally gobbling up rainforests.<\/p>\n<p>To date, only Swedish dairy giant Arla has made \u201czero deforestation\u201d commitments about animal feed in their milk supply chains. The others continue to pretend that their cows aren\u2019t turning our rainforests into one big pile of cud.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cows.jpg\" class=\"ss-hidden-pin-image\" alt=\"\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/the-understory\/animal-feed-is-the-new-silent-planetary-killer\/\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cows.jpg\" data-pin-description=\"Animal feed is the new, silent planetary killer\"\/>\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cows are turning the future into one big pile of cud By Timothy Workman Palm oil recently surpassed beef as the commodity Americans consume that contributes the most to tropical deforestation. That\u2019s because it\u2019s in almost everything, even things we\u2019d never fully considered before, like animal feed\u2014a major revelation that\u2019s throwing a big wrench into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[1330,8246,4502,68019,6653,16100],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-200918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-animal","tag-feed","tag-killer","tag-planetary","tag-silent","tag-understory"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Animal feed is the new, silent planetary killer - The Understory - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=200918\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Animal feed is the new, silent planetary killer - The Understory - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cows are turning the future into one big pile of cud By Timothy Workman Palm oil recently surpassed beef as the commodity Americans consume that contributes the most to tropical deforestation. 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