The Missing Target: Why Industrialized Animal Farming Must Be at the Core of the Climate Agenda.

Jenny L Mace, Andrew Knight, Fernanda Vieira, Patricia Tatemoto, Mariana Gameiro

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Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Effects of Edible Insect Enrichment of Meat-Based and Meat Analogue Products on the Nutritional Composition, Techno-Functional Properties, and Acceptability to Consumers: A Systematic Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jenny L MaceCentre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AL, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8132-3447

Andrew KnightSchool of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9753-6199

Fernanda VieiraSinergia Animal International, Verein Zum Schutz der Tiere, 1180 Vienna, Austria.

Patricia TatemotoLaboratory of Chemical Neuroanatomy, Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-000, SP, Brazil.

Mariana GameiroMighty Earth, 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Suite 3-123, Washington, DC 20036, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1652-8219

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global greenhouse gas reduction targets are applied to many sectors in many countries, as part of the Nationally Determined Contributions mandated within the Paris Agreement (climate). However, industrialized animal farming is typically missed out or deprioritized. This is despite suggestions that excluding this sector would automatically result in global failure to meet 1.5 °C and potentially even 2 °C maximum temperature rise targets, even if fossil fuel use were to immediately cease. To foster further discussion and assessments about the need for such targets in relation to industrialized animal farming, this study collated and analyzed recent studies on the impacts of industrialized animal farming on the environment. Of the 579 items initially retrieved, 47 studies were shortlisted. Over three quarters (

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animal agricultureanimal farmingbiodiversity lossclimate changeclimate crisisCO2 equivalentsenvironmentgreenhouse gasland usemethane

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PMID41301964

DOI10.3390/ani15223256

PMCPMC12649370

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