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1、 CLIMATE DOOM LOOP FACTORY FARMINGS TOLL ON ANIMALS,FARMERS,AND FOOD Stefano Belacchi/Essere Animali/We Animals CONTENTS Executive summary.03 Introduction.05 Increasing climate disasters.06 Focusing on farming systems.13 Extreme events.14 Rising food insecurity.20 Solutions.32 Despite progress.35 Co
2、nclusion.36 Recommendations.37 References.38 Aerial view of a CAFO farm surrounded by food waters in Duplin County.North Carolina,USA.Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals 02 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Climate Doom Loop features eleven powerful case studies from countries including Brazil,Nigeria,the USA,Vietnam,and a
3、cross Europe,that show how industrial animal agriculture is trapped in a climate doom loop,fuelling the very disasters it struggles to withstand.Together,they reveal the immense toll of climate crisis-linked extreme weather on farmed animals,citizens,farmers livelihoods and food security,leading to
4、global losses of USD143 billion annually(Newman&Noy 2023).Alarmingly,these catastrophic events are becoming increasingly frequent due to climate change,a major driver of which is industrial animal agriculture.While global fgures for the total number of farmed animals affected in these types of incid
5、ents are not available,more than 14.8 million animals including poultry,fsh,cattle,and pigs were killed in these eleven incidents alone a tiny fraction of the total number likely to be affected globally every year.Extreme weather events have quadrupled in frequency since the 1970s(FAO,2023)so withou
6、t urgent action the toll on farmed animals looks set to signifcantly increase.From heatwaves in the UK to hurricanes in the US,fooding in Italy and Brazil and across Europe,Asia and Africa,no part of the world is immune from the effects of extreme weather and the consequences are severe.Climate disa