On a quiet Saturday, July 25th, which might have been just like any other Saturday, the United Nations (U.N.) dropped a bomb, tweeting this: “The meat industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the world’s largest oil companies. Meat production contributes to the depletion of water resources & leads to deforestation.”

We have published a news item about a study by Canadian researchers using a Mid Infrared Spectromicroscopy beamline from a high brightness infrared synchrotron light.

Yes, we have been told a bunch of times about the famous “new normal” during COVID-19, but just as there are negative things, there are also positive things.

When we write to be published, we all want people to read what we write and we certainly try to make our headlines attractive with the least possible words. But does this mean that we distort information?

“The poultry industry in Mexico grows amid overcrowding and rats” is the title of an unfortunate article in the “Science and Health” section published last week by Milenio, a well-known Mexican media outlet.

Deontology, as a part of ethics, is defined as the moral obligation governing a professional activity. So, this time I am going to refer to deontology in the poultry industry.

During these months of sanitary and economic shocks, people used less transportation due to confinement.

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, gave his decalogue this past weekend to come out of the coronavirus crisis.

In the last few months, I have written about alternative proteins, whether called vegetable meats, meat analogues and cultured or laboratory meats – the so-called "cellular agriculture."

It seems that there is always someone complicating matters. Now there are voices that want to describe meat processing plants or slaughterhouses as the pandemic epicenter.

Indeed, China sneezed and spread pneumonia to the rest of the world, something that hardly resembles the Mexican saying that "when the United States sneezes, Mexico gets the flu."

The Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) spoke last week about Asia and why it has its eyes set on that continent.