Austin Alonzo, editor of WATT Poultry USA, examines hot topics surrounding the US poultry industry as it deals with a changing consumer, emerging animal welfare concerns and other disruptive challenges.
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way we look at the world, but it shouldn’t overshadow the critical importance of sustainability to our collective future.
During these times of fear, opportunists will attempt to take advantage of the chaos to get their message to a broad audience. Animal agriculture deals with a constant opportunistic opponent: organized animal activist groups.
2020, without question, is so far delivering plenty of turbulence. COVID-19 is throwing much of the future into question and presenting a daunting public health challenge.
The entire world is now facing what the United Nations is calling the greatest human challenge since World War II: COVID-19. Despite this, poultry and other food industries must press onward.
The planet is getting warmer and more crowded. The chicken industry will likely play an outsized role in feeding this world of the future, but plant-based foods could represent a significant part of the diet of the future.
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