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Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

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As Tyson’s VP of fresh meats marketing told Progressive Grocer magazine, “We are trying to be upbeat and different, with something that speaks definitively to [millennial and Gen Z consumers].” Nestlé is paying ranchers for regenerative grazing practices that get sold as carbon credits. Walmart Canada stocks 2.5

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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

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By 2004, Smithsonian magazine reported that Niger’s Zinder region had 50 times more trees than it did in 1975. In Senegal, the government, via the Senegalese Agency for Reforestation, has partnered with local farmers practising regenerative agriculture. Wall of greenwash?