UNSUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT- (Stop Financing Factory Farming)

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Industrial animal agriculture, a key driver of biodiversity loss, pollution and resource overexploitation

Humanity is confronting an intensifying environmental polycrisis—a convergence of interlinked and mutually reinforcing crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and resource depletion—that has driven the Earth beyond seven of the nine established planetary boundaries. With its wide-ranging impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, excessive water and energy use, and pollution, industrial animal agriculture is a key driver of these planetary boundary transgressions.

Industrial animal agriculture (IAA), often referred to as factory farming, has replaced diversified, extensive, smallholder-driven livestock production systems with specialized, concentrated corporate-owned systems that confine thousands of animals indoors, rely on manure lagoons that pollute air and water, and disproportionately harm rural and low-income communities. A handful of multinational corporations control the system through vertically integrated supply chains, using concentrated feed, routine antimicrobials, and selective breeding to maximize production—often at the expense of animal welfare, farmer autonomy, and ecosystem health.

Livestock production drives nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions [1], occupies 70% of global agricultural land, and threatens more than 17,900 species. It is also a major source of nutrient runoff, microbial contamination, and hazardous waste, while consuming vast amounts of water and energy.