Banks Driving Increase in Global Meat and Dairy Production, Report Finds
March 19, 2024 | 1 min to read
A report reveals that billion-dollar financing is fueling unsustainable growth in global meat and dairy production, which rose by 9% and 13% from 2015 to 2021, respectively. During this period, the top 55 industrial livestock companies received an average of $77 billion annually, often at the expense of their own anti-deforestation policies, highlighting the urgent need for reevaluation of funding practices in the industry.
Billion-dollar financing is driving unsustainable increases in global meat and dairy production, a report has found.
Global meat production rose 9% between 2015 and 2021, the report said, while dairy production increased 13% in that time.
Over almost the same time period, 2015 to 2022, financiers provided the world’s top 55 industrial livestock companies with average annual credit injections of $77bn (£60bn), and some appeared to compromise their own anti-deforestation policies to do so, according to the report.
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