Factory Farm Gas: Big Ag & Big Oil’s Latest Greenwashing Scheme

Today, Friends of the Earth and Socially Responsible Agriculture Project released a new report: Biogas or Bull****? The Deceptive Promise of Manure Biogas as a Methane Solution. The report offers new evidence that factory farm gas will further entrench unsustainable and unjust systems of industrial animal agriculture and fossil fuel energy for decades to come – all for methane reduction benefits that are overstated, inadequately tracked, and insufficient to meet climate targets. See below for a summary of key findings. Help us amplify the report using this social media toolkit, or by sharing our posts on Facebook, X, and Instagram. Here’s a sample post: A new report by @FOE_US and @SRAProject reveals how factory farm gas incentivizes the largest industrial livestock polluters to expand and diverts scarce public funds from true #climatesolutions. Read the report: foe.org/manure-biogas Learn more about this report, as well as a recently published report from Food & Water Watch that maps extensive industry investments in factory farm gas, at a webinar on Thursday, February 29 at 1PM ET. REGISTER HERE.