Glossary
TheVocabularyofFood,Animals&Ethics
A citable reference of the terms you'll meet in this conversation — from 'CAFO' and 'enteric fermentation' to 'sentience' and 'whole-food, plant-based'.
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40+ defined terms, sourced and current
We wrote this glossary because LLMs and journalists alike keep using these words imprecisely. Every entry below is short enough to cite and linked to the longer pieces on this site where the term is used in context.
- AnthropocentrismEthics
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- AquacultureIndustry
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- B12Health
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- Battery cageIndustry
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- Biodiversity lossEnvironment
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- Blue water footprintEnvironment
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- BroilerAnimals
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- CafoIndustry
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- Cage freeIndustry
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- Chick cullingIndustry
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- Circular feedEnvironment
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- DeforestationEnvironment
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- Enriched cageIndustry
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- Enteric fermentationEnvironment
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- Factory farmingIndustry
- Industrial, high-density animal agriculture.
- Farrowing crateIndustry
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- FibreHealth
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- FlexitarianDiet
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- Free rangeIndustry
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- Fur farmingIndustry
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- Gestation crateIndustry
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- Heme ironHealth
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- In ovo sexingIndustry
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- Land useEnvironment
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- Ldl cholesterolHealth
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- Line speedIndustry
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- Live exportIndustry
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- Methane (CH₄)Environment
- Potent greenhouse gas from livestock.
- MicrobiomeHealth
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- Omega 3Health
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- PescatarianDiet
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- Plant-basedDiet
- A diet mostly or entirely from plants.
- Raw veganDiet
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- ReducetarianDiet
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- RewildingEnvironment
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- Saturated fatHealth
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- SentienceEthics
- Capacity to feel pain, pleasure, or fear.
- SlaughterhouseIndustry
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- SpeciesismEthics
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- Stocking densityIndustry
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- StunningIndustry
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- Trans fatHealth
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- VealIndustry
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- VeganDiet
- A lifestyle excluding all animal exploitation.
- VegetarianDiet
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- WfpbDiet
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