The good news is that this week, animal welfare groups got one of the biggest supermarket companies to recommit to its cage-free pledge: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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The good news is that this week, animal welfare groups got one of the biggest supermarket companies to recommit to its cage-free pledge: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Despite hundreds of the biggest food companies pledging to go cage-free by 2025, the share of cage-free egg stands at 48%. Why? Blame grocery stores.
I was joking (I'm vegan)
I take your organ meat and raise you venison www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
The USDA proposed a rule to allow meat plants for pork and poultry to increase the speed of the kills lines that process chicken, turkey, and pork. While simultaneously relaxing rules for prevention of salmonella. The higher speed w/o increased staffing will cause more injury and sloppy processing.
DID YOU KNOW that emissions from manure management in the U.S. are likely even higher than official EPA estimates? A thread about 💩 1/
Last week, the US Department of Agriculture all but finished a decades long, cruel bipartisan project: Speeding up the kill lines at America's slaughterhouses. The draft rules have received almost zero media attention but will impact hundreds of millions of workers and animals.
To those in the replies pointing out that 2/3 of the ag land is pasture, much of which can’t grow crops/trees: true.
That said, ~1/3 of today’s pasturelands used to be forest. Pasture expansion is #1 driver of tropical deforestation this century. And beef uses 20x the land per g protein vs plants.
Cows are draining the Colorado River. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
New from me: The Colorado River is drying up & the Western US' water crisis is fueling bitter disputes among the states that share it. Yet the obvious solution to the crisis (raising fewer cows in the desert) gets almost no air time. A glaring case of agricultural exceptionalism.
"Improving the American food system further will require engaging, improving, and fairly distributing modern agriculture’s productivity, not tossing it on the compost heap."
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social and I on the concept of democratic hedonism in food system reform.
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Today's the day!
Feed the People! is now officially published - get it at your favorite bookstore or online (remember to leave reviews to feed the algorithms).
See you tonight in Brooklyn for the launch.
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“What’s to stop this other conglomerate of people and investors from Appleton that don’t live here?” Brenner says. “They don’t have a house here. They couldn’t care less what happens to our roads and to our wells and to our rivers, and it’s all about the money. They’ve got millions invested.”
This is such a waste of everyone's time and of government resources. Let people use normal words that have been flexibly used in many contexts for centuries ffs
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A lot of comments this week about how bad farm income will be this year, when USDA's numbers show that farm income will go down... (checks notes) 0.7% in 2026. Still above the 20-year average and a less than 1% decrease vs 2025 farm income. Sky falling? farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/02/farm...
Yea, some folks I talked to basically felt that very well cared for (rescued) rabbits and guinea pigs are likely the exception here
ha no worries!
It is weird that we normalized keeping caged wild animals in our living rooms
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Yea that's in the story
Cute talking parrots have gone viral on TikTok, yet these animals were likely bred in abject cruelty (or were even snatched from the wild). See for yourself in this new Vox investigation:
Americans keep over 100 million small animals as pets, most of them wild and forced to live their entire life in a tiny cage or tank. It's rife with disturbing welfare problems, so I wrote The Big Case Against Owning Small Pets:
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People on this website have their theories as to why the Trump administration is promoting milk but the answer is simple: every administration does this (it usually just doesn’t look like bizarre memes)
61 over here, don't like it but we're in an old drafty house and despite keeping it frigid all winter, our gas bill is still quite high.
Some early takes said the new food guidelines weren't too bad, but you always gotta dig deeper to really understand what MAHA is doing. So much going on here is chaos but most notably the new guidance makes an aggressive turn toward centering animal-based foods
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