Kathrin Lauber

We have three great researcher jobs advertised, each for 12m, contributing to our work on generating evidence to inform food system transition. Please share widely.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

The EPA is no longer going to consider how many potential lives a pollution regulation would save -- just the costs to industry. This is directly counter to EPA's mission. And it will kill Americans.

Great (depressing) scoop from @maxinejoselow.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Also, despite the obvious ignorance about climate impacts, at least the new guidelines deliver justice for gym bros everywhere by ending the 'war on protein'...

Problematizing ultra-processing: opposition strategy mobility and an emergent challenge to food systems governance Diet-related diseases pose escalating global challenges despite long-standing concerns and health policy commitments. Developing an alternative to the dominant approach to nutrition research and po...

We recently wrote about the risk for UPF as a policy-relevant idea to mutate into a basis for more of the same individualistic diet advice, or to be co-opted in ways that counter efforts towards healthy/ sustainable food systems doi.org/10.1080/1946...

Kennedy Flips Food Pyramid to Emphasize Red Meat and Whole Milk

The Trump administration's new DGs illustrate how the idea of reducing the dominance of ultra-processed food in diets - which is fundamentally about better food systems & holds space for environmental sustainability - has been co-opted in service of the MAHA agenda www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...

Kennedy Flips Food Pyramid to Emphasize Red Meat and Whole Milk

RFK's long-awaited dietary guidelines are here! Not surprised he's recommending more red meat, quite surprised he didn't explicitly attack seed oils

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...

Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans? The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.

Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out

They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.

New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

Ignoring fossil fuels is, 'like telling the story of Star Wars without mentioning Darth Vader.'

Great work to everyone on the panel and all who have contributed to this book.

You can view a recording of this press conference from @canclimateaction.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/live/xdBwlaD...

The UN climate talks have become too big for their own good Cop30 will have 50,000 delegates. But bigger Cops are not better Cops.

Huge COPs are an equity issue.

We don't hear marginalised voices above the din of who can afford the pavilions, flights, comms teams, or hosting.

theconversation.com/the-un-clima...

S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

Also see @drilledmedia.bsky.social's podcast featuring authors @kat-lauber.bsky.social and @profsecchi.bsky.social, as they speak about the animal agriculture industry: "the meat guys." drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

US used coffee breaks to personally threaten negotiators in global climate talks on shipping: “They went from delegation to delegation . . . threatening them. Telling them to go back and speak to their capitals, warning what would happen if they didn’t change their minds,” the diplomat said.

Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30 Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.

🔴 NEW 🔴

From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇

📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...

PepsiCo downgrades its sustainability goals PepsiCo, in its latest sustainability update, becomes the latest major company to scale back its climate targets.

PepsiCo follows Coca-Cola in backtracking on commitments to reduce virgin plastic + abandoning reuse

despite all the talk of corporate sustainbility in UN plastic treaty negotiations, the reality is that Big Food companies are continuin to expand their use of single use plastics

Thanks a lot for sharing, Sarah!

This @amywestervelt.bsky.social Drilled interview with
@kat-lauber.bsky.social and myself is really a bucket list item for me. Take a listen!

Also, the ebook is free and available here: cssn.org/news-researc...

"Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment" has just been published & can be downloaded for free! 🔥 It's an incredible resource with 100+ contributors, on who blocks climate action, how they do it, & what can be done to counter this. (I played a small part as co-lead of ch. 4 on animal agriculture.)

Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives

five years after failing to get terms like 'plant-based burger' and 'veggie sausage' banned in europe, looks like the livestock lobby going to get its way

www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

This really hits home, particularly after attending the FAO Sustainable Livestock Transformation conference this week which - over 3 days - remained silent on the issue of overconsumption…

The mask is OFF 🎭 ! EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu admits that "simplification" actually means "deregulation" (surprise surprise - we've been saying this for a long time).

From her speech yesterday at the Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Greenpeace activists dressed as cows and pigs sit in cages at the entrance to the UN animal farming conference in Rome, with pink smoke rising around them to symbolise methane emissions. © Greenpeace / Lorenzo Moscia

Greenpeace activists dressed as cows and pigs sit in cages at the entrance to the UN animal farming conference in Rome, with pink smoke rising around them to symbolise methane emissions. © Greenpeace / Lorenzo Moscia

Greenpeace activists dressed as cows and pigs sit in cages at the entrance to the UN animal farming conference in Rome, with pink smoke rising around them to symbolise methane emissions. © Greenpeace / Lorenzo Moscia

🚨 BREAKING: At the UN animal farming conference in Rome, Big Ag executives talked “sustainability.”

Outside, Greenpeace activists locked themselves in cages with pink smoke to show the brutal reality of factory farming.

#StopBigAg

Read more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Do you know how corporations use a complex set of framing and action strategies—including lobbying, intelligence gathering, legal threats, media campaigns, third-party alliances, and more—to influence public policy?
#PublicPolicy #HealthPolicy
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Online first! New paper from @kat-lauber.bsky.social, Nason Maani, Olivia Brown & @rebeccaglover.bsky.social on the pros and cons of 'crisis' framings journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Methane, Money & Metrics: Inside Big Ag’s Plan to Hide Its Climate Impact in South America The livestock industry is pushing to change how its methane emissions are measured in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, with help from researcher Frank Mitloehner.

Brilliant piece by @maximanzoni.bsky.social documenting industry-driven efforts to "rethink methane" in Latin America via the use of the GWP* metric, & illustrating how this new lens essentially serves to let major polluters off the hook sentientmedia.org/inside-big-a...

Great analysis of the WHO Foundation’s funding by @spidermaani.bsky.social & co 🔍

transparency ratings are low & declining over time, anonymous donations abound;

the largest share of donations was earmarked as ‘operational support’ - raising Qs re WHOF’s stated aim to generate revenue for WHO

The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.

The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture?

That environmental destruction is actually conservation.

This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'.

📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...

[LEAK] While all eyes are on the budget allocated to farm subsidies, the @ec.europa.eu looks set to sneakily insert restrictions on the use of “meaty” names for plant-based foods in the proposal for a CMO regulation to be unveiled on Wednesday..

Food Giants’ Climate Plans Lack Credibility, New Report Finds Food firms are inflating their climate targets with carbon removals and weak deforestation claims, according to a report from the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch. With the COP30 climate s...

🔴NEW: Major food firms like Nestlé, PepsiCo and JBS are overstating progress on their climate goals, a new report finds

Firms are criticised for a reliance on vague carbon removals, weak no-deforestation claims and a lack of progress on key transitions

www.desmog.com/2025/06/03/f...

Scientists accuse New Zealand and Ireland of trying to cover up livestock emissions ‘Accounting trick’ to support methane-emitting sectors undermines fight against climate change, say researchers

This is incredibly unfair: high-income nations with large dairy sectors are looking to adopt a "no additional warming" target, avoiding the methane cuts needed to meet international targets and pledges.

We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FT👇🧵

www.ft.com/content/2ea6...

The psychology of outdoor advertising at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The psychology of outdoor advertising at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Liverpool to explore the mental health and environmental impacts of outdoor advertising, focusing on meat and dairy

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. | CNN Dr. Kevin Hall joins The Lead

Thanks to @jaketapper.bsky.social for inviting me on his show yesterday! www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...