I went on Arnie Arnesen's show on WNHN to talk public grocery stores and food insecurity solutions. Have a listen: www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sta...

Just pre-ordered Meat by @brucefriedrich.bsky.social and Feed the People by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading these when they drop in February

Don’t fall for the manufactured fall of veganism. The science and the benefits haven’t changed. Industrial animal agriculture is cruel and unsustainable. Give Veganuary a go. My latest for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

starting 2026 with cleans. no bumper plates, no collars. espresso for pre- and post-workout. as is the custom in the home country.

I write about the food industry, so I see dumb things all the time, but this Farmkind meat-eating offset scheme has got to be the single dumbest fucking thing I have ever seen.

@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I have thoughts about municipal public grocers. They may do some good if they can compete with major grocers on price, but to take a real bite out of food insecurity, poor people will need more money. newrepublic.com/article/2046... via @newrepublic.com

@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I wrote about public grocery stores, Mamdani's most polarizing policy proposal. They are worth trying, but are not a guaranteed food security fix. It is the rest of the affordability agenda that can do more for food insecure New Yorkers. newrepublic.com/article/2046...

If anyone is around Boston January 8th, drop by the Tufts Future of Food Innovation Day. I'll be talking/maybe productively disagreeing with Dan Rejto and Mike Grunwald about an abundance agenda for food and ag.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

*Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food is Good and How to Make It Even Better* comes out in February. @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I will do a launch event at Brooklyn's Powerhouse Books on 2.17.26, 7-9 PM. Get your ticket today! powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

Mark your calendars: The book launch for Feed the People! will be February 17, 2026 at Powerhouse in Brooklyn. Hope to see you there! powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

The Guardian finally coming around to the Bean New Deal.

@kennytorrella.bsky.social is the only one covering this very important story! I know Americans really like to eat meat but allowing the meat industry to contribute to the ruin of miracle antibiotics really strikes me as an irrational trade.

Two months until Feed the People!. We've started to get some very kind reviews over on Goodreads (thanks NetGalley for passing the galley around), but one point keeps coming up: the people who should read it might not. So if you have a Michael Pollan adherent in your life, please buy them a copy.

the atlantic: racism is fine, talking about quantifiable economic issues like inequality is an abstraction. truly an incredible publication.

This is so awful. gothamist.com/news/the-new...

an editor signed off on this. this is the level of discourse seen as acceptable in writing about policy. how can we have debate about facts at all when everything is poisoned by the culture war?

"Interventions in the sex lives of animals are so intrusive and ubiquitous that..bestiality laws had to be rewritten to include explicit exceptions for farmers." love this piece by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social & Gabe newrepublic.com/article/2036...

This is a good bit of journalism on the Rainbow Wool/Grindr show that avoids both dismissal and swooning. Glad to see myself and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social cited here, but I'd offer one correction: we don't think the show "whitewashes" animal ag (it's actually fun), but that it undersells its harms.

Read @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social's take on the dark realities of the industry newrepublic.com/article/2036... And key ❓: "Once a farmer starts taking an animal’s consent into account, is it possible to still farm? What about the sheep who prefer not to be shorn? Or eaten?"

The entire glyphosate (Roundup herbicide) saga is an appalling example of politicized science and motivated reasoning. Now key anti-Roundup papers AND key pro-Roundup papers have been retracted. Worse, I'd be willing to take odds that partisans of both sides will be completely unbothered by this.

Anyone who cares about Europe's future and loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe can take for its own defence and Ukraine's survival. America is lost. www.ft.com/content/3c23...

vegans are so annoying tho faunalytics.org/global-anima...

This is an incredible work of combat journalism. The most raw, real and terrifying testament to what it’s like to fight this war, and its cost. Difficult to watch, emotionally and visually, so bear in mind. (Nothing I would call overly graphic / gory for those sensitive.) youtu.be/Nf4Cgy56slU?...

Reposting because I know Big USDA won’t. Live a little. 😜

"It’s not that previous generations were more engaged in their work because jobs back then were thrilling, it’s that applying oneself at work used to be a means to an end. With the reward of owning your own home yanked out of reach, the whole thing feels futile" www.ft.com/content/c17a...

This is worth a read. The meat industry, as has been documented, is involved in all sorts of disinfo campaigns, including online posting and trolling. Of course, take this person's identity with a grain of salt since it's reddit, but I have met people who do this. www.reddit.com/r/AMA/commen...

Just in time for your Thanksgiving feast, @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I killjoy the gay ram story over at @newrepublic.com. Sorry, but *all* animal farming is predicated on exploiting the sex of farm animals. Oh, and those rams (probably) ain't gay. Enjoy! newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture. By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

This is key: "Atlanta officials spent years trying to lure major chain grocery stores to neighborhoods that don’t offer residents big supermarkets with fresh, healthy food [but] large private operators have been reluctant to open a store in poorer neighborhoods." Gov't addressing a market failure.

Got some feel-good Thanksgiving pre-dinner reading coming for you tomorrow.

"as negotiations with EU governments begin, the amendment that everyone assumed would die in the first round is still standing — not because it has a powerful constituency behind it, but because almost no one is expending political capital to bury it." [facepalm] www.politico.eu/article/vegg...

reading an econ paper where the authors contrast animal welfare to consumer welfare, equating animal suffering with consumer costs as if these were commensurable. was ready to angrily rail against econ conservatism when i remembered this is exactly what a whole lot of leftists said about egg prices.

A no-fly zone on February 25, 2022 - then dismissed as a non-starter - would likely have been the best shot at saving countless lives and avoiding the grim situation today.

Now that the book is on the way to the printers and book-adjacent writing is all out, @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and I are back in the saddle co-authoring all new articles about the monsters that hide in the forgotten corners of the food system. And man oh man do we have a good one coming next week.

Feed the People! comes out in 3 months. I can't wait to see this book out in the world and am deeply honored by the kind words so many people I respect deeply had for it.

bot popularism

Bitcoin, a completely speculative asset, denominated in the very fiat currencies it purports to replace, burns energy with no appreciable reflection of that resource extraction in its value, which itself hinges on nothing but hype, and brings no social benefit. Shouldn't be allowed to exist.

More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds

Another one bites the dust. Two weeks after JBS settled a false advertising lawsuit with the NYAG to stop making "net zero" claims, Tyson has just settled in D.C. about its own "net zero" claims. There is no such thing as low-emissions or carbon-neutral cattle. aldf.org/article/tyso...

If you're around NYC on December 3rd, I'm giving a talk at Pratt's CritViz symposium about the commoditization of the idea of "animal welfare."

Finishing a chapter on this issue now, but my hot food system take is that every dollar and hour spent on pushing corporations to self-regulate and "improve animal welfare" within factory farming systems (as opposed to pushing legislation like Prop 12) has been a monumental waste.

also the canadian kids. this is now a screamo revival stan account apparently. terrygreen.bandcamp.com/track/easy-2

I hope everyone now realizes that the culture war is not about anything particular, but about perpetuating the culture war itself. Placating the culture warriors is a losing strategy.

True story: Rumors about this were rife in the late 90s. When I was much younger and living in Europe, I wrote a novella (admittedly not great) that drew on this idea for part of its plot. An editor at a press read it and called it "disgusting and not credible." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

the kids are alright lagrimascrust.bandcamp.com/album/im-not...

COP30 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

😬 Proponents of animal welfare point to survey after survey showing Americans care about animal welfare, but while that's the case, Americans tend to know next to nothing about the food system. That's why "humane," "free-range," and other claims appeal, because they seem like viable options.

so the washington post is now basically the new york post

Does anyone else feel that the "AI sentience" stuff is first going to be really used in a court of law so that companies can shunt legal responsibility for actions like these (or worse) onto the machine itself? It wasn't me, it was the dog. Put the dog down.