This story isn‘t about ‘the world‘s taste for soya‘, it‘s about the world‘s taste for meat. The vast majority of soya is grown for animal feed. Less than 10% is for direct human consumption. A shame it‘s not mentioned in the story. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Still think this is as relevant as when we first wrote it. Wish people putting out reports on cell ag in 2025 cited it. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The sudden pervasiveness of AI is infuriating. I'm doing final proofs on my book and Acrobat is asking me if I want an AI summary because the document is long. So the ostensibly neutral "tool" has a built-in anti-literacy nudge?

Everyone's got their favorite writing record. Here's mine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6dI...

reps for the three amigos

Carney really Starmering lately.

Remember when we used to dream big? Global universal school lunches is an abundance agenda I can get behind. Provocative new paper in The Lancet Planetary Health. thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(25)00156-1/fulltext#fig6

Must-read from two of the most important scholars of animal law in the USA. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

NYC climate week is fast approaching. Make sure to come out to Brooklyn on Wednesday the 24th for Will Potter's book talk from 12:30-2. Register at the link below. See you there. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The extinction impact of the beef industry is immense. Eating even a little bit multiplies a diet’s impact on endangered species. insane chart from a new open access study comparing extinction impacts of different food production systems t.co/Nc7c8ynR0N

YOB + Windhand performing inside a Raúl de Nieves installation? Yes please.

ordem e progresso indeed

“There are a number of reporters on the food beat who very regularly will use the stock performance of Beyond as a stand-in or the performance of the sector as a whole,” says @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social, assistant professor of political science at @pratt.edu.

Scientists: We need to reduce meat consumption to keep food production within planetary limits. EU consumers: We like alt protein and know what's meat and what isn't since it's obvious. EU politicians: Let's legislate language to protect the meat industry. www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025...

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deforestation *caused primarily by cows and soy for factory farmed animals* reduce rainfall in the amazon. this is why meat is not just a moral issue but a political-ecological issue that reshapes out climate and environment and biodiversity in profound and irreversible ways.

Having now read about the idea of moral offsetting in the case of meat, I find it hilarious that the hyper-rationalists have basically reinvented the concept of buying indulgences. You're an affluent westerner - you can afford an amazing meatless diet and give to animal charities and stay atheist.

shot. chaser. a company caught literally factory farming turkeys is certified "regenerative" because words mean nothing in foodie-land.

'Cows just replaced the methane from wild bison' Not even close. At their peak, wild ruminants incl. bison emitted ~15 Tg CH₄/yr Today’s 4+ billion farmed ruminants emit over 100 Tg CH₄/yr That’s nearly 7x more methane. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

not to be that guy but between countless studies on the environmental and health benefits of plant-based diets (i.e. NatMed healthy aging study) and a growing number of studies on the ill health effects of even moderate drinking, really looks like the vegan straight edge crowd was ahead of its time.

In which Jasmine, Mariann, and I talk about that awful NYT article about animal rights activism in Sonoma. Have a listen.

NYC Climate Week is three weeks away. If you will be in town, please join us at the Pratt Institute on September 24th at 12:30 for a talk by Will Potter about his new book Little Red Barns. The talk is open to the public, so come join us in Brooklyn.

The NYT completely parroting industry talking points here (i.e. activists group "wants its viral clips.") without actually engaging with the content of those clips, many of which specifically show "humane" farms to be fronts for factory farms. Awful journalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...

Significant methane leaks at two biogas plants discovered, raising questions about the climate credentials of so-called ‘green’ energy projects tied to the dairy sector changingmarkets.org/report/metha...

many things in the world are bad, but dime glory challenge is undeniably good.

This sucks. This is also what happens when good companies get bought by larger, international brands. Any Canadian multi-millionaires out there willing to step in? vancouversun.com/news/canadia...

"Spoon for spoon, seed oils are much more healthy than some of the alternatives championed by their critics, not least butter, lard and beef tallow." www.economist.com/science-and-...

"the retreat of veganism wouldn’t have been possible without another ingredient: the decline in idealism. [I]t was intended to benefit not just the individual but society. Eating less meat would reduce GHG emissions and animal suffering. The evidence is clear. But right now we can’t be bothered."

Adding this to my running list of insipid "eat chicken for the climate" articles. Factory-farmed chicken is an ethical, environmental, and labor disaster, and already the most-eaten meat in the USA. Only with the most blinkered carbon tunnel vision is there anything remotely progressive about this.

This sounds insane to speak out loud, but is a real statistic: The global seafood industry kills at least 1 trillion wild fish every year to supply 1% of the world’s food. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

you fall for diet trends and eat david bars because they are "high in protein" (28 g lol) and some influencer sold them to you; i eat benji vegan chicharron because it's delicious, but still get double the protein (60 g baby). we are not the same.

Got the proofs. Feels incredible to actually hold these in my hands after only knowing this book as an endless stream of word and pdf files over the past few years. Pre-order yours here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jan-d...

The world produces more than enough #calories to ensure #foodsecurity for all, but only half the calories reach people’s plates. Rising production of #meat (esp. #beef) and #biofuel are the main reasons for this growing inefficiency… (1/2) www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

This is grim but unsurprising. I can say with complete certainty that the quality of research and thought among PhD students does not change that much between institutions. What matters is reputation, funding & networks. Makes for a narrow, conservative discipline. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As another semester begins at my beloved arts school, we pay homage to the unofficial poet laureate of these boroughs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT5B...

As I wrote about xenotransplantation for @newrepublic.com back in 2022, "if we take the bio in bioethics to mean concern with all of life and not simply human life, then the question of animal ethics becomes central to the morality of the entire enterprise." newrepublic.com/article/1650...

Even "food insecurity," a term used by organizations and governments around the world world to refer to individuals and communities lacking food availability or access, which is a quantifiable problem and the basis for public health and nutrition interventions? This is moronic and infuriating.

Even "food insecurity," a term used by organizations and governments around the world world to refer to individuals and communities lacking food availability or access, which is a quantifiable problem and the basis for public health and nutrition interventions? This is moronic and infuriating.

My take(s) on The Argument discourse is that that money would do much more good supporting actual local news rather than another opinion mill for the same old takes, but also that there's a reason that money was used to fund the same old takes and not actual news.

Blowing political capital for a private company that then buckles in negotiations immediately the moment labor stand firm. What a miscalculation by Carney and the Liberals. Big shout out to CUPE and Air Canada flight attendants. Hopefully it's a good deal. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

powering the rise of illiteracy and the death of the capacity for critical thought through fusion reactors - quite the pitch deck

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Mark Carney's government already handing wins to their critics to defend a corporation whose CEO makes 12 million a year, 8 of which are stock options, aka rewards for lowering costs and screwing labor. Even just on optics, going against unions during a cost of living crisis is such a bad call.

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this is a subtweet: it drives me insane when people challenge claims about historical public health by saying things like "well the average life expectancy was much lower because it counts child mortality and childhood deaths." exponentially higher child mortality is not the gotcha you think it is.

One way you could read this chart: Animal ag is so inefficient—and it comes at an unthinkable moral cost, AND it might start the next pandemic—that it would be the definition of lunacy to squander global carbon budgets to produce an ever-greater share of our food this way www.vox.com/future-perfe...

made the mistake of listening to "geopolitics" "expert" on novara media. guy also happens to retweet orban's political director. why does the global left media suck so bad on international affairs? is it just contrarianism and "west bad"? whence the gulf between domestic and international politics?

cowards www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/d...