Hazel Healy
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UK Editor in Chief at DeSmog. Investigations into climate and food politics.
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Sam Bright
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š“ NEW - Nigel Farage has accepted Ā£2 million since becoming an MP
@desmog.com
ās analysis, published by The Guardian, shows that the Reform leader has raked in millions on top of the Ā£5 million handed to him by Harborne
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Nigel Farageās income since being elected MP has hit Ā£2m, analysis shows
Reform UK leader has registered wide range of financial interests on top of his Commons salary since July 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/06/nigel-farage-finance-parliament-salary-reform
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Clare Carlile
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The UAEās ruling royal family banked more than ā¬71 million in EU farming subsidies. Farms in Romania, Spain and Italy controlled by the Abu Dhabi royals grow crops destined for export to the Gulf. āļø Latest for
@desmog.com
@theguardian.com
@eldiario.es
G4Media
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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"Reform's oily donations include £22 million from Thailand-based cryto billionaire Christopher Harborne, whose company AML Global sells jet fuel" (lest we forget)
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18 days ago
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Senior execs, directors, and major investors from the worldās largest fertiliser and grain companies have sold shares worth over Ā£49 mn during Iran war
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
has revealed. Profits come as UN WFP warns 45mn more people forced into āacute hungerā.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/f...
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Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War
Senior executives, directors, and major investors from the worldās largest fertiliser and grain companies have sold shares worth more than $66 million (Ā£49 million) during price hikes linked to the Ir...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/fertiliser-grain-bosses-bank-66-million-selling-shares-iran-war/
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Amazing scoop from
@cecile.bsky.social
with edits by
@phoebecooke.bsky.social
. Read on to see a classic gas lobby tactic to slow the clean transition, in actionā¦
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DeSmog
30 days ago
š“ NEW - Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions Live tracker of the Reform leaderās personal income. š
@writesbright.bsky.social
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Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in personal income and gifts, on top of his £94,00...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/mapped-nigel-farage-reform-uk-money-income-donations-tracker/
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A new scoop from
@writesbright.bsky.social
for
@desmog.com
with The Mirror š The Ā£675K pocketed by Farage from foreign governments, companies & donors dwarfs his public salary. For me, this begs the question, Farage is Minister of Parliament for... who exactly?
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...
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Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/nigel-farage-income-foreign-donors-governments-companies/
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It's a wild wild world...
@desmog.com
's
@joeygrostern.bsky.social
invites you into the Sri Lankan network pumping out ai-slop to rage bait Brits on energy and call for more drilling in the North Sea.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...
(Infact North Sea oil & gas would displace max 3% of imports)
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Hazel Healy
Sam Bright
about 1 month ago
Which poses the bigger question... did Reform lie about Goodwin's relationship with a state-funded pro-OrbƔn group?
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Did Reform lie about Goodwinās OrbĆ”n funding?
Plus ā I fixed the PoliticsJoe link...
https://writesbright.substack.com/p/did-reform-lie-about-goodwins-orban?r=7emt6
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Influential figures in the UK are using the war-on-Iran induced energy shock to call for (checks notes) *more reliance on oil & gas. Many have close ties to the fossil industry, or to groups that deny basic climate science.
@writesbright.bsky.social
has moreš
www.desmog.com/2026/04/01/t...
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The Vested Interests Lobbying for North Sea Oil and Gas Expansion
In the wake of the fossil fuel crisis created by Donald Trumpās war in Iran, a host of influential figures and groups in the UK have been calling not for the rapid rollout of renewable energy, but a g...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/01/the-vested-interests-lobbying-for-north-sea-oil-and-gas-expansion/
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Hazel Healy
DeSmog
about 2 months ago
š“ NEW - Energy Firms Dodge Ā£1 Billion Debt Relief Bill After Corporate Lobbying Ofgem has rejected calls for household energy debts to be paid off using excess profits.
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Energy Firms Dodge £1 Billion Debt Relief Bill After Corporate Lobbying
Ofgem has rejected calls from MPs to force energy companies to write off £1 billion of customer debt after intense energy industry lobbying, DeSmog can reveal. In October, MPs sitting on the Energy Se...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/03/27/energy-firms-dodge-1-billion-debt-relief-bill-after-corporate-lobbying/
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Hazel Healy
Sam Bright
about 2 months ago
š“ NEW š“ Reformās policy chief James Orr last weekend shared a stage with a white nationalist politician whose immigration policy is āif youāre black, go back.ā š
@desmog.com
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Reform Policy Chief James Orr Shared Stage With White Nationalist
Reform UKās head of policy James Orr spoke alongside a white nationalist politician at a conference in Hungary last weekend (21 March), DeSmog can reveal. Orr made an appearance at CPAC Hungary, a pol...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/03/29/reform-policy-chief-james-orr-shared-stage-with-white-nationalist-cpac-hungary/
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DeSmog
2 months ago
šØ NEW šØ How the āGalapagos of West Africaā was Plundered by Floating Fishmeal FactoriesĀ
www.desmog.com/2026/03/08/h...
š
@damancini.bsky.social
With
@desmog.com
in collaboration with
@theguardian.com
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How the āGalapagos of West Africaā was Plundered by Floating Fishmeal Factories
The only ice factory in Bubaque is out of service. Local fishermen, like Pedro Luis Pereira, are forced to source ice from factories on the mainland in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, some 70 kilometres a...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/03/08/how-the-galapagos-of-west-africa-was-plundered-by-floating-fishmeal-factories/
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"Gregory Bovino... to return to former job as a chief patrol agent along Californiaās US-Mexico border"... says a source. Er, so, you can oversee the extra-judicial killings of 2 people and violent attacks on migrant communities and... go back to your old job??
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Border Patrol commander to leave Minneapolis after shooting of Alex Pretti
Gregory Bovino, an aggressive promoter of Trumpās deportation agenda, said to have been stripped of ācommander at largeā title
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/gregory-bovino-minneapolis-minnesota-alex-pretti-shooting
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With the tragic news of another civilian murdered by US para-state forces this w/e came a timely reminder of the company that Farage keeps...
@writesbright.bsky.social
's piece for
@desmog.com
& The Mirror, totted up the bill for Farage's recent flights to see Trump. British public, forewarned.
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Excited to chair this session at
#ORFC26
today for
@desmog.com
Starting at 2pm! ā° Under Surveillance: Uncovering Big Agās Dirty Tactics with
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
@donstaniford.bsky.social
@annalappe.bsky.social
ššš
orfc.org.uk/session/unde...
Tickets atš
orfc.org.uk/book-orfc-2026-tickets
4 months ago
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Hazel Healy
Brigitte Wear
5 months ago
š“ NEW š“ The worldās largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its āpolluting, smelly and invasiveā fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be āpristineā Highlands lochs. with
@desmog.com
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COP30 has delivered less than hoped for & less than what is needed. But one light in the darkness is the recognition of the need for āinformation integrityā. The fight for a safe climate has the fight against disinformation at his heart, and now, its rightful place in the treaty text.
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Rachel Sherrington
6 months ago
NEW: > 300 lobbyists representing industrial agriculture have attended this yearās UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation 1/ š
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
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More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/more-than-300-lobbyists-for-industrial-agriculture-are-attending-cop30/
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Don't know your
#Abag
from your
#Abiec
?
@desmog.com
can help you navigate the
#AgroLobby
at
#COP30
... We profiled
#Brazil's
3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG Learn more in
@rachelsherrington.bsky.social
's map of food & farm lobby š
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
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Mapped: Big Foodās Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of BelƩm, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/mapped-big-foods-routes-to-influence-at-cop30/
6 months ago
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Next time you hear energy-hungry big tech claiming to be the solution to climate change, remember Nvidia was in Brazil pushing technology to aid oil and gas exploration ⦠on the eve of COP30
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6 months ago
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Get up to speed on big beefās arguments, which it will use to slow climate action at COP30 š By me &
@rachelsherrington.bsky.social
Feat. a cow in a Carmen Miranda headdress (coz no matter how you dress it up, this much cattle is not compatible with a safe climate)
www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...
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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 ā even though the sector drives a third of global warming.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/big-ag-greenwashing-climate-summit-cop30/
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DeSmog
7 months ago
š“ NEW š“ From regenerative agriculture to āefficiency is enough' and āwe feed the worldā narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 š š by
@rachelsherrington.bsky.social
&
@hazelhealy.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...
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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 ā even though food drives a third of global warming.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/big-ag-greenwashing-climate-summit-cop30/
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For DeSmog's latest Big Aqua collaboration (w/
@ftm.nl
) we followed Senegalese fishmeal into the Netherlands via farmed seabass. New evidence linking destruction of W/African small pelagic fisheries and women's work, by shoppers buying 'sustainably farmed' fish....
www.desmog.com/2025/09/28/h...
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How Farmed Fish in Dutch Supermarkets Undermines Food Security in West Africa
This story was produced in partnership with the investigative journalism platformĀ Follow The Money. On a beach strewn with plastic and fish waste on the eastern side of the Senegalese capital Dakar, a...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/09/28/how-farmed-fish-in-dutch-supermarkets-undermines-food-security-in-west-africa/
8 months ago
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Hazel Healy
Arena for Journalism in Europe
8 months ago
With
@hazelhealy.bsky.social
of
@DeSmog.com
and
@joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
of
@CarbonBrief.org
, this session will help you navigate COP, identify key storylines, avoid common pitfalls, and focus on how misinformation is expected to shape the agenda in Brazil.
#CA25
tix & programme:
climatearena.eu
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Hazel Healy
Jess Ralston
11 months ago
A day after the Spending Review, the Govt has quietly announced its ending the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme after 2027/28 The PSDS supports insulation, solar & heat pumps in the public sector like schools & hospitals Lowering their energy bills - which taxpayers fund.
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Hazel Healy
Rachel Sherrington
12 months ago
š“NEW: Major food firms like NestlĆ©, 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..
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Food Giantsā 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...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/06/03/f..
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Hazel Healy
DeSmog
12 months ago
š“REVEALED š“ Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch
@hazelhealy.bsky.social
⬠and
@brigitte-whl.bsky.social
⬠report āļø
buff.ly/qOFVBWj
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Revealed: UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal
Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch
https://www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/revealed-uk-supermarket-seabass-linked-to-devastating-overfishing-in-senegal/
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DeSmog
12 months ago
š“ NEW š“ UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch š
@hazelhealy.bsky.social
&
@brigitte-whl.bsky.social
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Revealed: UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal
Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch
https://www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/revealed-uk-supermarket-seabass-linked-to-devastating-overfishing-in-senegal/
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Doug Parr
about 1 year ago
1/12 Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town However itās a bit odd By odd, I mean thereās a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously š§µš§µ
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Stephen Bush
about 1 year ago
BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are ācontroversialā. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.
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Major scoop from
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
@desmog.bsky.social
!
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about 1 year ago
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CAAD_Coalition
about 1 year ago
š
@dataforgoodfr.bsky.social
,
@quotaclimat.org
and
@sciencefeedback.bsky.social
have released a new report revealing the alarming extent to which mainstream media, often considered more resilient than social media, is spreading climate misinformation.
quotaclimat.org/actualites/d...
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DƩtecter la dƩsinformation climatique - quotaclimat
CrĆ©dit : illustration de Xavier Lucas pour Le Nouvel Obs Cāest une premiĆØreĀ : les ONGs ā¦
https://quotaclimat.org/actualites/detection-desinformation-climatique-resultats-intermediaires/
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Y ahora en EspaƱol... Como las grandes empresas agrĆcolas (y otras) intentaron influir en el cumbre de la naturaleza en Cali, Colombia...
www.desmog.com/2025/02/21/m...
Esa cumbre ya terminó pero el mapa os servirÔ en el futuro porque volverÔn para la próxima, seguro.
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Mapa: Cómo las grandes empresas agrĆcolas, farmacĆ©uticas, de pesticidas y otras esperan influir en las conferencias sobre biodiversidad de la ONU
The original version of this article appeared in English on DeSmog on 28 October 2024 Bajo un cielo tropical que amenaza con tormentas y, en medio de advertencias cada vez mÔs serias sobre el precario...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/21/mapa-como-las-grandes-empresas-agricolas-farmaceuticas-de-pesticidas-y-otras-esperan-influir-en-las-conferencias-sobre-biodiversidad-de-la-onu/
about 1 year ago
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Major supermarkets have not been counting methane emissions in their supply chains
www.desmog.com/2025/03/18/s...
from
@rachelsherrington.bsky.social
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Supermarkets Accused of Major Methane 'Blindspotā
Leading supermarkets are failing to address the methane pollution in their supply chains, a new report has found, putting their own climate pledges at risk. The study from environmental non-profits Ch...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/18/supermarkets-accused-of-major-methane-blindspot/
about 1 year ago
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Why are anti-climate messages resonating when extreme weather disasters are escalating? Join
@desmog.bsky.social
with Canadian investigative journalist (and DeSmog's managing editor)
@geoffdembicki.bsky.social
at the Kairos club in Soho for a talk + dinner...
www.kairos.london/event/learni...
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Learning From Conservative Media: How To Counter Anti-Climate Messages With Geoff Dembicki - Kairos
Thursday February 20th, 6.30 for 7pm Why are anti-climate messages resonating at a time when extreme weather disasters are escalating and solutions to the crisis have never been stronger? What can peo...
https://www.kairos.london/event/learning-from-conservative-media-how-to-counter-anti-climate-messages-with-geoff-dembicki/
over 1 year ago
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Gregor Macdonald
over 1 year ago
Gas is just a bridge fuel they said. šš”
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Hazel Healy
NPR
over 1 year ago
A public State Department procurement document for fiscal year 2025 listed the purchase for $400 million. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is a top White House official.
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Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas
That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a top White Ho...
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administration-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas
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elDiario.es
over 1 year ago
Sarah Babiker, escritora: āPelear por cambiar el presente es construir el futuroā
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Sarah Babiker, escritora: āPelear por cambiar el presente es construir el futuroā
No todo el mundo puede decir que ha publicado dos libros a la vez. Sin embargo, esta narradora, periodista y antropóloga tiene el secreto de la gente interesante: hablar mÔs del mundo que de sà misma....
https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/libros/sarah-babiker-escritora-pelear-cambiar-presente-construir-futuro_1_11941607.html
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Thin from Thin Ink
over 1 year ago
This week's Thin Ink is on U.S. aid freeze & its impact on food programmes. But the whiplash is everywhere: from food, nutrition, education, & health services to promoting human rights & gender equality, protecting the environment, & preventing crime & corruption.
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-manufa...
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The Manufactured Chaos Doctrine
The aid freeze, the fallout, and the future
https://news.thin-ink.net/p/the-manufactured-chaos-doctrine
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Hazel Healy
El Salto
over 1 year ago
š·Colombia y Brasil denuncian el trato inhumano a los migrantes deportados por Trump.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/estados-unidos/colombia-brasil-denuncian-trato-vejatorio-migrantes-deportados-trump
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El Salto
over 1 year ago
šLa industria salmonera noruega devasta el mar patagónico en Chile. Por Antonio SĆ”nchez Gómez.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/industria-alimentaria/industria-salmon-salmonera-noruega-devasta-mar-patagonico-chile-antibioticos
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Hazel Healy
Dave Vetter
over 1 year ago
This is *incredible* - you absolutely must check out
@adambarnett.bsky.social
's mapping of Trump's insidious fossil-fueled network.
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Chris Packham
over 1 year ago
Farage attending the launch of a new staunch climate denial group in the UK that has taken funds from oil giant ExxonMobil ? Not particularly out of character , since Dec 2019 92% of donations to Reform UK were from fossil fuel interest groups or climate deniers , per
@desmog.bsky.social
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One of my favourite takeaways from
#orfc
was Jake Richardsonās line on factory farmed chickens: āwhen a quarter of all food workers do not have enough to eat, more chicken does not equal food securityā ā¦
over 1 year ago
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Was a pleasure sharing
@desmog.bsky.social
ās work on BBC FarmingToday on dangers of bad-faith misinfo around food and farming
#orfc
Listen in for 2 mins from 6:50!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Farming Today - 09/01/24 - Day one at the Oxford Farming Conferences - BBC Sounds
Anna Hill is at the Oxford farming conferences where farmers are facing change.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026ng0?partner=uk.co.bbc
over 1 year ago
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Enjoying a post panel pint after our
@desmog.bsky.social
panel on food and farming misinformation at Oxford real farming conference
#orfc
. If you missed it you can catch it up soon on the conference websiteā¦
orfc.org.uk/session/cull...
over 1 year ago
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Hazel Healy
DeSmog
over 1 year ago
Starting at 1pm GMT! ā° "Culling Cows and Eating Insects? Unpicking Food and Farming Misinformation" with DeSmog's
@hazelhealy.bsky.social
&
@phoebecooke.bsky.social
ā Thereās still time to join
#ORFC25
online š @ORFC
orfc.org.uk/book-orfc-2025-tickets
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A pleasure to revisit the UN biodiversity COP in Cali, on the SlowFood podcast for
@desmog.bsky.social
I talk about the influence of big food & other corporations over talks with
@natashafoote.bsky.social
,
@ipes-food.org
&
@edwardleodavey.bsky.social
Listen in here: š
bit.ly/4grCoiv
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Slow Food Goes Brussels: Was the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference a Success or a COP-out?
Slow Food, the podcast Ā· Episode
https://bit.ly/4grCoiv
over 1 year ago
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