Very interesting piece. And it also needs to be acknowledged that there are very few legal requirements to dispose of manure properly - and even they are not enforced.

Not-Guilty Verdict For Beagle Puppy Rescuers In Landmark Legal Case

Conflict of interest? The meat industry is jumping up & down in excitement. RFK Jr. has just handed over the new marketing strategy: eat meat at EVERY meal! www.wattagnet.com/business-mar...

"Eating less meat remains one of the fastest, easiest & cheapest ways to cut emissions... It’s especially important as many other climate solutions become more expensive, politically fraught or unavailable… It’s not possible to separate our own health from that of the planet." [Also: dairy = meat!]

We got the upside-down dietary guidelines from political maneuvering, not a science-based process. It has a scientific committee, touted as backing this report, but it likely installed to justify pre-held beliefs of RFK Jr & MAHA, who love animal products 1/ www.businessinsider.com/rfk-new-diet...

It's not just Republicans bent on destroying America's water. Cult 45(q and z) and the Failure of the Elites open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

Words do matter. And it's time to add the impacts of factory farming to the mix - not the least of it is the buried toxicity of knowing we're eating tortured, sick, helpless animals. "Collateral damage" indeed.

Agricultural subsidies are NOT going to small farmers. The vast majority are going to big producers of monoculture crops used for animal feed.

Take that!

Chris Jones is one of the few bringing attention to the crime of nutrient pollution. We are trying to bring attention to the motive: corn used for factory farmed animal feed. open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

Why we do what we do. Thank you @bjornjohann.bsky.social

In this political landscape many feel powerless to halt the destruction of the natural world. A decision to stop supporting factory farming can be a strong vote of protest that can extend to family, friends, and the wider world. insideanimalag.org/a-protest-vo...

Not sure what the EPA gains by this wholesale redaction. Of the miniscule number who care but aren't sure about anthropogenic sources of warming, how many are going to try and find answers on the EPA website?

And likely took them many hours to die.

Glad they're talking about corn's environmental impacts. But use for animal feed & ethanol are not equal. Including exports for feed, silage, and the value added by DDGS, corn for animal feed is more than 60%. Ethanol still about 37%.

Just curious. One of these papers was published 25 years ago. Weren't they peer-reviewed at the time? And what took so long to figure out that Monsanto essential wrote them?

Bravo to the Gazette!

This report (cited more than 1300 times) concluding glyphosate is safe was based on unpublished studies by Monsanto. No kidding! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The USDA does not track the number of rabbits slaughtered for food (unlike other farmed animals) but does inventory them in the Census. In 2022 there were nearly 200,000 rabbits in inventory. Slaughtered without any accountability.

So horribly sad.

I bring my vegan dishes, point out that they're vegan, and watch family & friends look for a quick way to change the conversation. Will continue. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

“Scattered with dead bodies”At the slaughterhouse 👺Pigs who were DOA: Dead On Arrival dumped outside. A truck driver filmed this: “I wasn’t expecting to see dead pigs scattered on the ground. We really need to be more aware about the foods we consume.” Damn right he is #LiveVegan stop yr killings 🙏

Chris Jones is right, of course. But we would clarify that it is ANIMAL agriculture that is primarily responsible. open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

Un-freaking believable. Fossil fuel lobbyists have received two thirds more passes to COP30 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate vulnerable nations combined. globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...

"It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Without showing explicit animal cruelty, this video packs a punch.

In this post we examine why the grazing "controversy" in the U.S. is another form of greenwashing/agricultural exceptionalism. Globally, livestock grazing is known to be the primary driver of land degradation. Nothing in the U.S. can produce a different result. insideanimalag.org/factory-farm...

Agricultural exceptionalism and greenwashing are also foundational principles of U.S. animal ag.

Meanwhile, workers in slaughterhouses and meat processing plants earn about $19 per hour. Medical benefits? Maybe... maybe not.

My latest, drawing from 100+ studies: iffs.earth/living-repor... Years in the making, I focus on the science behind the grazing side of regenerative agriculture, comparing it with a plant-based food system that enables large-scale rewilding.

Eye-opening piece on "authoritarian deregulation." Of course, the major disconnect in MAHA thinking is complete avoidance of the industrial animal ag system which is, yes, killing them and the planet.

Well deserved!

Republicans want to turn the American West into a discount feedlot for special interests. Cattle ranching on public lands degrades these sacred wild places, pushing endangered species towards extinction. They’re handing out a blank check for more destruction westernwatersheds.org/2025/10/new-...

Factory farming plays a key role in each of the primary drivers of biodiversity loss. An immense share of that space and resources (land, water, fertile soil) are supporting farmed animals, forcing all other species to fight for survival on steadily smaller shares. insideanimalag.org/animal-ag-dr...

Great win for anyone who cares about the truth. Thank you, NY and Letitia James. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

I am reminded of Br'er Rabbit's "Please don't throw me in the briar patch." China cries uncle & will buy our soybeans as they happily see this monocrop's environmental degradation borne by the U.S. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/10/30/f...

Serious question: how much more blatant does an atrocity have to be before you stop paying for it?

Of course we can produce more food on less land - if we grow crops for human consumption, not for animal feed and ethanol. Thanks for this interview with Rattan Lal. @ajbeamer.bsky.social @https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30102025/rattan-lal-agriculture-land-use/

Thanks to Friends of the Earth and Wilberforce for teaming up on this critical piece.

Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future. @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...

My new paper on how to increase sustainable food consumption is continuing to gather positive media attention 🙌 Link to paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus... #sustainablefood #sustainability #vegan #greennudge

Used the last of my remaining free articles to read this important piece. "In Trump’s case today, his attack on measurement is about far more than public health or economics. It is the culmination of his deeper political method: rule by disorientation and cognitive suffocation."

📢 NEW EPISODE!!! In our latest episode, @marisul.bsky.social breaks down why 96% of climate coverage ignores meat production despite it being one of our biggest emission sources. Listen on your fav podcatcher, watch on our YouTube, or check out ourhenhouse.org/ep863

And sows are being bred to bear bigger and bigger litters that their bodies cannot withstand, resulting in increasing sow and piglet mortality.https://insideanimalag.org/agricultural-intensification-and-disposable-animals/

Garbage plan from USDA rolling all bad beef policies they can into one: — expand public lands grazing — weaken ESA protections for wolves, coyotes, bears — increase US beef production & demand — push beef in Dietary Guidelines (influencing school food programs etc) www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...

"The world’s biggest meat and dairy companies are responsible for emitting more climate-warming methane than all of the countries in the European Union and United Kingdom combined."

This post is about what else genetic breeding has done for pigs. Animal welfare is the last thing the industry cares about. It's pounds of delivered live meat divided by the cost of inputs. insideanimalag.org/agricultural...

And here I thought WE were supposed to be "feeding the world."

Sows being bred to bear bigger and bigger litters that their bodies can't keep up with. This is resulting in higher mortality rates and suffering for sows and their piglets. The industry's answer is to breed them for more teats. insideanimalag.org/agricultural...