DeSantis and his lunatic surgeon general take a break from promoting hysteria about vaccines to promote hysteria about glyphosate. Congrats @tomphilpott.bsky.social and his fellow Johns Hopkins researchers who attacked my NYT essay, you're in good company! geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/02/09/v...

SuperbOwl at Loveburn Miami last night.

Oh look, when Florida chief quack Joseph Lapado isn't spreading anti-vax hysteria, he's promoting panic about harmless traces of glyphosate in our bread. Can't wait for @tomphilpott.bsky.social's column about how DeSantis's Anti-Big Ag Surgeon General Got It Right. exposingfoodtoxins.com/bread/

When Trump does stuff like post a video of the Obamas as apes or block $30 billion worth of wind and solar farms or pardon insurrectionists or sell half his crypto company to the UAE, I think a lot about the people who said it didn't matter who won, both parties are the same, blah blah blah

I know they're referring to the physical act of removing coal from the ground, which is awful enough, but "Mine, Baby, Mine" should be this sociopathic administration's official slogan. And Coalie can be its planet-destroying mascot. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm so sad about the gutting of the WP. The bosses made a lot of mistakes when I was there - staying local when the Internet gave them an opening to go national, letting Politico steal their franchise - but they were always fiercely committed to independent reporting. They didn't suck up to power.

Taking another $15B from you and giving it to the 1%. www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/boozman...

Snow is not what falls here in Miami.

Warsh is a hack. He was an insanely wrong inflation hawk during the financial crisis - now that inflation is a real problem he’ll discover he’s a dove like Trump wants. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is insane. Putting the Army Corps in charge of landscape aesthetics is like putting The Joker in charge of hospital safety.

Love this headline. A debate pitting a 150-year-old world-class research university against, uh, me. (But I'm right!) www.tsln.com/news/grunwal...

I want to write a diet book called DON'T EAT CRAP YOU KNOW IS CRAP. Ignore the influencers telling you don't eat carbs, or saturated fat, or stuff a caveman wouldn't eat, the evidence all seems flimsy. Just don't eat Twinkies or Doritos or candy or other obvious junk foods. It will be a short book.

Guess my Big Ag handlers were late with their payments https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/opinion/manure-population-rivers-water.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.Bj4J.00uUE5DZ6cjY&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Look, Tom & his pals are welcome to scrutinize my work, I'm glad someone's reading. I won't tit-for-tat his new 17 (!) post thread, but here he cites my new column calling for tougher regulation of Big Ag to argue that I'm still "Pro-Big Ag" because I don't always hate everything about Big Ag. Fine!

Kiss the Ground is absolute nonsense, I dismantle its bogus climate claims in my book…and every time I give a talk someone tells me how much they loved it.

Apparently presidents can now invest billions of dollars in private companies without congressional approval or even congressional input. I hope the climate team for the next Democratic president remembers this. www.usare.com/article?i=16...

This is bad too.

I really hope they don't gut the WP. I remember my first month there Janet Reno came in to try to stop some DOJ story I was doing. Len Downie politely told her to fuck off. He knew Don Graham was behind us all the way. (By the way I was the worst DOJ reporter in WP history.)

"Our eating is eating the earth." A lovely KPC Media column about my talk in Key West. It's so nice when someone comes to listen without preconceived notions and writes down what they learn. www.kpcnews.com/columnists/a...

A nice day to walk The Underline with three deranged pals.

"Arguably the nation's most prominent commentator on the future of agriculture" is so flattering! And the way these 4 (!) researchers rewrote their hit piece about my love for Big Ag after my latest column trashing Big Ag is so amusing! But it's still so flimsy. clf.jhsph.edu/viewpoints/n...

“Agricultural exceptionalism” is a great phrase that more people should know.

"The solution to pollution from big C.A.F.O.s is not to ban them or even to restrict their size," says @mikegrunwald.bsky.social in @nytimes.com. "It’s to regulate them like any other industrial polluter."

Yes, a study claiming Roundup is safe was retracted. Scandal! But a study claiming Roundup is unsafe was also retracted. Boring! People hate Roundup, but the unretracted science still shows it’s most benign weed-killer on the market.

Maybe my NYT essay can create common ground: Factory farms should be regulated like factories. Animal poop should be regulated like human poop. We can still fight about other stuff but this should be Big Ag against Everyone Else. nytimes.com/2026/01/20/opinion/manure-population-rivers-water.html

"America’s concentrated animal feeding operations, the industrial livestock farms known as C.A.F.O.s, produce twice as much waste as America’s toilets, but nobody is tracking where or how it gets flushed." Read @mikegrunwald.bsky.social's latest for us: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

If you’ve called me a shill for factory farms (and even if you haven’t) you might be interested in my new @nytimes.com column about how factory farms get away with disgusting pollution. They shouldn’t be banned. They should be regulated like factories! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

This is good for the climate and the planet, good for Canada’s and China’s economies, and fine for public health; there’s nothing wrong with seed oils. The only problem is that US taxpayers are going to have to pay even more for Trump’s ridiculous farm bailouts.

The legal quagmire around glyphosate is really tricky. It’s safe! But I’m not sure the Supreme Court or Congress should step in to prevent juries or state legislatures from making dumb decisions based on pseudoscientific hysteria. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/the-clock-...

Hot dogs aren’t made of dogs. Girl Scout cookies aren’t made of Girl Scouts. But in Europe and several states, you can’t call products “meat” unless they’re made of dead animals. Are bear claws next?

Key West tonight! See ya Conchs.

This won’t get noticed because it won’t work but🚨: An effort to recall Miami-Dade @MayorDaniella, who was JUST reelected in a landslide, 58% against SIX opponents. You’ll see more losers exploit recall rules to try to get low-turnout do-overs for no reason. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Some of you will be pleasantly surprised by my next @nytimes.com column. You shouldn't be, though! It will not actually contradict the columns you hated!

About my mixed @MichaelPollan marriage. She says yes to shrooms, I say no to twee organic farming. (OK, OK, I say yes to shrooms, too.)

KEY WEST! I'll talk about our food and our planet at the library Friday evening. Co-sponsored by the @booksandbooks.bsky.social run by Judy Blume! allevents.in/key-west/aut...

Some vegans are mad I eat meat; some carnivores are mad I quit beef. Look, food is personal, and I don’t tell anyone what to eat. It’s just a fact that when we eat less beef, we eat a lot less of the earth.

Trump is cutting off food stamps in Minnesota but of course he’s not cutting off farm subsidies in Minnesota. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...

My $0.02 on the dietary guidelines: 1 My book goes deep on beef's awful environmental impacts, but I don't actually think these guidelines should be about the environment. 2 I do think the guidelines softpedal the health impacts of eating too much beef, but mostly they seem OK.

Oh that’s why!

With RFK (who says sugar is poison) watching, the Agriculture Secretary dodges Laura Ingraham’s reasonable question about why the feds are still subsidizing sugar. Wonder why!

Climate people need to understand that normal people are sick of us whining about their plastic straws. Focus on the big problems, like coal and deforestation. Plastic-straw environmentalism just pisses people off.

ICE is running ads in Miami that are basically: Are you a cop whose woke bosses won’t let you crack down on the violent immigrant invasion that’s destroying America? Join ICE and we’ll give you a $50K signing bonus!

Come see me tomorrow - Tufts in the afternoon, Harvard Club of Boston in the evening!

Elon says farming has no impact on climate, but he’s just wrong. Food generates ⅓ of our emissions, more than transportation or electricity. We’re making progress on energy-partly thanks to Elon!-but not on food. 

Nice to see a big study conclude we're unsustainably eating the earth. But the solutions, man, 🙄: "We propose transitioning to a predominantly plant-based diet." Great! How? "Largely through education and large-scale public information campaigns..." Good luck with that!

Okaaaaaay. I’m sure there’s a good explanation.

Miami traffic 🙄

BOSTON! I'll be in town Thursday, doing an afternoon panel at the Tufts conference on cellular ag, then speaking about WE ARE EATING THE EARTH at the Harvard Club in the evening. You can RSVP to the Harvard event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/we-are-eat...

I’m sure it will be fine, these guys know what they’re doing.

My New Year’s resolution is to try not to get triggered by bogus journalism like this. There’s overwhelming evidence that Roundup is safe and banning it would be a health and environmental catastrophe. Every paragraph of this story is cleverly crafted to mislead you. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...