Let’s fix the two massive efficiency sinks in American life. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Great piece by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social "We can start with animal agriculture, because however bad for the planet it looks on first impression, it’s actually worse." Two great efficiency sinks- the choice is ours to make, if we are wise enough.

pls read my ecomodernist manifesto—we could make a massive dent in our planetary crises by reducing our dependence on the two great efficiency sinks in American life: meat and cars. And we can do so in a way that's consistent with growth and democratic principles www.vox.com/future-perfe...

some of you are going to be annoyed at a piece I have up soon and I am perfectly fine with that! 👀

What does animal ag use all those antibiotics for? The dairy industry, for ex, uses them to treat mastitis, a terrible condition that arises frequently b/c dairy production is brutal & pushes their bodies to the point of collapse. For that, we're willing to risk the effectiveness of modern medicine?

@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.

At the end of each year, FDA releases data on antibiotics sold for use in livestock. It usually changes a few %. This year, it went up 15.8%. I was shocked & emailed experts/industry groups. Likeliest explanation per a source: industry is not "being good stewards of antibiotics"

"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...

Protein is a euphemism for meat and dairy. That's why it's people's #1 diet concern - it gives us license to eat more of foods we like. www.numerator.com/resources/bl...

a *lynching*? huh.

Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things

America: where road safety is so motorist-centered that small cars are too dangerous to allow on the market!

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

this life-changing vegan tiramisu is now the only dessert in my repertoire for the foreseeable future (if you want to make, I have a suggestion for making it significantly easier!!) thekoreanvegan.com/homemade-veg...

"The Thanksgiving turkey, functions as a ritual scapegoat in American culture, a symbolic animal onto whom people displace guilt, ambivalence, and resentment." ~ Karen Davis A worthwhile read by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social link.vox.com/view/66b4192...

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...

I am not sure what sort of view of animals I expected from Eliezer but unreconstructed Cartesianism wasn't it

well we aren't going to do better than this

Don't miss this new @vox.com project that uncovers the rapidly changing world of fish farming. Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Topics I would love readable and insightful book recs on: -the scientific revolution -the industrial revolutions -the creation of European welfare states post-WWII -the history of modern psychology and psychiatry -Jews from the Enlightenment to the present

I wrote about andrea arnold's cow for @currentaffairs.bsky.social's animals issue, and it's now online for your reading pleasure 🫡

Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.

until quite recently, I had never thought much about fish, but now they're all I think about Please read my piece about FISH MINDS! the great fish pain debate, and what it tells us about science and ourselves. gift link in reply!

Vox is now on Patreon! 💛📣 We’re using Patreon’s tools to introduce great new benefits and give you even more insights into our journalism and the people who make it: exclusive videos, live conversations featuring our reporters, new community features, and more.

Is Michael Gordin on here? Saw a good talk where he laid out how post-Soviet Russian science was kinda recovering from the chaos of the 1990s and then Putin's "foreign agents" restrictions just completely suffocated it, because science *is* global collaboration think about that a lot nowadays

Traditionally, the vast majority of fish that people consume has come from the ocean. But in 2022, humanity hit a significant milestone: Seafood companies began to raise more fish on farms than they caught from the sea.

I will never quit this industry www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

> We’re taught that "a boundary…defines you as separate from others" Yet if you believe that we’re all profoundly interconnected and interdependent then that idea of boundaries may feel like it muddies more than it clarifies Always read @sigalsamuel.bsky.social www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc. gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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...

Felony conspiracy for ***taking chickens worth $24*** Jarring to assimilate this news when not 24 hours before, we learned that the 2nd biggest breeder of dogs for animal experimentation in the US will close, which represents maybe DxE's greatest achievement ever

In v2 of our preprint on "Adversarial Reanalysis," Kelsey Ichikawa, @nicolecnelson.bsky.social, & added our take on Gold Standard Science as an example of how #OpenData challenges science's existing tools for self-governance osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience

This is a kindergarten in Kharkiv. Imagine bringing your child there in the morning — and then it’s struck by russia. Imagine the children, the teachers. And know that this is real — it’s happening every single day somewhere in Ukraine.

Terrific explanation by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social in @vox.com of why you don't have to worry about lead in your protein powder. Setting unrealistic target levels for contaminants and then testing stuff and claiming it's unsafe has a long and storied history.

Everything you actually need to understand about the Consumer Reports protein powder report (threading a gift link!) -- plant-based protein powders are fine, and do not, ffs, allow them to push you to get whey protein

A new study from U of Michigan researchers finds that the diet footprint of cities varies by 3x, primarily driven by variation in where & how beef is sourced & produced. I'm skeptical though, and think that their methods exaggerated real world variation 🧵 1/N www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

My new NYT essay is about the essence of Trumpism: Bailing out farmers who can’t sell soybeans to China because of his tariffs, while bailing out Argentina so it can sell more soybeans to China. It’s the economic equivalent of pardoning pals and prosecuting enemies. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...

"Whether we’re feeding it to pigs and chickens or trucks and tractors... Humans use too much soy, a magnificently productive crop, for perilously unproductive purposes." @mbolotnikova.bsky.social on how we've found the worst uses for the best bean 🫛 🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Y'all will be hearing more from me about this "feminization of society" horseshit

Excellent soy primer by @mbolotnikova.bsky.social for @vox.com. "Humans use too much soy, a magnificently productive crop, for perilously unproductive purposes." Soy is an amazing crop! But it's a symptom of our meat addiction. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

How soy explains the world. Great piece piece from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social that takes from the trade war, to the rainforests, to the supermarket aisle (not the aisle you're thinking of) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Just the absolute worst people in American life, and unfortunately they are the intellectual foundation, to the extent there is such a thing, of our politics now

Wrote a lot of words on SOYBEANS!🫛 I love having this job so much lol America should have greater ambitions for the soybean—treating it not just as slop for the world’s abused livestock, but as a miracle technology with the potential to reshape world diets for the better www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

"In the 1960s, when nerds like me were asking whether or not we were alone in the universe, Jane Goodall started asking people to consider whether or not we were alone on this planet" www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Fz...

Goodall was such an icon because she did & said things that were heresy in the scientific community. Her work on animals' capacities represented not just an abstract finding but a practical ethic that led her to advocate for veganism &vocally oppose animal experimentation www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Finally happening: i am writing a piece about how meat and car dependence prevent us from decoupling by converting energy to food and transportation extremely inefficiently. Seeking reading recs to jog my thinking!

Doomers, who treat super-intelligent AI as likely and threatening, treat intelligent as almost a magic power, but it's much more heterogeneous, spiky (and, I would add relational) than that; But the AI-as-Normal-Tech argument seems naive about the incentives to use risky AI in, e.g., Mil Tech

If you read one review of If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies make it @sigalsamuel.bsky.social 's about competing #AI worldviews "It was hard to seriously entertain both [doomer and AI-as-normal tech] views at the same time." www.vox.com/future-perfe...