Blow them all away with this knock out vegan pecan pie recipe.

The US Department of Education will reclassify and no longer consider the following professional degrees: Education (incl teaching) Nursing Social work Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech pathology Engineering Counseling & therapy

Today the RFI for US UPF policy is due. I want to say, by way of example, that if you can’t explain how some brown sugar forms into solid bricks & others remain granular for years—w/ identical ingredient lists—you might not be qualified to shape policy about food processing.

You may have read that your protein supplements are giving you lead poisoning. That's not the case. If you want to have protein shakes, that's fine. But whether you need to and whether they're safely regulated is a different story. My latest for @vox.com. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The new EAT-Lancet report is out and I wrote about it -- and also what I saw at Climate Week NYC: An environmental movement still cozying up to Big Meat, and still unafraid to confront scientific consensus on food, agriculture, and livestock.

Comment for the World Health Organization on whether and how much animal sourced foods are needed and/or optimal for the diet: www.who.int/news-room/ar...

Big news in research- the Pubmed image has changed!

🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts? … probably not, right? In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z Summary👇

Excited to see major progress in the cultivated meat industry this year- the US has kept its promise to prioritize biotechnology & advance safe, scientifically rigorous new foods. 2 milestones for US today- Mission Barns cultivated pork fat approved, & Believer cultivated chicken FDA NQL

The world’s first cultivated pork has now been cleared for sale by the USDA! @missionbarns.bsky.social pork and fat is the 4th product and 3rd species approved in the US. A banner year for the cultivated meat industry! Read more: ampsinnovation.org/amps-congrat...

“The tool carries significant implications for research and policy…to support the design of new interventions, and to refine predictive models linking diet to chronic disease risk…” solutions.tufts.edu/pioneering-m...

Tomorrow! Massachusetts H539 seeks to redefine crucial foods like infant formula & Glucerna, foods that save lives, as “particularly harmful” UPF. Not just UPF but particularly harmful UPF. Tell Massachusetts that we need evidence-based standards for nutrition! malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...

Always odd when someone writes about your work but doesn't mention you or talk to you directly..... just discovered this @plantbasednews.bsky.social article from 8 months ago about upcycling peanut hulls. (Link below)

@lastweektonight.com this feels like a you thing really. Anytime you share an article indexed on Pubmed you see these two people. Do your thing John!

I’d like to see a “where are they now” or Reunion photo for these two

My favorite carnivore diet argument is the Maasai as an ex. of untouched, non-Western ancestral diet— they’re only 500yo & adapted this diet 300ys ago after migrating away from the Fertile Crescent. Meanwhile Vedic texts (basis of Hindu Ayurveda) go back 4000ys w/ detailed contradictory diet recs.

It’s never been about healthy diets 🌈

1st-of-its-kind study alert! 🚨 What happens when ppl taste cultivated meat at a public tasting—4 days before a state ban? Do ppl see personal & cultural value in CM? We found out. The 1st non-experimental study of voluntary tasting approved CM! Beyond flavor, results are complex--& hopeful. 🧵

How can we better enable MD recommendations of nutrition? Better metrics and tools to support diet. See insights from our recent research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s time to put the narrative of a fraught US regulatory environment for cultivated meat/seafood to bed! 4 products, 3 species, 3 commercially approved, 2 cleared this year. AgSec supports innovation. White House supports tech solutions. States will get sorted. The US is leading. Let’s go!

The world’s first cell-cultivated fish is now available in US restaurants. Congratulations Wildtype on trailblazing. Read more: ampsinnovation.org/statement-fr...

In this piece, I lay out the reasons why cultivated meat is not an ultra-processed food, and why we shouldn’t be so quick to resist new food innovations or indeed lump all UPF together. Read it now at NewFoodTech (see comments) 👇🏽

NY’s “food service giant Sodexo, which has now served the city’s patients more than 2 million plant-based meals, reports a 98% satisfaction rate. The average vegetarian meal costs 59 cents less than meat, so the program has also saved the city more than $1 million” sentientmedia.org/nyc-hospital...

New study out now! 🚨 What happens when a novel food enters the American market, media, & political crossfire? 📣 Our team analyzed 34 U.S. news outlets’ coverage of the first-ever U.S. sale approval of cultivated meat—what we found speaks volumes abt the emerging public meaning of cultivated meat 🧵

Animal #agriculture accounts for 32% of global methane #emissions, a greenhouse gas 80x more potent than #carbon dioxide, with the breeding of #cattle for #milk & #meat a key driver. #Methane is responsible for ~half the global temperature rise since 1750… (1/3) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 New paper in Appetite busts myths about plant-based diets w/ a novel adherence score comparing vegan, veg, WFPB, & Paleo among long & short term followers. 🧵 1. PBDs are not equal. Big diffs in LEVEL of adherence, & association w/ duration, diet quality, & BMI. More below 👇🏽

This needs to be shared

Last week, Google Scholar let me know one of our recent papers got 2 new cites. By the end of the weekend it removed those cites. Meanwhile the 2 papers citing ours still exist and still cite our paper (in great journals too like Food Quality & Pref). Wtf!

If the U.K. wants to avoid a political cascade akin to the US they would be wise to onboard those of us on the front lines on the US to forecast and strategize against these moves as they unfold: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...

This is disappointing, but not surprising. Chefs, we have our work cut out for us. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The first clinical human subjects study I led, I was in kindergarten. N=20. My mom was the head of the NIH Rehabilitation Department & clinical center — she started me young. Here’s my Kindergarten science fair poster (hand made!) presenting results on nerve sensitivity by anatomic region.

The American west public lands produce <1.6% of U.S. beef but cost taxpayers $229M/yr This grazing emits 12.4M t CO₂e/yr (not incl carbon drawdown opportunities), with social costs of carbon estimated at $1.1–2.4B/year. This exceeds industry benefits by over $926M link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What a massive blind-taste test of plant-based meat vs. animal meat found:

Could the recent events in research of food and diet unite once heavily opposed dietary factions?

Pretty disappointed in @lastweektonight.com using cringe AF terminology referring to girls as “feral”. I know his schtick is ironic youth slang but fr I expect better. This feminine coded slang has pretty gross trad implications I usually think he’s sensitive enough to sidestep…

Biotechnology for agriculture is a national security priority. www.biotech.senate.gov/press-releas...

If you are a journalist covering alternative proteins and especially cultivated meat, please stop using stock photos. They have no relationship to the product you’re writing about. HMU for real images. Thanks!

Cell-cultivated meat brings jobs and could bring many more. Any reduction in force there is due to harmful political action and food supply resilience suffers. There are future jobs in all kinds of agriculture and we need them all to keep us fed and economically strong.

Scaling up: Australian startup Vow has reportedly successfully run its 20,000L bioreactor, the largest currently in operation in the #cultivatedmeat industry This enables the harvesting of "many hundreds of kg" of cultivated meat in a single batch 1 tank, hundreds of kg of meat, no animals needed

@rebeccanagle.bsky.social 100% accurate to the experience. Thank you for talking about this important issue, old friend!

Pro-tip: When someone has an auditory disability and requests something in writing, do not just offer to “read it slowly” 🌈

CBS News: 'Researcher says Long COVID causing "great deal of suffering" 'The CDC estimates nearly 20 million Americans are struggling with the effects of Long COVID -- the persistence of ongoing health problems long after the infection has passed' www.cbsnews.com/video/resear...

The OK house of reps passed a bill banning cultivated meat yesterday despite previous bills turning into labeling bills. The OK Cattleman oppose the ban, many representatives oppose too. Who wants these bans? Learn more: okcfox.com/news/local/g...

Somehow the mistaken belief that cultivated meat labels arent regulated became a persistent myth. AMPS created this resource with legal experts & real examples to help demonstrate how teansparent and well regulated they are. Please share widely! ampsinnovation.org/resources/us...

Well imagine that. We need to rewild.

New Republic: “The Pandemic Never Ended” “Five years later, there are still no approved treatments for long Covid” “I am considered a mild case, yet my life is forever changed” newrepublic.com/article/1927...

2 new #LongCovid reports: —Factors influencing (such as vaccination protection dose response, Table) bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... —Post-Omicron (5% developed LC, increased w/ reinfection) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Silently, w/o standard procedures like public announcements or hearings, Mississippi passed a ban on cultured meat. Now the Governor has the last chance to veto a bill other states have called unconstitutional & unAmerican —but why so secretive? www.wired.com/story/missis...

From a new NYT interactive, “30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... A mask is just a really good idea. God knows the government isn’t going to show up for newly disabled people anytime soon.