What's the main cause of #deforestation, resultant #habitatloss, #globalheating and the #sixthmassextinction?
Clue:
- It's not feral cats.
- It's not urban expansion.
- It's not even logging.
Answer: Animal agriculture. This talk explains www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6XN...

Essential reading from Wegner et al in @thelancet.com. Once again, the science is clear: a global shift to predominantly plant-based diets is urgently needed to safeguard environmental & public health doi.org/10.1016/j.ec....
#GlobalFoodSystem #AnimalAgriculture #Deforestation #Zoonoses #OneHealth

An urgent call for COP30 leaders from global-tipping-points.org/conference-2....

25% of GHGs from food echoes Poore & Nemecek. IPCC cites 21-37%, ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-5/; new work suggests up to 60%, doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f2. In all cases, supporting a #plantbased shift is vital 🌱

A brilliant interview. John's insights are heart-wrenching and uplifting at the same time, for the same reasons: they elucidate the ethical nightmare of animal oppression and its true remedy - which lies far from the bucolic fantasies spun by apologists like Pollan.
youtu.be/8CicMgCxxZ8?...

This July '24 commentary by a retired scientist-turned-activist in Aotearoa feels even more relevant as Trumpism plays out & Europe slides right. CA and AU's 2025 elections offer hope, but this seems inevitably temporary with #EarthOvershoot and #Moloch at work.

newptc75.medium.com/planetary-ov...

Latest in a string of evidence exonerating #plant-based alternatives. The #UPF charge against mock meats is just another beat-up. Extracts from the UK's Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition highlight health harms of processed animal meat, not #alt-proteins.

And ofc #wfpb gets a big tick! 🌱

And I enjoyed listening. Interesting that host @fluidroid.bsky.social got you to run through most of the #carnistic #4Ns commonly used to justify eating [some] animals: normal, natural, necessary, nice. Succinct and powerful responses explaining why they don't hold up. 💚

#FishFarming causes untold suffering for the captive fish, decimates aquatic wildlife & creates hell for neighbouring communities (see www.noff.au), yet AU's PM is propping it up. Join the public outcry by signing the @australiainstitute.org.au petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...

Excellent coverage of the urgent need for a #PlantBasedTreaty by @aljazeera.com.

#dietchangenotclimatechange #climateandnature #noplanetb #planetaryboundaries

Alighting here with relief