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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 3d

Chris Jones does the hard, wonky work analyzing what share of farmers in Iowa (probably representative of the U.S.) are making a lot of money by polluting waterways, and how the USDA obscures that info.

Chris Jones @theswinerepublic.bsky.social · 3d

open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

Harold Makes Bank

My friends Larry and Margie Stone of rural Elkader offered me some apples so I stopped by a couple of weeks ago.

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a snapshot of what is grown on the most fertile soil in the world, what these crops are doing to our air, water, and biodiversity, and will cost citizens billions of dollars in gov't subsidies.

Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 8d

Madness.

Civil Eats @civileats.com · 15d

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins gave a glimpse inside the upcoming Dietary Guidelines for Americans, saying the recommendations will boost demand for U.S. beef and whole milk.

Ag Secretary Hints at a Boost to Beef in Upcoming Dietary Guidelines

Public health groups have raised concerns that the Trump administration may reverse course on saturated fats, despite scientific evidence linking these fats to negative health outcomes.

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Vox @vox.com · 9d

The most effective way to avert a climate change catastrophe: People in wealthier countries have to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat, poultry, and dairy.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 8d

Food causes 22-34% of climate change.
But it only gets 4% of the media coverage.

Why? Neglect. Misunderstanding. And a hell of a lot of greenwashing.

Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 9d

“Emissions from food are still very underreported,” @jennysplitter.bsky.social, Sentient's editor-in-chief, tells Anay Mridul of Green Queen. Learn more about our analysis of 11 major U.S. outlets:

Less Than 4% of US Media Climate Coverage Mentions Meat & Dairy's Emissions Toll: New Analysis

An analysis of hundreds of online articles from US media shows that less than 4% mention and contextualise the role of meat in climate change. Here's why.

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 9d

Removing terms like "climate change" from gov't sites won't make the problem go away. Kinda like not wanting to hear about where your meat comes from doesn't make the cruelty and environmental damage go away.

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 10d

My heroes.

Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 10d

Greta Thunberg & Jane Goodall

#JaneGoodall #environment

Everyday should be Earth day.

Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 10d

She will be sorely missed.

Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 11d

Breaking News: Jane Goodall dies at 91. Her long-term study of wild chimpanzees led her to see them as individuals.... 💔💔💔

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Investigate Midwest @investigatemidwest.bsky.social · 10d

Bayer is two votes from a legal shield. Section 453 of an EPA spending bill could block states from requiring pesticide labels that differ from the EPA — potentially ending thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits & delaying new safety warnings.

Read more:
investigatemidwest.o...

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 12d

If passed, this bill would do untold harm to animals and the environment - more than currently exists in the industrial animal ag sector. Please share, especially to republican voters. animal.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 13d

Not surprising. Without regulations on mandatory testing and reporting, farmers have every incentive to over-apply fertilizers to ensure maximum yields.

States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 13d

Wisconsin farms applied about 16 million pounds more nitrogen than necessary to their fields in 2022, according to a recently released report from Clean Wisconsin and Alliance for the Great Lakes.

via @wisconsinexaminer.com

Report finds increased nitrates as fertilizer application poses costs to public health and farmers

Wisconsin farms applied about 16 million pounds more nitrogen than necessary to their fields in 2022, according to a recently released report from Clean Wisconsin and Alliance for the Great Lakes.

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15d

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat"

Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 14d

Agree! Very interesting and thought provoking. Hard to argue against it.

Elise Michelle ♀️💲🥬 @elisemichelle.bsky.social · 14d

This was one of the most important and intriguing articles I've read in quite some time.

Less than one minute read:

Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14d

Climate collapse: brought to you by men proving they’re men with steak and cars.

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 16d

And to the largest producers of crops going to animal feed. Corn, soybeans & hay account for ~73% of all harvested crops.

Anne Schechinger @anneschech.bsky.social · 16d

Just a staggering transfer of wealth from taxpayers to mostly large commodity farms. "Since 2018, USDA and/or Congress have paid nearly $176 billion in inflation-adjusted economic assistance to farmers." farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/09/hist...

History & Tough Reality: When Payments Do More Harm Than Good, Consider Other Options - farmdoc daily

Jonathan Coppess and Otto Doering - Maybe history can provide handrails in turbulent, difficult times. For many farmers, this harvest season threatens such times. Some of the crops being combined in f...

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you. tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/what-the-h...

What the hell is RIGHT with you?

Most people don’t care about the suffering of animals - or at least not enough to change their behavior or give anything up.

tobiasleenaert.substack.com

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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 17d

GOOD. We're deeply appreciative of the scientists who are pushing back, because we can't just accept this dishonesty!

News roundup: Scientists challenge misleading Department of Energy climate report » Yale Climate Connections

The report received nearly 60,000 comments, some of which were written by climate scientists whose work was misrepresent

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 18d

How the meat and dairy industry coordinates to discredit plant-based diets and the impacts of industrial animal ag on climate. changingmarkets.org/report/meat-...

Meat vs EAT-Lancet: The dynamics of an industry-orchestrated online backlash • Changing Markets

The EAT-Lancet Commission publish EAT-Lancet 2.0: an update to the planetary health diet 2019. One of the most influential academic studies ever released, it also faced significant online backlash – o...

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 19d

This is the opportunity to stand against this administration's war on clean air & water, on environmental injustice, and on clear science. Thanks for writing and posting, Pala!

Vegan Horizon @veganhorizon.substack.com · 19d

The hypocrisy many progressives don’t want to face 👀🔥

Why All Progressives Must Be Vegan: A Rock-Solid Case

11 ways eating animals betrays everything you stand for

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Plant Based News @plantbasednews.bsky.social · 22d

Are you shocked by the emissions caused by the food we eat? Us too 😔

Video sourced from @carbonbrief

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 23d

Would love to see how the EPA defends its own findings that new regs are necessary, it won't cost consumers but fractions on the penny, and the technology is available. sentientmedia.org/environmenta...

BREAKING: Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Slaughterhouse Pollution Withdrawals

10 groups, including Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project, filed suit in the Ninth Circuit, arguing that the EPA is ignoring its own findings.

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 23d

It's amazing that AAA is so worried about animal activists when meat consumption keeps rising.

DeSmog @desmog.com · 23d

🔴 NEW 🔴

‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry

The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups.

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry

The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 29d

Downloaded and waiting to be read!

Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · 29d

These same GHG emissions cause air pollution that is responsible for the illness and deaths of thousands. And MAHA screams about red dye in cereal that no one is forced to buy? @rfk-junior.bsky.social

Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 29d

The Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday to stop requiring thousands of polluting facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release into the air. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · Sep 9

The administration is doing more than delaying new rules. Every day it's chipping away at the research and regs that already exist. insideclimatenews.org/news/0609202...

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Inside Animal Ag @insideanimalag.bsky.social · Sep 6

EPA has backtracked on its slaughterhouse water regs knowing that "The MPP category is one of the largest sources of industrial nutrient pollution in the country ... a significant environmental challenge affecting ecosystems and communities across the country." www.epa.gov/system/files...

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