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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, his takes on vaccines, Tylenol, NIH, CDC, circumcision, GMOs, meat alternatives, agri-chemicals and agriculture generally are also terrible.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, that's fair, a bunch of Republicans who trashed her as a communist nanny-stater are now doing stuff she wanted. But it's good that they're doing it. And good for Dems like Jared Polis and Newsom who are also doing it.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 14h

I think there's a case to be made for abolishing food stamps (and quite a few other programs for the poor) and replacing it with cash assistance. Partly because food stamps themselves can be humiliating! But if we're going to have food stamps, they shouldn't buy the most poisonous food.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 14h

I should mention how crazy it is that RFK is actively promoting junk foods like Coca-Cola (as long as it's made with sugar, not corn syrup) and French fries (as long as they're cooked with beef tallow, not seed oils) but still, the good stuff is good.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 14h

I get what you're saying, it's not a slam dunk like school lunches. But as long as the government is giving poor people food stamps rather than money, it makes sense to say that government assistance won't fund the least nutritious crap.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 14h

It's good to acknowledge when people you disagree with do good things so: RFK Jr. & the MAHA movement deserve a lot of credit for pushing to get junk food out of schools. I like their push to get junk food out of the SNAP program, too. Junk food is awful, our tax dollars shouldn't support it.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 14h

We need agriculture, because we need to eat. But the biggest problem with agriculture is that it’s eating the earth. Two of every five acres of land are now farms or pastures. We’re losing a soccer field worth of forest to agriculture every six seconds.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 20h

Whole books you say?

www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Are...

We Are Eating the Earth

From the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the f...

www.simonandschuster.com

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 1d

This article is dumb. Food has a big environmental impact whether it’s ultra-processed or not. Agriculture has a big environmental impact whether it’s industrial or not. What matters most is what you eat and how efficiently it’s grown. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’

Industrially made foods involve several ingredients and processes to put together, making it difficult to examine their true cost

www.theguardian.com

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

Food accounts for a third of the climate problem… Agriculture uses 40% of the earth…

@mikegrunwald.bsky.social tells Philippa Nuttall why we need to fear the farm: “Holy shit! This is a big deal and people don’t know about it!”

‘Holy shit! This is a big deal and people don’t know about it!’

Michael Grunwald is used to writing about the effects of fossil fuels on the planet—but then he discovered what agriculture is doing. We spoke to him ...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 1d

The best headline ever for a story about me. And what I love about his @prospectmagazine.co.uk piece is its focus on the fun narrative of WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, not just the gloomy facts. Although it also discusses my potty mouth. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7122...

‘Holy shit! This is a big deal and people don’t know about it!’

Michael Grunwald is used to writing about the effects of fossil fuels on the planet—but then he discovered what agriculture is doing. We spoke to him ...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 2d

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS: Wow, that was dark. “You’re dead, son,” the evil columnist tells the slimy flack, “Get yourself buried.” Lancaster and Curtis rock, although we’re back to one-dimensional women characters. A great film about transactional NYC scumbags. Timely!

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 3d

the kind of classic i've already seen three times

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 3d

yes that was cringe, and i guess the entire trope of evil young woman exploiting the sisterhood to climb to the top was retro. but wow, the emotions were so raw and beautiful, every bette davis glance, the gender dynamics of writer/director/actress. An even better long-con film than THE STING!

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 3d

We all vote on food issues three times a day, and most of us don’t think about the impact of our diets. I wrote WE ARE EATING THE EARTH because I want people to understand the tradeoffs behind the choices we make. Eat what you want, but know what you’re doing.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 3d

ALL ABOUT EVE: Awesome. I take back what I said about underwritten women characters in old movies! Bette Davis, wow. Loved the Broadway/Hollywood theme, loved the take on aging, loved the sicko critic character, just loved it.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID: beautifully shot, unexpectedly funny, great dude acting and chemistry although the women in these old movies are really underwritten. The second half dragged, so what, Newman and Redford are so much fun to watch.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

CSPAN aired my chat with the great @sbg1.bsky.social about WE ARE EATING THE EARTH.

www.c-span.org/program/book...

[We are Eating the Earth - The Race to Fix Our Food System & Save Our Climate]

Michael Grunwald argued that there should be more effort to change our food system, which contributes to a third of human carbon emissions. Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., hosted this event.

www.c-span.org

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 4d

One reason I’m still on Twitter is that stuff like this still happens there:

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

It was kind of rude, and to their credit they were very gracious and said they wouldn’t do it again.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

They were super-gracious and said they wouldn’t do it again.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

The Everglades Coalition gave me an award last year and because I’m unfortunately me, I called them out in my speech for serving beef at dinner.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d

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.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

I'll be on Climate Chat tomorrow at 1 on YouTube Live. The topic, and this just happens to coincide with my somewhat friskier new tone, will be: "Is Carbon Farming a Scam?"

www.youtube.com/live/4W5J2XK...

Is "Carbon Farming" a Scam? with author Michael Grunwald

YouTube video by Climate Chat

www.youtube.com

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

It felt like a 4-hour movie cut down to 2 hours by a different director who got rid of all the back story and character development and relationship building. Super interesting themes, especially about the military, but kind of a mess?

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 5d

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: Wow that was dark. And weirdly unsatisfying. The relationships weren’t earned; would’ve worked better as a modern prestige TV series. Lancaster & Clift killed it, Sinatra trying to act against type reminded me of Bad Bunny in Happy Gilmore 2.

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