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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 13d

Pay no attention to the 580 diesel generators that can produce enough energy for 3 million homes behind the curtain...

Oh, and did I mention this data centre is part-owned by a Trump-loving billionaire who sat by Starmer at the royal banquet?

My 📝 for
@desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/09/25/c...

Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre

Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it ...

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 8d

🔴 Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse

New investigation reveals how farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers rake in millions in subsidies 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...

Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse

This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 9d

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How Farmed Fish in Dutch Supermarkets Undermines Food Security in West Africa

With Hans Wetzels and @remykaller.bsky.social from @ftm.eu, @brigitte-whl.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/09/28/h...

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Reporterre 🌍 | Le média de l'écologie @reporterre.net · 10d

Défendue par la loi Duplomb, la réintroduction du neurotoxique en agriculture a été censurée.

Cet insecticide demeure toutefois présent dans des produits grand public.

⏰ Rediff. du 12/09/2025

Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/W8j

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Clare Carlile @clarecarlile.bsky.social · 19d

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

✍️ My latest for @desmog.com

DeSmog @desmog.com · 19d

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‘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.

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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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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · Sep 5

40% of people practice “news avoidance,” according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s “Digital News Report 2025.” Traditional news coverage’s focus on conflict and suffering leaves people feeling depressed and powerless, respondents said, causing many to tune out. buff.ly/0E4hWEy

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Sep 3

🚨 NEW from Drop Site News: Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

Story by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang

www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...

Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · Aug 26

Data privacy experts say one part *is* legal - Farage's plan to create a master "data fusion centre" to "relentlessly" track, identify and deport these asylum seekers.

I reported last week @desmog.com that Labour has legalised DOGE-style data grabs in the UK ⤵️

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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GRAIN @grain.org · Jul 24

Irish dairy companies export polluting, ultra-processed, fat-filled milk powder to Senegal, Nigeria, and Ghana. They advertise products that cannot be described as 'milk' in Europe as something healthy and sustainable. New investigation from @desmog.com.web.brid.gy‬: www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Jul 16

Check out the new article by @brigitte-whl.bsky.social linking Irish dairy giants to “mediocre” milk powder in West Africa

With @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social @premiumtimesng.bsky.social

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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · Jul 15

Just published in collaboration with The Journal and Premium Times our investigation linking Irish dairy giants to “mediocre” milk powder in West Africa

With✍️ @phoebecooke.bsky.social‬, @shaunacorr.bsky.social and Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · Jul 15

Irish dairy ‘feeding the world’ we are told. Sustainable, grass fed, green. Government funded.

Meanwhile the industry is profiting from selling inferior milk product in West Africa.

Insightful analysis from @desmog.com

#SpeirGorm

DeSmog @desmog.com · Jul 15

🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · Jul 15

A disturbing DeSmog article on major Irish dairy processors' export of Fat Filled Milk Powder (FFMP) to West Africa, helped by 🇮🇪 tax-payer monies.
Local dairy farmers are being displaced by greenwashed, nutritionally-poor FFMP products.
FFMP can incl. palm oil etc, it cannot be sold as "milk" in EU.

DeSmog @desmog.com · Jul 15

🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

www.desmog.com

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · Jul 16

These articles really shine a light on what a pile of shite the "we must feed the world at the expense of water quality and emissions" arguments are.

The world is being fed rubbish that's undermining local food production too

DeSmog @desmog.com · Jul 15

🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Jul 16

Fat Filled Milk Powder (FFMP) is one of the Irish dairy industry’s largest exports. Almost no one has heard of it because it’s exported mainly to African countries and marketed as milk for its health and sustainability - but it’s made of skimmed milk powder (a byproduct of butter) with palm oil or..

DeSmog @desmog.com · Jul 15

🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

www.desmog.com

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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Thousands in Ireland’s public money spent helping wealthy firms pushing cheap substitute 'milk' in West Africa.

Working w/ @desmog.com @premiumtimesng.bsky.social we’ve spent months investigating Irish fat filled milk powder exports - now published here @thejournal.ie 👇
jrnl.ie/6762380

Thousands in Irish public money spent on pushing cheap substitute 'milk' in West Africa

Products made from milk, with the natural fat removed and replaced with vegetable oil, were among those promoted in trade missions and campaigns.

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Phoebe Cooke @phoebecooke.bsky.social · Jul 15

w/ @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @desmog.com, Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social & @shaunacorr.bsky.social for @thejournal.ie

You can read @premiumtimesng.bsky.social version here: www.premiumtimesng.com/agriculture/...

INVESTIGATION: Unsupported by govt, Nigerian dairy farmers can't compete with subsidised, cheap EU imports

What makes Nigeria's situation dire is not just the importation of cheap milk substitutes, mainly from Europe, but that Nigerian farmers, unlike their European counterparts, get no government support ...

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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · Jul 15

Also published on The Journal and Premium Times
jrnl.ie/6762380

www.premiumtimesng.com/agriculture/...

Thousands in Irish public money spent on pushing cheap substitute 'milk' in West Africa

Products made from milk, with the natural fat removed and replaced with vegetable oil, were among those promoted in trade missions and campaigns.

jrnl.ie

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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · Jul 15

Through a Freedom of Information request, we uncovered slideshows documenting details of the industry’s 2023 trade mission to Nigeria and Senegal, offering a rare glimpse into the tactics used by the sector to win over consumers in West Africa.

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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · Jul 15

Papa Assane Diop from @humundi.bsky.social‬ said misinformation on social media is overstating the benefits of foreign milk powder, in contrast to fresh milk. “This creates a false perception among West African consumers, turning them away from fresh milk, which is wrongly perceived as ‘dangerous’."

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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · Jul 15

FFMP cannot be described as milk in Europe. Instead, Ireland exports it mostly to West Africa – between 2021-2024, Ireland exported >400,000 tonnes of FFMP to West Africa.

Higher priced butter and cream are mostly sent to Europe and the US.

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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · Jul 15

Fat-filled milk powder (FFMP) is made from skimmed milk powder (a by-product of butter and cream) and vegetable fats.

Irish companies are using social media and influencers to market it as healthy, especially for children. But experts describe it as “nutritionally mediocre” and “low quality”.

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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · Jul 15

Just published in collaboration with The Journal and Premium Times our investigation linking Irish dairy giants to “mediocre” milk powder in West Africa

With✍️ @phoebecooke.bsky.social‬, @shaunacorr.bsky.social and Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

www.desmog.com

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DeSmog @desmog.com · Jul 15

🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa

In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

www.desmog.com

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Clare Carlile @clarecarlile.bsky.social · Jul 8

In Ingleside, Texas, chemical companies Yara + Enbridge have launched initiatives touching every aspect of life, from gifting children's schools to running a blood donation drive

The reason: they want to build a 'low-carbon' ammonia plant that resident say could cost their health and coastline 🧵

DeSmog @desmog.com · Jul 3

🔴 NEW 🔴

This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia

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📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @sarasneath.bsky.social in partnership with @texastribune.org

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · May 24

Sea bass sold in UK supermarkets is fuelling food insecurity in Senegal!

Senegal’s seas are being overfished to make fishmeal for farmed sea bass, which is then sold as "sustainable". We must end #overfishing — in the UK & everywhere. 🌍🐟
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The hidden cost of your supermarket sea bass

Revealed: an investigation shows how consumers buying fish in the UK are playing a role in food insecurity and unemployment in Senegal

www.theguardian.com

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