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Zach Boren @zdboren.bsky.social · 22h

five years after failing to get terms like 'plant-based burger' and 'veggie sausage' banned in europe, looks like the livestock lobby going to get its way

www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv

Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives

www.euractiv.com

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Kathrin Lauber @kat-lauber.bsky.social · 5d

This really hits home, particularly after attending the FAO Sustainable Livestock Transformation conference this week which - over 3 days - remained silent on the issue of overconsumption…

Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · 7d

The mask is OFF 🎭 ! EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu admits that "simplification" actually means "deregulation" (surprise surprise - we've been saying this for a long time).

From her speech yesterday at the Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 9d

🚨 BREAKING: At the UN animal farming conference in Rome, Big Ag executives talked “sustainability.”

Outside, Greenpeace activists locked themselves in cages with pink smoke to show the brutal reality of factory farming.

#StopBigAg

Read more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Greenpeace activists dressed as cows and pigs sit in cages at the entrance to the UN animal farming conference in Rome, with pink smoke rising around them to symbolise methane emissions. © Greenpeace / Lorenzo Moscia

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ijhpm.bsky.social @ijhpm.bsky.social · 19d

Do you know how corporations use a complex set of framing and action strategies—including lobbying, intelligence gathering, legal threats, media campaigns, third-party alliances, and more—to influence public policy?
#PublicPolicy #HealthPolicy
@kat-lauber.bsky.social

Read more ➡️ shorturl.at/xVrzW

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Online first! New paper from @kat-lauber.bsky.social, Nason Maani, Olivia Brown & @rebeccaglover.bsky.social on the pros and cons of 'crisis' framings journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

(Re)Acting (to) the crisis: A comparative analysis of crisis framing in obesity, climate change, antimicrobial resistance, and the UK cost-of-living crisis | Journal of Critical Public Healt...

journalhosting.ucalgary.ca

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Kathrin Lauber @kat-lauber.bsky.social · Aug 2

Brilliant piece by @maximanzoni.bsky.social documenting industry-driven efforts to "rethink methane" in Latin America via the use of the GWP* metric, & illustrating how this new lens essentially serves to let major polluters off the hook sentientmedia.org/inside-big-a...

Methane, Money & Metrics: Inside Big Ag’s Plan to Hide Its Climate Impact in South America

The livestock industry is pushing to change how its methane emissions are measured in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, with help from researcher Frank Mitloehner.

sentientmedia.org

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Kathrin Lauber @kat-lauber.bsky.social · Jul 26

Great analysis of the WHO Foundation’s funding by @spidermaani.bsky.social & co 🔍

transparency ratings are low & declining over time, anonymous donations abound;

the largest share of donations was earmarked as ‘operational support’ - raising Qs re WHOF’s stated aim to generate revenue for WHO

Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · Jul 24

New article in @bmj Global Health with Emily Adrion and Jeff Collin: "Who funds the WHO Foundation? A
transparency analysis of donation disclosures over the first 3 years of its operation" gh.bmj.com/content/10/7... @lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social

Who funds the WHO Foundation? A transparency analysis of donation disclosures over the first 3 years of its operation

Introduction The WHO Foundation (WHOF) was established in 2020 with the stated aim of broadening the donor pool to the WHO. Academics and civil society actors raised concerns regarding the potential n...

gh.bmj.com

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · Jul 18

The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture?

That environmental destruction is actually conservation.

This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'.

📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...

The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal

Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.

spectrejournal.com

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Camille Perrin @perrincam.bsky.social · Jul 14

[LEAK] While all eyes are on the budget allocated to farm subsidies, the @ec.europa.eu looks set to sneakily insert restrictions on the use of “meaty” names for plant-based foods in the proposal for a CMO regulation to be unveiled on Wednesday..

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Rachel Sherrington @rachelsherrington.bsky.social · Jun 4

🔴NEW: Major food firms like Nestlé, PepsiCo and JBS are overstating progress on their climate goals, a new report finds

Firms are criticised for a reliance on vague carbon removals, weak no-deforestation claims and a lack of progress on key transitions

www.desmog.com/2025/06/03/f...

Food Giants’ Climate Plans Lack Credibility, New Report Finds

Food firms are inflating their climate targets with carbon removals and weak deforestation claims, according to a report from the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch. With the COP30 climate s...

www.desmog.com

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is incredibly unfair: high-income nations with large dairy sectors are looking to adopt a "no additional warming" target, avoiding the methane cuts needed to meet international targets and pledges.

We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FT👇🧵

www.ft.com/content/2ea6...

Scientists accuse New Zealand and Ireland of trying to cover up livestock emissions

‘Accounting trick’ to support methane-emitting sectors undermines fight against climate change, say researchers

www.ft.com

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Hannah Forde @hannahforde.bsky.social · May 27

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Liverpool to explore the mental health and environmental impacts of outdoor advertising, focusing on meat and dairy

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The psychology of outdoor advertising at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The psychology of outdoor advertising at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · Apr 18

Thanks to @jaketapper.bsky.social for inviting me on his show yesterday! www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...

Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. | CNN

Dr. Kevin Hall joins The Lead

www.cnn.com

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Lucy Jordan @lucyjordan.bsky.social · Apr 17

I have been reporting on deforestation in Brazil for years.

Last year, along with @aliceross.bsky.social and Naira Hofmeister, I decided to dig into beef giant JBS’s flagship promise: to eliminate deforestation from its Amazon supply chain by the end of 2025.

So what’s actually changed?

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Critical Takes on Corporate Power @criticaltakes.bsky.social · Apr 17

New on Critical Takes:

How "national champions" from Brazil and China are becoming global giants in the meat industry.

criticaltakes.org/society-and-...

Fascinating take from @katesievert.bsky.social and co-authors on power shifts in an industry with huge effects on health, workers and nature.

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Kathrin Lauber @kat-lauber.bsky.social · Apr 17

great response 👏 (to a piece which, it should be noted, gives off really strong 'reviewer 2 who knows nothing about qual research but will deliver methodologically incongruent critique with full confidence' energy in its discussion of the clare et al paper... @spidermaani.bsky.social)

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Kathrin Lauber @kat-lauber.bsky.social · Apr 16

[3/3] The Animal Agriculture Alliance, likely funder of the EAT-Lancet counter-campaign, is in notable company: Red Flag has represented clients like British American Tobacco & previously coordinated a 'grassroots' campaign for Monsanto to defend glyphosate against growing regulatory pressure.

PR company accused of using 'tobacco lobbyist tactics' to promote weedkiller linked to cancer

Roundup maker Monsanto reportedly funded campaign to defend chemical

www.independent.co.uk

Kathrin Lauber @kat-lauber.bsky.social · Apr 16

[2/3] it's not Red Flag's first time working to counter climate concerns about animal agriculture: see their stint with Meat and Dairy Facts, a role which they were awarded "due in part to [their] experience of working with the meat industry in the US"

Meat and Dairy Facts changes PR advisors

Meat and Dairy Facts and Red Flag consulting have parted ways after six months of working together to promote positive messages around meat and dairy.

www.independent.ie

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Kathrin Lauber @kat-lauber.bsky.social · Apr 16

Recent coverage by @desmog.bsky.social of PR firm Red Flag's involvement in the backlash against the EAT-Lancet report provides a small yet powerful glimpse into the lengths to which some in the sector will go to keep meat reduction off the agenda [1/3]

www.desmog.com/2025/04/10/m...

Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report

In January 2019, world-renowned food and nutrition experts published a groundbreaking study. The culmination of two years’ work by 37 authors, the EAT-Lancet report set out to answer the question: how...

www.desmog.com

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European Public Health Alliance @epha-eu.bsky.social · Apr 14

LAUNCH: Today, we publish a toolkit for civil society, to support engagement with the Better Regulation agenda! You can find:

🔸Videos
🔸Explainers
🔸How Better Regulation processes affect health
and much more!

Access the toolkit now: lnkd.in/edKwMpGm

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · Apr 11

In 2019, a renowned group of scientists wrote about what a sustainable food system would look like (TL;DR - less meat)

Then the meat industry launched a full-frontal attack

This is an important story about corporate misinformation, revealed by @desmog.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/04/10/m...

Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report

In January 2019, world-renowned food and nutrition experts published a groundbreaking study. The culmination of two years’ work by 37 authors, the EAT-Lancet report set out to answer the question: how...

www.desmog.com

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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · Mar 18

The Centre for 21st Century Public Health is hiring!

There are two Research Associate posts available within a friendly and dynamic team of multidisciplinary #publichealth researchers.

⌛ Applications close this Sunday, 23 March.

Apply here: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

@lhgp.bsky.social

People sitting on grass between trees on a warm day at the University of Bath campus.

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Kate Sievert @katesievert.bsky.social · Mar 17

Just published! 📢 Our new paper in The Journal of Peasant Studies examines how national champion policies have reshaped global meat supply chains—concentrating power, limiting competition, and benefiting transnational investors. 🧵

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Regulation & Governance @reggovjournal.bsky.social · Mar 14

#Earlyview #Openaccess

'Impact Assessment as Agenda-Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive'
By @eleanorbrooks.bsky.social & @kat-lauber.bsky.social

#RegGov #BetterRegulation

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

ABSTRACT
Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda-setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report. Using a social process tracing methodology, we analyze the removal from the agenda of provisions for stronger alcohol advertising rules during the revision of the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive. We identify and test three possible explanations for this non-decision, drawing on material not previously in the public domain, and exploring how procedural politicking in the context of the EU's Better Regulation agenda shapes the drafting process. Concluding that the non-decision on alcohol advertising regulation was most likely prompted by combined political pressure from within and outwith the Commission, we argue for greater attention to impact assessment as a tool for mobilizing bias and agenda-setting.

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