HUGE thanks to Simen Sætre, @hazelhealy.bsky.social, @brigitte-whl.bsky.social, Dr Aliou Ba, and María Alonso Martínez for being guests on our show this week! Find out more about the Edible Empire podcast at The Salmon and the Tomato website: www.thesalmonandthetomato.org.

The Salmon and the Tomato – Explore Where Your Food Comes From

The Salmon and the Tomato - a story about where our food comes from and who pays the costs of its production

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🔴 NEW 🔴 ‘They Want Us Gone’: BP Gas Field Forces Out Senegal’s Fishers  Traditional fishing grounds continue to be off-limits in Senegal as its government pursues a high-risk gamble on the export of LNG, a new DeSmog investigation can reveal. www.desmog.com/2026/07/24/t... 📝@Hans Wetzels

‘They Want Us Gone’: BP Gas Field Forces Out Senegal’s Fishers

Amadou Diague sits in a plastic chair, looking out over the Atlantic Ocean. In the distance a traditional wooden pirogue cuts through the waves to deliver freshly caught fish to the city of Saint Loui...

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🔴 NEW 🔴 Seafood industry giants failing to tackle pollution, new study finds www.desmog.com/2026/07/01/s... ✍️@brigitte-whl.bsky.social

Seafood industry giants failing to tackle pollution, new study finds

The world’s largest seafood and aquaculture firms are failing to combat waste, and fall short on fish welfare, according to a new benchmarking assessment. A first-ever seafood index, which was launche...

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NYC climate folks and journalists, Rei from DeSmog here - I'd love to meet you! I've just arrived from the UK to start my ovarian cancer treatment - there's lots to hope for. I'm new in NY, and would love to meet people and enjoy this city. Or get recs! Happy to get comments on this :). Cheers!

The UAE’s ruling royal family banked more than €71 million in EU farming subsidies. Farms in Romania, Spain and Italy controlled by the Abu Dhabi royals grow crops destined for export to the Gulf. ✏️ Latest for @desmog.com @theguardian.com @eldiario.es G4Media www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Agribusiness execs banked $515 million from selling shares during key price hikes due to the Iran and Ukraine wars The findings come weeks after the United Nations’ World Food Programme warned that the conflict in the Middle East could push roughly 45 million more people into acute hunger

DeSmog@desmog.com · 3mo ago

🔴 NEW - Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

🐟 NEW 🐟 Salmon giant Mowi is a market leader in Scotland, where it operates 48 farms in ‘cold and clear’ Highland waters But locals & fishers living nr several sites complain of ‘invasive’ noise & smells, and say the company just doesn’t ‘give a damn' @brigitte-whl.bsky.social for @desmog.com👇

Brigitte Wear@brigitte-whl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🔴 NEW 🔴 The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs. with @desmog.com

🔴 NEW 🔴 ‘They Don’t Give A Damn’: Scotland’s Highland Communities Tire of Charm Offensive by ‘Polluting’ Salmon Giant Mowi 📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/12/16/t...

‘They Don’t Give A Damn’: Scotland’s Highland Communities Tire of  Charm Offensive by ‘Polluting’ Salmon Giant Mowi

The world’s largest salmon producer stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “noisy” and “polluting” fish farms. Seafood giant Mowi produces more than a fi...

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🔴 NEW 🔴 The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs. with @desmog.com

For months, I analysed the campaigns funded through the Enjoy It’s from Europe programme. What I found is striking: 1/3 of the campaigns promote exclusively meat and dairy and dozens of them present intensive livestock farming as environmentally friendly Read my full investigation on @desmog.com

DeSmog@desmog.com · 8mo ago

🔴 NEW 🔴 MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing ‘Misleading’ Claims 📝 @lauravilladiego.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/25/m...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...

Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels

With the clock running down at the COP30 climate talks, the Brazilian hosts are working hand-in-hand with industry groups to secure backing for biofuels in the final text – despite fears that scaling ...

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🚨New: At COP30, the pesticide industry has been making big pledges to fight deforestation by turning Brazil's over-grazed pasturelands into new areas to grow crops. Small-holders fear it's all just a ploy to sell more of the toxic chemicals poisoning nature and harming human health. buff.ly/Yc8qocr

Pesticide Industry 'Hijacked' Climate Stage at COP30, Campaigners Say

Syngenta and other pesticide companies used the COP30 climate conference in Brazil to promote programmes to recover damaged pastureland that campaigners fear will drive increased use of toxic…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds 📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social Published in partnership with @apublica.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...

In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds

Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.

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Day one at COP30 and my first impression is how directly wealth translates to square meter floorspace and flashy screens at the summit Here is the pavilion for Malawi vs the pavilion for the UK 1/

🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30

In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...

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Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year. Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data. ✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’

Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...

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🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’ Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’

Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...

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At next week’s COP30, “Food & farming companies will claim agriculture is part of the solution to the climate crisis … even though food drives a third of global warming”… see here the 8 big ag green washing terms to watch out for.

DeSmog@desmog.com · 9mo ago

🔴 NEW 🔴 From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇 📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...

I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to! My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇

Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported. Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

🔴 Le fabricant du sucre Daddy au cœur d'une vaste contamination aux PFAS Des champs de betteraves aux usines du groupe Cristal Union, les polluants éternels sont présents sur toute la chaîne de production Révélations @disclosengo.bsky.social et @france3ca.bsky.social disclose.ngo/fr/article/p...

PFAS : le fabricant du sucre Daddy alimente un cycle de pollution éternelle

Cristal Union, le deuxième groupe sucrier français, est confronté à une vaste contamination aux « polluants éternels », révèle Disclose, en partenariat avec France 3. Des champs de betteraves aux usin...

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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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🔴 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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🔴 NEW 🔴 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...

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

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 · 11mo ago

🔴 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

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

🚨 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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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...

Farage’s plan to deport thousands of asylum seekers draws scorn from legal experts

Reform UK leader told scheme is ‘simply not rooted in reality’ after he dodges questions on how it would work

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Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Interesting (and worrying!) story by my colleague @rtakver.bsky.social about how Labour is giving a “blank cheque” to Farage and his DOGE agenda 👇🏻

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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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 👇

Brigitte Wear@brigitte-whl.bsky.social · last yr.

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