Jan Dutkiewicz
@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Pratt Institute Contributing Editor at The New Republic Feed the People! (Basic Books 2026) www.jandutkiewicz.com
While the decline of alt milk is grossly overstated, this is yet another case of the "ultra-processing" discourse potentially leading consumers to less sustainable and potentially even less healthy food choices. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Americans Are Rethinking Their Love Affair With Plant Milks
Alternative milks entered the mainstream in force in the 2010s. Now customer preferences are shifting again.
bloomberg.com
On today's episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social about Feed the People (2026, @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, with Gabriel Rosenberg). We discuss food systems, UPFs, animal ag, and more. Available below or in usual podcast places! knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-252-...
In Feed the People! @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I make a similar point: there is a vast gulf between food availability (is there food?) and food access (are there resources to get food?) and utilization (is food made nutritious?). The food desert idea - especially applied to cities - conflates these.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago"There is little evidence to support the idea that bringing supermarkets to neighborhoods that lack them has a measurable effect on what residents eat."
If I recall correctly, @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social argue in their excellent book ‘Feed the People’ that it’s the price of food that’s the problem and we’re better off giving food-insecure folks more money or free food (or both).
Feed the People!
Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us all. “This book ...
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Feed the People Thought™️ is yet again proven correct. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Good diet matters more than how processed food is, study suggests
Health of participants in long-term study depended on nutritional quality of what they ate rather than whether foods were ultra-processed or not
thetimes.com
New paper showing empirically that a variety of motivations, characteristics, and contexts are correlated with the adoption of veganism. These are not strictly left/progressive or otherwise siloed. This is exactly what Jonathan and I argued conceptually in our Food Ethics paper.
A good one to remember.
Jan Dutkiewicz@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · last yr.This has always been clear: plant-based meat alternatives are better for the planet and, at least compared to red meat, better for your health. That this is not widely accepted is the product of meat industry disinfo, science illiteracy, and some very stupid journalists. www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/h...
Crucial reporting from @zdboren.bsky.social. "Newly revealed documents from inside the most powerful farming lobby in Europe show how it delayed, gutted and overturned some of the most sweeping farming reforms in EU history..." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
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Soccer is corrupt as hell, but is there a more fascist-adjacent sport than brazilian jiu-jitsu? (Here's Ralph Gracie giving Bolsonaro Jr. - who has never trained - a black belt.)
"Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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INSIGHT on AI and the loss of curiosity: “Our technology is increasingly treating the territory between the query and the answer as dead space to be eliminated, when that territory is where most of the learning actually happens.” @neuranne.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask
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New paper alert! We analyzed the carbon footprint of leather and found that cattle leather GHG emissions are *14 times greater* than non-animal alternatives. 🧵 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
The Carbon Footprint of Leather: A Comprehensive Reassessment Using Global Livestock Data and Meta-Analysis
Product designers and manufacturers lack robust and regionally representative information on the greenhouse gas (GHG) or “carbon” footprints of leather textiles. This study presents a meta-analysis of...
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Eccentrics like me who read books about pawpaws, grow mushrooms, or take Saturday tramps around elderberry orchards do not possess morally superior eating habits by virtue of our preferred food-centric pastimes, and we should not demand people sink even more time into their nourishment
Is the Industrial Food System Actually Good?
A review of Feed the People by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg
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I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.
ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social
The academic analysis of food has been well and truly captured by an ultra-processing tunnel vision. One of the world's largest food companies with the biggest environmental footprint and track record of corruption is JBS, which mostly makes "unprocessed food." But no, UPFs bad. What are we doing?
Honored to be interviewed by La Repubblica about Feed the People! "Feed the People! ... invita al realismo e al godimento ritrovato." d.repubblica.it/culture/inte...
Cibo industriale sotto accusa. Ma un libro lo riabilita: “E’ l’unica soluzione”
L’imputato principale di questa storia è il cibo industriale. Ma se fosse innocente? C’è chi promuove “l’edonismo democratico”. Intervista a Jan Dutkiewicz, l’…
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I talked top the folks over at Spectrum News about the cultural politics of the Talarico vegan discourse. TLDR: It has nothing to do with veganism qua veganism and everything to do with creating wedge issues. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...
Texas GOP has beef with James Talarico’s diet
Texas Republicans cast Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, as a vegan — a claim that is not true.
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Surprise surprise! It is WHAT is processed and not HOW or HOW MUCH it is processed that matters for health. This is EXACTLY the argument that Gabriel Rosenberg and I made in Feed the People! using many of these same studies. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ultraprocessed foods and obesity: Interpreting the evidence
What do randomized controlled trials really tell us about the effects of ultraprocessed foods?
science.org
The Nova / "ultra-processing" schema is not fit for purpose for adjudicating the healthfulness or sustainability of foods.
Very good paper. As I wrote in Feed the People!, the Nova/UPF taxonomy is not fit for purpose as the basis for food policy. "Effective food policy should prioritize nutritional quality, access, and equity rather than process-based taxonomy." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Went on the Human Progress podcast to talk Feed the People! Have a listen. humanprogress.org/jan-dutkiewi...
Jan Dutkiewicz: The System That Feeds Us
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industrial food systems work best when well regulated. not a good look for carney. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
Althia Raj: Mark Carney’s pesticide policy could put the economy ahead of your health
Prime Minister Mark Carney is quietly bringing-in reforms that will make it more difficult for the government to ensure that the air you breathe, the water you drink and the
thestar.com
I regret to inform you that the absolute worst people in food academia have teamed up to write a truly cynical screed against meat reduction.
"... low-quality evidence dominates the discussion around the climate benefits of alternative grazing strategies, underscoring a critical need for stronger evidence before asserting climate change mitigation benefits from alternative grazing practices." biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Our book of the month for May is “Feed the People!” by Gabriel N Rosenberg and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social — a provocative argument in favor of mass food production and the pleasures of “democratic hedonism” Read more: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur025-ann...
Get your teeth into May’s book of the month
“Feed the People!” by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg.
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