We have three great researcher jobs advertised, each for 12m, contributing to our work on generating evidence to inform food system transition. Please share widely. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... @imsepidemiology.bsky.social @jeanmadams.bsky.social @kellyparsons.bsky.social

The EPA is no longer going to consider how many potential lives a pollution regulation would save -- just the costs to industry. This is directly counter to EPA's mission. And it will kill Americans. Great (depressing) scoop from @maxinejoselow.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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The Trump administration's new DGs illustrate how the idea of reducing the dominance of ultra-processed food in diets - which is fundamentally about better food systems & holds space for environmental sustainability - has been co-opted in service of the MAHA agenda www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...

Kennedy Flips Food Pyramid to Emphasize Red Meat and Whole Milk

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RFK's long-awaited dietary guidelines are here! Not surprised he's recommending more red meat, quite surprised he didn't explicitly attack seed oils www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...

Kennedy Flips Food Pyramid to Emphasize Red Meat and Whole Milk

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Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans. New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?

The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.

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Ignoring fossil fuels is, 'like telling the story of Star Wars without mentioning Darth Vader.' Great work to everyone on the panel and all who have contributed to this book. You can view a recording of this press conference from @canclimateaction.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/live/xdBwlaD...

Climate Action Network International is live!

YouTube video by Climate Action Network International

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Guy Edwards@guywhedwards.bsky.social · 9mo ago

As we witness climate obstruction in real time at #COP30, this @cssn.org presser w/ @timmonsroberts.bsky.social, @daniellefalzon.bsky.social, @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Carlos Milani to discuss a new global assessment on climate obstruction is rather timely. Details: cssn.org/news-researc...

Huge COPs are an equity issue. We don't hear marginalised voices above the din of who can afford the pavilions, flights, comms teams, or hosting. theconversation.com/the-un-clima...

The UN climate talks have become too big for their own good

Cop30 will have 50,000 delegates. But bigger Cops are not better Cops.

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Also see @drilledmedia.bsky.social's podcast featuring authors @kat-lauber.bsky.social and @profsecchi.bsky.social, as they speak about the animal agriculture industry: "the meat guys." drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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US used coffee breaks to personally threaten negotiators in global climate talks on shipping: “They went from delegation to delegation . . . threatening them. Telling them to go back and speak to their capitals, warning what would happen if they didn’t change their minds,” the diplomat said.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 9mo ago

Trump administration officials warned of additional trade tariffs and made personal threats against negotiators from other countries to block a historic climate deal for shipping. on.ft.com/4p98Drd

🔴 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...

Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30

Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.

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PepsiCo follows Coca-Cola in backtracking on commitments to reduce virgin plastic + abandoning reuse despite all the talk of corporate sustainbility in UN plastic treaty negotiations, the reality is that Big Food companies are continuin to expand their use of single use plastics

PepsiCo downgrades its sustainability goals

PepsiCo, in its latest sustainability update, becomes the latest major company to scale back its climate targets.

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This @amywestervelt.bsky.social Drilled interview with @kat-lauber.bsky.social and myself is really a bucket list item for me. Take a listen! Also, the ebook is free and available here: cssn.org/news-researc...

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network

Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

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Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

At #COP30 next month in Brazil, the animal ag (and broader ag) industry is likely to be as active as the fossil fuel guys obstructing commitments to emissions reductions. I got a crash course on how they work from the great @profsecchi.bsky.social and Kathrin Lauber and terrific new @cssn.org book

"Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment" has just been published & can be downloaded for free! 🔥 It's an incredible resource with 100+ contributors, on who blocks climate action, how they do it, & what can be done to counter this. (I played a small part as co-lead of ch. 4 on animal agriculture.)

Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 10mo ago

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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

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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 · 10mo ago

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.

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...

🚨 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...

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

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...

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.

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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 · last yr.

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

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.

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[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..

🔴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...

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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.

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...

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