loredanaloy.bsky.social
@loredanaloy.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar @ New York University. Sociology PhD, Cornell U. Environmental and climate politics. Animal rights.
In building the story of climate and food messaging, researchers J. Jacquet and @loredanaloy.bsky.social document archival communication strategies from the beef industry: - Questioning dietary change impact - Minimizing carbon outputs - Hiring internal experts news.miami.edu/rosenstiel/s...
Study documents beef industry group’s early efforts to counter climate concerns
Archival research shows how a cattle industry group used public relations to counter early climate concerns.
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Shout out to my friend Loredana Loy for this revelatory paper about the meat industry's coverup of its role in causing global warming. Important read! @loredanaloy.bsky.social
PLOS Climate@plosclimate.org · 4d agoNew research by Jacquet and Loy of @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social shows that the trade association for U.S. beef production knew about livestock’s outsized role in global warming by 1989. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
New research by Jacquet and Loy of @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social shows that the trade association for U.S. beef production knew about livestock’s outsized role in global warming by 1989. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
Global warming and the National Cattlemen’s Association 1986–1996
In the mid-1980s, scientific studies first highlighted the role of anthropogenic methane in global warming and emissions from cows as an important source. This knowledge expanded views of responsibili...
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The climate countermovement has three parts: "conservative think tanks (CTT), oil and gas trade associations, and utility, coal, and manufacturing trade associations, each with unique goals within the countermovement." Underappreciated, undercited. Super important. doi.org/10.1088/2515...
Where ideology meets private interest: the three-part composition of climate obstruction in the United States
Where ideology meets private interest: the three-part composition of climate obstruction in the United States, Hall, Galen, Loy, Loredana, Brulle, Robert J, Schell-Smith, Kennedy, Hu, Ming-May, Trollb...
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In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
The world’s biggest bike parking in Utrecht didn’t happen overnight. And it didn’t fall out of the sky. It’s the product of decades of effective urban and transport planning. Long-term political decisions. Sustained public investment. Great cycling cities aren’t miracles. They are policy outcomes.
Wild meat consumption is surging across Central Africa, threatening wildlife #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Wild meat consumption is surging across Central Africa, threatening wildlife
Wild meat consumption has surged across Central Africa, increasing pressure on wildlife populations and raising concerns about food security.
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“We’re at this moment where we’re really trying to understand what is a real commitment to saving our planet and what is public relations,” said Jennifer Jacquet, one of the report’s authors. “And a lot of this is public relations.” Share This Article insideclimatenews.org/news/2204202...
Major Livestock and Animal Agriculture Companies Are Making Climate Promises They Aren’t Keeping - Inside Climate News
A new study finds that the vast majority of climate-related claims made by the meat and dairy industry don’t hold up to scholarly scrutiny.
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Researchers find that 98% of recent environmental claims by major meat and dairy companies can be characterized as greenwashing. See M. Bach, L. Loy, @katharinemach.bsky.social, S. Shukla McDermid, and J. Jacquet's full study below. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies
Animal agriculture has disproportionate environmental impacts relative to other forms of food production and accounts for at least 16.5% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the large...
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A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz @greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk: www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s... 🧵 1/5
The stunning underwater world that’s at risk as the Iran war drags on | CNN
Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf is a one-of-a-kind marine ecosystem that’s home to dolphins, sea turtles and coral. How do oil slicks affect them?
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Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB
Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB
Charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suet
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STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! (@stealthisstory.bsky.social) opens Friday and screenings are selling out left and right, but we just added a show with Amy Goodman extended intro – Sat, April 11 at 9:30 PM. Get your tickets now! ifccenter.com/films/steal-...
IFC Center - Steal This Story, Please!
Thursday, April 9 at 6:30: Sneak Preview + Q&A with subject Amy Goodman and directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin moderated by moderated by Sepideh Moafi (actress, The Pitt) after the screening Friday, April 10 at 6:50: Q&A with subject Amy Goodman and directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin moderated by Noura Erakat after the [...]
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Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 6mo agoFilmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin discuss "Steal This Story, Please!" ahead of the theatrical release in New York on Friday. The film tells the story of Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! More details: https://stealthisstory.org/
“Ecosystems are very delicate webs of interactions, and if there is one element out of sync, especially with the plants, which are the basis of the ecosystem, things can fall apart at every level of the ecosystem” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study
Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators
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How is class resentment used in climate politics? This article from @loredanaloy.bsky.social and @rachelwetts.bsky.social finds conservative media link climate initiatives to elite practices doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spag003
“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions
Abstract. How do conservative media commentators provoke public opposition to climate change solutions in the US? We provide evidence that appeals to class
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In a new paper, Loredana Loy @loredanaloy.bsky.social and Rachel Wetts @rachelwetts.bsky.social provide evidence that conservative climate media mobilize class-based resentment by linking climate initiatives to elite groups and their practices. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spag003
“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions
Abstract. How do conservative media commentators provoke public opposition to climate change solutions in the US? We provide evidence that appeals to class
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“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions" is out in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social @rachelwetts.bsky.social and I provide evidence that conservative climate media discourse features appeals to social group identities (1/2)
“For the long-term health & robustness of our wildlife, it’s bad. Wildflowers suffer just as a farmer’s crop that's been washed away. It is difficult to come back from & there are unseen consequences. If caterpillars are washed away, what does it mean for a blue tit who needs to feed their chicks?”
Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com · 8mo ago‘It sounds apocalyptic’: experts warn of impact of UK floods on birds, butterflies and dormice
Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school. 📸: Jerry Holt
You can judge a person by the size of their moral circle. Trump, for instance, has the smallest possible moral circle, containing only him. Be the opposite: expand your circle. Include, for example, animals currently raised for food. We shut them out of our consciences. It's time to bring them in.
As Lászlo Krasznahorkai receives Nobel prize for literature, time to dust off my review of Béla Tarr’s “The Turin Horse”-based on Laszlo’s book. Take a look! www.ourhenhouse.org/film-analysi...
Film Analysis: “The Turin Horse” and “Au Hasard Balthazar”
Great films never go out of fashion, and neither do great reviews of them, which makes this article a perfect piece to feature on #ThrowbackThursday! Film analyst extraordinaire Loredana Loy gives us ...
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An AI-powered satellite survey has found that the number of wildebeests migrating across Kenya and Tanzania annually might be less than half of what’s widely touted.
Scientists rethink Serengeti migration numbers with satellite, AI tools
If you’ve watched The Lion King, you probably remember the scene where Mufasa falls into and is trampled by a massive herd of stampeding wildebeests. In real life, as one of the largest mammal…
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Strangely while animals for human food and ourselves comprise a staggering 96% of biomass today, we don't consider them invasive fauna
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Let me find the world’s tiniest violin… Time to end this elite Victorian indulgence and chart a more vibrant, nature-rich future for Britain’s uplands
We've been completely cauterized away from any kind of interior life. Functionally illiterate Civil War soldiers could write sonnets to their loved ones, but we need a robot to help us say, "Hey, I'm thinking about you."
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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
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Bites from lone star ticks make people allergic to red meat and dairy, and the problem is growing fast in the US. Is the planet giving us yet another strong push to change our ways (perhaps aka karma)? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
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My office and the New York Community Trust are awarding $3.2 million to 34 community environmental organizations to support pollinator conservation efforts across New York. These funds are a down payment on a more sustainable future for future generations of New Yorkers.
"The Omnivore's Deception": The Case of Conflicted Carnivores | Psychology Today The wonderful Marc Beckoff, a legend in cognitive ethology, has interviewed me about my book.... @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
"The Omnivore's Deception": The Case of Conflicted Carnivores
In a deeply thoughtful meditation on our relationship with animals—and ourselves—John Sanbonmatsu offers a reasoned reply to Michael Pollan's views on the dilemmas of eating meat.
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