"I was trying to eat less processed foods. I ended up switching to dairy milk because that’s just one ingredient" boy the UPF thing is having material consequences on climate and environment efforts (alt-milks are fine btw) 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.

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lmao comedy podcast 'we saw that' reacts to the scale of global chicken production. they are hilariously horrified

I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live

Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant

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the four stages: 1. Allister Heath's columns are not real 2. Allister Heath's columns are not serious 3. OK, they are real and serious but it's too late to do anything about them 4. Our only hope is to find a way of adapting to Allister Heath's columns

NEWS: Taylor Farms gave *$2 million* to Trump & Republicans as they postponed a rule that could've limited the spread of outbreaks like the ongoing Cyclospora epidemic. And, years ago, the industry *also* successfully lobbied to cut a program that handled ~80% of federal produce pathogen testing.

‘Explosive Diarrhea’: Company Tied to Outbreak Donated to Trump as He Delayed Food Safety Rule

Taylor Farms contributed $2 million to Trump and Republicans as they postponed a rule to help the government limit the spread of foodborne illnesses.

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with Angela Eagle, that's 10 diff environment secretaries since Brexit 10 years ago. great Monbiot piece about how that vacuum of vision and expertise has been filled by Big Chicken interests (also @grilledmedia.bsky.social investigation cited) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot

Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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A major new investigation out today with new revelations about the oil and gas industry's long-running deception over natural gas. We lay out in new details and documents how big oil and gas manufactured the myth of "clean" natural gas.

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s #pesticides law - High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife By @zdboren.bsky.social @grilledmedia.bsky.social 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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doing this in the midst of a diarrhea parasite outbreak is certainly a choice www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump officials kill proposed rules for Pfas-contaminated sewage fertilizer

EPA tosses out scientific research carried out under Biden and says toxic sludge not a significant threat to public

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So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

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

theguardian.com

Welcome to GRILLED, investigative journalism on food systems and animal agriculture. Here are some of our hits so far Subscribe for more grilled.media

High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife Incredible investigation by @zdboren.bsky.social 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

theguardian.com

New investigation from @grilledmedia.bsky.social & @theguardian.com Documents from inside Europe's most powerful farming org show how it lobbied "in the same way as the tobacco industry" (their own words!) to block policies for public health & the environment 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

theguardian.com

i've been going through planning registers and found the chicken industry is preparing a fleet of new factory farms in response to animal welfare commitments investigation by @grilledmedia.bsky.social and @theipaper.com grilledmedia.substack.com/p/chicken-we... inews.co.uk/news/environ...

i don't think people understand how vulnerable intensive livestock farming is to climate breakdown www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/c...

The Chickens Were Doing Just Fine. Then the Heat Wave Killed Millions.

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BBC News: "A Reform UK councillor's bid to scrap his authority's climate emergency declaration has been delayed because the chamber was too hot to debate it." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

West Norfolk council climate debate delayed due to extreme heat

Simon Ring says the fact the meeting was postponed due to the heat was "undeniably ironic".

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make america healthy again am i right thehill.com/policy/energ...

Supreme Court protects pesticides from some health claims in key Roundup case

The Supreme Court on Thursday restricted Americans’ ability to sue pesticide makers over alleged health harms stemming from their products. In a 7-2 ruling, the court held that some claims that pes…

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The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

The EU's draft livestock plans consider creative accounting that would close their eyes to the catastrophic amounts of pollution coming from animal farming Accounting tricks do nothing to tackle climate breakdown that is now baking Europe in heatwaves, or the pollution killing our rivers and lakes

Leak: EU looks to change how livestock climate emissions are measured

The draft Sustainable Livestock Strategy also calls for 'flexibilities' on water pollution rules

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A first exclusive for my new venture GRILLED the EU is looking to change how it measures livestock emissions the meat industry has been pushing for metrics that say livestock farms cause 'no additional warming' even as they continue to emit methane grilledmedia.substack.com/p/leak-eu-lo...

Leak: EU looks to change how livestock climate emissions are measured

The draft Sustainable Livestock Strategy also calls for 'flexibilities' on water pollution rules

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a clarion call against the brutal efficiency of factory farming from @ezraklein.bsky.social one silver lining of the Save Our Bacon Act is that it's exposing the meat industry's tactics in real time www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Opinion | What the Cult of Efficiency Costs Us

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uk chicken production is at record highs and still growing. imports are rising too. the industry's answer is weaker planning rules and more factory farms. but maybe we should be asking how to reduce demand rather than just continually boosting supply? www.ft.com/content/7552...

UK turns to imported chicken as demand surges

Producers blame restrictive planning rules and more stringent welfare regulations for limiting domestic expansion

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Hunh. The Trump administration's big play to auction off Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to fossil fuel companies ... was a total bust. No major companies bid. Only 72,000 acres out of 689,000 were sold. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Major oil firms skip Trump’s auction of Arctic wildlife refuge drilling leases

The sale of 72,000 acres in leases is nonetheless a step toward extraction in the wilderness home to caribou and polar bears.

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chuffed that @ellieodonnell.bsky.social and i have been shortlisted for @absw.bsky.social awards for our investigation into the UK's sewage sludge mess our work helped push the government to consult on new regulations for spreading sludge on farmland ✌️ www.absw.org.uk/pages/meet-t...

Meet the finalists – ABSW Awards 2026 | Association of British Science Writers

Who has made it to the finals in the ABSW Awards 2026?

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great to see the NYT spotlighting how pork producers are trying to reverse animal welfare measures passed in california & massachusetts www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...

Opinion | What the Meat Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know

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In 2015 there were 70 dairy farms in the UK where the cows can't go outside, now there's 180 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Huge rise in factory-style dairy farming of ‘battery cows’ in UK as costs rise

Investigation finds number of dairy farms where cows cannot go outside has more than doubled since 2015

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lmao only the telegraph can blame the industrial chicken boom on 'being told to eat less red meat' (the piece itself is quite good) www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/...

“we need to take the decision away from local planning officers” last week a director at Avara Foods, owned by US ag giant Cargill, argued for a national framework for intensive poultry planning poultry.network/uk-could-run...

UK could ‘run out of home-grown chicken’ without planning reform, industry warned

THE UK could face a shortage of home-grown chicken in the near future, warned David Neilsen, Director of Agriculture at Avara Foods, at the Fair this week. Demand for chicken was set to keep growing, ...

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