Advocating for safe, healthy, and humane agriculture. Executive Director @FarmForward
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Our investigation into #birdflu bailouts for giant meat and egg companies made the front page of the @nytimes! Congratulations to @FarmForward and @OurHonorVets. Reporting by @AndrewJacobsNYT
The MAHA/RFK crowd and the fact that the chicken industry doesn't want to lose their export market. If @chickencouncil is against it, you can bet @USDA isn't going to go against them. God forbid we protect public health or stop bailing out meat companies by developing a vaccine
NEW: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has stalled progress toward a vaccine to stop the ongoing spread of bird flu.
Sources told us the delay is partly due to fears of a backlash from RFK Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again movement.
w/ @rachel_shin_
@politico
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10,830.
That’s how many factory farms Iowa has, more than any other state. Iowa has eight times as many CAFOs as it does grocery stores.
But there’s no easy way for Iowans to find how just how much manure these farms produce, or where it’s coming from.
ALT A map of Iowa filled with dots. Text reads: 10,830 dots. Each one is a factory farm in Iowa.
Is anyone doing attribution science on the climate impacts from the meat industry?
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"NCBA has lobbied on climate-related issues and has at times minimized or denied the link between animal agriculture and climate change."
Crucial new research showing how big ag, just like big oil, has historically downplayed its role in climate change.
journals.plos.org/climate/ar…
.@WholeFoods finally responded to our report, telling the @nypost that every 365 chicken is "traceable to the farm, no antibiotics, and third-party verified." Great. This morning we sent WF four questions that would prove it. Here's what we asked and why we expect silence. 🧵
Q4: WF says "no antibiotics." Does that cover the breeders and hatcheries, or only the chicken on the shelf? And does WF test their products to verify? The salmonella we found was multi-drug resistant. "Third-party verified" should mean someone tested to ensure no abx.
Every question has an answer sitting in WF's files. We'll post whatever they send us. But a company charging up to 46% more for "better" chicken should be able to say, specifically, what makes it better. Right now the answer is a slogan. Full report farmforward.com/publications…
New report from @FarmForward reveals that @WholeFoods 365 chicken mostly comes from @PerdueFarms slaughterhouses that are highly contaminated with virulent antibiotic resistant salmonella. Nice of WF to charge a huge premium for the products.
Whole Foods' private-label '365' chicken comes from Perdue plants with salmonella issues: report trib.al/xWrT6dT
Eyes on this case—it has important implication for efforts to hold other polluting industries accountable for their harms
Today the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a major climate case. A group of Colorado ranchers who are struggling with severe drought and heat say big oil companies should be held accountable for their role in causing climate change. latimes.com/environment/stor…
The biggest threat to family farmers, hands down, are giant animal factories.
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I'm in an airport, 1 hr before 🛫, the worst time to do this, but here is a thread on permitting/transmission reform bill:
First, if you don't know me, I worked for Greenpeace for 8 yrs campaigning against fossil fuels (esp coal), & have lead a utility watchdog for past 10...
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A major food org humanewashing Diestel aside, this type of food "thought leadership" is just an aesthetic and marketing exercise that does more harm than good to actually thinking about food system solutions.
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A reminder of the good news in a place that for all its issues is on the right side of history:
@californiapost @CaEnergySafety @JohnsHopkins @ENERGY @fbirol @UCBerkeley
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At some point farmers are just gonna have to be told no right? Using 80% of the water but only accounting for 2% of GDP can’t possibly be a thing states can accept when the 90% of voters in urban areas are going to have to inevitably be put under extreme water restrictions.
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“We need transformational change in rural America.”
Farmer Greg Gunthorp just revealed that farmers only get 14 cents of every dollar that consumers spend on food.
Why?
Corporate “consolidation and concentration.”
The vast majority of farm profits are scooped up by a handful of massive corporations.
“I think to fix the problems in rural America… there’s four means in which we make it so that local and regional processing and direct marketing is a possibility.”
“Subsidy reform.”
“Antitrust enforcement.”
“Truth in labeling enforcement.”
“Inspection reform.”
“We can sit around and complain, and trust me, I do my fair share of that.”
“The four packers own 86% of the beef supply.”
“Almost half of the hog slaughter in the United States is controlled by foreign companies.”
“We got to stay on these politicians and bureaucrats.”
“They got to quit making every single decision… to encourage the status quo of agriculture.”
“It’s time that they give independent agriculture some preferential treatment because I think that every consumer and every taxpayer expects that.”
@GGunthorp @SawyerWhisler @TorkWhisler
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The Trump administration is poised to loosen environmental restrictions on oil and gas wells that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane, a potent planet-heating gas. @propublica propublica.org/article/metha…
