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Portland, OR
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Farm Forward retweeted
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
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Great thread about why grazing cattle isn't a climate solution. @McDonalds talking about regen beef is the same as @exxonmobil talking about DAC—it’s a way to avoid regulation not a serious euro to reduce emissions
The science shows regenerative grazing simply doesn't work
And I get it, it's a captivating well funded story ($200M from McD's otw), & it's easier to convince many that tweaks are all that's needed vs. systemic changes away from beef
🧵8 reasons why this won't make beef eco.
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Beef production has been the largest driver of deforestation this century.
Over the last two decades, around 128 million hectares of forest have been cleared to make way for agriculture and forest plantations. That’s an area five times the size of the United Kingdom.
What has driven this deforestation?
A recent paper estimated the contribution of different agricultural products over the last few decades. In the chart, you can see the breakdown.
Beef production has been the largest driver by far, contributing over 40% of the total. This has mostly been the clearing of forest for grazing pasture, especially across Brazil and other countries in Latin America.
Oilseeds — mostly soy and oil palm — were the second-largest driver, again concentrated in Latin America for soy and in Indonesia and Malaysia for palm oil. While deforestation for palm oil was high in the early 2000s and 2010s, it has fallen a lot in recent years.
Forest plantations have been a large driver of deforestation in North America and East Asia. Deforestation for most other products — including cereals, roots and tubers, and cash crops like cocoa and coffee — has been concentrated in Africa, where yields have not grown quickly enough to offset rising demand.
(written by @_HannahRitchie)
Farm Forward retweeted
Big news: The Senate Ag Committee just advanced the Farm Bill WITHOUT the Save Our Bacon Act.
Sen. Joni Ernst tried to add it—legislation that could wipe out state protections and allow the pork industry to return to confining mother pigs in gestation crates so tiny they can’t even turn around.
Imagine spending month after month trapped between metal bars, unable to take a few steps or turn your body around.
We stopped it today. But this fight isn’t over.
Farm Forward retweeted
“Costco Chicken” isn’t what you think. An investigator went undercover to expose what he witnessed.
Watch, share, and tell @Costco to do the right thing. bit.ly/CostcoExposed26
Farm Forward retweeted
You might've heard about the Save Our Bacon Act. Turns out that the main group lobbying for it--Natl. Pork Producers Council--has taken $66M from a farmer fund intended to promote pork, & which legally cannot be used for lobbying. 40% of the $66M hasn't been previously reported.
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Industrial chicken farming is a breeding ground of disease New research from @FarmForward finds that antibiotic resistant salmonella are on the rise in the poultry industry. Household names like @PerdueFarms @butterball highly contaminated plants. farmforward.com/publications…
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In case you missed it, this underwater factory farm is NOT happening thanks to pressure from scientists, non-governmental organizations, and animal welfare organizations like @CIWF_Global.
vegnews.com/worlds-first-oct…
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"Most Iowa voters oppose bid to override state animal welfare laws, poll shows." @thenewledenews
Poll after poll shows what we know to be true: Americans oppose the #SaveOurBaconAct, and it should not be included in the #FarmBill.
thenewlede.org/2026/07/iowa-…
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This week 20,000 pigs burned to death in a factory farm fire in Ontario.
They haven't let photographers inside. But here's what another pig factory farm looked like after it burned.
It's hard to imagine the suffering of these intelligent, sensitive animals — trapped, without any means of escape or hope of help, as the flames engulfed them.
It's harder to imagine the greed of an industry too cheap to even install sprinkler systems.
It stuns me that we let farmers confine 20K sentient pigs inside a single factory farm—just imagine their terror at burning alive inside a miserable warehouse. Please take a look at your food choices and consider opting out of this system.
cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ho…
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Industrial chicken farming is on a collision course with climate change. When temperature spikes, millions of chickens die of heat stroke. The recent heat in France has left killed 3 million bird and farmers had to let them rot in piles in fields
nytimes.com/2026/07/06/clima…
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Since when do corporate lobby groups get to dictate the quality of our food?
CLICK THE LINK to tell Big Pork to stop trying to eliminate state's rights to demand better food!
act.link/gi-2y5lm
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Every time you take an antibiotic, it should work. But overuse of #antibiotics in healthy livestock is fueling a silent pandemic of drug-resistant infections that kill more than 35,000 Americans every year. NCL joined 64 other organizations in petitioning the FDA to end unnecessary antibiotic use in animal agriculture before these lifesaving drugs stop working for the people who need them most. Thoughts from NCL's Nancy Glick: ow.ly/LTSc50ZcTiI
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Prediction: the pork industry will come to regret pushing the Save Our Bacon Act.
Gestation crates have survived this long for one reason: most people don't know about them.
The Save Our Bacon Act fight is changing that. It's exposing millions of people — including some very influential ones — to what gestation crates actually are.
The pork industry can keep saying they're a "science-based" solution for "animal care." It will never win this debate. Anyone with common sense knows the crates are cruel.
Every additional day of public debate about the Save Our Bacon Act is a day closer to a world without gestation crates.
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Factory farming is a hotbed for diseases. Researchers just found that a virus common in farmed shrimp can cause eye infections and blindness in humans. Raising billions of animals in crowded, polluted conditions causes spillover and makes us sick
foodprint.org/blog/a-new-stu…
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Pigs are incredibly smart, social animals. Giant pork companies and their allies in Congress are trying to override California, Massachusetts, Ohio and Florida etc from passing laws prevent keeping pregnant pigs in cages so small they can't turn around. Thanks @IAmPoliticsGirl
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Famous animal welfare scientist Donald Broom said that confining pigs in gestation crates is “much worse than severely beating an animal.” So it says a lot that some meat industry groups, pork companies, and members of Congress are fighting to defend the practice. New story:
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Footage reviewed by The Times shows a worker from a calf ranch in the Central Valley pulling a calf by the nose with pliers. It shows two workers removing the budding horns of a calf with a hot iron. The footage was collected by the group Direct Action Everywhere. latimes.com/environment/stor…
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Victory! @alecsicecream dropped sustainability & welfare marketing after pressure from @FarmForward. Why? Their supplier, Alexandre dairy was lying. When we uncovered abuse and deception by Alexandre, Alec's now has to admit their marketing was deceptive farmforward.com/news/when-tr…
When Transparency Wins: Alexandre Family Farm Loses Two Certifications | Farm Forward
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This is one of the most devastating betrayals we have ever seen from a hero brand.
Alec’s Ice Cream built its entire brand on being the world's first USDA Organic, Regenerative Certified, A2/A2 dairy ice cream.
But they quietly announced a shocking change: removing the USDA Organic label from its pints.
Not just that, but the dairy used in the pints is no longer organic or grass-finished, though it remains A2/A2.
The move came just six months after the brand closed an oversubscribed $11 million Series A funding round.
Most of its dairy used to be sourced from a key supplier: Alexandre Family Farm, which is "America's first Regenerative Organic Certified dairy.
Alec’s announced the change on their instagram: “As we've grown, we've run into a simple reality. There just isn't enough certified regenerative organic A2 dairy to meet demand”
Alexandre Family Farms challenged that justification: “It is indeed too bad…… and it’s certainly not a lack of supply issue.”
This comment makes it appear that Alec’s quietly shifted all or part of its sourcing away from Alexandre to cheaper, non‑organic A2 dairy.
Be Alec’s Ice Cream:
1. Build your entire product on being top notch quality
2. Capture market demand, fill product in thousands of retailers
3. Close an $11 million to “scale regenerative dairy supply chains”
4. Switch to dairy that’s no longer organic & grass‑fed
5. Frame it as “supply constraints” and “gut‑friendly innovation” while promising lower prices at checkout
If you are tired of being burnt by mission-driven brands trying to meet investor expectations, abandon this system altogether.
Buy from local farms, make your own ice cream: raw honey, dairy, egg yolks - that simple.
