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David Wallinga, MD

@Food_Dr

Lifting up ways to change our unhealthy food system, plow to plate. Helping health professionals lead that change. Tweets are my own.

 San Francisco, St. Paul
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Joined June 2011
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Keep Antibiotics Working (@KAWcoalition) profile pictureKeep Antibiotics Working@KAWcoalition8 Sep 2023
The drug user fee program for new animal drugs is about to expire (ADUFA). In the reauthorization Congress must include protections from the threat of #AntibioticResistance resulting from the overuse of animal drugs. See blog from @NRDC @Food_Dr nrdc.org/bio/david-wallinga-…
Revamping the Animal Drug User Fee Act Should Not Override Public Health

Revamping the Animal Drug User Fee Act Should Not Override Public Health

Senate leaders face expiration of the Animal Drug User Fee Act later this month. In their rush to get a reauthorized ADUFA passed, urgently needed provisions to protect the public must not be left...

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Drug resistant "Superbugs": A much bigger, more lethal, threat than previously thought. keepantibioticsworking.org/b…
Antimicrobial Resistance : An even bigger threat than we thought — Keep Antibiotics Working

Antimicrobial Resistance : An even bigger threat than we thought — Keep Antibiotics Working

MADELEINE KLEVEN, SAFE AND HEALTHY FOOD PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, FOOD ANIMAL CONCERNS TRUST According to new data, the antibiotic resistance crisis is even worse than we thought. A study published in...

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After rising for 2 straight years, sales of human antibiotics for use in U.S. livestock are nearly double those used in human patients. on.nrdc.org/3qM5zGt
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Sales for U.S. pigs and cattle are the reason for the overall rise. Pig sales alone are up 28% since 2017. Cattle are up 8%. @Food_Dr #AAW2021 on.nrdc.org/3qM5zGt
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U.S. beef and pork industries are using antibiotics less, not more wisely -- at least since 2017. As my colleague blogged, Big Beef's customers like @mcdonald's must do better, as well. nrdc.org/experts/lena-b…
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No wonder U.S. pork and beef producers are using more, not less, antibiotics -- their biggest customers, like @McDonalds aren't holding them accountable!
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What to know about the EPA's plan to regulate 'forever chemicals' in drinking water

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to regulate so-called "forever chemicals." Known as PFAS, these chemicals are found in a variety of household products and have been linked to health...

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This @MPR story actually has a much rosier take on the @EPA's weak roadmap on #PFAS forever chemicals, made by DuPont and #3M. Here's the @NRDC press release on why it's a weak plan nrdc.org/media/2021/211018
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The Impossible Math of Starting a Farm in Iowa @CivilEats - civileats.com/2021/10/12/jou…
Journalist-Turned-Cattle Farmer Beth Hoffman on the Impossible Math of Starting a Farm

Journalist-Turned-Cattle Farmer Beth Hoffman on the Impossible Math of Starting a Farm

The author of ‘Bet the Farm’ talks about becoming a new farmer in middle age, the huge barriers to entry, and preparing for climate change.

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Can anyone tell me what's this?!😨 Invasive plant? Or edible herb? Well, PictureThis can. #plants #plantidentification #nature #flowres
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Climate Scientists Created a SWAT Team for Weather Disasters - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Climate Scientists Created a SWAT Team for Weather Disasters

Climate Scientists Created a SWAT Team for Weather Disasters

Friederike Otto and her colleagues jump into action during heat waves, floods, and fires to pinpoint if global warming is to blame.

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‘Spillover’ diseases are emerging faster than ever before—thanks to humans - National Geographic apple.news/AZv_3vqcuT8KwNf8D…
‘Spillover’ diseases are emerging faster than ever before—thanks to humans

‘Spillover’ diseases are emerging faster than ever before—thanks to humans

History is pockmarked with the scars of past zoonotic outbreaks. What have we learned, why are they increasing, and what can we do to avoid them?

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Family values? Rich countries spend about $14,000 a year for a toddler’s care, on average. The U.S. spends $500.
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“The worst time in the world we want to shut down the government is in the middle of a pandemic where we have 140,000 people a day getting infected and 2,000 people a day dying.” — Anthony Fauci. apple.news/Ayi9gbT9ETreLJyoK…
Congress’s hectic legislative schedule, briefly explained

Congress’s hectic legislative schedule, briefly explained

Another government shutdown is looming, and the stakes are even higher than usual.

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Net farm income is worthless, unless the USDA tells us who's getting that income, and who isn't. The decades-long trend is that fewer and fewer "successful" farmers get it, often at the expense of smaller, typically more sustainable farmers.
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U.S. pegs farm income at eight-year high amid strong corn, soy prices reut.rs/38C9sU4
Remember when we said climate change eventually would affect farmers and ranchers, whether they believed it was real or not? That time is now.
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Drought forces North American ranchers to sell off their future reut.rs/3zHqa0b
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This is a classic win-win: Good for workers, and good for Tyson. Most of all, good for public health.
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Tyson Foods, meatpacking union strike deal over vaccine mandate reut.rs/2WQTS4p
Small farmers generate 50% more economic value, says new Iowa report nimanranch.com/press/small-f…
Small Family Farmers Generate More than 50% More Economic Value for Local Economy, Report Reveals

Small Family Farmers Generate More than 50% More Economic Value for Local Economy, Report Reveals

New study proves that there is significant value in Niman Ranch's smaller-scale, diversified farms.

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Will a Roberts-led court, that supposedly venerates the Founding Fathers, rule for Texas, whose leaders are trying their damnedest to stop people from voting in a supposed democracy? apple.news/AktxxlB4gRpaDJLYY…
Texas’s radical anti-abortion law, explained

Texas’s radical anti-abortion law, explained

The loss of abortion rights may not even be the most troubling aspect of the Supreme Court’s inaction over the law.

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