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ASA Animals&Society

@Animals_Society

Official Twitter page of the American Sociological Association's Section on Animals and Society.

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linkhttp://www.asanet.org/sectionanimals/animals.cfm calendar_today05-01-2013 15:46:29

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ASA Animals&Society(@Animals_Society) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Deep learning to map concentrated animal feeding operations: Here we show that applying a deep convolutional neural network to high-resolution satellite images offers an effective, highly accurate and lower cost approach to detecting CAFO locations.' nature.com/articles/s4189…

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Björn Jóhann(@johann_bjorn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In this wild story, the dairy industry reportedly lobbied to remove a vegan blue cheese from receiving an industry award.

Plant-based alternatives are not competing on a level playing field.

yahoo.com/lifestyle/vega…

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New paper challenges FAO's recent recommendation promoting intensification as a solution to emissions from animal agriculture science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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John Sanbonmatsu(@SanbonmatsuJ) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The capitalist state is more willing to imperil the lives of billions of humans with exposure to a rapidly spreading lethal virus than to imperil the existence of a corrupt industry causing horrific suffering to billions of animals.

politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

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Sentient(@Sentient_Media) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The meat industry is playing with the metrics that measure methane to make climate claims that don't add up. Adria Vasil and Jessica Scott-Reid, M.A. report via Corporate Knights:
sentientmedia.org/math-of-climat…

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Silvia Secchi(@ProfSecchi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Once again I'd like to remind everyone that the current consumption of livestock & livestock products in the global North isn't the result of unfettered market forces but of policies that made/make such products artificially cheap via subsidies & socialized negative env'l costs.

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Dr Corey Lee Wrenn(@DrCoreyLeeWrenn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do environmentalists have veganophobia? Tune into a personal chat with Carly on her Consciously Clueless podcast where we discuss institutional bias, pathways to change, and the dangers of burnout: consciouslycarly.com/podcast

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Center for Biological Diversity(@CenterForBioDiv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

GOOD NEWS 🎉: Following a lawsuit by the Center, allies & nearly 20K comments — the BLM announced it will block an industrial mining road that would’ve devastated millions of acres of wild landscapes along the iconic Brooks Range in northern Alaska. biodiv.us/3WfCcMs

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Jeremy Hance(@jeremy_hance) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're breaking the news in English! A poaching gang wiped out 10% of the world's Javan rhinos. How could this happen?

My article for Mongabay (hat tip to all the great reporting in Indonesia on this) IntlRhinoFoundation 🦏, Helping Rhinos 🦏 WWF :

news.mongabay.com/2024/04/a-sing…

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