The Food and Agriculture Organization misused my research to publish findings with a pro-meat bias ⚠️

The organization has been outdoing itself to distort the impacts of dietary change on the environment 🧵 theguardian.com/environment/20…

One of the things that makes marine ecology difficult is how hard it is to obtain independent data.

For so many things, the fishing industry is the only source and it turns out they’re just straight-up lying all the time.

We have no idea what’s really going on out there.

The IWC considers entanglement in fishing gear to be the most significant threat to wild cetacean welfare. At least 83% of identified North Atlantic Right Whales gave been entangled.
#science #marinelife #animalwelfare

Nothing luxurious about caviar.

Who are the humans most affected by animal farming? Listen to today’s episode for details.
By @moncktonvalerie @sentient_media @anabrdly

#vegan #plantbased #plantbased briefing #slaughterhouse #exploitedlabor #slaughterhouse workers chrt.fm/track/D16276/t…

Breaking: We’ve defeated the first Canadian ag gag law in court!

💡Volunteers needed for new study!
We are investigating people’s emotions and beliefs about animals & food
To participate, follow this link:
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We are particularly interested in the views of omnivores, vegetarians, and pescatarians.
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Thrilled to publish my first news article! It's so fulfilling to see this research reach a wider audience. Thank you to David and Amy for sharing your experiences, and Jessica Scott-Reid, M.A. and the Sentient team for guiding this article to publication!
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>1/3 of all grey whales on the N American west coast died in the last 5 years.

I called it a year ago: they starved.

But NOAA is careful not to imply industrial fishing had anything to do with it, as it would impugn their regulation.

All we get are vague references to climate.

From the slaughterhouse to the tannery, leather is the most abusive and environmentally damaging fabric industry in the world.

This is an excellent report refuting the multimillion dollar greenwashing campaign to brand leather as a sustainable, biodegradable byproduct.

To produce 100g of protein from beef, we need ~27x as much land as the Beyond Meat. Chicken & pork need ~6x as much cropland for animal feed.

It doesn't make sense that this land hasn't been better accounted for in national GHG estimates.

hannahritchie.substack.com/p/carbon-footp… Hannah Ritchie

I'm a cat lover, but the way to keep them safe from coyotes is to keep cats indoors—not to massacre innocent coyotes who don't want to die. cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

WHAT KILLED THE CRABS?

The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.”

If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea.

A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀

As chicken production increases & avian flu outbreaks worsen, the industry seems to require cheaper, faster methods to cull thousands and millions of animals/year *before* they can get them to slaughterhouses. Pressure is building to standardize some of the most harmful practices

Farmed pigs consume as much grain as 2 billion people.

From 2010-2019, the amount of grain used for animal feed rose from 770M tonnes per year to 987M.

This is food waste, and an extravagantly inefficient way of feeding the world.
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Future livelihoods will be far worse at this rate of ocean ecocide

Less than 3% of fish catch is for subsistence. 76% of fish are caught industrially, the main driver hurting subsistence.

High-impact fisheries are 83% of MSC-certified catches (2009-2017)
seaaroundus.org/data/#/global?…

If you liked the wolf story, I want to raise an issue that underlies the whole thing — the reason USDA is killing the wolves:

government grazing

The ecological, climatic, and social damage caused by this program is enormous.

Let’s break it down: 🧵

We can feed 10B people but 1/2 the calories grown are fed to livestock.

Without major changes, by 2050 the world will need to grow around ~50% more grain.

How could we do it without wiping out much of the rest of life on Earth?

Solutions: theguardian.com/environment/20… George Monbiot

Read and share. Let’s bury the myth that buying local automatically = sustainable. It doesn’t always - and there’s a good reason for that.

Decades of inaction on addressing ecological issues is the result of engineered disinformation by fossil fuel and livestock companies.

This continues, only now it's through these narrowly-focused, carbon-only accounting schemes used largely to delay transformational changes.