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Have your say, people of Cork city! A public event will be held on Monday 22nd April, 5pm-7.30 pm in Millennium Hall, Cork city hall, to gather public input on potential health impacts of the Core Strategy of the Cork City Development Pan (2022-2028). eventbrite.com/e/assessing-he…

My piece in today’s The Irish Times on the Government’s hot school meals scheme. Embedding industrial food and packaging waste in our schools. A wasted opportunity for co-benefits around food equality, child health, food education, and local food sourcing irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Super day @SCGCork

This makes me sick to my stomach every time I see it. Why is this not major, major news in Ireland? A high chance of abrupt cooling in Ireland within the next two decades.

It was a huge honour to meet President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins today, with Director General of Food and Agriculture Organization, QU Dongyu. Our President was awarded the FAO Agricola Medal for his extraordinary services to global food security.

President Higgins spoke at length, saying "our food production system is broken". His speech linked growing global hunger to conflict and militarism - including in Gaza - the climate crisis, and "increasing production through intensive industrialized methods".

Dr Nessa Winston & I felt an urge to respond to the sat column David McWilliams Irish Times Opinion. Thx to all social policy colleagues for joining the effort. While the benefit & tax system reduces a lot of income inequality, it still scores low on numerous other metrics. Social Policy 101

How many times has the National Dairy Council been found by the Advertising Standards Authority to be making unsubstantiated green claims? I suppose they’re reduced to this now.

Expanding Irish dairy production is often justified, despite local and climate pollution, because of its importance for nutrition in developing countries. But NGOs are sounding the alarm about the main dairy export to Africa - Fat Filled Milk Powder.. 1/

Did I really just hear the head of the Climate Change Advisory Council Ireland say that we need to eat less sugar to reduce emissions from ag? Did she mean meat and dairy but the word that came out was sugar?? rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

“This is a victory for our farmers, our environment, and our future – if politicians will have the courage and integrity to act on it.” theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Anyone else find the reification of "culture" in concepts like "culturally-appropriate diet" really problematic? It's one thing to acknowledge culturally-entrenched eating habits as social facts & opportunities/barriers to policy; it's another to treat them as ahistorical facts.

You can hear the exasperation in this interview with hearing the same talking points from the meat/dairy industry that have been rolled out for years. Even farm orgs at EU level have now accepted change must happen. rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

Salient investigative journalism here by DeSmog “shedding light on the links between key actors will provide a basis from which to develop new research questions, and conversations, about how to advance democratic debate and processes to tackle the climate crisis in Ireland”

🟡NEW 🟡 Our DeSmog team has spent months investigating the network around Ireland’s intensive farming lobby – here’s what we found... 🧵

“The complex web of alliances means anyone questioning the overall strategy is viewed as disloyal, if not treacherous”

Very happy that our letter to the FAO challenging their errors downplaying the climate benefits of dietary change has been covered in The Guardian. theguardian.com/environment/20…