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Incredibly, the cuts in ag research and services are happening as the US--the nation w/ more good farmland and ag infrastructure per capita than any other--is on its way to becoming a net importer of food. We need to pay attention to this stuff. (/v Sarah Taber )

Do you think they know they're not the same species? If we can barely tell them apart, can a reptile?

Trump admin is moving WAY too fast with authoritarian playbook and failing. My prediction: Within 1 year, they attempt to illegally mobilize the military (likely in a domestic context, but possibly international) without having secured sufficient loyalty, and military resists.

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April 9 (Reuters) - Several U.S. Department of Agriculture employees who worked on the agency's bird flu response will leave at the end of April, straining the federal capacity to monitor the spread of the virus, according to a source familiar. reuters.com/business/healt…

ALL the stocks are down!

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Yep. "Natural" = King of BS health halos. 👑 Why we assume ‘natural’ food is better, even when it’s not wapo.st/3R9AJUf by Tamar Haspel Alan Levinovitz: "The appeal of natural foods is also our intuition, right or wrong, that we understand how those foods are created."

RFK Jr's ideas about food & health are often untethered from the evidence, but his spectacular wrongness is an object lesson. Many of us are wrong in less spectacular ways, but for the same reason. It's all about the natural. Gift link. wapo.st/3R9AJUf

For anyone following the LMHR/keto brouhaha over the new study, I think Ethan is very clear and totally right about the implications.

Study financed by the beef industry finds ... Drumroll please! ... that plant protein is as good as meat for building muscle. news.illinois.edu/omnivorous-veg…

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we still have shoebill storks and people who love them

Seed oils! They're way more likely to be beneficial than harmful. BUT the evidence is meh and there is zero support for zealotry either way. Stop cherry-picking. Look at ALL the data. They just don't matter much. I gift you my incisive analysis. wapo.st/4mmy8EQ

Once again, Tamar is here to set the record straight. Or as straight as it can be given the conflicting evidence.

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Someone should do the spurious correlation with beef consumption - charts are very similar.

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More evidence that the strong correlation between physical fitness and risk of death is heavily confounded by genetics and other factors. This is a tough one for the preventive health community (including me)!