The Big Beautiful Bill is a massive transfer of wealth from hungry, poor Americans, to millionaires and giant meat and dairy companies. It's a real grab bag of big ag interests: manure biogas, price supports for dairy companies. Read my take on the bill: sentientmedia.org/house-gop-want…

The govt is abandoning what could be one of our best defenses against a bird flu outbreak by pulling $766 million in funding it had committed to Moderna for a bird flu vaccine. The same week Moderna shared promising early trial results. 🔗 washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05…

“The disagreement is really not whether or not we should be cutting taxes and giving tax breaks to big companies and millionaires and billionaires, but whether we should cut more social safety net programs to pay for it.” sentientmedia.org/house-gop-want…

Under Trump, the Dept. of Agriculture scrubbed climate change info from its websites—a move designed to downplay industrial agriculture’s massive role in fueling the climate crisis. After pressure from farmers & environmental groups, the USDA will restore climate change info on its websites.

In 2024 we published an animal abuse investigation into Alexandre Family Farm. Despite 1000s of video & photos proof, they denied wrongdoing. Today we published Dept. of Agriculture docs confirming our findings. The kicker—Alexandre admitted it to avoid losing Organic cert farmforward.com/news/usda-conf…

📢 BREAKING: The USDA confirmed our allegations against Alexandre Family Farm. They violated organic + animal welfare standards—and privately admitted to doing so. A cruelty lawsuit is now moving forward. A historic first for farmed animals in CA. farmforward.com/news/usda-conf…

This year’s Farm Bill could restrict what foods SNAP participants are allowed to buy, under the guise of promoting “healthy eating.” But there’s no talk of cutting subsidies for ultra-processed meat, dairy, or eggs from factory farms. 🔗: sentientmedia.org/house-gop-want…

Tillamook wants you to picture small Oregon farms. But most of its milk comes from Threemile Canyon Farms—a 30,000-cow factory farm tied to methane emissions, water pollution, and labor exploitation. It’s humanewashing—plain and simple. 🔗 ambrook.com/offrange/suppl…

JBS, the world’s largest meat company, just joined the NYSE. It’s a win for Wall Street—and a loss for animals, workers, and the planet. Behind the profits: bribery, deforestation, antibiotic overuse, and extreme animal cruelty. 🔗 Read more: wsj.com/articles/the-w…

The meat industry has a child labor problem. The Department of Labor’s various investigations have uncovered illegal child employment in the supply chain of large meat companies, leading to millions of dollars in fines.

"The truth is that, in a broken system, all efforts at change are difficult. It’s like trying to build a sand castle on a beach where waves crash and destroy everything you’ve made." This powerful essay from @simpleheartblog is a must-read. blog.simpleheart.org/p/the-bitter-l…

Bird Flu is far from over: Why the worst could be yet to come. My latest with Gail Hansen in The Hill. thehill.com/opinion/health…

For years, many believed trying to persuade people to eat less meat was a dead end. But a new study found a 16-min clip of Dominion made college students less likely to choose meat—even a week later. No call to action. Just the truth about factory farming. vox.com/future-perfect…

Bird flu worsens while USDA caves to industry pressure. Our ED @AndrewdeCorroil exposes how $365M in taxpayer bailouts went to repeat offenders while vaccines were abandoned. "Our food safety system is fundamentally broken." #BirdFlu thehill.com/opinion/health…

The House approved a budget that boosts subsidies for factory farm gas and biofuels—false climate solutions that prop up Big Ag at the expense of animals, workers, and the planet. So-called “renewable” gas is just methane from manure. 💰🐄💨 iatp.org/house-budget-b…

Less than 5% of people on Medicaid are able bodied people of working age and not already working. The idea that this tiny pool is going to replace millions of farm labor jobs is a fever dream. Don't believe me, just ask farmers or folks who run slaughterhouses.