Honeybees are the fastest growing livestock segment! We can stop worrying about them now, please! washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Happy #WorldBeeDay

Let's be sure to think about climate resiliency, biodiversity conservation & sustainable agriculture on this day and every day!!!

#WorldBeeDay

On World Bee Day, follow Sheila Colla, Ph.D for the best guidance, and to see the absolute throng of major conservation orgs who have no clue that overabundant honeybees threaten *thousands* of native bee species.

Many suggest that reforestation in temperate climates (US/Europe) is maladaptive bc trees would lead to local heating, even while sequestering carbon. Models support this. But new synthesis of Eastern US reforestation finds local *cooling* really occurred e360.yale.edu/digest/eastern…

We’re getting the story of bird flu backward. The way that we farm animals in the U.S. and the world is amplifying costly and potentially deadly pathogens. My latest for The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/181451…

'There are lots of incentives to keep [poultry and dairy] producers producing longer than is economically viable. So change those incentives to give producers the most options—let them get out if they want to get out.'
newrepublic.com/article/181451…

The Dept. of Agriculture approved a 'climate-friendly beef' label, but no one can see their data. Despite claims of transparency from Tyson Foods, EDF, and the TNC Climate, every equation and finding in their report was redacted. insideclimatenews.org/news/08052024/…

As Matthew Hayek and I wrote last year, the USDA signed off on a Tyson Foods product promising reduced emissions. But reduced from what? Rather than clarify this key question, the USDA told us to FOIA it. Now
EWG FOIA'd it ... but the math is redacted.
newrepublic.com/article/175337…

Sentient’s Jessica Scott-Reid, M.A. fact-checks Common Ground, the new documentary from the filmmakers of Kiss the Ground.

Edit: *low-quality, non-case-controlled* evidence against ultra-processed food piles up

None of these studies control for UPF consumption apart from the effects of components/processes we *already know* are unhealthy: refined grains, sugar, SFAs npr.org/sections/healt…

General Mills is yet another food corp with a paltry net-zero plan. The headline is about emissions cuts, but their only apparent strategy is 'regenerative ag'. Those grazing methods are a *practice*, with mixed GHG results. Not a measurable GHG *outcome* fooddive.com/news/general-m…

This is Gould plaza. This is New York University response to yesterday’s protests. I am old enough to remember when American intellectual and political leaders called for tearing down walls. Meanwhile, no word on next steps, town halls, or, you know, discourse. Just arrests and walls.

The USDA held back information and scrubbed crucial location information to protect dairy industry. Agriculture’s regulatory bubble is driving us straight into faster spread, mutations, and spillover risk of bird flu strains with pandemic potential.

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…

This is hugely important to watch.

The UN FAO has been misrepresenting the impact of dietary change on reducing greenhouse gas emissions — ignoring widely known scientific results.

The real question is why?

theguardian.com/environment/20…