Can you stomach looking the truth of 'humane' milk?
'Dairy cows are repeatedly inseminated or bred, calved, and separated from their babies. They are milked twice a day. And when their bodies begin to give out, they keep getting milked until they are euthanized or slaughtered.'

The greatness of Iowa ag is so immense that they need government to force people to consume their output
iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/meat-la… via Iowa Capital Dispatch

'...dairy cows are repeatedly inseminated or bred, calved, and separated from their babies. They are milked twice a day. And when their bodies begin to give out, they keep getting milked until they are euthanized or slaughtered.'

Thank you Annie Lowrey Farm Forward Andrew deCoriolis!…

Must-read. I didn't realize this: organic milk producers can't give their animals antibiotics, and apparently many of them resort to horrible quack cures like packing eye infections with salt.

Extraordinary Annie Lowrey piece on the abject misery behind America's biggest regenerative dairy, 'esteemed by chefs, politicians, & advocates for humane agriculture,' told through the story of one terrified cow. More reporting on animal ag like this plz
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I've spent a lot of the last six months working on this story about reports of abuse at one of the country's most-esteemed, certified-humane dairy farms. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I worked on this story for a year and he just... tweeted it out twitter.com/CompletedStree…

In Paris, just 4.3% -- 4.3%!! -- of the trips within the colored areas now occur in private cars.

Source: institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-tr…

Global soy production — what is it used for?

me writing drafts

Learning a lot abt how dairy cows are trucked across the US throughout their lives—a *possible* bird flu transmission mechanism — & it's sad as hell. You can entirely avoid supporting a system that fuels zoonotic risk, gargantuan emissions & animal cruelty by drinking soy milk🫘

almost every time I feel unsafe in New York City it’s not because of crime on the subways, but reckless drivers

this killer driver had 5 school zone speed violations and should have had his car impounded long ago

I wrote about the untold story of Arab Jews — and how they formed a solidarity movement with Palestinians, producing joint magazines, street protests, and a vision for peace.

You can't understand Israel-Palestine without understanding them. Please read!

vox.com/world-politics…

So soooo proud of the brilliant Sigal Samuel's feature on what the Mizrahi Jewish experience tells us about what made Israel 'unable to imagine coexistence with an Arab people.' Beautiful art curation courtesy of Paige Vickers

vox.com/world-politics…

Over Vox, Sigal Samuel has a deeply researched and personal story about the hidden history of Mizrahi - and what they could mean for the future of Israel vox.com/world-politics…

for those who'd like another reason to be a vegetarian telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

“Drive-throughs, perhaps more than any other single building style, work against [safer, cleaner, and more walkable] livability goals.“

Drive throughs suck. Marina Bolotnikova vox.com/the-highlight/…

Wrote about D.C.’s remarkable post-Covid transit recovery, and what other cities can learn from its experiment. (The short version is: Don’t fear deficits! Transit is a public service, and the better it is, the more people will use it.) vox.com/cities-and-urb…

North Carolina: Bird flu detected in cattle

Brings the number of U.S. states with confirmed bird flu in cattle to seven. wral.com/story/bird-flu…

This is wild: California senators want to exempt factory farms from the state's animal cruelty law.

If their bill, SB-921, passes, any practice the *industry* thinks is 'routine and acceptable' is presumed legal.

This is like a bill to exempt coal power from environmental laws.