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The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown. This week's column is on the latest delusions about how we might produce our food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

It’s day 4 of #NoMeatMay & we’re focusing on chickens, the most abused animal on the planet. The mega farms where they are bred, never seeing the sun, are sources of air & water pollution. Read the Animal Sentience Act here: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/22 @nomeatmay.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The thing is, frugality is also crucial to address climate change, and important for health too!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

A University of Portsmouth study finds that personal values such as frugailty, fairness, solidarity, and a dislike of waste are more likely to inspire sustainable food choices than warnings about climate change or health. www.fruitnet.com/fresh-produc...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

1. This is a thread about why Food Waste is so often, and wrongly, identified as the major problem with the food system. Yes, it's an issue, but in the rich world, it's far smaller than many others. It’s massively over-emphasised, while other, far more important problems, are ignored and avoided. 🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

“If you abuse millions of animals in a systematic, industrial process, you’re hailed for your business acumen. That’s an uncomfortable contradiction at the heart of modern dining,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Hilarious account of a fight against a disaster: "For more than 150 years... the grazing regime in the West has been a slow-moving environmental catastrophe, & there’s no sign of let-up. Conservation biologists have called it the 'most insidious & pervasive threat' to biodiversity on rangelands..."

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

"if we all stopped consuming animals and permanently swapped to plant-based food, we could return 3.1 billion hectares of farmland to forests and natural grasslands." That's the size of the US, China, the EU & Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 would be removed each year. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

Consuming More Plant Protein May Aid Healthier Aging In Women by @GrrlScientist via Substack #health⚕️ #PlantBased🌱 #women #aging #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/consuming-...

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

A team of marine biologists from the NGO Condrik Tenerife have documented the first ever recorded sighting of a deep-sea black devil anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) in daylight near the surface, just two kilometers off the coast of Tenerife. #Nature #Animals #Science

submitted 95 days ago • 21 comments

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 101 days ago • 355 comments