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To get out of this mess we must transition to clean energy and a plant-based food system, as well as protecting and restoring ecosystems. Animals, People, Planet – we're all connected. #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver #Vegan. Melbourne, Australia
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2024. Review: Welfare in farm animals from an animal-centered point of view. "High-performing farm animals go beyond anatomical and physiological limitations." #AnimalWelfare www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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We must move away from any reliance on Musk’s Starlink immediately. Not to be putting plans in place to do this is negligent, harmful to all Australians & is the opposite of keeping us safe #auspol

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Neoliberalism is dead. So why haven’t Australia’s leaders got the message? johnquigginblog.subs...

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NEW: Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Michelle O’Neill, announces she is boycotting White House events in response to Trump’s policy on Gaza. There are deep ties between Northern Ireland, the US & the Presidency forged during the peace process. Ties Trump is clearly shredding.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Ed Yong: "The way [avian flu risk is] often framed is: 'Tell me, on a scale of 1 to 10, how worried you are that H5N1 is going to go pandemic.' I think the more important question is, if it does, how screwed are we? And the answer is: really." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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#cats. #compassion www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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"Just Egg Becomes America’s Most Reliable Egg" It's #PlantBased vegconomist.com/businesswire...

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Dig out your ventilators/masks, friends. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/c...

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‘Wilful acts of bastardry’: former Treasury secretary says young Australian workers ‘robbed’ by tax system

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Victoria scraps ‘gag clause’ banning doctors from raising voluntary assisted dying with patients

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2025. Experiments show wild fish can recognize individual divers phys.org/news/2025-02...

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⚠️Mass deaths and rotting salmon in Tasmania’s waters. Horrific images captured yesterday show rotting salmon in cages while gross salmon chunks are washing ashore in Tasmania. This is evidence of a disgusting, out-of-control industry in crisis bobbrown.org.au/shocking-ima...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s letter to the Tasmanian salmon industry, promising new federal environmental laws to protect the foreign-owned businesses, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines government process. Media release from @browne90.bsky.social and @eloise-carr.bsky.social.

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Heinous—Trump WH/HHS is planning to likely destroy $500 million worth of stockpiled COVID tests. They could give it out for free, but then Trump and RFK Jr would have to admit COVID is serious. And minimizers don’t have the guts to admit millions died. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

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Study suggests COVID-19 infection no longer grants long-lasting immunity. "Pre-Omicron, infection meant you had 80% protection against re-infection one year later. Post-Omicron, this has fallen to 5% protection at one year" Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update: The risk estimate was up slightly to 0.3% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-295. That implies a 10% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30. #COVID19 #Australia 🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Outstanding #SundayShot debut. Yes, major tech issues, but informed, intelligent, insightful discussion w. @instanterudite.bsky.social @davemilbo.bsky.social @rachelwithers.bsky.social & @anthonyklan.bsky.social plus a stellar @richarddenniss.bsky.social interview. So so good. #auspol #AusVotes2025

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the #sundayshot this morning. Apologies if you tried to watch on YouTube - we're working on what happened there - the video will be up shortly to replay & we WILL be live next week! In the interim, you can listen to the audio below👇. shows.acast.com/the-shot-pod...

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

"Sustainable salmon farming" is an oxymoron. It's not possible. It's also cruel, polluting and a health hazard for wild living fishes. #aquaculture

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So much for hands-off research funding. www.theguardian.com/...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The elite war against public wellbeing proceeds.

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

This is disgraceful. The government's own enquiry recommended a total ban on duck shooting. The majority of Victorians detests this 'recreational' violence. It has no place in a civilised society. #cruelty www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Endlich ist es soweit: Das erste #Kulturfleisch für #Hunde ist da! Meatly und The Pack bringen einen Snack auf den Markt, der im Rahmen einer Aktion in #London verkauft wird! 👍😎🌱 ➡️ www.tumblr.com/vegansforfut...

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You're eating babies.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

“She's just a baby but she has the body of an adult bird and all the physical ailments that come with ‘ageing’.” What happens to chickens to get them into your sandwiches, onto your plates, your barbecues… is beyond horrific.

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Cruel and useless #AnimalExperimentation. A wasted $1.9 million. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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The big picture .. not just for the US. #economy #auspol

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

#BREAKING Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social announces at our #ClimateIntegrity Summit he will be introducing the Ending Fossil Fuel Exploration Bill into Parliament tomorrow! "This just brings us into line with what many leaders in the world are already doing."

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 14 days ago • 402 comments

Super Sunday. Good day for Football. Bad day for Chickens. Indeed, every day is a bad day for Chickens. While you gnosh on wings today I offer this annual reminder that in the US, we lay, hatch, grow, slaughter, bring to market, buy, cook, and eat, one million chickens per hour.

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submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

I can’t believe this needs to be said, but cutting funding for cancer research is not how you make America great. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 16 days ago • 482 comments

Agriculture Victoria has confirmed the presence of avian influenza at a poultry property in northern Victoria. "Diagnostic testing performed by the CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness at Geelong confirmed high pathogenicity H7N8" agriculture.vic.gov.au/about/media-...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

"What kind of country do we live in, where a commentator can’t retweet a clip about human rights, and a journalist can be removed for mentioning a genocide?" #auspol

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DECIMATION OF SCIENCE—Trump WH has announced it will slash NIH indirect grant support across the board to 15%… from previously 50-70% for big universities. ➡️This is what normally keeps the lights on & subsidizes tuition at major scientific institutions. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

submitted 17 days ago • 26 comments

"When cancel culture goes this far, our democracy is in peril". by Josh Bornstein. #auspol

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More bad news, at a time when it could be argued that we're downplaying the short-term role of methane in contributing to yet more warming and climate feedbacks. Over the next decade or so, methane is actually causing more warming than CO2 (see for instance bsky.app/profile/siol...)

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Another choice in solar energy generation for Australia. #renewables

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Trump telling Australia what he expects “The United States unequivocally opposes and expects our allies to oppose any ICC actions against the United States, Israel, or any other ally of the United States that has not consented to ICC jurisdiction. “

submitted 18 days ago • 56 comments

That and the subsidies for fossil fuels. In Australia in 2021, it was $359.5 per capita - much more than for example the US ($28.16), the UK (38.04) or NZ ($3.70). Source: Hanna Ritchie, Our World in Data. ourworldindata.org/how-much-sub...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Petition We ask the House to fix the exploitation of Australia’s resources while offering minimal return to the people. We demand royalty schemes that give back to the Australian people who own this land. The era of unchecked profits at the expense of ordinary citizens is over. #auspol

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments