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Illinois unlawfully restricts your right to paddle rivers. Federal law sets a floor—states can expand access, not restrict it. Iowa & Indiana offer more freedom than Illinois, something every Illinoisan should find embarrassing! Tell your legislator to fix this. prairierivers.org/action-items...

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"These people protected US forests & lands. Their jobs have now vanished due to Trump. 'There are a lot of people saying the national parks are going to be trashed. This is more than just trashed parks. This is the future of our ecosystems and our public lands.'" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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My paper "Compounded extraction: An examination of early agro-extractivism in the US Heartland" is out today at EPE: Nature and Space. I argue that the land grants, particularly the railroad and education ones, used the land itself to bootstrap extractivist ag-centered development activities. 1/

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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 12 days ago • 805 comments

unfortunately for rfk I've worked on farms for years and I'm still on ssris and autistic so I hope he's got a plan b

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting (not really tho) that Booker, a guy who has carved out a niche for himself as a bold ag reform guy, ends up joining Republicans in voting in Trumps Sec of Ag

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Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land. A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons. grist.org/justice/biso... #Prison #Incarceration #Jails #Climate #Tribes

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

fine with this tbh. You should be punished for buying a jeep

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

#DailyGood 🦬❤️ www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tribal-bison...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Me in @civileats.com about California defining "regenerative agriculture": "We support California’s attempt, but they obviously need to include specific practices, a way to measure the benefits of these practices, a way to show that there are water or climate benefits." civileats.com/2025/02/05/c...

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Draining #peat swamp forests & #mangroves generates 48% of land-use change #carbon emissions in SE #Asia. Although #peatlands & mangroves make only 5.4% of its land area, restoring carbon-dense #ecosystems can contribute substantially to #climatechange mitigation… (1/2) doi.org/10.1038/s414...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

“What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?” Noura Erakat:

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Erasing Vilsack. 90% of those farmers voted for Trump. The temptation for Iowa democrats to double down on past ag paradigms like ethanol, usda programs etc to win votes will be overpowering www.wqad.com/article/news...

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#Meta-analysis of life cycle assessments of #cattle production shows the effect of their diet on the #carbon footprint of #beef: Increasing #grazing (or hay intake) vs concentrate feed increases the carbon #footprint of beef… (1/x) chair-energy-prosperity.org/publications... #LCA

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This Day in Labor History: February 8, 1887. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Severalty Act into law. The Dawes Act created a process to split up Indian reservations in order to create individual parcels of land and then sell the remainder off to white settlers.

submitted 23 days ago • 44 comments

Leah Slick Driscoll had to reroute her family's vacation plans ten times due to E. coli contamination of Iowa's public beaches. This is just one result of Big Ag's underregulated nitrate pollution. 💩

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

submitted 24 days ago • 97 comments

DOGE operative Marko Elez got the ability to alter US Treasury payment system code on Feb 1, WIRED's sources say. For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story. Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."

submitted 24 days ago • 132 comments

PL 480 was notoriously created to dispose of surplus ag commodities created by productivist policies: it was a subsidy to American farmers. In-kind food aid often encroached on local food production and disrupted local agricultural systems. But hey who needs to study history when you can code?

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Thinking about this piece in the context of the ubiquity of antitrust in progressive ag/food policy "Progressives therefore had three main demands: direct regulation of consumer prices, the unionization of workers, and taxation... Antitrust was absent. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

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Scoop: The Trump admin has quietly issued stop work orders on projects funded under contracts with the Energy Department that reference community benefit plans, an attempt to target a crucial part of Biden’s environmental justice legacy cc @heatmap.news heatmap.news/politics/tru...

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

when you notice a serious error in the work of an academic rival

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"Attempts by antimonopolists in the Biden Administration to turn a campaign against monopoly into the cornerstone of the progressive fight against economic inequality produced a set of quixotic initiatives." New: Ramsi Woodcock on antitrust enforcement, taxation, and price regulation

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Today’s launch of the Land Use consultation is an important step. Land is a finite resource, and we have multiple demands on it for biodiversity, ecosystem services, food, timber, minerals, housing, energy and infrastructure. A strategic plan is essential if we are to reconcile these different uses.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 30 days ago • 32 comments

Been reading through the Government's new Land Use Consultation. Here's the juiciest bits I've seen so far! An excellent, bold proposal to spare 9% of England's least-productive land for nature & carbon - restoring peat bogs & regenerating woods - & changes to ag land use over a further 10% /1

submitted 31 days ago • 28 comments

Millions of bison, wolves, grizzly, elk once lived in the biodiverse Central Grasslands between Canada & Mexico. Now depleted by livestock production, this ecosystem can be restored by protecting and reintroducing black-tailed prairie dogs #rewild onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

It will never stop being wild that states use an optional survey to determine the amount of fertilizer & pesticide being applied on agricultural lands in a state. Completely voluntary. Data used for "education" not compliance No wonder we have crap water quality www.mda.state.mn.us/pesticide-an...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Please share this with the coolest, sharpest graduate students in your life!

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

also, another example that climate change is a justice issue: more extreme precipitation means more pollution harming frontline communities and local ecosystems. And true 'climate smart ag' must therefore also intervene to put a stop to water pollution, of which ag is the leading cause.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

agree here that RFK is downstream from food movement progressives' willingness to tolerate the 'bunkum' in pursuit of worthy anticorporate goals. Pseudoscience has been used to craft some VERY powerful and mobilizing narratives, which were effective short term, but now we're dealing with the fallout

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

deepseek is obviously the best thing to ever happen to the hope of an "AI future" that tech world has been obsessed with for the past several years and the fact that they're all crying and screaming about it is both very telling and very funny

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🗽📑 Common Wealth is launching a new US research & policy program. Trump has returned to power. The far right is becoming even more cemented in US politics. 🧵 We must build an alternative progressive political project. But what would this look like? www.common-wealth.org/publications...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

listen I am diagnosed asd level 1 and I am officially giving you all permission to call elon a nazi. you have the pass to call that man a moron

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Take it from someone who has spent a lot of time working on farms- farms are workplaces, and working on farms does not make you any more virtuous or whole than working in a factory or anywhere else. And it's certainly not the solution to health crises www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/h...

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

Dear lord, hasn’t enough hogwash been excreted about American farms already? “We’re going to build hundreds of healing farms where American kids can reconnect to America’s soil, where they can learn the discipline of hard work that rebuilds self-esteem and where they can master new skills,”

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

on my hobby horse There's nothing ecological about this situation, and there's no way to stop it just by promoting organic/regen/circular/local systems. If you support those things that's fine, but it's still critical to consider what else is required of a sustainable food system.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment