The FAO has degenerated into a disinformation outlet. It's a disgraceful abandonment of its mission, to favour corporate interests. Important report by Arthur Neslen climatechangenews.com/2024/08/14/fao…

€700M just approved for Dutch farmers to stop their livestock farming in priority areas and rewild This is a smart way forward to support farmers to drawdown carbon & restore biodiversity that financially (& intrinsically) is worth more in the long run. ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Why is this not happening in Ireland??

Top 3 countries in dirtiest diets by per capita emissions: 1. Australia 🇦🇺 2. Brazil 🇧🇷 3. Canada 🇨🇦 These are also the top 3 in per capita beef emissions. All three are top 10 beef producers conducting mass deforestation for ranching. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Yet another compelling #transfarmation path to help sentient animal farmers move to a compassionate, planet-friendly #SentientistAgriculture... #Agrivoltaics x.com/NicholasDCarte…

Rarely should you trust eco certifications and labels. Instead, just consume less, and opt out of the highest impact options. Labels like MSC are so easily corrupted and used to greenwash. The ‘shifting baselines’ tactic underlines so much of their use: fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/artic…

Read my opinion piece in Environment+Energy Leader on how the Food and Agriculture Organization various reports on #animalagriculture and #climate got hijacked by Big Livestock and what the FAO must do to address this A short 🧵🪡 environmentenergyleader.com/2024/08/op-ed-…

Rangefed Beef - the worst food choice for the planet. Yet BLM & USFS have developed a system of elaborate lies to cover up the crimes against land water wildlife - and permanent loss - from inflicting cows on public lands.

US ag industry spends more on lobbying than defence & oil “Unlike other prolific lobbyists, such as the energy, defence or tobacco industries, agriculture projects a wholesome public image of bucolic pastures and earthy men and women tending to livestock” archive.ph/5k0ue

A rancher baited this historic new wolf pack with a pile of sheep carcasses that he neglected until they starved. Then he complained to the state that the wolves were killing sheep. Now the government is trapping the first wolves born in Colorado in nearly a century.

Manufactured problem: the idea that there’s an inordinate amount of energy/funding/attention on disinfo or that disinfo research is in conflict with ensuring just transition. the argument here is that $ that should be going to rural outreach is going to disinfo instead, but…

We are shaped by our surroundings In a new study at a French university, where the availability of veg options was doubled, only 6% of customers noticed the menu change, yet veg meal choices increased by 96% 4-week experiment of 37,299 main meal choices: ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Increasing veg options, or making it the default, is an extremely scaleable, popular, and effective way for food services to reduce their carbon footprint. Read some more of my analysis here: faunalytics.org/tactics-in-pra…

Take heed, literally everyone. There’s absolutely no reason not to do this everywhere that food is served.

When we call for changing #FoodEnvironments as they shape consumers' food choices, this 👇 is what we mean. Make the healthy and sustainable choice the easy, default one! #PutChangeOnTheMenu