Inside Animal Ag
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Where factory farming is taking us - a compendium. The environment, animals, human health, workers, and more. The big picture on big ag - in one place. https://insideanimalag.org/
And likely took them many hours to die.
“Collateral damage” in the animal agriculture industry.
You still think our animal food system is not a cruel horrible broken and failed system? 👺Hundreds of millions of chickens perish in agony in awful sheds by floods heatwaves disease and fires. These poor birds died by failed ventilation: failing humans #LiveVegan #EndAnimalAg NOW
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
And likely took them many hours to die.
Glad they're talking about corn's environmental impacts. But use for animal feed & ethanol are not equal. Including exports for feed, silage, and the value added by DDGS, corn for animal feed is more than 60%. Ethanol still about 37%.
It was great talking with @amesalex.bsky.social for his exceptional story with @floodlightnews.org on the environmental and climate impacts of corn production. They mentioned my report with @albine14.bsky.social for @ewgofficial.bsky.social about continuous corn. floodlightnews.org/corn-ethanol...
Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint
Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
floodlightnews.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Glad they're talking about corn's environmental impacts. But use for animal feed & ethanol are not equal. Including exports for feed, silage, and the value added by DDGS, corn for animal feed is more than 60%. Ethanol still about 37%.
Just curious. One of these papers was published 25 years ago. Weren't they peer-reviewed at the time? And what took so long to figure out that Monsanto essential wrote them?
The entire glyphosate (Roundup herbicide) saga is an appalling example of politicized science and motivated reasoning. Now key anti-Roundup papers AND key pro-Roundup papers have been retracted. Worse, I'd be willing to take odds that partisans of both sides will be completely unbothered by this.
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just curious. One of these papers was published 25 years ago. Weren't they peer-reviewed at the time? And what took so long to figure out that Monsanto essential wrote them?
Bravo to the Gazette!
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Bravo to the Gazette!
This report (cited more than 1300 times) concluding glyphosate is safe was based on unpublished studies by Monsanto. No kidding! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy)This article has b…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This report (cited more than 1300 times) concluding glyphosate is safe was based on unpublished studies by Monsanto. No kidding! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The USDA does not track the number of rabbits slaughtered for food (unlike other farmed animals) but does inventory them in the Census. In 2022 there were nearly 200,000 rabbits in inventory. Slaughtered without any accountability.
Rabbit hell 👺There is no excuse. There is no sound reason. It is unethical, unjust, unjustifiably. Stop. Using. And. Abusing. Animals. Live vegan be vegan be active 🙏✊
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The USDA does not track the number of rabbits slaughtered for food (unlike other farmed animals) but does inventory them in the Census. In 2022 there were nearly 200,000 rabbits in inventory. Slaughtered without any accountability.
So horribly sad.
Tbh, a high mortality pandemic is likely our best hope this point. Our population of wilfully ignorant speciesists needs to be put in check before we run every species off the extinction cliff with us 😞
When #BirdFlu strikes 💔👺One of these days a very deadly human to human transmittable variant will arise from one of these shit hole concentration camps / factory farms .. #covid will be a walk in the park compared to that .#AnimalAg is destroying life on our planet. #EndAnimalAg NOW #LiveVegan✌️
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
So horribly sad.
I bring my vegan dishes, point out that they're vegan, and watch family & friends look for a quick way to change the conversation. Will continue. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
www.vox.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I bring my vegan dishes, point out that they're vegan, and watch family & friends look for a quick way to change the conversation. Will continue. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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“Scattered with dead bodies”At the slaughterhouse 👺Pigs who were DOA: Dead On Arrival dumped outside. A truck driver filmed this: “I wasn’t expecting to see dead pigs scattered on the ground. We really need to be more aware about the foods we consume.” Damn right he is #LiveVegan stop yr killings 🙏
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“Scattered with dead bodies”At the slaughterhouse 👺Pigs who were DOA: Dead On Arrival dumped outside. A truck driver filmed this: “I wasn’t expecting to see dead pigs scattered on the ground. We really need to be more aware about the foods we consume.” Damn right he is #LiveVegan stop yr killings 🙏
Chris Jones is right, of course. But we would clarify that it is ANIMAL agriculture that is primarily responsible. open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...
Agriculture degrades the livability of Iowa
But there's hope--it doesn't have to be that way
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Chris Jones is right, of course. But we would clarify that it is ANIMAL agriculture that is primarily responsible. open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...
Un-freaking believable. Fossil fuel lobbyists have received two thirds more passes to COP30 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate vulnerable nations combined. globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...
Over 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists attended COP30, says KBPO
Analysis reveals one in 25 of COP30 participants represent the fossil fuel industry, with over 1,600 lobbyists given access, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
globalwitness.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Un-freaking believable. Fossil fuel lobbyists have received two thirds more passes to COP30 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate vulnerable nations combined. globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...
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"It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Without showing explicit animal cruelty, this video packs a punch.
When the feeders are lifted..their end is near.👺
They lived short miserable lives.💔
For food you do not need.
Why pay for this?
#LiveVegan show your compassion ✌️
They lived short miserable lives.💔
For food you do not need.
Why pay for this?
#LiveVegan show your compassion ✌️
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Without showing explicit animal cruelty, this video packs a punch.
In this post we examine why the grazing "controversy" in the U.S. is another form of greenwashing/agricultural exceptionalism. Globally, livestock grazing is known to be the primary driver of land degradation. Nothing in the U.S. can produce a different result.
insideanimalag.org/factory-farm...
insideanimalag.org/factory-farm...
Factory Farming's Grazing "Debate" - Inside Animal Ag
The beef industry and its supporters have kept alive the notion that there is some controversy about whether grazing cattle in America is beneficial for the land. This is despite clear evidence that g...
insideanimalag.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In this post we examine why the grazing "controversy" in the U.S. is another form of greenwashing/agricultural exceptionalism. Globally, livestock grazing is known to be the primary driver of land degradation. Nothing in the U.S. can produce a different result.
insideanimalag.org/factory-farm...
insideanimalag.org/factory-farm...
Agricultural exceptionalism and greenwashing are also foundational principles of U.S. animal ag.
Report Uncovers Greenwashing by Brazilian Meat Giants Ahead of COP30 in Belém
Report Uncovers Greenwashing by Brazilian Meat Giants Ahead of COP30 in Belém
www.vegan-news.net
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Agricultural exceptionalism and greenwashing are also foundational principles of U.S. animal ag.
Meanwhile, workers in slaughterhouses and meat processing plants earn about $19 per hour. Medical benefits? Maybe... maybe not.
Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today.
The system is rigged.
The system is rigged.
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Meanwhile, workers in slaughterhouses and meat processing plants earn about $19 per hour. Medical benefits? Maybe... maybe not.
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My latest, drawing from 100+ studies:
iffs.earth/living-repor...
Years in the making, I focus on the science behind the grazing side of regenerative agriculture, comparing it with a plant-based food system that enables large-scale rewilding.
iffs.earth/living-repor...
Years in the making, I focus on the science behind the grazing side of regenerative agriculture, comparing it with a plant-based food system that enables large-scale rewilding.
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My latest, drawing from 100+ studies:
iffs.earth/living-repor...
Years in the making, I focus on the science behind the grazing side of regenerative agriculture, comparing it with a plant-based food system that enables large-scale rewilding.
iffs.earth/living-repor...
Years in the making, I focus on the science behind the grazing side of regenerative agriculture, comparing it with a plant-based food system that enables large-scale rewilding.
Eye-opening piece on "authoritarian deregulation." Of course, the major disconnect in MAHA thinking is complete avoidance of the industrial animal ag system which is, yes, killing them and the planet.
A large proportion of Americans support MAHA. It‘s killing them.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | How MAHA Is Helping Poison Americans While Claiming to Save Them
The Trump administration’s deregulatory regime is undermining MAHA’s health aims.
www.politico.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Eye-opening piece on "authoritarian deregulation." Of course, the major disconnect in MAHA thinking is complete avoidance of the industrial animal ag system which is, yes, killing them and the planet.
Well deserved!
I am humbled beyond measure to be receiving the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication from Climate One this year.
drawdown.org/news/climate...
drawdown.org/news/climate...
Climate One honors Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., with Schneider Award for climate communication
Award recognizes scientists who go above and beyond in their efforts to communicate climate change
drawdown.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Well deserved!
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Republicans want to turn the American West into a discount feedlot for special interests.
Cattle ranching on public lands degrades these sacred wild places, pushing endangered species towards extinction.
They’re handing out a blank check for more destruction
westernwatersheds.org/2025/10/new-...
Cattle ranching on public lands degrades these sacred wild places, pushing endangered species towards extinction.
They’re handing out a blank check for more destruction
westernwatersheds.org/2025/10/new-...
New Trump Proposals, Unveiled During a Government Shutdown, Benefit Narrow Commercial Beef Interests at the Expense of Western Public Lands - Western Watersheds Project
For immediate release: October 24, 2025 Media contacts: Josh Osher, Western Watersheds Project (406) 220-2883; [email protected] Chandra Rosenthal, PEER (303) 898-0798; [email protected] Li...
westernwatersheds.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Republicans want to turn the American West into a discount feedlot for special interests.
Cattle ranching on public lands degrades these sacred wild places, pushing endangered species towards extinction.
They’re handing out a blank check for more destruction
westernwatersheds.org/2025/10/new-...
Cattle ranching on public lands degrades these sacred wild places, pushing endangered species towards extinction.
They’re handing out a blank check for more destruction
westernwatersheds.org/2025/10/new-...
Factory farming plays a key role in each of the primary drivers of biodiversity loss. An immense share of that space and resources (land, water, fertile soil) are supporting farmed animals, forcing all other species to fight for survival on steadily smaller shares. insideanimalag.org/animal-ag-dr...
“Insects/invertebrates of all kinds play a crucial role in protecting our agricultural environments & food security. Urgent action is required to remedy their declining numbers or there will be dire consequences for our food production".
The web of life matters also for its own sake, not just ours!
The web of life matters also for its own sake, not just ours!
Government lacks coherent strategy on how to tackle insect decline and protect UK ecosystems, says committee of MPs
- Pesticides National Action Plan is now SEVEN years late
committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...
- Pesticides National Action Plan is now SEVEN years late
committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Factory farming plays a key role in each of the primary drivers of biodiversity loss. An immense share of that space and resources (land, water, fertile soil) are supporting farmed animals, forcing all other species to fight for survival on steadily smaller shares. insideanimalag.org/animal-ag-dr...
Great win for anyone who cares about the truth. Thank you, NY and Letitia James. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
Attorney General James Secures $1.1 Million for Climate-Smart Agriculture from World’s Largest Beef Producer
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a $1.1 million settlement with JBS USA Food Company and JBS USA Food Company Holdings (JBS
ag.ny.gov
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Great win for anyone who cares about the truth. Thank you, NY and Letitia James. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...
I am reminded of Br'er Rabbit's "Please don't throw me in the briar patch." China cries uncle & will buy our soybeans as they happily see this monocrop's environmental degradation borne by the U.S. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/10/30/f...
Farm groups 'encouraged' by trade deal with China for U.S. soybeans • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa farm groups and leadership celebrated Trump’s trade deal with China which included substantial purchases of soybeans.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I am reminded of Br'er Rabbit's "Please don't throw me in the briar patch." China cries uncle & will buy our soybeans as they happily see this monocrop's environmental degradation borne by the U.S. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/10/30/f...
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Serious question: how much more blatant does an atrocity have to be before you stop paying for it?
This is a pregnant pig, trapped in a crate so small she can’t even turn around - for three months at a time. This isn’t just horrific, it’s legal and standard practice almost everywhere. If you wouldn’t want this done to you, why pay for it to happen to her? 💔
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Serious question: how much more blatant does an atrocity have to be before you stop paying for it?
Of course we can produce more food on less land - if we grow crops for human consumption, not for animal feed and ethanol. Thanks for this interview with Rattan Lal. @ajbeamer.bsky.social @https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30102025/rattan-lal-agriculture-land-use/
Can We Produce More Food With Less Land? - Inside Climate News
Rattan Lal, one of the world’s most renowned soil scientists, says yes.
insideclimatenews.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Of course we can produce more food on less land - if we grow crops for human consumption, not for animal feed and ethanol. Thanks for this interview with Rattan Lal. @ajbeamer.bsky.social @https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30102025/rattan-lal-agriculture-land-use/