Jan Dutkiewicz
@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Pratt Institute
Contributing Writer at Vox
Contributing Editor at The New Republic
Feed the People! (w/ Gabriel Rosenberg) in 2026 from Basic Books
A book on meat in the works
www.jandutkiewicz.com
Contributing Writer at Vox
Contributing Editor at The New Republic
Feed the People! (w/ Gabriel Rosenberg) in 2026 from Basic Books
A book on meat in the works
www.jandutkiewicz.com
Reposted by Jan Dutkiewicz
Just in time for your Thanksgiving feast, @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I killjoy the gay ram story over at @newrepublic.com. Sorry, but *all* animal farming is predicated on exploiting the sex of farm animals. Oh, and those rams (probably) ain't gay. Enjoy!
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
The Internet Loves These “Gay Sheep.” The Real Story Is Much Darker.
A much-hyped fashion show with wool from “gay rams” obscures the brutal reality of an industry that exploits sheep sexuality at every turn.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Just in time for your Thanksgiving feast, @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I killjoy the gay ram story over at @newrepublic.com. Sorry, but *all* animal farming is predicated on exploiting the sex of farm animals. Oh, and those rams (probably) ain't gay. Enjoy!
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture.
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
The Internet Loves These “Gay Sheep.” The Real Story Is Much Darker.
A much-hyped fashion show with wool from “gay rams” obscures the brutal reality of an industry that exploits sheep sexuality at every turn.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture.
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
This is key: "Atlanta officials spent years trying to lure major chain grocery stores to neighborhoods that don’t offer residents big supermarkets with fresh, healthy food [but] large private operators have been reluctant to open a store in poorer neighborhoods." Gov't addressing a market failure.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is key: "Atlanta officials spent years trying to lure major chain grocery stores to neighborhoods that don’t offer residents big supermarkets with fresh, healthy food [but] large private operators have been reluctant to open a store in poorer neighborhoods." Gov't addressing a market failure.
Got some feel-good Thanksgiving pre-dinner reading coming for you tomorrow.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Got some feel-good Thanksgiving pre-dinner reading coming for you tomorrow.
"as negotiations with EU governments begin, the amendment that everyone assumed would die in the first round is still standing — not because it has a powerful constituency behind it, but because almost no one is expending political capital to bury it."
[facepalm]
www.politico.eu/article/vegg...
[facepalm]
www.politico.eu/article/vegg...
How a ‘veggie burger’ ban nobody wanted became one Brussels might actually pass
A fringe amendment to protect meaty vocabulary has become a test of Europe’s loyalty to tradition and its waning appetite for food innovation.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"as negotiations with EU governments begin, the amendment that everyone assumed would die in the first round is still standing — not because it has a powerful constituency behind it, but because almost no one is expending political capital to bury it."
[facepalm]
www.politico.eu/article/vegg...
[facepalm]
www.politico.eu/article/vegg...
reading an econ paper where the authors contrast animal welfare to consumer welfare, equating animal suffering with consumer costs as if these were commensurable. was ready to angrily rail against econ conservatism when i remembered this is exactly what a whole lot of leftists said about egg prices.
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
reading an econ paper where the authors contrast animal welfare to consumer welfare, equating animal suffering with consumer costs as if these were commensurable. was ready to angrily rail against econ conservatism when i remembered this is exactly what a whole lot of leftists said about egg prices.
A no-fly zone on February 25, 2022 - then dismissed as a non-starter - would likely have been the best shot at saving countless lives and avoiding the grim situation today.
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A no-fly zone on February 25, 2022 - then dismissed as a non-starter - would likely have been the best shot at saving countless lives and avoiding the grim situation today.
Now that the book is on the way to the printers and book-adjacent writing is all out, @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and I are back in the saddle co-authoring all new articles about the monsters that hide in the forgotten corners of the food system. And man oh man do we have a good one coming next week.
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Now that the book is on the way to the printers and book-adjacent writing is all out, @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and I are back in the saddle co-authoring all new articles about the monsters that hide in the forgotten corners of the food system. And man oh man do we have a good one coming next week.
Feed the People! comes out in 3 months. I can't wait to see this book out in the world and am deeply honored by the kind words so many people I respect deeply had for it.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Feed the People! comes out in 3 months. I can't wait to see this book out in the world and am deeply honored by the kind words so many people I respect deeply had for it.
bot popularism
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
bot popularism
Bitcoin, a completely speculative asset, denominated in the very fiat currencies it purports to replace, burns energy with no appreciable reflection of that resource extraction in its value, which itself hinges on nothing but hype, and brings no social benefit. Shouldn't be allowed to exist.
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Bitcoin, a completely speculative asset, denominated in the very fiat currencies it purports to replace, burns energy with no appreciable reflection of that resource extraction in its value, which itself hinges on nothing but hype, and brings no social benefit. Shouldn't be allowed to exist.
Reposted by Jan Dutkiewicz
More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds
More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds
Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found.
The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation by DeSmog and the Guardian. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds
Another one bites the dust. Two weeks after JBS settled a false advertising lawsuit with the NYAG to stop making "net zero" claims, Tyson has just settled in D.C. about its own "net zero" claims. There is no such thing as low-emissions or carbon-neutral cattle.
aldf.org/article/tyso...
aldf.org/article/tyso...
Tyson Foods Agrees to Stop Making 'Net-zero' and 'Climate-smart Beef' Claims
Lawsuit alleged Tyson Foods falsely claimed it will be net-zero by 2050 and marketed its industrial beef products as “climate-smart”
aldf.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Another one bites the dust. Two weeks after JBS settled a false advertising lawsuit with the NYAG to stop making "net zero" claims, Tyson has just settled in D.C. about its own "net zero" claims. There is no such thing as low-emissions or carbon-neutral cattle.
aldf.org/article/tyso...
aldf.org/article/tyso...
If you're around NYC on December 3rd, I'm giving a talk at Pratt's CritViz symposium about the commoditization of the idea of "animal welfare."
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If you're around NYC on December 3rd, I'm giving a talk at Pratt's CritViz symposium about the commoditization of the idea of "animal welfare."
Finishing a chapter on this issue now, but my hot food system take is that every dollar and hour spent on pushing corporations to self-regulate and "improve animal welfare" within factory farming systems (as opposed to pushing legislation like Prop 12) has been a monumental waste.
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Finishing a chapter on this issue now, but my hot food system take is that every dollar and hour spent on pushing corporations to self-regulate and "improve animal welfare" within factory farming systems (as opposed to pushing legislation like Prop 12) has been a monumental waste.
also the canadian kids. this is now a screamo revival stan account apparently.
terrygreen.bandcamp.com/track/easy-2
terrygreen.bandcamp.com/track/easy-2
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
also the canadian kids. this is now a screamo revival stan account apparently.
terrygreen.bandcamp.com/track/easy-2
terrygreen.bandcamp.com/track/easy-2
I hope everyone now realizes that the culture war is not about anything particular, but about perpetuating the culture war itself. Placating the culture warriors is a losing strategy.
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I hope everyone now realizes that the culture war is not about anything particular, but about perpetuating the culture war itself. Placating the culture warriors is a losing strategy.
True story: Rumors about this were rife in the late 90s. When I was much younger and living in Europe, I wrote a novella (admittedly not great) that drew on this idea for part of its plot. An editor at a press read it and called it "disgusting and not credible."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
True story: Rumors about this were rife in the late 90s. When I was much younger and living in Europe, I wrote a novella (admittedly not great) that drew on this idea for part of its plot. An editor at a press read it and called it "disgusting and not credible."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
the kids are alright
lagrimascrust.bandcamp.com/album/im-not...
lagrimascrust.bandcamp.com/album/im-not...
im not strong enough for this, by lagrimas
5 track album
lagrimascrust.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
the kids are alright
lagrimascrust.bandcamp.com/album/im-not...
lagrimascrust.bandcamp.com/album/im-not...
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Proponents of animal welfare point to survey after survey showing Americans care about animal welfare, but while that's the case, Americans tend to know next to nothing about the food system. That's why "humane," "free-range," and other claims appeal, because they seem like viable options.
Proponents of animal welfare point to survey after survey showing Americans care about animal welfare, but while that's the case, Americans tend to know next to nothing about the food system. That's why "humane," "free-range," and other claims appeal, because they seem like viable options.
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
😬
Proponents of animal welfare point to survey after survey showing Americans care about animal welfare, but while that's the case, Americans tend to know next to nothing about the food system. That's why "humane," "free-range," and other claims appeal, because they seem like viable options.
Proponents of animal welfare point to survey after survey showing Americans care about animal welfare, but while that's the case, Americans tend to know next to nothing about the food system. That's why "humane," "free-range," and other claims appeal, because they seem like viable options.
so the washington post is now basically the new york post
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
so the washington post is now basically the new york post
Does anyone else feel that the "AI sentience" stuff is first going to be really used in a court of law so that companies can shunt legal responsibility for actions like these (or worse) onto the machine itself? It wasn't me, it was the dog. Put the dog down.
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Does anyone else feel that the "AI sentience" stuff is first going to be really used in a court of law so that companies can shunt legal responsibility for actions like these (or worse) onto the machine itself? It wasn't me, it was the dog. Put the dog down.
Reposted by Jan Dutkiewicz
The world's biggest meatpacker, JBS, claimed in its adverts: "Bacon, chicken wings and steak with net-zero emissions. It’s possible."
But it never seemed to have a plan to make this happen. So now it's paying $1.1 million to settle a false advertising case
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
But it never seemed to have a plan to make this happen. So now it's paying $1.1 million to settle a false advertising case
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
The Meat Advertising Case That Should Be Talked About at COP30
JBS’s false advertising settlement comes as Big Ag prepares to spread propaganda at the U.N. climate conference.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The world's biggest meatpacker, JBS, claimed in its adverts: "Bacon, chicken wings and steak with net-zero emissions. It’s possible."
But it never seemed to have a plan to make this happen. So now it's paying $1.1 million to settle a false advertising case
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
But it never seemed to have a plan to make this happen. So now it's paying $1.1 million to settle a false advertising case
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Brazilian meat giant JBS just settled a false advertising lawsuit with the NYAG for a million dollars. It's a small win, but it shines a light on the pervasiveness of greenwashing by the meat industry, which will only get worse at COP30.
My latest @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
My latest @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
The Meat Advertising Case That Should Be Talked About at COP30
JBS’s false advertising settlement comes as Big Ag prepares to spread propaganda at the U.N. climate conference.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Brazilian meat giant JBS just settled a false advertising lawsuit with the NYAG for a million dollars. It's a small win, but it shines a light on the pervasiveness of greenwashing by the meat industry, which will only get worse at COP30.
My latest @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
My latest @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2028...