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Annette Jorgensen

@ajorgensen.bsky.social
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Environmental Sociologist. Homesteader. Immigrant. Ethical Ⓥegan. Animal & environmental justice. Critical Animal (and Media) Studies. Co Leitrim, Ireland. She/her. Free 🇵🇸

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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Please give this account a follow and support the campaign to ban fox hunting in Ireland. The world is in an awful state, let’s make it better, one tiny step at a time 💚
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Ireland has a unique opportunity to ban fox hunting for good on Dec 17th. Please follow this campaign and help make it happen. #banfoxhunting #banfoxhuntingireland #Speirgorm #Irishsky
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Irish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Support the Bill to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland 🦊 Background & call to action here 👉 iwt.ie/support-the-... @banbloodsports.bsky.social @irishenvnet.bsky.social #BanFoxHunting
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Support the Bill to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland - Irish Wildlife Trust
The Irish Wildlife Trust supports the Bill to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland. We are calling for a free vote for all TDs on this Bill. It is an amendment to the Animal Health and Welfare Act (2013) which ...
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🦊 HEADS UP! 🦊 Ireland has a real chance to ban foxhunting right now. Chasing terrified foxes on horseback with hounds is cruel and barbaric. Please support our campaign on Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DRFtSTVDT6... #banfoxhunting #SpeirGorm
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Rural Ireland Against Fox Hunting on Instagram: "On Dec 17th, 2025, the Dail will vote on whether to ban fox hunting in Ireland. Fox hunting sees riders on horseback and packs of dogs chase a terrifie...
150 likes, 8 comments - ban_fox_hunting_ireland on November 15, 2025: "On Dec 17th, 2025, the Dail will vote on whether to ban fox hunting in Ireland. Fox hunting sees riders on horseback and packs of...
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Niamh Kirk @niamhkirk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Drummer says #foxhunting is disgusting and should be banned. #speirgorm
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Uplift Ireland @uplift.ie · 18/11/2025
Love foxes? Ban Fox hunting 👉 my.uplift.ie/petitions/en... #uplift #SpeirGorm
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🦊 HEADS UP! 🦊 Ireland has a real chance to ban foxhunting right now. Chasing terrified foxes on horseback with hounds is cruel and barbaric. Please support our campaign on Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DRFtSTVDT6... #banfoxhunting #SpeirGorm
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Rural Ireland Against Fox Hunting on Instagram: "On Dec 17th, 2025, the Dail will vote on whether to ban fox hunting in Ireland. Fox hunting sees riders on horseback and packs of dogs chase a terrifie...
150 likes, 8 comments - ban_fox_hunting_ireland on November 15, 2025: "On Dec 17th, 2025, the Dail will vote on whether to ban fox hunting in Ireland. Fox hunting sees riders on horseback and packs of...
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
If you prefer your #ruralpursuits cruelty free - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
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Petition to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland
Can you support this campaign to bring in legislation banning the hunting of foxes using packs of dogs and horses?
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
It’s an easy choice, Ireland. Do you want a President with intelligence, integrity and grace, or a representative of the landlord ruling class who care nothing for ordinary people’s lives? There really is only one option. #twip
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Good luck to everyone at #IAVS2025 this weekend. Storm has taken our internet, but we hope to tune in soon. Looks like a great programme: www.vegansociology.com/wp-content/u... #vegansociology #criticalanimalstudies #humananimalstudies
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
North Cork Creameries is a member of Bord Bia's 'Origin Green' greenwashing programme despite 125 non-compliance notices since 2020 and listing on the EPA's top polluter watchlist 🙈 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached
Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
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Ella McSweeney @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Public records about North Cork Creameries - a company that is a "leading supplier of butter to the internationally renowned Kerrygold brand" - paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Rules to protect Ireland’s fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached
Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
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Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
A brilliant piece by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social in the @irishtimes.com this morning highlights the lack of enforcement of environmental legislation. North Cork Creameries (a member of Bord Bia’s Origin Green programme) has been issued with 125 non-compliance notices since 2020.
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EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached
Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"To me, personally, the lough is dead. It's not dying, it is dead." Realistically, nobody seems to care" - how will we explain to future generations that we allowed this to happen? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Blue-green algae: Lough Neagh 'already dead', says fisherman
Dozens of protestors gathered to voice their concerns over a perceived lack of action on Lough Neagh.
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Hey #CriticalAnimalStudies people. I’m looing for a nice academic source that argues that our failure to see nonhuman animals as sentient individuals is a major cause of the ecological crisis or that the only way to solve the crisis is to recognise them as such, or something to that effect?
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Animal Rebellion Ireland @animalrebelsire.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This very short video by @ethicalfarmie.bsky.social clearly shows the horrors of #LiveExport. Young Irish bulls are still being subjected to this and even shipped outside the EU where the EU 'protections' don't apply. This needs to end now!
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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Virtually all chickens are bred to grow grotesquely large, kept indoors in crammed conditions their whole lives, killed as babies in the most gruesome way at a rate of 140 birds or more per minute. For the planet and for all animals boycott animal ag. #vegan www.onegreenplanet.org/news/new-stu...
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New Study Links Eating Chicken to Higher Death Risk
New research finds eating over 300g of chicken a week raises mortality risk—by up to 61% in men—sparking fresh concern over poultry.
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Save Lough Neagh @saveloughneagh.com · 22/04/2025
This Earth Day - Stand up against the Sportswashing of Ecocide! Moy Park is the most valuable company in the north, despite being mired with eco scandals. Pollution from major polluters like them have led to the growth of toxic Algae in Lough Neagh, #BelfastMarathon
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Animal Rebellion Ireland @animalrebelsire.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Animal Rebellion Ireland @animalrebelsire.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
It's not too late to celebrate an Easter free of environmental pollution and animal suffering 💚
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Nice coverage of the pet flea treatments in bird's nests issue by @channel4news.bsky.social www.channel4.com/news/scienti...
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Scientists warn chemicals in pet flea treatments are killing wildlife
The government says it's time to look again at the sale of pet flea treatments after scientists warned the chemicals in them kill wildlife including songbirds.
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Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Minister: "We have to grow our economy": Why? Exactly? Will there *ever* be any limit to that? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Is Green Growth Possible?
The notion of green growth has emerged as a dominant policy response to climate change and ecological breakdown. Green growth theory asserts that continued economic expansion is compatible with our...
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Our claims to uniqueness continue to deindle… www.newscientist.com/article/2474...
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Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans
The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are shared with our closest relatives
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We’re breeding far too many ‘pets’ into existence, marketing them as children’s toys and trivialising ‘ownership’. Under capitalism, sentient beings have become commodities, mass produced and often disposable with little regard to environmental costs. @zoei.bsky.social has done great work on ‘pets’
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A fascinating thread, not just because of the subject matter, but also because the author describes non-human animals as research and artist collaborators rather than as objects.
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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Significant criticism of Teagasc here by the @esri.ie for politicising agricultural science. m.independent.ie/irish-news/r...
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Animal Rebellion Ireland are now on Bluesky. They campaign for #climatejustice, #animalrights and a #plantbased food system. Current project is on #pig farming, much more in the pipeline! Please give them a follow, share and add them to relevant starter packs. 🐷🐮🐥🐰🐭🦊🐸💪
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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Another warning of the massive pressure data centre growth is putting on electricity supplies - their energy use will dwarf that of EVs & heat pumps even as those technologies become more common in the decade ahead m.independent.ie/irish-news/c...
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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 17/03/2025
As everyone is talking about Ireland this St Patrick's Day... theecologist.org/2025/mar/17/... "Two farmers are regrowing the Irish linen industry while restoring wildlife, reconnecting communities, and regenerating food systems." theecologist.org/2025/mar/17/...
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Irish flax in resilient food systems
Two farmers are regrowing the Irish linen industry while restoring wildlife, reconnecting communities, and regenerating food systems.
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Pig farming has no place in modern society. It causes unimaginable suffering, devastates the environment, increases risks to public health, and pork has been linked to premature death from cancer and heart disease. We need a plant-based food system. Go #vegan www.irishtimes.com/video/video/...
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Animal rights groups say Irish pig farming has 'systemic abuse'
Animal Rebellion Ireland and the National Animal Rights have launched more video investigations into pig farming, exposing "systemic abuse" in the industry.
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We really need to reexamine our relationship with other animals. The cruelty and suffering on pig farms exceed our wildest imagination.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 12/03/2025
Horrific undercover video from four randomly selected pig farms in Ireland. Thanks to NARA and Animal Rebellion. I have submitted Bill to ban teeth-clipping, tail-docking and castration as well as prohibiting sow stalls and farrowing crates that don't allow sows to turn around. #AnimalRights
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
TODAY Animal Rebellion Ireland and NARA will present findings from a second undercover investigation into Irish pig farming. It’s grim, folks. Despite last year’s promises, cruelty, pollution and dangers to public health persist. More to follow. www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
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Animal rights group calls for pig-farming ban following undercover investigation
The National Animal Rights Association (NARA) will publish shocking video footage captured at four Irish pig farms today following its undercover probe
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Leading academics warn Government of its plans for LNG and how it should seize unprecedented opportunities to invest in Clean Energy, achieve fossil fuel independence and fulfil our climate obligations #ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Government's commercial LNG plan 'will deepen Ireland's dependence on fossil fuels'
A group of leading academics from a number of universities in Ireland and the US have warned the Government that failing to heed its warnings could forfeit a 'tremendous opportunity to transition towa...
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The weight of the world's poultry, billions of animals crammed into cages, is more than *twice* that of wild birds. The link with pandemics is well known. www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
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Bird flu: ‘If left unchecked ... this could very well become the next pandemic’
Department of Agriculture and public health specialists consider risk manageable as no other animal species infected here
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Wonderful news! And hopefully this will put pressure on Ireland to follow suit. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Greyhound racing to be banned in Wales
Labour ministers say the sport - which has one track in Wales - will be banned as soon as possible.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico. Torquemadas the lot of them.
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
www.thejournal.ie/pig-farm-ins...
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'Open carcass dump' found at large pig farm in the Midlands
The pig farm says that it is now removing animal carcasses for incineration on a weekly basis.
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Ireland finally waking up to climate chaos. Or are we? So little mention in the coverage of the storm. Myself & partner have been in a hotel the past two nights, medical reasons, needing internet for work and just being too cold. Can I send the bill to the animal ag lobby and fossil fuel corps?
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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New paper by @davegoulson.bsky.social & team For those with pets that use pesticides every month to ensure that there ‘aren’t no fleas’, take a pause. We are doing a lot of harm to our garden communities.. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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High prevalence of veterinary drugs in bird's nests
The environmental impact of insecticides used as ectoparasitic treatments for companion animals is not well understood, since they are not subject to …
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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Someone once said that keeping beehives to save wild bees is like keeping chickens to save wild birds: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Ella McSweeney: Ireland’s dwindling wild bees could struggle to compete with commercial honeybees for food
How to help? Plant wildflowers, avoid using chemicals and get comfortable with messy, neglected areas
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
@lilesosanna.bsky.social Good luck tonight Sue. Sending you love x
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Annette Jorgensen @ajorgensen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Think we’re ready. Polytunnel doors nailed shut. Bottles of water filled. Camping gas purchased. May all animals, human and otherwise, be safe. Take care folks. #StormEowyn
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hurray! Some good news for bees at last. Our new government has followed the science, and refused the application by sugar beet farmers to use banned neonicotinoid pesticides.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Another report showing the collapse of another important ecosystem in Ireland from excess nutrients. Near total removal of livestock from the catchment is now needed for restoration www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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Polluted Irish lagoon that can be seen glowing from space could cost millions to clean up
One of Ireland’s biggest and best-known lagoons has become so polluted it would take “millions of euro” to reverse it, the authors of a scientific study have said.
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Dr Joanna Clare Dobson @joannacdobson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I’ve started a Substack called Wreckage and Shimmer. It’s going to be a series of monthly essays about holding joy and grief in tension at a time of environmental crisis.
Large white letters read: When all you love is being trashed. Wreckage and Shimmer: an introduction. The background is a photograph of golden bog moss. At the bottom of the image is the url of my Substack: wreckageandshimmer.substack.com, and the Substack logo
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
To the incoming Irish government: Abandoning the 2:1 public/active transport investment ratio is a grave mistake. Active and public transport saves lives, cuts emissions, improves health, and reduces healthcare costs. Investing in roads over people is a step backwards!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
8. What this shows is that any value, however beneficial, can be picked up and weaponised against us by capital and its concierges, in the most cynical fashion. Never take their claims at face value. Never accept their premises. Never let them define the agenda.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A good step for those of us in richer countries who have plenty of healthy plant-based alternatives is to stop eating fish and shellfish (and other animal-based foods), whilst fighting for strong legislation.
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