Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Very interesting. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comRFK Jr.’s Push to Revamp American Food Runs Into White House ResistanceConcerns about whether Kennedy’s ideas on food are even feasible have prompted clashes within the administration, casting uncertainty over a once-potent political agenda. 141
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczJamie Woodhouse @jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I wish this wasn't still relevant, 4 years later, but it is... newrepublic.com/article/1656... Thanks @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @jansmolenski.bsky.social.newrepublic.comThe American Pundits Who Can’t Resist “Westsplaining” UkraineJohn Mearsheimer and other foreign policy figures are treating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like a game of Risk. 074
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If I was putting on a Climate Week food event about good farming practices, I personally would opt to not have it cosponsored by a company that was found to raise animals in unspeakably cruel conditions. But maybe that's just me. 1125
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczJakub Matraszek @matraszek.dev · 20/09/2026Byłem na konferencji CARE i słuchałem co tam mądrego mówił ten @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social 052
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026eat food*. not too much. mostly plants. *including ultra-processed food 052
Reposted by Jan Dutkiewicz❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 05/09/2026From @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social “Claims about whose vision of politics better aligns with religious texts are fair game, but discussions of the environmental impact of food production & animal ethics are off the table…Thomas Paine imagined the opposite” 250 years ago newrepublic.com/article/2080...newrepublic.comWhat the James Talarico Vegan Story Reveals About U.S. PoliticsCenturies ago, Thomas Paine envisioned a country free of arbitrary rule—from both monarchy and religion. Today, religious and secular dogma still curtail what can be said on the campaign trail. 0104
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczUN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/09/2026Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns. Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies. 18355294
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczMatthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Another great perspective from @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social. "without factory farms there would be far less meat and it would be far more expensive...if the MAHA movement were remotely coherent, it would push for this less-but-better meat vision" newrepublic.com/article/2141...newrepublic.comMAHA’s Meat Obsession Exposes the Movement’s DelusionsRobert F Kennedy Jr. and his acolytes say we should eat more meat, but that would only worsen the very problems Make America Healthy Again claims it is trying to solve. 153
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I wrote about the contradiction at the heart of MAHA’s meat fixation: eating more of it will only exacerbate the very problems that the movement purportedly wants to solve. newrepublic.com/article/2141...newrepublic.comMAHA’s Meat Obsession Exposes the Movement’s DelusionsRobert F Kennedy Jr. and his acolytes say we should eat more meat, but that would only worsen the very problems Make America Healthy Again claims it is trying to solve. 091
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026All of the madness of modern diet culture in one article. People use a drug to reduce cravings and fear ultra-processed food, so they deny themselves pleasure, but they want more protein so they reach to isolates like whey, which is ultra-processed. www.theguardian.com/food/ng-inte...theguardian.com‘It exists only for pleasure’: does ice-cream have a future in the age of wellness fads and weight-loss drugs?As fitness-conscious consumers turn away from processed foods, the industry is scrambling for new ideas, including nutrient-rich lollies and protein-packed tubs. Will they take the fun out of this sum... 2122
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A tale of two nutritional schema: one right and one wrong. These biscuits are perfectly healthy. They get an A on Nutri-Score which - while imperfect - captures the nutritional quality of individual foods. Under Nova, they would be "ultra-processed" because of one emulsifier. 2283
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026While the decline of alt milk is grossly overstated, this is yet another case of the "ultra-processing" discourse potentially leading consumers to less sustainable and potentially even less healthy food choices. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comAmericans Are Rethinking Their Love Affair With Plant MilksAlternative milks entered the mainstream in force in the 2010s. Now customer preferences are shifting again. 24114
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczJosh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026On today's episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social about Feed the People (2026, @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, with Gabriel Rosenberg). We discuss food systems, UPFs, animal ag, and more. Available below or in usual podcast places! knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-252-... 2115
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026In Feed the People! @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I make a similar point: there is a vast gulf between food availability (is there food?) and food access (are there resources to get food?) and utilization (is food made nutritious?). The food desert idea - especially applied to cities - conflates these. 052
Reposted by Jan Dutkiewiczdjbelieve @djbelieve.bsky.social · 01/08/2026If I recall correctly, @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social argue in their excellent book ‘Feed the People’ that it’s the price of food that’s the problem and we’re better off giving food-insecure folks more money or free food (or both).hachettebookgroup.comFeed the People!Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us all. “This book ... 1152
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Feed the People Thought™️ is yet again proven correct. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...thetimes.comGood diet matters more than how processed food is, study suggestsHealth of participants in long-term study depended on nutritional quality of what they ate rather than whether foods were ultra-processed or not 030
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026New paper showing empirically that a variety of motivations, characteristics, and contexts are correlated with the adoption of veganism. These are not strictly left/progressive or otherwise siloed. This is exactly what Jonathan and I argued conceptually in our Food Ethics paper. 241
Reposted by Jan Dutkiewiczre-read.bsky.social @re-read.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A good one to remember. 032
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Crucial reporting from @zdboren.bsky.social. "Newly revealed documents from inside the most powerful farming lobby in Europe show how it delayed, gutted and overturned some of the most sweeping farming reforms in EU history..." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comRevealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide lawExclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife 197
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Soccer is corrupt as hell, but is there a more fascist-adjacent sport than brazilian jiu-jitsu? (Here's Ralph Gracie giving Bolsonaro Jr. - who has never trained - a black belt.) 121
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczZack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe End of Reading Is HereOptimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. 43815
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczAndrea Learned | Name & Fame host Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 08/07/2026INSIGHT on AI and the loss of curiosity: “Our technology is increasingly treating the territory between the query and the answer as dead space to be eliminated, when that territory is where most of the learning actually happens.” @neuranne.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask 143
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026best album of the millennium thus far steroidband.bandcamp.com/album/chainm...steroidband.bandcamp.comCHAINMAIL COMMANDOS, by STERÖID11 track album 020
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczMatthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026New paper alert! We analyzed the carbon footprint of leather and found that cattle leather GHG emissions are *14 times greater* than non-animal alternatives. 🧵 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...pubs.acs.orgThe Carbon Footprint of Leather: A Comprehensive Reassessment Using Global Livestock Data and Meta-AnalysisProduct designers and manufacturers lack robust and regionally representative information on the greenhouse gas (GHG) or “carbon” footprints of leather textiles. This study presents a meta-analysis of... 33624
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczNolan is growing mushrooms 🍄🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Eccentrics like me who read books about pawpaws, grow mushrooms, or take Saturday tramps around elderberry orchards do not possess morally superior eating habits by virtue of our preferred food-centric pastimes, and we should not demand people sink even more time into their nourishmentheadwatersblog.substack.comIs the Industrial Food System Actually Good?A review of Feed the People by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg 041
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczMaddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today. 21828391
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The academic analysis of food has been well and truly captured by an ultra-processing tunnel vision. One of the world's largest food companies with the biggest environmental footprint and track record of corruption is JBS, which mostly makes "unprocessed food." But no, UPFs bad. What are we doing? 3203
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026How have I never heard this before? Poznań! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_zA...youtube.comDeszcz - s/t LP FULL ALBUM (2017 - Crust Punk / Hardcore)YouTube video by Gore Grinder 262
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026me too, dawg. me too. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 171
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Honored to be interviewed by La Repubblica about Feed the People! "Feed the People! ... invita al realismo e al godimento ritrovato." d.repubblica.it/culture/inte...d.repubblica.itCibo industriale sotto accusa. Ma un libro lo riabilita: “E’ l’unica soluzione”L’imputato principale di questa storia è il cibo industriale. Ma se fosse innocente? C’è chi promuove “l’edonismo democratico”. Intervista a Jan Dutkiewicz, l’… 041
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I talked top the folks over at Spectrum News about the cultural politics of the Talarico vegan discourse. TLDR: It has nothing to do with veganism qua veganism and everything to do with creating wedge issues. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...spectrumlocalnews.comTexas GOP has beef with James Talarico’s dietTexas Republicans cast Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, as a vegan — a claim that is not true. 261
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Surprise surprise! It is WHAT is processed and not HOW or HOW MUCH it is processed that matters for health. This is EXACTLY the argument that Gabriel Rosenberg and I made in Feed the People! using many of these same studies. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgUltraprocessed foods and obesity: Interpreting the evidenceWhat do randomized controlled trials really tell us about the effects of ultraprocessed foods? 1194
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The Nova / "ultra-processing" schema is not fit for purpose for adjudicating the healthfulness or sustainability of foods. 1132
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Very good paper. As I wrote in Feed the People!, the Nova/UPF taxonomy is not fit for purpose as the basis for food policy. "Effective food policy should prioritize nutritional quality, access, and equity rather than process-based taxonomy." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 051
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This is the way. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.comFeeding the future of France: Rollout of €1 meals an attempt to help struggling studentsIt’s a thumbs up from the country’s 3 million students, who can now buy cheap meals up to twice a day 040
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Went on the Human Progress podcast to talk Feed the People! Have a listen. humanprogress.org/jan-dutkiewi...humanprogress.orgJan Dutkiewicz: The System That Feeds Us 162
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026industrial food systems work best when well regulated. not a good look for carney. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...thestar.comAlthia Raj: Mark Carney’s pesticide policy could put the economy ahead of your healthPrime Minister Mark Carney is quietly bringing-in reforms that will make it more difficult for the government to ensure that the air you breathe, the water you drink and the 161
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I regret to inform you that the absolute worst people in food academia have teamed up to write a truly cynical screed against meat reduction. 8305
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026"... low-quality evidence dominates the discussion around the climate benefits of alternative grazing strategies, underscoring a critical need for stronger evidence before asserting climate change mitigation benefits from alternative grazing practices." biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 081
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczCurious Reading Club @readcurious.xyz · 03/05/2026Our book of the month for May is “Feed the People!” by Gabriel N Rosenberg and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social — a provocative argument in favor of mass food production and the pleasures of “democratic hedonism” Read more: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur025-ann...newsletter.readcurious.xyzGet your teeth into May’s book of the month“Feed the People!” by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg. 033
Reposted by Jan DutkiewiczDr Iain Staffell @iain-staffell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026There is no single “correct” path to decarbonise. There are six trillion. Our new paper in Science puts 36 climate solutions into one common unit, so you can build your own pathways. Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie... App: climatewedges.com What would your pathway look like? 44730
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The SOB Act made it through the farm bill. What a disaster. 142
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026On the failings on prepper culture and the importance of community in an increasingly calamitous age. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Prepper Delusion 061
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Gabriel Rosenberg and I talked to Kevin and Roger on Mountain Money on KPCW about Feed the People! This is probably the interview about the book where we've gone the most into the details. It was a lot of fun. Have a listen. www.kpcw.org/show/mountai...kpcw.orgMountain Money | April 27, 2026Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg talk about their new book, “Feed the People: Why Industrial Food is Good for You and How to Make it Better," which takes a look at the complex American food indust... 042
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026We need binding regulation and not corporate self-regulation, exhibit #1,000,000. 98% of meat and dairy company climate and environmental promises are bullshit. www.newscientist.com/article/2523...newscientist.com98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashingThe food industry has made big promises to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, but a review concludes that many of the pledges are not backed up by evidence 02914
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Gabriel and I went into the belly of the foodie beast: Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio podcast. We talked Feed the People, food processing, and school lunches. I'd like to think we made a compelling case and even found some common ground. Have a listen. www.177milkstreet.com/radio/stop-h...177milkstreet.comStop Hating Processed Foods? The Case for Big Ag | Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street | Recipes, TV and Cooking TipsThis week, a food fight: authors Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg present their case for…embracing McDonalds and Burger King? 183
Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Fischer said the bast part of winning in chess was when you break your opponent's ego. But sometimes the best part is trolling. 160