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@loredanaloy.bsky.social
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Visiting Scholar @ New York University. Sociology PhD, Cornell U. Environmental and climate politics. Animal rights.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The climate countermovement has three parts: "conservative think tanks (CTT), oil and gas trade associations, and utility, coal, and manufacturing trade associations, each with unique goals within the countermovement." Underappreciated, undercited. Super important. doi.org/10.1088/2515...
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Where ideology meets private interest: the three-part composition of climate obstruction in the United States
Where ideology meets private interest: the three-part composition of climate obstruction in the United States, Hall, Galen, Loy, Loredana, Brulle, Robert J, Schell-Smith, Kennedy, Hu, Ming-May, Trollb...
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 14/05/2026
The world’s biggest bike parking in Utrecht didn’t happen overnight. And it didn’t fall out of the sky. It’s the product of decades of effective urban and transport planning. Long-term political decisions. Sustained public investment. Great cycling cities aren’t miracles. They are policy outcomes.
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Earth.com @earthdotcom.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Wild meat consumption is surging across Central Africa, threatening wildlife #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
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Wild meat consumption is surging across Central Africa, threatening wildlife
Wild meat consumption has surged across Central Africa, increasing pressure on wildlife populations and raising concerns about food security.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“We’re at this moment where we’re really trying to understand what is a real commitment to saving our planet and what is public relations,” said Jennifer Jacquet, one of the report’s authors. “And a lot of this is public relations.” Share This Article insideclimatenews.org/news/2204202...
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Major Livestock and Animal Agriculture Companies Are Making Climate Promises They Aren’t Keeping - Inside Climate News
A new study finds that the vast majority of climate-related claims made by the meat and dairy industry don’t hold up to scholarly scrutiny.
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 22/04/2026
Researchers find that 98% of recent environmental claims by major meat and dairy companies can be characterized as greenwashing. See M. Bach, L. Loy, @katharinemach.bsky.social, S. Shukla McDermid, and J. Jacquet's full study below. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies
Animal agriculture has disproportionate environmental impacts relative to other forms of food production and accounts for at least 16.5% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the large...
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz @greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk: www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s... 🧵 1/5
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The stunning underwater world that’s at risk as the Iran war drags on | CNN
Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf is a one-of-a-kind marine ecosystem that’s home to dolphins, sea turtles and coral. How do oil slicks affect them?
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 10/04/2026
Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB
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Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB
Charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suet
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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! (@stealthisstory.bsky.social) opens Friday and screenings are selling out left and right, but we just added a show with Amy Goodman extended intro – Sat, April 11 at 9:30 PM. Get your tickets now! ifccenter.com/films/steal-...
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IFC Center - Steal This Story, Please!
Thursday, April 9 at 6:30: Sneak Preview + Q&A with subject Amy Goodman and directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin moderated by moderated by Sepideh Moafi (actress, The Pitt) after the screening Friday, April 10 at 6:50: Q&A with subject Amy Goodman and directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin moderated by Noura Erakat after the [...]
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Ecosystems are very delicate webs of interactions, and if there is one element out of sync, especially with the plants, which are the basis of the ecosystem, things can fall apart at every level of the ecosystem” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study
Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators
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Social Problems Journal @socprobsjournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How is class resentment used in climate politics? This article from @loredanaloy.bsky.social and @rachelwetts.bsky.social finds conservative media link climate initiatives to elite practices doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spag003
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“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions
Abstract. How do conservative media commentators provoke public opposition to climate change solutions in the US? We provide evidence that appeals to class
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CITAMS @citams26.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
In a new paper, Loredana Loy @loredanaloy.bsky.social and Rachel Wetts @rachelwetts.bsky.social provide evidence that conservative climate media mobilize class-based resentment by linking climate initiatives to elite groups and their practices. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spag003
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“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions
Abstract. How do conservative media commentators provoke public opposition to climate change solutions in the US? We provide evidence that appeals to class
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loredanaloy.bsky.social @loredanaloy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions" is out in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social @rachelwetts.bsky.social and I provide evidence that conservative climate media discourse features appeals to social group identities (1/2)
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
“For the long-term health & robustness of our wildlife, it’s bad. Wildflowers suffer just as a farmer’s crop that's been washed away. It is difficult to come back from & there are unseen consequences. If caterpillars are washed away, what does it mean for a blue tit who needs to feed their chicks?”
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 12/01/2026
Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school. 📸: Jerry Holt
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
You can judge a person by the size of their moral circle. Trump, for instance, has the smallest possible moral circle, containing only him. Be the opposite: expand your circle. Include, for example, animals currently raised for food. We shut them out of our consciences. It's time to bring them in.
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loredanaloy.bsky.social @loredanaloy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
As Lászlo Krasznahorkai receives Nobel prize for literature, time to dust off my review of Béla Tarr’s “The Turin Horse”-based on Laszlo’s book. Take a look! www.ourhenhouse.org/film-analysi...
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Film Analysis: “The Turin Horse” and “Au Hasard Balthazar”
Great films never go out of fashion, and neither do great reviews of them, which makes this article a perfect piece to feature on #ThrowbackThursday! Film analyst extraordinaire Loredana Loy gives us ...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 05/10/2025
An AI-powered satellite survey has found that the number of wildebeests migrating across Kenya and Tanzania annually might be less than half of what’s widely touted.
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Scientists rethink Serengeti migration numbers with satellite, AI tools
If you’ve watched The Lion King, you probably remember the scene where Mufasa falls into and is trampled by a massive herd of stampeding wildebeests. In real life, as one of the largest mammal…
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Strangely while animals for human food and ourselves comprise a staggering 96% of biomass today, we don't consider them invasive fauna
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Let me find the world’s tiniest violin… Time to end this elite Victorian indulgence and chart a more vibrant, nature-rich future for Britain’s uplands
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Frightful Boo-schoff @mpbmke.com · 13/08/2025
We've been completely cauterized away from any kind of interior life. Functionally illiterate Civil War soldiers could write sonnets to their loved ones, but we need a robot to help us say, "Hey, I'm thinking about you."
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loredanaloy.bsky.social @loredanaloy.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Bites from lone star ticks make people allergic to red meat and dairy, and the problem is growing fast in the US. Is the planet giving us yet another strong push to change our ways (perhaps aka karma)? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My office and the New York Community Trust are awarding $3.2 million to 34 community environmental organizations to support pollinator conservation efforts across New York.   These funds are a down payment on a more sustainable future for future generations of New Yorkers.
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John Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"The Omnivore's Deception": The Case of Conflicted Carnivores | Psychology Today The wonderful Marc Beckoff, a legend in cognitive ethology, has interviewed me about my book.... @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
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"The Omnivore's Deception": The Case of Conflicted Carnivores
In a deeply thoughtful meditation on our relationship with animals—and ourselves—John Sanbonmatsu offers a reasoned reply to Michael Pollan's views on the dilemmas of eating meat.
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loredanaloy.bsky.social @loredanaloy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Devastating read www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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This overlooked cause of PTSD is only going to get worse
What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind.
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John Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
My wide-ranging interview with Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware of Population Balance about my new book, "The Omnivore's Deception"--coming out ONE WEEK from today, June 17! Already available for purchase on Amazon and other booksellers. www.populationbalance.org/podcast/john...
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The Omnivore’s Deception — Population Balance
The meat industry and its defenders promise ethical consumption and sustainable farming, but animal agriculture fuels ecological destruction, entrenches human supremacy, and masks cruelty with comfort...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
As the UK and EU carve up fishing rights, I don't give a damn which party gets to trash our marine ecosystems by overexploiting fish populations, ripping up the seafloor and killing vast numbers of "non-target" animals. I just want this orgy of destruction to stop.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
It also has more twists than two sheets in the washing machine
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🗳️Romania’s pro-Kremlin far-right presidential candidate George Simion is now campaigning with 🇭🇺PM Viktor Orbán’s endorsement—in leaflets and videos targeting Hungarian-inhabited areas—as polls show a tight race. Simion built his career smearing and vilifying the Hungarian minority. Totally absurd.
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The New Books podcasts are often dry but this interview with @shannonvallor.bsky.social is worth a listen, not least for its impassioned defense of certain Enlightenment values
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Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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John Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"three-quarters of nearly 500 [bird] species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis – research
Study using citizen data finds three-quarters of nearly 500 species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I have now experienced Argentinierstraße in Vienna. It’s hard not to have a huge smile on your face when cycling on this bike street. 😃
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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loredanaloy.bsky.social @loredanaloy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My new blog post on our most recent Climate Policy study www.vegansociology.com/2025/04/02/t...
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The Animal Agriculture Industry’s Obstruction of Campaigns Promoting Dietary Change as Climate Action, International Association of Vegan Sociologists
By Loredana Loy, PhD University of Miami In a new study published open access in Climate Policy, my co-author Dr.
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Climate Policy Journal @climate-policy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🔓 : The animal agriculture industry has systematically obstructed campaigns promoting dietary change as a form of individual-level #climate action, find Loredana Loy & Jennifer Jacquet @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social Read more about this unique form of climate obstruction⬇️
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The animal agriculture industry’s obstruction of campaigns promoting individual climate action
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New research from ASA member Loredana Loy and coauthor Jennifer Jacquet @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social on the animal agriculture industry’s response to individual dietary change as a unique form of climate obstruction. Free to read now! bit.ly/3Fpj0pf
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The animal agriculture industry’s obstruction of campaigns promoting individual climate action
The oil and gas industry has regularly deflected responsibility towards individual consumers. In contrast, here we show that the US animal agriculture industry has not only avoided notions of indiv...
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A newly surfaced document reveals how the beef industry knew about its role in climate change as early as 1989, and crafted a plan to fight back against environmentalists & potential regulation: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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A newly surfaced document reveals the beef industry’s secret climate plan
What the beef industry knew about its environmental impact — and how it spent decades blocking climate action.
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 12/03/2025
Through intentional campaigning, the meat and dairy industry pushes against one of the only effective actions an individual can take to curb climate change: diet. See Loredana Loy & CSSN Director Jennifer Jacquet's article in @climate-policy.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The animal agriculture industry’s obstruction of campaigns promoting individual climate action
The oil and gas industry has regularly deflected responsibility towards individual consumers. In contrast, here we show that the US animal agriculture industry has not only avoided notions of indiv...
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 14/03/2025
The Beef industry has known about climate impacts for longer than we thought. See this piece in @insideclimatenews.org, featuring work from CSSN Director Jennifer Jacquet, and scholar Loredana Loy. insideclimatenews.org/news/1403202...
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The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago - Inside Climate News
New research finds the industry’s campaigns to confuse the public about beef’s climate impact go back longer than previously recognized.
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loredanaloy.bsky.social @loredanaloy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
In a new Open Access article Dr. Jennifer Jacquet and I document the animal agriculture industry’s opposition to dietary change as a form of individual climate action (1989-2023) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The animal agriculture industry’s obstruction of campaigns promoting individual climate action
The oil and gas industry has regularly deflected responsibility towards individual consumers. In contrast, here we show that the US animal agriculture industry has not only avoided notions of indiv...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I just keep having stupid, useless thoughts like -- would more civics education have helped?
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loredanaloy.bsky.social @loredanaloy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Returning to Origins
Trump's Inauguration and the Ideology of Endless Expansion
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Now reading a paper for a promotion case and Adobe Acrobat popup keeps asking me ‘Short on Time? Ask for a Quick Summary!’ There’s a ‘Hide for this Session’ button but it does nothing. So here is unwanted, uninvited AI repeatedly telling me to half-ass my job, one that someone’s career depends upon
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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! The final episode in our great political films series explores Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023), his haunting take on the home life of the man who ran Auschwitz. This is a film like nothing else. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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loredanaloy.bsky.social @loredanaloy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Peter Singer: The short, painful life of your Thankskilling turkey amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The short, painful life of your Thanksgiving turkey | Thanksgiving | The Guardian
In this excerpt from his book Consider the Turkey, philosopher Peter Singer explains how the birds bred for maximum breast meat suffer from health problems
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loredanaloy.bsky.social @loredanaloy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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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.
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Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Spiegel: Professor, two weeks ago the world still seemed in order . . . Theodor Adorno: Not to me.
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