Not naming names but I believe that someone I live with is obsessed with home improvement projects only because they inevitably reveal more home improvement projects. On a spiritual and psychological level, I simply will not be taking this on.

Me always: But could we make the story about tradwives?

cc Dr Jennifer Bernstein jennbernstein.bsky.social 🍌

I guess I should qualify this with ONE BIG GLARING PROBLEM as there are many problems with our food system. But I don't think GMOs are one of them.

The problem is not GMOs. The problem is that we eat a lot of meat in the global north, and that meat requires a whole heck of a lot of resources or animal suffering (or both, if we're real lucky).

Cities and climate activists seek accountability for meat and dairy in the court system. Gaby explains:
sentientmedia.org/lawsuits-big-m…

The dialogue about resolving the conflict is stifled by a constrained vocabulary, a problem rooted in the omission of crucial facts from educational and public spheres, and the intense dispute over the facts that are acknowledged / Etan Nechin
haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…

100 FUCKING PERCENT.

While I am mostly still so hurt and pissed as hell over this, I really do want to avoid screaming into a void. This is a time when we need more dialogue, not less.

The food we eat is responsible for more than a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, yet government research studying how to curb emissions from food remains drastically underfunded.
sentientmedia.org/emissions-clim…

Sen. Debbie Stabenow speaking at a White House rural communities event on the process of leading negotiations on this farm bill: “Shoot me now.” (Laugh)

“This is the hardest one. They’re always difficult. But at this stage we’re usually beyond the politics of nutrition.”

Sorry, had to.

📊 New Hillel data (⚠️small slightly skewed sample) shows widespread discontent with pro-Palestinian campus protests among Jewish students — and also deep divisions

47% of Jewish students said the encampments made them feel 'scared'

21% said the tents made them 'proud'

Btw, there are many Jews (both Israelis and American) who are doing just this because they want to build bridges where they can. Jews are not a monolith, and neither are Zionists.

It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.

A lot of people now say the anti-war protests of the Vietnam Era backfired or were counterproductive, but is that actually true?

Looking at the literature I think it’s highly determined by what exactly you mean.

slowboring.com/p/did-the-viet…

Always has been.

Normans were French.
The royal family is German.
Boris is Turkish.
Farage is Huguenot.
Fish and Chips are Jewish.

Dara Horn also has an excellent chapter in People Love Dead Jews on Varian Fry, a man who helped thousands of Jews escape, for a mix of reasons.

Individual pro-environmental behavior makes us feel good, but usually doesn't make much of a difference.

This one is different. Beef is like, super awful. And we can do something about it.

Huh, the CDC’s top avian flu scientist can’t sleep because dairy farmers don’t know what to do and won’t cooperate with authorities. It’s at times like this you kinda wish the ag secretary wasn’t a former dairy lobbyist. statnews.com/2024/05/03/bir…