September 14, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Counting the costs of our broken #FoodSystem, in #PublicHealth and environmental conditions
A new report finds trillions in annual costs from chemicals in the global food system and calls for a complete overhaul of the regulatory approach to managing them. cen.acs.org/food/food-in... #chemsky 🧪
Chemicals in food system cause nearly $3 trillion in annual damage: Report
Trillions are spent on the environmental and health impacts, such as treating diseases linked to certain chemicals and removing them from the water supply
cen.acs.org
December 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Counting the costs of our broken #FoodSystem, in #PublicHealth and environmental conditions
#COP29 realities - lot of money behind our current broken #FoodSystem
Important analysis from Desmog on agrifood corporate lobbying at COP29
www.desmog.com/2024/11/18/b...
Meat, Dairy and Pesticide Lobbyists Return in High Numbers to Climate Summit
BAKU – Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial agriculture have shown up at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, new analysis shows. This year representatives are back from some of the world’s ...
www.desmog.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:46 PM
#COP29 realities - lot of money behind our current broken #FoodSystem
#Pesticides - spraying poisons into the world and onto food is a bad idea.
We need to fix our broken #FoodSystem.
#PublicHealth
We need to fix our broken #FoodSystem.
#PublicHealth
Nearly two dozen pesticides are associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer in the United States
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www.sciencenews.org/article/pest...
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www.sciencenews.org/article/pest...
22 pesticides show links to prostate cancer
The new finding comes from an analysis of pesticide use and prostate cancer incidence in over 3,100 U.S. counties.
www.sciencenews.org
December 1, 2024 at 7:14 AM
#Pesticides - spraying poisons into the world and onto food is a bad idea.
We need to fix our broken #FoodSystem.
#PublicHealth
We need to fix our broken #FoodSystem.
#PublicHealth
#GoodNews - great outcomes when you put farmers in control in the #FoodSystem, rather than corporations
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2026 at 10:32 AM
#GoodNews - great outcomes when you put farmers in control in the #FoodSystem, rather than corporations
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Environmental disaster to produce a #PublicHealth disaster in our sugar-saturated #FoodSystem
France has just reauthorized the use of neonicotinoids to support the sugar beet production sector once again!!!
They are on AVERAGE 7,797 times more toxic than 'simple' DDT!
It’s a 10-year throwback for pollinators!
They are on AVERAGE 7,797 times more toxic than 'simple' DDT!
It’s a 10-year throwback for pollinators!
January 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Environmental disaster to produce a #PublicHealth disaster in our sugar-saturated #FoodSystem
So much clarity from citizens on our broken #FoodSystem and its #PublicHealth and environmental impacts - @ffc-commission.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 5:45 PM
So much clarity from citizens on our broken #FoodSystem and its #PublicHealth and environmental impacts - @ffc-commission.bsky.social
About to go on Times Radio to talk Prince Andrew, the state of the Home Office, employment law and our broken #FoodSystem and obesogenic environment
October 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
About to go on Times Radio to talk Prince Andrew, the state of the Home Office, employment law and our broken #FoodSystem and obesogenic environment
The government has rebuffed calls to ensure gene-edited food is labelled.
That's a denial of choice to consumers, and threatens real damage to trust in our #FoodSystem, already not high
#GMOs @gmwatch.bsky.social
That's a denial of choice to consumers, and threatens real damage to trust in our #FoodSystem, already not high
#GMOs @gmwatch.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The government has rebuffed calls to ensure gene-edited food is labelled.
That's a denial of choice to consumers, and threatens real damage to trust in our #FoodSystem, already not high
#GMOs @gmwatch.bsky.social
That's a denial of choice to consumers, and threatens real damage to trust in our #FoodSystem, already not high
#GMOs @gmwatch.bsky.social
April 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Will the government live up to its promise to ban commercial foie gras imports?
I'm awaiting a letter in answer
@animalpolicyint.bsky.social #AnimalWelfare #FoodSystem #FoodStandards
I'm awaiting a letter in answer
@animalpolicyint.bsky.social #AnimalWelfare #FoodSystem #FoodStandards
February 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Will the government live up to its promise to ban commercial foie gras imports?
I'm awaiting a letter in answer
@animalpolicyint.bsky.social #AnimalWelfare #FoodSystem #FoodStandards
I'm awaiting a letter in answer
@animalpolicyint.bsky.social #AnimalWelfare #FoodSystem #FoodStandards
Which puts the spotlight right on our broken #FoodSystem
Fascinating indeed 👍
“The finding that gut microbiome alterations can occur in diseases beyond the gut, such as cardiovascular disease, reinforces the idea that maintaining intestinal health is critical to maintaining our overall health”
“The finding that gut microbiome alterations can occur in diseases beyond the gut, such as cardiovascular disease, reinforces the idea that maintaining intestinal health is critical to maintaining our overall health”
March 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Which puts the spotlight right on our broken #FoodSystem
The #FinancialSector, a threat to the security of us all.
And I would add to this their oligopolistic control over the #FoodSystem, from seed to takeaway
And I would add to this their oligopolistic control over the #FoodSystem, from seed to takeaway
Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss
PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.
PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.
Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
archive.ph/tJVkV
PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.
PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.
Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
archive.ph/tJVkV
Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss
Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse
www.thetimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The #FinancialSector, a threat to the security of us all.
And I would add to this their oligopolistic control over the #FoodSystem, from seed to takeaway
And I would add to this their oligopolistic control over the #FoodSystem, from seed to takeaway
Die negativen Auswirkungen des aktuellen El Niño auf das globale Foodsystem werden gewaltig sein.
"A food system already starved of fertilizer and parched of rain is about to be struck by the strongest ever El Niño forecast. Any one of these is a crisis. All three at once is something the modern food system has never had to survive."
www.4hunger.org/p/scorched-h...
www.4hunger.org/p/scorched-h...
Scorched Harvest: The Strongest El Niño Ever Forecast, the Crops in Its Path, and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind
How 3.6 degrees of warm water in the tropical Pacific is about to redraw the map of global hunger and why, this time, no one in power can claim they were not warned.
www.4hunger.org
September 26, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Die negativen Auswirkungen des aktuellen El Niño auf das globale Foodsystem werden gewaltig sein.
#FoodSecurity is one of issues of the age, threatened by #ClimateEmergency, biosecurity crisis of #FactoryFarming, and the oligarchic, broken #FoodSystem.
Industrial agriculture is failing even in its own terms. We need #agroecology
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...
Industrial agriculture is failing even in its own terms. We need #agroecology
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
#FoodSecurity is one of issues of the age, threatened by #ClimateEmergency, biosecurity crisis of #FactoryFarming, and the oligarchic, broken #FoodSystem.
Industrial agriculture is failing even in its own terms. We need #agroecology
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...
Industrial agriculture is failing even in its own terms. We need #agroecology
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...
#FoodSecurity - a huge issue for the coming decades.
And the #FoodSystem Rebanks recommends here, that's @greenparty.org.uk policy: relocalising production, focusing on vegetables & fruit, #agroecology
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
And the #FoodSystem Rebanks recommends here, that's @greenparty.org.uk policy: relocalising production, focusing on vegetables & fruit, #agroecology
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
A food apocalypse is coming
unherd.com
December 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM
#FoodSecurity - a huge issue for the coming decades.
And the #FoodSystem Rebanks recommends here, that's @greenparty.org.uk policy: relocalising production, focusing on vegetables & fruit, #agroecology
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
And the #FoodSystem Rebanks recommends here, that's @greenparty.org.uk policy: relocalising production, focusing on vegetables & fruit, #agroecology
unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...
Delighted to be able to support the #UBI for Farmers campaign and organise some useful meetings for them. Important for #FoodSecurity and fixing our broken #FoodSystem, doing such damage to #PublicHealth
May 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Delighted to be able to support the #UBI for Farmers campaign and organise some useful meetings for them. Important for #FoodSecurity and fixing our broken #FoodSystem, doing such damage to #PublicHealth
#FactoryFarming and #IndustrialAgriculture are at the centre of our broken #FoodSystem.
They have to go, to be replaced by #agroecology and #CropDiversity - legumes, vegetable and fruit; healthy nutrition not empty calories
unherd.com/2025/03/why-...
They have to go, to be replaced by #agroecology and #CropDiversity - legumes, vegetable and fruit; healthy nutrition not empty calories
unherd.com/2025/03/why-...
Why we're running out of eggs
unherd.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#FactoryFarming and #IndustrialAgriculture are at the centre of our broken #FoodSystem.
They have to go, to be replaced by #agroecology and #CropDiversity - legumes, vegetable and fruit; healthy nutrition not empty calories
unherd.com/2025/03/why-...
They have to go, to be replaced by #agroecology and #CropDiversity - legumes, vegetable and fruit; healthy nutrition not empty calories
unherd.com/2025/03/why-...
#BrokenPlate - all too accurate metaphor for our #FoodSystem from @foodfoundation.bsky.social
Here how daily healthier options far more expensive
Here how daily healthier options far more expensive
January 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
#BrokenPlate - all too accurate metaphor for our #FoodSystem from @foodfoundation.bsky.social
Here how daily healthier options far more expensive
Here how daily healthier options far more expensive
Which means reining in the power of the supermarkets and the multinational food manufacturers: ideally getting the manufacturers largely out of the loop altogether - fixing our broken #FoodSystem
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Farmers should earn more from produce than subsidies, review finds
Baroness Batters, leading the inquiry into farm profitability, has said land often makes more money for anything other than food production
www.thetimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Which means reining in the power of the supermarkets and the multinational food manufacturers: ideally getting the manufacturers largely out of the loop altogether - fixing our broken #FoodSystem
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
#FoodSecurity - we can no longer afford the #FoodWaste of #FactoryFarming, or the awful lack of #CropDiversity in our broken #FoodSystem
www.ft.com/content/c528...
www.ft.com/content/c528...
European heatwave wiped €2bn from value of grain crop, analysis estimates
France and Hungary worst hit by lost production of maize and wheat
www.ft.com
July 22, 2026 at 11:40 AM
#FoodSecurity - we can no longer afford the #FoodWaste of #FactoryFarming, or the awful lack of #CropDiversity in our broken #FoodSystem
www.ft.com/content/c528...
www.ft.com/content/c528...
Hi! As an introduction for new followers, my research investigates transitions to sustainable agriculture. We track soil health, crop profiles, agrobiodiversity, carbon dynamics, but also farmer networks and farmer well-being. #agroecology #agroforestry #foodsystem
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Hi! As an introduction for new followers, my research investigates transitions to sustainable agriculture. We track soil health, crop profiles, agrobiodiversity, carbon dynamics, but also farmer networks and farmer well-being. #agroecology #agroforestry #foodsystem
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#FoodSecurity - our #FoodSystem is wholly unfit for the #ClimateEmergency
The #FoodWaste of #FactoryFarming has to stop
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The #FoodWaste of #FactoryFarming has to stop
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2026 at 11:54 AM
#FoodSecurity - our #FoodSystem is wholly unfit for the #ClimateEmergency
The #FoodWaste of #FactoryFarming has to stop
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The #FoodWaste of #FactoryFarming has to stop
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Not just the beef, chlorine-washed chicken, pesticides-soaked vegetables... no terrible US food standards here, PLEASE!
#PublicHealth #FoodSystem
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
#PublicHealth #FoodSystem
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Hormone-pumped beef back on the menu for Trump in trade talks
The UK's Chagos Islands deal may also prove to be a major stumbling block in any trade discussions
inews.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Not just the beef, chlorine-washed chicken, pesticides-soaked vegetables... no terrible US food standards here, PLEASE!
#PublicHealth #FoodSystem
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
#PublicHealth #FoodSystem
inews.co.uk/news/politic...