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New Report Says US Food System Faces Growing Risks From Gene-Edited Farm Animals https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/new-report-says-us-food-system-faces-growing-risks-gene-edited-farm-animals/

#UnitedStates #USA #US #food #FoodSystem #AnimalAgriculture #AnimalRights #GoVegan

New Report Says US Food System Faces Growing Risks From Gene-Edited Farm Animals https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/new-report-says-us-food-system-faces-growing-risks-gene-edited-farm-animals/

#UnitedStates #USA #US #food #FoodSystem #AnimalAgriculture #AnimalRights #GoVegan

Cellular agriculture is a significant evolution in the global #foodsystem, driven by a growing imperative for #sustainable, ethical & secure food sources. Once it overcomes remaining hurdles, it can contribute to more resilient food production: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl... #CultivatedMeat #Fermentation

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Cellular agriculture is a significant evolution in the global #foodsystem, driven by a growing imperative for #sustainable, ethical & secure food sources. Once it overcomes remaining hurdles, it can contribute to more resilient food production: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl... #CultivatedMeat #Fermentation

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Cellular agriculture is a significant evolution in the global #foodsystem, driven by a growing imperative for #sustainable, ethical & secure food sources. Once it overcomes remaining hurdles, it can contribute to more resilient food production: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl... #CultivatedMeat #Fermentation

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Cellular agriculture is a significant evolution in the global #foodsystem, driven by a growing imperative for #sustainable, ethical & secure food sources. Once it overcomes remaining hurdles, it can contribute to more resilient food production: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl... #CultivatedMeat #Fermentation

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Cellular agriculture is a significant evolution in the global #foodsystem, driven by a growing imperative for #sustainable, ethical & secure food sources. Once it overcomes remaining hurdles, it can contribute to more resilient food production: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl... #CultivatedMeat #Fermentation

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@violetmadder @amenonsen @idzie @CedarTea

I think education about soil and systems thinking ist the most inportant achievement of the permaculture movement.

I can live with people having tiny hobby-"permaculture" gardens that look more like an abandoned, weed-infested plot than something you can feed a family with.

And it is totally ok when they get excited about their 8 kg of home-grown tomatoes. Even if they continue to buy most of their vegetables (and of course, all flour and whatever) elsewhere. At least they try. And learn. And they appreciate farming (and hopefully, farmers).

These people work against industrial farming. And when society collapses (nowadays this is more becoming a when than an if question), they'll be able to grow at least a bit of their food.

As a soil microbiologist, I am constantly in a tensed relation with some permaculture gurus without any real farming experience who sell their esoteric design courses to a public that spent their critical thinking already in fighting industrial agriculture and are easily convinced by the offer of simplistic explanations spiced with fancy words (beware of anybody saying "molecular structure" too often 🧐) and makes hyperbolic promises ("My technique increases microbial activity by 1000" or "augmented humus content by several percent in a few years").

But hey, in the end, the permaculture movement as a whole *is* in fact a motor of change towards the right direction. And they have definitely found some truth where extractivist agriculture just survived until now becase nature is surprisingly resilient and we as a society invest a huge amount of resources and technology just to maintain (kids, the times of every year strongly increasing yields are long over) agronomy's sacred grail of productivity while soil fertility is decreasing at a horrible pace. Because of unsustainable agricultural practices.

So we need to keep building the alliance between permaculture movement (or 'agroecologic' or 'regenerative agriculture' or 'biodynamic' or whatever they want to identify themselves), 'real' farmers and researchers, while transforming the food system regarding production, transformation, distribution and consumption. Because every sector of the economy matters.

#Agroecology #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #Biodynamic #Agriculture #FoodSystem #IndustrialAgriculture #Soil

@violetmadder @amenonsen @idzie @CedarTea

I think education about soil and systems thinking ist the most inportant achievement of the permaculture movement.

I can live with people having tiny hobby-"permaculture" gardens that look more like an abandoned, weed-infested plot than something you can feed a family with.

And it is totally ok when they get excited about their 8 kg of home-grown tomatoes. Even if they continue to buy most of their vegetables (and of course, all flour and whatever) elsewhere. At least they try. And learn. And they appreciate farming (and hopefully, farmers).

These people work against industrial farming. And when society collapses (nowadays this is more becoming a when than an if question), they'll be able to grow at least a bit of their food.

As a soil microbiologist, I am constantly in a tensed relation with some permaculture gurus without any real farming experience who sell their esoteric design courses to a public that spent their critical thinking already in fighting industrial agriculture and are easily convinced by the offer of simplistic explanations spiced with fancy words (beware of anybody saying "molecular structure" too often 🧐) and makes hyperbolic promises ("My technique increases microbial activity by 1000" or "augmented humus content by several percent in a few years").

But hey, in the end, the permaculture movement as a whole *is* in fact a motor of change towards the right direction. And they have definitely found some truth where extractivist agriculture just survived until now becase nature is surprisingly resilient and we as a society invest a huge amount of resources and technology just to maintain (kids, the times of every year strongly increasing yields are long over) agronomy's sacred grail of productivity while soil fertility is decreasing at a horrible pace. Because of unsustainable agricultural practices.

So we need to keep building the alliance between permaculture movement (or 'agroecologic' or 'regenerative agriculture' or 'biodynamic' or whatever they want to identify themselves), 'real' farmers and researchers, while transforming the food system regarding production, transformation, distribution and consumption. Because every sector of the economy matters.

#Agroecology #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #Biodynamic #Agriculture #FoodSystem #IndustrialAgriculture #Soil

@violetmadder @amenonsen @idzie @CedarTea

I think education about soil and systems thinking ist the most inportant achievement of the permaculture movement.

I can live with people having tiny hobby-"permaculture" gardens that look more like an abandoned, weed-infested plot than something you can feed a family with.

And it is totally ok when they get excited about their 8 kg of home-grown tomatoes. Even if they continue to buy most of their vegetables (and of course, all flour and whatever) elsewhere. At least they try. And learn. And they appreciate farming (and hopefully, farmers).

These people work against industrial farming. And when society collapses (nowadays this is more becoming a when than an if question), they'll be able to grow at least a bit of their food.

As a soil microbiologist, I am constantly in a tensed relation with some permaculture gurus without any real farming experience who sell their esoteric design courses to a public that spent their critical thinking already in fighting industrial agriculture and are easily convinced by the offer of simplistic explanations spiced with fancy words (beware of anybody saying "molecular structure" too often 🧐) and makes hyperbolic promises ("My technique increases microbial activity by 1000" or "augmented humus content by several percent in a few years").

But hey, in the end, the permaculture movement as a whole *is* in fact a motor of change towards the right direction. And they have definitely found some truth where extractivist agriculture just survived until now becase nature is surprisingly resilient and we as a society invest a huge amount of resources and technology just to maintain (kids, the times of every year strongly increasing yields are long over) agronomy's sacred grail of productivity while soil fertility is decreasing at a horrible pace. Because of unsustainable agricultural practices.

So we need to keep building the alliance between permaculture movement (or 'agroecologic' or 'regenerative agriculture' or 'biodynamic' or whatever they want to identify themselves), 'real' farmers and researchers, while transforming the food system regarding production, transformation, distribution and consumption. Because every sector of the economy matters.

#Agroecology #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #Biodynamic #Agriculture #FoodSystem #IndustrialAgriculture #Soil

@violetmadder @amenonsen @idzie @CedarTea

I think education about soil and systems thinking ist the most inportant achievement of the permaculture movement.

I can live with people having tiny hobby-"permaculture" gardens that look more like an abandoned, weed-infested plot than something you can feed a family with.

And it is totally ok when they get excited about their 8 kg of home-grown tomatoes. Even if they continue to buy most of their vegetables (and of course, all flour and whatever) elsewhere. At least they try. And learn. And they appreciate farming (and hopefully, farmers).

These people work against industrial farming. And when society collapses (nowadays this is more becoming a when than an if question), they'll be able to grow at least a bit of their food.

As a soil microbiologist, I am constantly in a tensed relation with some permaculture gurus without any real farming experience who sell their esoteric design courses to a public that spent their critical thinking already in fighting industrial agriculture and are easily convinced by the offer of simplistic explanations spiced with fancy words (beware of anybody saying "molecular structure" too often 🧐) and makes hyperbolic promises ("My technique increases microbial activity by 1000" or "augmented humus content by several percent in a few years").

But hey, in the end, the permaculture movement as a whole *is* in fact a motor of change towards the right direction. And they have definitely found some truth where extractivist agriculture just survived until now becase nature is surprisingly resilient and we as a society invest a huge amount of resources and technology just to maintain (kids, the times of every year strongly increasing yields are long over) agronomy's sacred grail of productivity while soil fertility is decreasing at a horrible pace. Because of unsustainable agricultural practices.

So we need to keep building the alliance between permaculture movement (or 'agroecologic' or 'regenerative agriculture' or 'biodynamic' or whatever they want to identify themselves), 'real' farmers and researchers, while transforming the food system regarding production, transformation, distribution and consumption. Because every sector of the economy matters.

#Agroecology #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #Biodynamic #Agriculture #FoodSystem #IndustrialAgriculture #Soil

@violetmadder @amenonsen @idzie @CedarTea

I think education about soil and systems thinking ist the most inportant achievement of the permaculture movement.

I can live with people having tiny hobby-"permaculture" gardens that look more like an abandoned, weed-infested plot than something you can feed a family with.

And it is totally ok when they get excited about their 8 kg of home-grown tomatoes. Even if they continue to buy most of their vegetables (and of course, all flour and whatever) elsewhere. At least they try. And learn. And they appreciate farming (and hopefully, farmers).

These people work against industrial farming. And when society collapses (nowadays this is more becoming a when than an if question), they'll be able to grow at least a bit of their food.

As a soil microbiologist, I am constantly in a tensed relation with some permaculture gurus without any real farming experience who sell their esoteric design courses to a public that spent their critical thinking already in fighting industrial agriculture and are easily convinced by the offer of simplistic explanations spiced with fancy words (beware of anybody saying "molecular structure" too often 🧐) and makes hyperbolic promises ("My technique increases microbial activity by 1000" or "augmented humus content by several percent in a few years").

But hey, in the end, the permaculture movement as a whole *is* in fact a motor of change towards the right direction. And they have definitely found some truth where extractivist agriculture just survived until now becase nature is surprisingly resilient and we as a society invest a huge amount of resources and technology just to maintain (kids, the times of every year strongly increasing yields are long over) agronomy's sacred grail of productivity while soil fertility is decreasing at a horrible pace. Because of unsustainable agricultural practices.

So we need to keep building the alliance between permaculture movement (or 'agroecologic' or 'regenerative agriculture' or 'biodynamic' or whatever they want to identify themselves), 'real' farmers and researchers, while transforming the food system regarding production, transformation, distribution and consumption. Because every sector of the economy matters.

#Agroecology #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #Biodynamic #Agriculture #FoodSystem #IndustrialAgriculture #Soil

United Way of Kent County launches “Full Table Initiative” to strengthen food access across the community | News https://www.diningandcooking.com/2702722/united-way-of-kent-county-launches-full-table-initiative-to-strengthen-food-access-across-the-community-news/ ##economy #community #food #FoodSecurity #FoodSystem #kent #KentCounty #LocalFood #Maryland #organization #UnitedWay

United Way of Kent County launches “Full Table Initiative” to strengthen food access across the community | News https://www.diningandcooking.com/2702722/united-way-of-kent-county-launches-full-table-initiative-to-strengthen-food-access-across-the-community-news/ ##economy #community #food #FoodSecurity #FoodSystem #kent #KentCounty #LocalFood #Maryland #organization #UnitedWay

United Way of Kent County launches “Full Table Initiative” to strengthen food access across the community | News

CHESTERTOWN — United Way of Kent County is launching a bold new strategic direction focu…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food ##economy #community #foodsecurity #foodsystem #kent #KentCounty #localfood #Maryland #organization #UnitedWay
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2702722/united-way-of-kent-county-launches-full-table-initiative-to-strengthen-food-access-across-the-community-news/

United Way of Kent County launches “Full Table Initiative” to strengthen food access across the community | News

CHESTERTOWN — United Way of Kent County is launching a bold new strategic direction focu…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food ##economy #community #foodsecurity #foodsystem #kent #KentCounty #localfood #Maryland #organization #UnitedWay
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2702722/united-way-of-kent-county-launches-full-table-initiative-to-strengthen-food-access-across-the-community-news/

Future Harvest: The European program tackling the decline in generational renewal in farming

Backed by the PepsiCo Foundation, the program will reach 900 young farmers in 2026. The program will be…
#Europe #EU #EIT #European #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #farmingpopulation #foodsystem #FutureHarvest #PepsiCoFoundation #youngfarmers
https://www.europesays.com/europe/54809/

Why European households throw away so much food – and how to curb the waste mountain
#FoodWaste #Europe #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Environment #FoodCrisis #CostOfLiving #WasteReduction #Recycling #Households #GlobalHunger #GreenLiving #FoodSystem
https://the-14.com/why-european-households-throw-away-so-much-food-and-how-to-curb-the-waste-mountain/

Why European households throw away so much food – and how to curb the waste mountain
#FoodWaste #Europe #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Environment #FoodCrisis #CostOfLiving #WasteReduction #Recycling #Households #GlobalHunger #GreenLiving #FoodSystem
https://the-14.com/why-european-households-throw-away-so-much-food-and-how-to-curb-the-waste-mountain/

Why European households throw away so much food – and how to curb the waste mountain
#FoodWaste #Europe #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Environment #FoodCrisis #CostOfLiving #WasteReduction #Recycling #Households #GlobalHunger #GreenLiving #FoodSystem
https://the-14.com/why-european-households-throw-away-so-much-food-and-how-to-curb-the-waste-mountain/

Why European households throw away so much food – and how to curb the waste mountain
#FoodWaste #Europe #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Environment #FoodCrisis #CostOfLiving #WasteReduction #Recycling #Households #GlobalHunger #GreenLiving #FoodSystem
https://the-14.com/why-european-households-throw-away-so-much-food-and-how-to-curb-the-waste-mountain/

Why European households throw away so much food – and how to curb the waste mountain
#FoodWaste #Europe #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #Environment #FoodCrisis #CostOfLiving #WasteReduction #Recycling #Households #GlobalHunger #GreenLiving #FoodSystem
https://the-14.com/why-european-households-throw-away-so-much-food-and-how-to-curb-the-waste-mountain/

#US #USA #foodSecurity #foodSystem

#USDA #WASDE report update May 2026, outlook 2026/2027

https://omb.report/downloads/wasde-report-usda

#US #USA #foodSecurity #foodSystem

#USDA #WASDE report update May 2026, outlook 2026/2027

https://omb.report/downloads/wasde-report-usda

#US #USA #foodSecurity #foodSystem #bread #flour #pasta #agriculture #drought #ClimateDisruption #ClimateChange

Monthly #USDA #WASDE report update May 2026 on #wheat, outlook 2027

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2tgRZVmBFk

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#US #USA #foodSecurity #foodSystem #bread #flour #pasta #agriculture #drought #ClimateDisruption #ClimateChange

Monthly #USDA #WASDE report update May 2026 on #wheat, outlook 2027

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2tgRZVmBFk

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#US #USA #foodSecurity #foodSystem #bread #flour #pasta #agriculture #drought #ClimateDisruption #ClimateChange

Monthly #USDA #WASDE report update May 2026 on #wheat, outlook 2027

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2tgRZVmBFk

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#US #USA #foodSecurity #foodSystem #bread #flour #pasta #agriculture #drought #ClimateDisruption #ClimateChange

Monthly #USDA #WASDE report update May 2026 on #wheat, outlook 2027

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2tgRZVmBFk

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#US #USA #foodSecurity #foodSystem #bread #flour #pasta #agriculture #drought #ClimateDisruption #ClimateChange

Monthly #USDA #WASDE report update May 2026 on #wheat, outlook 2027

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2tgRZVmBFk

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

Nuclear war is horrible and I hope it never happens. Yet, there are only a few countries that actually have nuclear weapons and the power to use them is concentrated in just a few individuals. This means the vast majority of the global population has no say on the question if nuclear weapons will be used.

However, due to a potential nuclear winter, which could follow a nuclear war, even countries on the other side of the globe could be directly affected by a nuclear war. This impact could be quite severe and as they have no direct measure to prevent it, these countries should think about how they would prepare. Also, many of the preparations that would be helpful for a nuclear winter would also help for the climatic consequences of large volcanic eruptions or asteroid impacts. So, they should be done anyway.

This is the gist of the argument I made in a new article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. You can read the full article here: https://thebulletin.org/2026/05/how-nuclear-war-would-impact-the-global-food-system-and-how-to-prepare-for-it/

#NuclearWinter #NuclearWar #FoodSystem #Trade

Nuclear war is horrible and I hope it never happens. Yet, there are only a few countries that actually have nuclear weapons and the power to use them is concentrated in just a few individuals. This means the vast majority of the global population has no say on the question if nuclear weapons will be used.

However, due to a potential nuclear winter, which could follow a nuclear war, even countries on the other side of the globe could be directly affected by a nuclear war. This impact could be quite severe and as they have no direct measure to prevent it, these countries should think about how they would prepare. Also, many of the preparations that would be helpful for a nuclear winter would also help for the climatic consequences of large volcanic eruptions or asteroid impacts. So, they should be done anyway.

This is the gist of the argument I made in a new article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. You can read the full article here: https://thebulletin.org/2026/05/how-nuclear-war-would-impact-the-global-food-system-and-how-to-prepare-for-it/

#NuclearWinter #NuclearWar #FoodSystem #Trade

Where does all the milk go?

https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/dairy-production-process

#HackerNews #milkproduction #dairyindustry #sustainability #foodsystem #agriculture

Where does all the milk go?

https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/dairy-production-process

#HackerNews #milkproduction #dairyindustry #sustainability #foodsystem #agriculture

We eat without thinking… and animals pay the price. 💔 #quotes #veganquote #foodsystem

… for shifts from animal-based to plant-based foods environmental trade-offs are unlikely—in this case, there are actually synergies: Such a transition lowers environmental impacts across categories due to the more resource-efficient production of plant-based food. #Diets #ClimateChange #FoodSystem

Shifting to lower levels of meat consumption & biofuel production could help protect the climate, water resources & wildlife habitat while feeding more people. The solutions exist: drawdown.org/news/only-ha... #Agriculture #FoodSystem #LandUse #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #Livestock #Meat #Biofuel

Only half of calories produced...

Importing queen bees won’t solve Canada’s beekeeping problems
#Canada #Environment #Beekeeping #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #Pollution #Biodiversity #Sustainability #Farming #BeeColonies #Ecosystem #HoneyBees #FoodSystem #AirPollution #QueenBees #Beehive
https://the-14.com/importing-queen-bees-wont-solve-canadas-beekeeping-problems/

Importing queen bees won’t solve Canada’s beekeeping problems
#Canada #Environment #Beekeeping #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #Pollution #Biodiversity #Sustainability #Farming #BeeColonies #Ecosystem #HoneyBees #FoodSystem #AirPollution #QueenBees #Beehive
https://the-14.com/importing-queen-bees-wont-solve-canadas-beekeeping-problems/

Around 75 to 80% of global farm land feeds farmed animals. 🐷🐮🐔🐑 Credits: Vincenzo Ricci | world_animal_protection (IG) | Crystal Heath | Our Honor | havvazorlu (IG) | Open Wing Alliance | Julie LP | weanimals (IG) | thesavemovement (IG) | desi_antispeciesist (IG)  #farming #agriculture #foodsystem

#food #foodSecurity #foodSystem #agriculture #climateChange #sustainability #soil #diet #economy #profit Politics or governments are in the pockets of the billionaires, they all refuse to fix the problem. Citizens Assemblies! We need to take this in our own hands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3um...

Why the Food System Is About t...

#food #foodSecurity #foodSystem #agriculture #climateChange #sustainability #soil #diet #economy #profit Politics or governments are in the pockets of the billionaires, they all refuse to fix the problem. Citizens Assemblies! We need to take this in our own hands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3um...

Why the Food System Is About t...

#food #foodSecurity #foodSystem #agriculture #climateChange #sustainability #soil #diet #economy #profit

Politics or governments are in the pockets of the billionaires, they all refuse to fix the problem.
Citizens Assemblies! We need to take this in our own hands.

27:08 "...the system [...] probably needs to creek pretty heavily at the seams before people really start waking up and saying, "I'm more frightened of the future than I am of the change."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3umIwaeRE8

#food #foodSecurity #foodSystem #agriculture #climateChange #sustainability #soil #diet #economy #profit

Politics or governments are in the pockets of the billionaires, they all refuse to fix the problem.
Citizens Assemblies! We need to take this in our own hands.

27:08 "...the system [...] probably needs to creek pretty heavily at the seams before people really start waking up and saying, "I'm more frightened of the future than I am of the change."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3umIwaeRE8

Governments that implement mandatory sustainability reporting could help align businesses' incentives with the necessary conditions—means, motive, and opportunity—that make it easier for consumers to make better choices. #FoodSystem #FoodEnvironment #Sustainability #Reporting #Incentives #Consumers

Governments that implement mandatory sustainability reporting could help align businesses' incentives with the necessary conditions—means, motive, and opportunity—that make it easier for consumers to make better choices. #FoodSystem #FoodEnvironment #Sustainability #Reporting #Incentives #Consumers

#China: Modeling suggests that integrating #FoodSystem actions across supply chains, consumer demand & land management could, by 2060, reduce GHG emissions ~40%, improve diet quality ~25% and cut inequality ~20%: doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... #SupplyChains #Consumers #LandUse #Climate #Nutrition

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New post about the state of research around nuclear war and nuclear winter, with a focus on the food system.

This one's a bit different, as it was originally an invited contribution to the United Nations Independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War. I also wanted to share it publicly, because I think there just aren't that many summaries of the state of nuclear winter research out there.

It also discusses the most important gaps and unanswered research questions in the field. So, if you are interested in the topics in general or plan to work in the area, I think it could be an interesting read.

https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/nuclear-war-nuclear-winter-and-the

#NuclearWar #NuclearWinter #FoodSystem

New post about the state of research around nuclear war and nuclear winter, with a focus on the food system.

This one's a bit different, as it was originally an invited contribution to the United Nations Independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War. I also wanted to share it publicly, because I think there just aren't that many summaries of the state of nuclear winter research out there.

It also discusses the most important gaps and unanswered research questions in the field. So, if you are interested in the topics in general or plan to work in the area, I think it could be an interesting read.

https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/nuclear-war-nuclear-winter-and-the

#NuclearWar #NuclearWinter #FoodSystem

@bencurthoys @argv_minus_one @danirabbit

May I be the joyless bastard and weigh in about synthetic meat? I hope not to crash the party (also, I am several hours late, lol)... :QueerCat:

The problem I see with synthetic meat is about the food system we want.

Synthetic meat is an industrial product, requiring global supply chains, large-scale (sterile) facilities and a stratified and complex (and stratified) social and economic structure.
A part from making the life cycle assessment quite complex (because e.g. the quantification of the environmental impact of a production system depends mainly from where you draw the system boundaries, so it is very easy to leave out processes and obtain a nicer picture than in reality), hyper-technological systems are not resilient (remember when during covid there was a global shortage of lab gloves because *all* of them are produced in Malaysia? there are many components in a lab that are not easy to source in a crisis).

On another note, it is also a question of organization. A food system based on small-scale, local and sustainable farms is in my eyes much preferable than megacorporations owning the food production chain. I am not sure that lab meat will be easy to grow in our basements like fungi or so...

Also, be aware that a lot of the lab meat bubble was because it seemed so attractive to investors. Technological, scalable solutions that seem even more sustainable than what we have actually. A very welcome investment opportunity and a good narrative for corporations that want to show that they will save the world (remember biofuels from algae?).

Don't get me wrong, I am not fundamentally against industry or technology, it's just that I think that it is a good idea to keep the influence of the corporate-industrial players out of the food system as much as possible.

It is correct that lab meat is probably way more ethical than the current system of industrial agriculture with factory farms. But we also easily tend to overestimate the contribution of industrial farming to feed the world, and overlook the millions of smallscale farmers that provide a way greater part of the foodstuff actually consumed by humanity. @viacampesina_en has more information about this.

#Agroecology #LabMeat #SyntheticMeat #AgroecologicalTransition #Diet #SustainableDiet #FoodSystem #WeFeedTheWorld

@bencurthoys @argv_minus_one @danirabbit

May I be the joyless bastard and weigh in about synthetic meat? I hope not to crash the party (also, I am several hours late, lol)... :QueerCat:

The problem I see with synthetic meat is about the food system we want.

Synthetic meat is an industrial product, requiring global supply chains, large-scale (sterile) facilities and a stratified and complex (and stratified) social and economic structure.
A part from making the life cycle assessment quite complex (because e.g. the quantification of the environmental impact of a production system depends mainly from where you draw the system boundaries, so it is very easy to leave out processes and obtain a nicer picture than in reality), hyper-technological systems are not resilient (remember when during covid there was a global shortage of lab gloves because *all* of them are produced in Malaysia? there are many components in a lab that are not easy to source in a crisis).

On another note, it is also a question of organization. A food system based on small-scale, local and sustainable farms is in my eyes much preferable than megacorporations owning the food production chain. I am not sure that lab meat will be easy to grow in our basements like fungi or so...

Also, be aware that a lot of the lab meat bubble was because it seemed so attractive to investors. Technological, scalable solutions that seem even more sustainable than what we have actually. A very welcome investment opportunity and a good narrative for corporations that want to show that they will save the world (remember biofuels from algae?).

Don't get me wrong, I am not fundamentally against industry or technology, it's just that I think that it is a good idea to keep the influence of the corporate-industrial players out of the food system as much as possible.

It is correct that lab meat is probably way more ethical than the current system of industrial agriculture with factory farms. But we also easily tend to overestimate the contribution of industrial farming to feed the world, and overlook the millions of smallscale farmers that provide a way greater part of the foodstuff actually consumed by humanity. @viacampesina_en has more information about this.

#Agroecology #LabMeat #SyntheticMeat #AgroecologicalTransition #Diet #SustainableDiet #FoodSystem #WeFeedTheWorld