Tara Kenny
@TKenn82
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Postdoctoral Researcher @UCCPublicHealth #SocialScience #FoodPolicy #PublicHealth #SocialJustice #FoodPolitics. All views are my own.
cork, Ireland
Joined March 2016
“The complex web of alliances means anyone questioning the overall strategy is viewed as disloyal, if not treacherous”
If the unholy alliance of farm bodies and industry is successful in its lobbying, the price will be our rivers and lakes
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RT @CookePhoebe: 🟡NEW 🟡 Our @DeSmog team has spent months investigating the network around Ireland’s intensive farming lobby – here’s what…
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Salient investigative journalism here by @DeSmog “shedding light on the links between key actors will provide a basis from which to develop new research questions, and conversations, about how to advance democratic debate and processes to tackle the climate crisis in Ireland”
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RT @whittledaway: You can hear the exasperation in this interview with hearing the same talking points from the meat/dairy industry that ha…
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RT @whittledaway: Did I really just hear the head of the @CCACIreland say that we need to eat less sugar to reduce emissions from ag? Did…
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“This is a victory for our farmers, our environment, and our future – if politicians will have the courage and integrity to act on it.”
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Here is a peer reviewed article that provides a clearer picture in terms of consumption related GHGe in Ireland:
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RT @HannahEDaly: Expanding Irish dairy production is often justified, despite local and climate pollution, because of its importance for nu…
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RT @HannahEDaly: How many times has the National Dairy Council been found by the Advertising Standards Authority to be making unsubstantiat…
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RT @HannahEDaly: President Higgins spoke at length, saying "our food production system is broken". His speech linked growing global hunger…
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RT @HannahEDaly: It was a huge honour to meet @PresidentIRL Michael D. Higgins today, with Director General of @FAO, QU Dongyu. Our Preside…
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RT @HannahEDaly: This makes me sick to my stomach every time I see it. Why is this not major, major news in Ireland? A high chance of abr…
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Super day @SCGCork
The cutest Cork feasters today in Stephen Street Community Garden ❤️ Tomás Sheehan (aged 6) Barra Gore (aged 5), Séagh Pierce (aged 3) and Orran Sheehan (aged 5) at the Stephen’s Street Community Garden, Cork City. #StreetFeast2024
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RT @EggandChick: My piece in today’s @IrishTimes on the Government’s hot school meals scheme. Embedding industrial food and packaging waste…
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RT @MonicaOMullane: Have your say, people of Cork city! A public event will be held on Monday 22nd April, 5pm-7.30 pm in Millennium Hall, C…
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RT @plantbaseddocIE: Vegetables are losing their nutrients. “My concerns are policymakers choosing to invest in biofortification instead o…
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RT @whittledaway: CAP rollback weakening biodiversity objectives : “All of this is as a direct result of lobbying by the agricultural secto…
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