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Seen these videos going around of “shark rescues”?. They’re all staged for clicks — and sharks are being killed to make them. In this video, I review evidence of hundreds of instances of illegal shark poaching on social media. Sign our petition:.
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great hammerhead, sphyrna mokarran, critically endangered. extremely sensitive to stress, nearly half die after catch and release. fuck these assholes.
Riding a hammerhead shark with lightning in the background might be the badass thing l've ever seen
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A week ago a portrait of this whale’s eye went viral on all the content scraping pages. Days later, her upper jaw was ripped off by a speeding vessel. The video just emerged. I think everyone who marveled at her eye should see it.
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WHAT KILLED THE CRABS?. The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.”. If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea. A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀
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I believe Moo Deng would want to use her fame to make the world aware that her few remaining wild relatives are losing their homes to palm oil plantations in Liberia.
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I, for one, remain unconvinced that Luigi Mangione is guilty of shooting Brian Thompson. We’ve all seen the eyebrows and jacket, but there’s a lot more to this case. This is not a conspiracy theory. Let’s walk through the manifesto and the inconsistencies in the evidence.🧵.
BREAKING: Grand jury indicts Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO killing, on a charge of murder as an act of terrorism.
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Last year, the Department of Interior orchestrated the killing of approximately 1,150 bison, a fifth of the entire Yellowstone population — the last wild herd in the world — to prevent them from roaming beyond the park and competing with ranchers.
On National Bison Day, we celebrate this majestic symbol of strength and resilience. The bison represents our rich American heritage and is one of the greatest conservation success stories of all time. Photo by Jacob W. Frank / NPS
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Stole another dying fish from petsmart —. This is Buoy’s 24 hour transformation in a decent tank:
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we wiped out the native bees & replaced them w/ farmed honeybees then news publishers went “the bees are back!” bc they were only reporting on colony collapse disorder & not pollinator extinction so now chuds are saying bees are fine & were never threatened. ecological illiteracy.
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So it turns out bird flu has been ripping through US dairy factories for months and we’re just realizing this now because the USDA exempted farms from testing and even concealed data. The underrated context to all this is that Biden’s Secretary of Agriculture is a milk lobbyist.
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Newsrooms aren’t covering it, but you should know that an Australian direct action campaign is currently sustaining a blockade of the world’s biggest coal port. 3 days.170 arrests.hundreds of kayaks.thousands of protesters. the biggest environmental protest in Australian history.
We did it! Over 100 brave everyday people successfully blocked coal exports from the world's largest coal port, while thousands more gathered in support on the beach. Despite attempts to shut down our peaceful protest, we showed that people power can take on the coal industry.
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Hurting a wolf at all was a federal crime until 2020. North American grey wolves are estimated at <5% their historic numbers. 700+ tribes, thousands of scientists, and millions of citizens pleaded with Biden to restore endangered species protections to wolves. He refused.
Further on the young wolf that Cody Roberts, from Wyoming tortured & then killed: Ran it over with his snowmobile, wounded it, tapped it’s mouth shut, before first taking it home, then parading round a bar before killing it. How terrified & in pain it must have been. Heartless!😢
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Imagine if a kid got crushed to death in an Amazon warehouse, where he *lived on-site* with other immigrant workers and their families. Huge news story, right?. That’s what happened in Wisconsin, but it was on a dairy farm, so almost no one covered it. RIP Jefferson Rodriguez
The 8-year-old's death was ruled an accident and nobody was charged criminally. But in the official account, deputies wrongfully blamed the boy's father.
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to the people saying they didn’t intend to catch a shark:. found the guy, here’s how they do it:. thousands of dollars of tools and machinery for every “cast”. stingrays as bait (hammerheads’ favorite food). We could easily ban this equipment on public beaches.
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By the way, the part at the end where he pulls the shark’s head back for another photo after the hook is removed is illegal.
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Freya the walrus was a climate refugee. She came to human society in search of a place to rest because we destroyed her sea ice home. Then we killed her because she damaged a couple boats.
In memory of #Freya - the wandering Walrus that graced us here Shetland last winter. MURDERED today by the Directorate of Fisheries in #Norway because she was perceived as a "continued threat to human safety". Abhorrent and unforgivable on every level.
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Like in the 80s, a once protected habitat was exposed to fishing and in a few years, populations collapsed. Can we chalk the crab calamity up to climate or are we letting fishing off the hook?. Did the fishing industry exploit climate change to raid the snow crab ice refuge?
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Ecology makes clear that domestic cows don’t mimic, much less replace, the role of wild bison on the Great Plains. A thread of studies and photos explaining some of the many reasons why:
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@RoxxSerm They evolved to be massive and unassailable instead of flee from predators. No predator in 400 million years would have been able to remove an adult hammerhead from the ocean.
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I want to emphasize what a massive political victory each of these five wolves represents. This rewilding referendum is a powerful expression of democratic sovereignty and a direct blow to the ranching industry’s mission to privatize public land.
BREAKING: Today, for the first time ever wolves were released into the wild in Colorado. Let’s wish these three male and two female wolves good luck after this historic attempt to reestablish a healthy population in the state.
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Incredible how long it’s taken major newsrooms to identify the industry killing the Colorado River (ranching), but it’s finally happening. The data visualization is both beautiful and horrifying.
It's the water supply that 40 million Americans rely on, and a group of states has reached a temporary deal with the Biden administration on how to share it. What’s using all that water? Hint: It’s less about long showers and more about what’s for dinner.
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@shartbrained2nd Evidence suggests melting sea ice created an opportunity for fishing vessels to wipe out crabs in habitat that was previously inaccessible in winter.
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For decades, the US NOAA lied to the world about what happened to the crabs. In 2021, a whistleblower came forward, saying,. “Managers pushed the natural mortality story because they knew it might divert the focus from overfishing to natural catastrophe.”.
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As sea ice forms in winter, salt is expelled and cold, dense water sinks to the floor of the Bering continental shelf, forming what marine ecologists call the “cold pool”. This is where young snow crabs grow up with abundant food, in water too cold for many predators… until now.
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He keeps looking at his reflection. He’s probably never seen himself before. He’s not out of the woods, but at least he’s safe and warm now. Anyway, fuck the aquarium trade.
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As the planet has heated, the shrinking cold pool has put snow crabs’ backs against the wall. Where once safe, juvenile crabs can be caught by predators like cod penetrating the warming water. Evidence shows the young crabs have followed the pool north.
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To begin, Mangione is alleged by police to have been carrying a manifesto confessing to the crime. Yet his lawyer tells press he will plead not guilty. This is the core question of the case:. Did Mangione actually write this?.
I've obtained a copy of Luigi Mangione's manifesto:
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TIL Nile crocodiles once lived in Palestine. In the late 1800s, colonial ecologists frenzied to kill/taxidermy “the last Palestinian crocodile”. Their extinction was declared w/ drainage of the Kabbara marsh in 1924, one of the foreshadows of the Nakba.
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These words from the director of @PEERorg, the government employee transparency group who published the whistleblower testimony, should be considered in the context of the more recent snow crab collapse, described by NOAA and echoed by media as a mysterious natural phenomenon:
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@Conor29882576 Yes fishing is inherently indiscriminate, but if you drops a stingray head 300 meters offshore with a drone and use an industrial crank and harness to reel in the animal, you are targeting sharks. These guys literally make posts about how hammerheads are their top target.
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To begin, let’s differentiate the two major commercially-exploited and now crashed populations of crab in the Bering Sea: the snow and the king. Their behavior and life histories are very different. So are their collapses. Let’s start by recounting the recent one: the snow crab.
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Many have linked the snow crab collapse to climatic contraction of the sea ice. But it doesn’t seem that warm water alone killed the crabs. Was it all predators? Disease? . Or is it possible the role of the fishing industry has been downplayed yet again?.
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In 1959, Japan established a no-trawl zone protecting the breeding territory of king crabs in the Bering Sea. It was a success. Catches were increasing. But in 1976, everything changed when the US passed a law called the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
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The cold pool connects the snow crab to climate collapse. But let’s not forget that on top of all these environmental factors is industrial-scale extraction and bycatch by the fishing industry. What role is this playing? We’ll come back to that.
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When we dig further into the vessel logs, a striking pattern emerges: scores of ships trawling for hundreds of hours across the Northern reaches of the Eastern Bering Sea floor during critical breeding months in areas where snow crabs once could take shelter beneath the ice.
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The Magnuson–Stevens Act codified a management concept called Maximum Sustainable Yield, directing regulators to pursue maximum extraction of marine life. It also codified the concept of the Exclusive Economic Zone, extending 200 mi. from shore — effectively annexing the reserve.
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Mangione described evidence being planted on him in court, specifically the $10K in multiple currencies. He didn’t mention the manifesto or gun, perhaps under advice from his lawyer, but has maintained he is innocent. The only thing he has been able to state publicly was this:.
“…this is completely unjust, and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience.” -Luigi entering court #LuigiMangione
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First, let’s study their counterpart: the king. King crabs once numbered in the hundreds of millions in the Bering Sea, but crashed in the early 80s and never recovered, numbering less than 10 million in recent years. Who killed the king crab?.The story is crazy.
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NOAA assures us trawl bycatch is a small contributor to total crab mortality, but observer data often underestimate collateral deaths, trawl bycatch is just one expression of increased fishing impact, & recall — they said the same thing about king crab.
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Then, in 1980 — in the midst of the Cold War — the US and USSR joined forces to trawl the reserve, targeting sole. In a period of five years, bycatch of king crabs increased by more than 600%. King crab populations plummeted to single digit proportions.
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Yet there seems to be a double standard in media surrounding the presumption of innocence. To this day, headlines refer to victims of convicted rapist Jeffrey Epstein as “accusers”, yet Mangione has often not been granted the same presumption of innocence.
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Allegations that the suspect was carrying the gun and manifesto are also inconsistent with police reports that the suspect dropped a decoy backpack full of fake money near the scene. Why drop a decoy within minutes, but carry the murder weapon on his person for five days?.
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The manifesto describes the use of CAD, a drafting software. Presumably, this would have been used to design the 3D-printed gun, but the model provided by police is a widely available template. Mangione didn’t design this gun. So what was he drafting?.
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This gorgeous 1K+ lb bluefin hatched from a 1mm egg. Only one in 15M survive to adulthood. She was born knowing exactly where to swim to find the Gulf Stream. For decades she circled the Atlantic in one of Earth’s most incredible migrations—all to be killed by a trophy hunter.
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One time I posted about how it’s cool when orcas sink yachts and this guy told me to kill myself.
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Geotransmitter data compiled by @GlobalFishWatch indicate fishing vessels took advantage of the contracting sea ice. On the left is winter & spring fishing in 2013, a more normal ice year. On the right is the same season in 2020, during the sea ice lows.
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Corroborating the geospatial data, observer data from @NOAAFisheries stock assessments show a massive spike in snow crab fishing mortality correlating with the record low years for Bering Sea ice.
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A message to young biologists:. People will tell you not to ‘anthropomorphize’ other animals. Ignore them. Every time you interact with another animal, imagine what they are thinking. Put yourself in their position. 🧵.
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Pando, the trembling giant, the largest being on our planet, an ecosystem in an organism, spreading over 100 acres and standing through the ice age…. is being sacrificed in slow motion to the ranching industry and the government is selling it to them for nothing. 🧵.
The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old.
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The manifesto also says “my tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there”, suggesting his employer restricts/monitors his laptop. This indicates he would have used CAD on another computer. Have police recovered it?.What did he draft?.
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Yesterday, I helped destroy over a mile of barbed wire fence. This is one of our team’s 3 collection piles. This land was once enclosed by the ranching industry. Now it belongs to the public. These fences will kill no more. A gorgeous way to spend one of my last weekends in CO
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I was born in this city. For my whole life, I’ve watched humans harass and persecute the sea lions here in La Jolla. It fills me with a deep sense of joy and justice to see this beach designated as a year-round no-entry zone — a sea lion sanctuary. This world is not ours alone.
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>1/3 of all grey whales on the N American west coast died in the last 5 years. I called it a year ago: they starved. But NOAA is careful not to imply industrial fishing had anything to do with it, as it would impugn their regulation. All we get are vague references to climate.
Today, we announce the closure of the 2019-2023 Eastern North Pacific Gray Whale Unusual Mortality Event. It ended on November 9, 2023, with peak strandings occurring between December 17, 2018, and December 31, 2020. Read more about this announcement:
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Thank you all for sharing this video. Graphic as it is, I’m thankful so many could bear witness. I hope we can make Sweet Girl go viral one more time. Please join me in this call for justice — that we might make her resting place into a safe refuge.
A week ago a portrait of this whale’s eye went viral on all the content scraping pages. Days later, her upper jaw was ripped off by a speeding vessel. The video just emerged. I think everyone who marveled at her eye should see it.
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@BWCincel They used that hook to drag the shark onto the beach. It requires multiple people taking turns on an industrial crank and a special harness/chair. They’re required to unhook/release this species, but it can take hours and they commonly die of exhaustion fighting for their life.
@ExitRowSnoozer This is called land-based shark fishing. They’re 100% targeting large coastal shark species. They wouldn’t have been able to reel that animal w/o 1,000s of $$$ in heavy tackle specifically designed for sharks. They probably didn’t even cast. They usually use a drone or kayak now.
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The burner phone is inconsistent with the first statement of the alleged manifesto: “I wasn’t working with anyone.”. Of course he could be covering for co-conspirators, but the questions stand:. What’s on the burner phone?.Why aren’t police following this lead for accomplices?.
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If you want to do something about critically endangered shark poaching, tell @MyFWC to bust Christopher Meng-Killeen & “Juno Brandon” of S. Florida, who have repeatedly posted removal of prohibited species’ gills from water & delaying release for photos.
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@jenn_bernstein Oh wow, this is the piece I was missing. Those winter trawler logs are all throughout this territory. Incredible, thank you.
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The decoy backpack also allegedly contained a Tommy Hilfiger jacket. Police are in possession. Does it match the coat from CCTV images on the night of the shooting — or the different coat in the ones from the day before?. Does it match any of these coats? Why not release photos?.
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Notice his tilt in the first photo, a symptom of his extremely positive buoyancy. He couldn’t descend more than an inch or two. Now he can control where he swims and his fins are dangling again. The tips are pretty necrotic, though. He will likely lose some of that tissue.
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This whole thing with older people wrecking the planet, constantly downplaying how bad it is, and then scolding kids with,. “Don’t be a ‘doomer’ now,” is fucking abusive. I’m sick of being polite about it.
Here’s the advice I shared with Malia about what progress looks like – and the work we can do right now to make a difference.
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Of course, many have also pointed to the eyebrows. It’s very hard to tell from these photos, but it’s a valid question as to whether these two sets show the same person. The backpacks are certainly not the same.
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Police also say they have matched fingerprints discovered near the scene. Most sources only mention prints on a water bottle and energy bar wrapper — but others mention them on a burner phone.
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The manifesto then mentions a spiral notebook, which was provided to media outlets by police sources. However, the full contents of this have still not been published. Nor have photos of any of these documents, which were allegedly handwritten.
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Am I convinced of a frame-up? No. More evidence could come out. But I’m also not convinced Mangione is the shooter at this point and believe more should question this conclusion. You don’t have to treat the case as if on the jury — which needs absolute proof — but be skeptical.
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Glusenkamp is a great example of cloaking priorities of extractive industries in “blue collar” rhetoric. “Blue dogs” fight viciously to deregulate Arctic drilling, old growth logging, & commercial fishing. Workers get things like fruit-cutting rights & mental health resources.
BREAKING: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of very few Democrats who won in a heavily red district. Make sure every American sees this video showing off her successful playbook.
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The number one threat to wild birds is not feral cats. It’s not windows, windmills, or oil spills. Those are all serious issues, but the biggest killer of birds is indirect starvation by insecticide.
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@Unpop_Science @matthewshirts @fervuranoclima The funny thing is isn’t overfishing a part of the reason why climate changed?.
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If Mangione had been motivated by his own suffering at the hands of a health insurance corporation, one might expect him to target the executives responsible for his coverage. Yet United Health says Mangione was never insured by the corporation.
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weird how slaughterhouse dismemberments never go viral. almost like people only pretend to care about labor abuse if they can use it to justify supporting the meat industry
Meanwhile vegans drink cashew milk thinking it's cruelty free.
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Here’s one last detail that I’ll leave you with, which I believe has been underplayed:. Police released the alleged manifesto to media outlets on the condition that it would not be published in full. Were they concerned about copycats or the public taking a close read?
"Media paternalism at its worst.". Independent journalist @kenklippenstein explains why he published the Luigi Mangione manifesto when corporate media outlets wouldn't.
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Finally, I said I wouldn’t get into this, but I think it’s important to provide some context:. False convictions are not unusual. NY DAs, for instance, routinely release hundreds of inmates whose cases were constructed by criminal NYPD officers.
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As the case goes to trial, journalistic outlets have a responsibility to raise more critical questions about whether Mangione pulled the trigger — regardless of what it implies if guilt can’t be proven.
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Mangione’s spinal injury provides a strong potential motive, yet this is not referenced in the manifesto. Only broad statistics are offered as motivation in the document:
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Now a lot of the evidence against Mangione concerns motive: his spinal injury, his book reviews. These pieces of evidence do not connect him to the shooting, but let’s take a look at them regardless….
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This is interesting:. When you survey consumers on why they don’t eat veggie burgers, the top answer is taste. But when you give them a blind taste test, they rank veggie burgers higher than beef…. and half of testers can’t tell them apart.
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Finally, Mangione’s now infamous review of Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto suggests an affinity for radical vigilantism. But his roommate is on record as having recommended he read it. The rest of his reading history is decidedly less radical.
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A whistleblower and internal documents from a secretive USDA branch called Wildlife Services exposed how the agency is using fraudulent cattle predation reports to enrich ranchers and wipe out entire packs of endangered wolves. My first investigation for @theintercept:.
Endangered Mexican gray wolf recovery is being “sabotaged” by ranchers who claim the canines are killing cattle — and the federal employees who sign off on reports by Spencer Roberts.
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Every time this ridiculous corporate talking point goes viral, I will repost this video of Kanpur, where the Ganges runs black with poison discharge from leather tanning and people develop cancer as children.
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I don’t think people realize how insane this bill is. It goes way beyond wolves. What this effectively does is take the authority to write the Endangered Species List away from scientists and give it to politicians.
Despite bipartisan opposition, the U.S. House Representatives passed Rep. Boebert’s bill to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves
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Again, while some may infer the possibility of a conspiracy from these evidentiary inconsistencies, nothing compiled here attempts to describe a conspiracy. These are basic questions about the evidence against Mangione presented to the public — questions media should be asking.
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Step 1: Murder the land defenders. Step 2: Burn down the Amazon. Step 3: Introduce the cattle. Step 4: Sell carbon offsets for regenerative ranching. This research brought to you by @Shell Oil.
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Seed Dispersal:. Bison can carry thousands of seeds in their fur, which they shed in springtime, sowing the next generation of grasses and wildflowers. Domestic cows have much thinner winter coats and shed less.
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The manifesto’s broad stance against the corrupt US health system is also interesting considering the many citations and fines associated with the Mangione family’s private health care corporation.
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@CreeperZest Yeah I found him in seconds. Of course they catch and release, they have to. But they still constantly violate the law pulling the gills out of the water and delaying the release by torturing sharks for photos. Anyone who wants to can harass these trust fund pricks.
to the people saying they didn’t intend to catch a shark:. found the guy, here’s how they do it:. thousands of dollars of tools and machinery for every “cast”. stingrays as bait (hammerheads’ favorite food). We could easily ban this equipment on public beaches.
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The similarity of Ca(HCO₃)₂ in concrete and the CaCO₃ structures built by corals enables biochemical compatibility. It may seem a bit angular now, but in time, this artificial reef will accrete into complex organic forms as living coral colonies build a new home here. 🪸🧵.
The artificial reefs we built 6 months ago in Little Abaco are loaded with white grunts, lobster, and more!
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Ecological education is abysmal in Western society. I regularly meet intelligent doctors, engineers, and educators who literally have no idea how the world works. They imagine ecology as superstition, as opposed to applied physics and chemistry. I don’t think it’s an accident.
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Every time this ridiculous corporate talking point goes viral, I will repost this video of Kanpur, where the Ganges runs black with poison discharge from leather tanning and people develop cancer as children.
ppl need to stop w this "vegan leather", "vegan wool" bs it's PLASTIC PLAAASTICC AND IT SUCKS SO BAD.
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My friend Domino passed away the other day. He was the biggest bull I ever saw. He wasn’t cuddly at all & rightfully distrusting of humans — I only touched him a few times. Yet he had one of the most profound impacts on me of any animal I’ve ever met. Let me tell you about him:
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@ExitRowSnoozer This is called land-based shark fishing. They’re 100% targeting large coastal shark species. They wouldn’t have been able to reel that animal w/o 1,000s of $$$ in heavy tackle specifically designed for sharks. They probably didn’t even cast. They usually use a drone or kayak now.
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As this takes off, I anticipate some comments about how this was conducted through a tribal hunt. Let it be known that many Natives spoke out against it. If you really want to understand this issue, read the powerful piece linked below by @RoamFreeNation.
“Our treaties are being manipulated to facilitate the destruction of the last wild buffalo.”🔥. Every word of this is absolute fire. Please follow & amplify the brave Native youth standing up for the buffalo & criticizing the tribal hunt @RoamFreeNation.
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This is a bombshell — the “Exxon Knew” moment for the meat industry:. An animal agribusiness association founded and funded a PR outfit at a public university. They used it to spread disinformation & convince governments to delay climate action. A deep dive into the documents:🧵.
Dr Frank Mitloehner is one of the most prominent academics in the world of animal agriculture. We have more than 100 documents of correspondence between his research centre and its agribusiness donors.
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For the past several months, I’ve been investigating the case of the Arctic crab collapses. I interviewed observers, whistleblowers, fishermen, government officials, and marine biologists. Here is my published story and a thread of final thoughts:.
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Colorado has a ballot referendum to ban wildcat hunting this election. This industry is not only cruel, but ecologically ruinous. It is an artifact of 1970s wildlife policy that needs to be overturned. A thread of facts and figures on why Coloradans should vote yes:
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Terrifying visualization —. The top 5 global methane hotspots are all in the United States:. 1. Permian Basin.2. Los Angeles Basin.3. Denver-Julesberg Basin.4. Gulf Coast processing complex.5. Marcellus Shale Formation. They told us gas was clean fuel. It was a climate nuke.🧵.
It's only been up a couple of months, but already the Tanager-1 satellite is identifying thousands of methane emissions around the world. 1/3.
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It’s remarkable how successful the meat industry has been at convincing the public that its products are working class staples instead of luxury commodities.
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10 years ago, Allan Savory gave a TED Talk and sparked a global craze about healing the climate with ranching. His claims have been exhaustively refuted, but not many have asked — where does this myth originate?. Join me for a horrifying history. 🐘🧵.
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Animal farming is the biggest source of food waste in the world. For every 100 calories input to animal farms, only 12 come out as food. The rest are converted to heat and excrement. Calorically, this metabolic waste exceeds all food discards.
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