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I am grateful to
@ggreenwald
for originally bringing attention to the industry's retaliation against me for speaking out against the cruelty of animal agriculture & the mass killing of animals via heatstroke. Two years later
@mbolotnikova
&
@voxdotcom
continue to cover the story.
I've been working on this story for a loong time, on the veterinary profession's complicity in factory farm cruelty & the vets who are fighting to change it. It taught me a lot about power & how people who wield it come to look away from extreme suffering
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Not guilty on all counts! This is a new era for animal rights! They went up against the most powerful and abusive industry on the planet and won!
@SmithfieldTrial
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@HeartlandSignal
I’m a veterinarian. Has this man really never once aborted a fetus for the health of the mother during his career?
How does he feel about the mass killing of farmed animals via heatstroke in his state to control the spread of avian influenza?
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I’m a veterinarian and an animal rights activist. It’s kinda like being a pediatrician and a child rights activist… except people hate you more.
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@SenatorBaldwin
Isn't it weird how they embrace technology in the form of genetic selection, hormones, feed additives, automation & milking robots to make cows produce 20x more milk than nature ever intended, but the second we create milk without a cow, people lose their minds?
#arbitraryline
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I really appreciate
@NickKristof
of the
@nytimes
for including me in this thoughtful piece. I hope more journalists will be inspired to write about our hypocritical treatment of other animals.
Veterinarians are normalized to the idea that animals are treated differently
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Wow, Circle 4 Farms has a permit to discard 18 million pounds of pigs per year in their landfill—and we are talking about 2 piglets? This is a trial about freedom of speech not theft.
@SmithfieldTrial
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Today, I went to the Miami Seaquarium. I saw this parrot exhibiting this repetitive behavior. I sent this video to my friend, a veterinarian with a lot of experience with birds. She said he wants off the perch and wants to be petted and engaged with. I watched for about 10
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My friend
@101Darwins
is facing 11 years in prison for daring to shine a light on the atrocities inside Smithfield’s Circle 4 Farms. The jury is not allowed to see footage of the “crime” because the conditions of the animals would incite “horror.” 🧵
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Great coverage of the
@SmithfieldTrial
and powerful words from
@JeremyBeckham
. It makes no sense to put people in prison for 10 years for $80 worth of piglets–they were dying and would likely be tossed in the dead pile the next day. Definitely worth a watch.
#onehealth
#vetmed
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Animals eat other animals… But do they confine horses, impregnate them, then extract their blood, and purify their hormones to inject into pigs so they go into heat faster, so they can force them to birth more baby pigs per year? Do they confine pigs in gestation crates, give
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Veterinarians should be able to criticize the abusive practices factory farming without fear of retaliation. We as veterinarians should feel safe to stand up to these giant corporations.
Newly obtained docs FOIA'd from the Dept of Agriculture reveal how factory farm industry groups surveil and initiate reputation-destroying campaigns against veterinarians & other industry critics.
Tomorrow on SYTSEM UPDATE, debuting at 11 am, on
@TheIntercept
's YouTube channel.
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Activists try to protect the pigs at a sanctuary in Italy, Cuori Liberi. The sanctuary resides within a zone infected by African Swine Fever. All of the pigs within that zone were ordered to be killed. These pigs were not sick. This disease is fatal to 30-70% of pigs. Infected
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There are 13 vegan veterinary students graduating from Ontario Veterinary College at the end of this year! ✊✊✊ They are going to build a more compassionate world for everyone!
@ourhenhouse
@VegNews
@PlantBasedNews
@Sentient_Media
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People are responding to the recent New York Times article about the environmental costs of animal agriculture, saying that the government is now going to control your diet. Spoiler alert: the government, at the behest of large corporations, is already controlling your diets, and
@RobProvince
Do you prefer the way it is now, where billion-dollar multinational corporations use your taxpayer dollars to instill habits of animal product consumption to enrich themselves at the expense of public health and the environment?
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When you were a little kid dreaming of becoming a veterinarian, did you ever imagine that you would be killing baby pigs by suffocating them box with foam so agribusiness can continue to make billions while humans engorge themselves on ham and bacon?
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It just sounds so good, even when the prosecutor says it!
@smithfieldtrial
#lawofattraction
#vegan
#animalrights
#manifest
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Wow! My popular TikTok that has been up for quite sometime showing pork checkoff propaganda and explaining the truth about gestation crates was just removed. So disappointing.
#prop12
#animalscience
#vetmed
#vettwitter
#vegan
#animalrights
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@RickABright
@USDA
Literally just gave a talk where I discussed this. Where are they dumping the positive milk? Are they for sure pasteurizing it all (doubt it)? Of course mice are going to come in contact with infected dumped milk and spread it. New reservoire species unlocked.
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Which corporations took the most of our money during the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak and other disease events?
According to data obtained via FOIA request from USDA-APHIS, these are the top 30 companies and the amount they received between Jan 1, 2020, and May
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Who is changing who’s diet again?
The slaughter industry has done a great job at gaslighting people into thinking vegans are changing people’s diets when no one has done a better job at that than them!
We used to eat 50.6 lbs of meat per year in 1960; now, Americans eat 264
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Really disturbing email from the fair CEO to the mom of the 9 year old girl who had a change of heart and didn’t want to sell her beloved goat Cedar to slaughter. Their deranged version of “responsibility” is not what we should be teaching our youth.
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People keep asking me “Well, how would you kill 5 million birds?” That question highlights the grotesque predicament these corporations created. Is it really the veterinary profession’s role to devise macabre workarounds for a billionaire’s failed business model?
@AVMAvets
US egg factory roasts alive 5.3 million chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker
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How about this title? Am I allowed to just state my opinion openly like this? 👀 Let's find out together!🍿Please add your complaints to the comments section.👇
#vetmed
#vettwitter
#veterinarymedicine
#vegan
#animalrights
#vetstudent
#animalscience
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“The study finds that intensive meat production may have contributed to a large increase in these animal-to-human disease outbreaks occurring in Asian countries, particularly flu pathogens.”
“Among the study's findings, the researchers revealed that a 1 million ton increase in
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Last week, I was at the Miami Seaquarium and documented numerous violations of Florida’s animal cruelty laws, which, by the way, do not exempt fish. The facility is crumbling, and these animals were not provided with the necessary shelter and are unnecessarily suffering.
This
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Veterinary school historically selected for people who would let the goldfish die over and over and over again. This is why our profession condones the mass killing of animals via heat stroke. We need new blood.
#vetmed
#vettwitter
#vetstudent
#vegan
#animalrights
#onehealth
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"Rodeo subjects helpless animals to unnecessary stress for commercial entertainment. It’s Western cosplay, capitalizing on our culture’s darkest impulses: aggression towards defenseless animals as a means to sell Dodge Trucks, Jeeps and Wrangler jeans. Most of all, it highlights
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We live in a world where a prosecutor sits down and plans a closing argument where he compares rescuing a dying piglet to stealing a dented can from the grocery store. He believes this will convince a jury. And sadly, it might! Let's change this world.
@SmithfieldTrial
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Former meat industry veterinarian Dr. Rebecca Saunders discusses her ethical transition:
"I came to realise that it’s not monsters who assault women: it’s normal men, acting out our normal social scripts. So does this in fact bear any relation to the socially-normalised
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We spayed and neutered 162 animals in 2 days. People waited all day long to have their animals done. Since we didn’t have cages, they immediately went back to their people after they woke up. 🧵1/
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This is so disturbing:
“But Nawroth showed that goats did the same, the first time the experiment had been tried with a food animal. (Speaking of which, yes FBN has a slaughterhouse, and yes Nawroth has partaken in its spoils. This may be the only field of research where
New research is showing that farm animals may be capable of much more than we think. The findings could offer insights into how domestication shaped their brains and could even change how we house and treat them.
Learn more this week in Science:
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In the United States, ear cropping is still allowed. I frequently see puppies coming in looking like this. I really wish the AVMA & state VMAs would support bans on ear cropping & wish the international community
@BritishVets
would encourage them to do so.
In 2005, the
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I hear this story all the time: I was going to be a veterinarian, but... [insert some horrifying unethical practice/animal suffering they witnessed]. Even Dennis Quaid has a story.
Farmers: We care about our animals.
Also Farmers: Give him only half the anesthetic. I don't
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Is dairy cruel to cows?
So many people have asked me to do a teardown of this social media post by the Unbiased Science Podcast.
Their sources are very biased, including ag influencers on Instagram and .
They say things like dairy cows are traditionally
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Hog farming made Wendell Murphy's family billionaires. Other ultra-wealthy hog families include the Hansens, the Prestages, and the Christiansens. Hog farmer Jim Pillen became governor of Nebraska while having his business subsidized by taxpayers (receiving over $1.1 million in
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@InVitroFuture
Think of the brain drain that is happening in research. Compassionate people self select against fields like neuroscience that rely heavily on animal experimentation and I’ve spoken to many who left the field because of these concerns. If we prioritized non-animal research,
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Our story made the front page of
@nytimes
! Thank you
@AndrewJacobsNYT
,
@AndrewRdeC
&
@HarvestHome
!
It's been a struggle to get coverage about the mass killing of farmed animals via heatstroke and the
@AVMAvets
complacency in this cruel practice. The allowance of VSD+ in
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Rodeo does not emulate real animal handling. It’s bad animal stewardship and Western cosplay meant to sell burgers, beer, trucks and jeans.
#rodeoqueen
#banrodeos
#vegan
#animalrights
#veterinarymedicine
#vetstudent
#veterinarystudent
#cowsoftwitter
#horsesoftwitter
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I never delete my emails. That means I still have emails from my vet school days showing how corporate animal agriculture attempted to indoctrinate us into defending them… Here are some examples… 🧵First up: “How to be a spokeshole for corporate agribusiness”
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Dairy alone accounts for 2% of GHG emissions in the United States. That is equivalent to the Czech Republic's entire GHG emissions and equals 1/3rd of U.S. residential GHG emissions.
27% of all methane emissions in the U.S. comes from ruminant enteric fermentation and 9% is due
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@NickKristof
@EWErickson
@voxdotcom
Also former Vice President of my 4-H club and now animal rights activist. It is rather more complex indeed. The 4-H to animal rights pipeline is real, and hope this little girl becomes one of us.
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@prem_thakker
Also, a nice letter I got from the Miami-Dade police. It's about time I follow up since they now have 1 licensed veterinarian covering multiple parks, when they were already understaffed.
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Can I just point out how we never have to be reassured “the lentil supply is safe.”
Cows in Michigan now test positive for HPAI after two cows from Texas entered their herd.
“Spread of symptoms among the Michigan herd also indicates that HPAI transmission between cattle
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4-H indoctrinates children in the belief that strict adherence to the rules is more important than moral development & the inherent value of all life. I hope more 4-Hers push back against this system & refuse to send their animals to slaughter.
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I can't stand these headlines. These 142,000 birds didn't just die, they were killed. And soon, we will find out just how, and if heatstroke was used.
We will also soon find out how many millions in tax dollars went to this producer, who is likely a multi-millionaire.
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🚨🚨This is a big deal.
We have heard rumors about this mystery illness in dairy cattle and now it is confirmed they tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). We do not yet know how many cattle were affected or whether they plan to depopulate, which
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.
@OurHonorVets
: Taxpayers are paying millions of dollars to bailout multi-billion dollar corporations that do nothing to mitigate their business risk.
National Chicken Council: They are a radical vegan extremist organization.
Our Honor: We are veterinarians, and we don't even
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Another day, another unsigned email from the AVMA banning me from their events… I guess they don’t realize I care about more than one issue.
#middleschool
#meangirls
#psychologicalsafety
#cancelculture
#vetmed
#vettwitter
#veterinarymedicine
#vegan
#animalrights
#onehealth
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OMG! 😮The lead editorial of this month’s Meatingplace magazine clearly shows the industry is shook at the result of
@SmithfieldTrial
! Change is coming!
#prop12
@DxEverywhere
#vegan
#animalrights
#onehealth
#animalscience
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New data obtained via FOIA request from USDA-APHIS and
@usaspending
reveals that Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch, Michigan’s largest egg producer, received $89,258,483.11 in USDA indemnity payments after their flock became infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza. To exterminate
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Fantastic reporting by
@theintercept
and
@Glenngreenwald
. In looking at the FOIA documents myself, it's shocking to see the close ties between taxpayer funded organizations like the USDA and these industry groups who are surveilling social media and discrediting my reputation.
New documents reveal how the animal agriculture industry surveils and punishes critics by
@ggreenwald
, System Update
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The milk is safe, the risk to the public is low, keep calm and keep eating cheeseburgers. The multi-million dollar compensation packages of corporate executives who exploit humans and other species alike depend on your continued obedience and tax dollars, whether you purchase
CDC confirmed a 3rd H5 bird flu human infection in the U.S. tied to dairy cow outbreaks. While the risk to the general public remains low, people with animal exposures should take precautions:
Read the full press release:
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🚨The AVMA killed our petition from 278 veterinarians to reclassify mass killing via heatstroke as not recommended. They never submitted it to the House of Delegates, no vote. More info to come shortly. We won't give up.
#vettwitter
#veterinarymedicine
#vetmed
#vegan
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I was today years old when I learned the USDA bans anti-dairy speech on school grounds. I must find this student, Marielle Williamson.
#letdairydie
#Vetmed
#vettwitter
#onehealth
#animalrights
#vegan
#Plantbased
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Arkansas-based family farmers Tyson Foods received $29,709,942.05 in taxpayer bailouts when their flocks became infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza.
The CEO, Donnie King, made over $13 million in compensation in 2023.
On 10/24/2023 in Pocahontas County, Iowa
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Instead of healers, Veterinarians are made into mass executioners for modern billion dollar industrial animal agriculture. The Animal Welfare Lead at Merck & member of the AVMA Welfare Committee, published this study where they killed 243,016 pigs by roasting them alive.🧵 (1/10)
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When my alma mater won’t let me come speak to the vet students because I have a “bias” against animal exploitation.
#onehealth
#vettwitter
#vetmed
#vetstudent
#vegan
#animalrights
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If only animal protection groups would work as doggedly, consistently and steadfastly to reframe and change the narrative as the slaughter industry.
We have to start taking notes.
The American Association of Bovine Practitioners is urging the media to stop referring to avian
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I just received a new spreadsheet of avian influenza depopulation data from USDA APHIS. The total indemnity payments paid to commercial poultry producers was $840,588,987, with 99,561,806 birds included in this spreadsheet.
@RickABright
@DaniBeckman
@HelenBranswell
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I’m really thankful for the peaceful demonstrators raising awareness about how 113.5 million pigs in the United States are killed and the effects on not only the animals but slaughterhouse workers and communities as well. 157 veterinarians have signed on to the statement. Learn
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New Rule: Companies who sell rodenticide should pay the veterinary bills of animals who get into their poison.
@SCIL_Tweets
?
This young St. Bernard got into rodenticide & wound up at my shelter… started her on vitamin K & thankfully a rescue pulled her & took her to an
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@AnimalJustice
@OPP
We need a list of veterinarians in each city who can be on call to go out and assess and humanely euthanize injured wildlife. So tragic. 😢
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How can I get more people to care about this?
Tomorrow, on June 20th, the
@AVMAvets
will vote to adopt the new Principles of Veterinary Medical Ethics which will state that "Depopulation of animals is an ethical veterinary procedure when the AVMA Guidelines for the Depopulation
Tomorrow, on June 20th, the
@AVMAvets
will vote to adopt the new Principles of Veterinary Medical Ethics which will state that "Depopulation of animals is an ethical veterinary procedure when the AVMA Guidelines for the Depopulation of Animals is followed."
Allowing mass killing
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Given all the attention and media that Miami Seaquarium has gotten you would think there would be droves of activists out here outreaching to media and getting their talking points on camera.
But it’s just me.
I really don’t want to be the only one talking to media because it
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How intelligent are chickens? Did you know they can be trained to do tricks just like a dog and discriminate between colors by name?
Chickens also have been shown to exhibit self-control, delaying gratification to get a bigger reward. Self-control is an advanced cognitive
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Where are my Rodeo Queens/4-Hers/FFAer/farmers turned Animal Rights activists at?
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Wow! I am so honored
@voxdotcom
featured me among the 2023
#Futureperfect50
. I hope this inspires more veterinarians, veterinary students and animal professionals to follow their conscience and work to change harmful, unethical systems that hurt animals, and threaten food
1/ Without great scientists, thinkers, leaders, activists, and entrepreneurs, our world would be in a much worse place.
We at
@voxdotcom
are proud to present the 2023
#FuturePerfect50
, a list of the people who we think are doing some of the most exciting, innovative work to
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Coming out Friday! We dive into the strategies used by Victorian-era activists, how they *almost* won animal liberation, and why they failed. We introduce you to the extremists who changed our diets and what we have to do to overcome the entrenched economic interests that exploit
Factory farming is bad for our planet, for animals, and for us. There's a better way.
This week, we're launching a package of stories that we hope will challenge policy leaders and the public to imagine a kinder, saner, and truly sustainable food system:
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To all the parents of vegan kids who want to go to veterinary school: Stop telling them how hard vet school will be and discouraging them from entering the profession. Instead, believe they can do hard things.
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@justinbaragona
@MelissaJPeltier
Its disappointing that neither candidate seems to support our local, humane organic dog meat farmers. Everyone should go out and buy some
@ElwoodDogMeat
in protest.
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@AbraarKaran
While H5N1 spreads across confined animal feeding operations infecting poultry, goats, cows and now alpacas, it’s also county fair season, and our public universities feel compelled to throw biosecurity to the wind and bring farmed animals together for “petting zoos” that also
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Sometimes it blows my mind that people still eat animals. But what's even more absurd is that fact that Pitman Family Farms, who took $22,799,888.10 of our money to bail them out for avian influenza, and who killed their flocks by sealing up barns and pumping in heat until all
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Wow, this is shocking from a so-called "vegan food writer." It is really concerning when vegans do the animal agriculture industry's job for them.
"Sales are falling due to nutritional and environmental concerns – but also because it just doesn’t taste that good." Who thinks
I was a champion of fake meat: but I’m not surprised people are losing their taste for it | Aine Carlin
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I've made a lot of people go vegan, but not by telling them to go vegan.
This is the short version of one scenario:
Them: Hey, how's it going...
Me: Good, I'm just researching... VSD+... avian influenza... slaughter method...
Them: I only buy local, humanely grown meat.
Me:
Can't stop thinking about this by
@drcrystalheath
: "By framing animal exploitation as a consumer issue, animal advocates unwittingly reified animal ag's narrative: that eating their products was a matter of personal choice—a choice that vegan extremists sought to take away."
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Vegan organizations are protesting
@CrumblCookies
to ask them to use cage-free eggs. Why are they not asking them to remove eggs and butter from their cookies all together?
This is 2024, why are we still making cookies with animal products?
#onehealth
#vetmed
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@DaniBeckman
But we are told the risk to the public is low. Keep calm and keep drinking milk. Billion dollar corporations depend on your consumer confidence.
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When environmental and animal rights activists do this sort of thing they are called terrorists.
The media won't show the German, Poland, Dutch, Canadian Farmers & Truckers unity against their Governments.
But I will.
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Show the public regular U.S. intensive
#pig
raising facilities w/ gestation crates & they don't care. Put those same pig facilities in China & stack them 26 stories high and all of a sudden people are outraged. But the reality for the pigs is the same.
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I am devastated to learn of the passing of Dr. Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns
@upcnews
. Her absence is huge void in the animal advocacy movement. I hope her spirit will remain within all of us, guiding us to not betray our conscience, our values or the animals. She was
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@AttorneyCrump
They care more about a dead 1-2lb fetus than having compassion for a mother suffering from just losing her child.
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Do animal agriculture next.
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It’s 104 degrees in Coalinga right now. All those poor cows.
#onehealth
#foodtruth
#farmtofork
#farmtotable
#animalrights
#animalwelfare
#plantbased
#vegan
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Fear not y'all. The 1.8 million birds were destroyed humanely and according to the best practices set forth by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
@AVMAvets
Don't you feel better? I know I do…
Keep calm and keep supporting taxpayer-funded bailouts for corporations
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They buried the lede here. Veterinarians seeing sick cats from infected dairy facilities are finding they develop neurological and respiratory symptoms and die quickly.
When tested, the cats have high levels of H5N1. If you are a veterinarian seeing a sick cat from a dairy farm,
A herd of dairy cattle in Ohio has been infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), increasing the number of states w/ dairy operations affected by the virus to 6. In addition, 3 sick cats on 1 of the affected Texas farms also tested positive.
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We slaughter 130 million pigs per year in the United States and the most common method used to kill them causes untold levels of suffering. This was concealed from everyone, until now. Will you share this with your veterinarian & sign onto our statement?
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What if we introduce some legislation allowing veterinarians the right to enter these facilities unannounced, following proper biosecurity, to inspect the facility and rescue animals in distress if they discover the place isn’t exactly what was advertised?
(New Ridglan ad in
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A few years ago,
@carlylheath
sent an illustration of the 19th-century Vegetarian Society Headquarters in London and said, “We need to up our game.”
She also unearthed the epic 1906 George Bernard Shaw quote, “I am beginning to be astonished at the difficulty I now have in
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Whether you are vegan, vegetarian, only eat "humane," "regenerative," and "local" slaughter-based protein, or kill your own animals, if you pay taxes, you are paying for this.
USDA is spending another $824 million to respond to the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak, including funds to develop a vaccine and create a pilot project to encourage more dairy farmers to test their milk for the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
Ag Policy Editor
@ChrisClaytonDTN
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“Drug-resistant or not, E. coli from meat can colonize your gut and spread to your urinary tract. This can occur in women after the contaminated meat passes through the digestive system and is excreted in close proximity to the vaginal wall, where the bacteria has only a short
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Disgusting to see outlets like
@washingtonpost
hand their platform over for corporate sympathy grabs. This piece about avian influenza centers around the ultra-wealthy Diestel family who killed 161,000 of their birds due to avian influenza. 🧵
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Shocking department of labor documents reveal underage children employed by PSSI injured while working overnight shifts @🇺🇸JBS slaughterhouses.
#onehealth
#vetmed
#vettwitter
#veterinarymedicine
#animalscience
#vetstudent
#vegan
#animalrights
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Animal protection groups including
@AWIOnline
,
@ciwf
,
@HumaneSociety
,
@MoveTheWorldUS
are calling for the
@USDA
to require cameras inside pig killing gas chambers. Thanks to
@RestlessDoe
for the footage that brought this cruelty to light.
#vetmed
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The only reason the FBI started investigating this case was because of the New York Time's story & wider social media release of the footage. Costco & Smithfield CEO's were concerned about the damage to their reputation and pressured the FBI spend vast resources to build a case.
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Imagine having a duck slaughter business that houses birds without access to water to swim in. Your ducks test positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, and you get taxpayer bailouts to reimburse you for the loss of your ducks--kind of like having a parvo outbreak at your
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