Nonprofit institute working to end corporate control of governance, food, and the media.
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29 Jan 2025
RFK, Jr. is an anti-science lunatic, and any "regeneration" advocates who see him as ally are living in a delusional world. The path to change -- and regeneration -- must be rational, not nutty, predatory and conspiratorial.
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27 Oct 2024
San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich just delivered a truth bomb about Donald Trump: "He's pathetic. He's small. He's a whiner...He's a damaged man."
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19 Mar 2024
Someday the true Ben & Jerry's story will be written, and it will go like this: The investors got rich while the farmers went bankrupt, and down, down, down went Vermont's rural economy and environment. In other words, we paid a lot for "Free Cone Day."
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19 Mar 2024
If you think Ben & Jerry's is "dilutive" to corporate profits, wait until you learn about what they've done to #Vermont's rural economy, water quality and family farms. Because there's only so much slick PR can hide. #vtpoli reuters.com/markets/deals/un…
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12 Mar 2024
Let this #Vermont headline sink in: "St. Albans Man Dies After Cold Night." He was homeless, now dead, from the exposure, while our state leaders continue to dither over our housing crisis. It's Vermont Wrong. samessenger.com/news/st-alba…
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11 Mar 2024
Another from the vault (1998), when we began pointing out Ben & Jerry's extensive use of pesticides, antibiotics and exploited labor. And it's only gotten worse, as #Vermont enviros and politicians keep cashing those @benandjerrys checks. @vpirg #vtpoli
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9 Mar 2024
Found in the vault, circa 1997, when we convinced Hormel that irradiating its SPAM wasn't a good idea. That was fun. #SPAM #FoodIrradiation
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5 Feb 2024
We hate to say we told you so, but....we tried to blow the whistle on this boondoggle in #VT, but the Big Dairy enablers marched on with the very false promises of biodigesters, with more than a little help from the @benandjerrys supported enviros. @vpirg @VNRCorg @ruralvermont
5 Feb 2024
One more mammoth fraud of Sec. Vilsack and Big Ag co-conspirators on the people. Those big, expensive, water-polluting manure biodigesters said to reduce methane emissions? They release more methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. A lot more. foodandwaterwatch.org/2024/0…
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22 Jan 2024
In 2016, when @anson_ag become Ag Sec in #VT, there were 838 dairy farms. Eight years later, there are 496 left, a loss of 342 mostly-small farms, or 41%. But, sure, throw out some crumbs while avoiding the real issues (monopolized dairy!). Sorry, Anson, you're failing. #vtpoli
22 Jan 2024
New opportunity for small farms to change operations if needed wcax.com/2024/01/22/new-oppo…
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16 Jan 2024
Another way to look at the #IowaCaucus: Trump pulled a Carter, as in, losing a significant percentage of his own party's caucus voters. In 1980, Carter got 59% of the caucus vote (Kennedy got 32%) and he was considered toast for the general election. Last night..
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12 Jan 2024
Sadly, @WDEVRadio has become a caricature of itself, a nest of old, white-man grievances, power elite pandering and an “aw shucks” shrug at the region’s economic, cultural and ecological decline. They should have turned the lights out when @MarkJohnsonVT left. #vtpoli #rip
BREAKING: Squier family to sell WDEV to former GOP candidates Myers Mermel and Scott Milne #vtpoli buff.ly/48uGrXB
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4 Jan 2024
It was an honor to work with Dr. Sidney Wolfe in the efforts to stop food irradiation. He was a very good man. nytimes.com/2024/01/03/healt…
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28 Dec 2023
So who's gonna tell @SenSanders what Ben Cohen, his campaign chair, does for a living? Go ahead, Bernie, take him on. And it'll help more than our obesity problem, because your pal's ice cream corporation is also wrecking #VT's waterways and farm economy. #vtpoli #BenandJerry
17 Dec 2023
We must have the courage to take on the greed of the food and beverage industry which, every day, is undermining the health and well-being of our children by pushing extremely unhealthy products which far too often cause obesity and type-2 diabetes.
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6 Dec 2023
The silver bullet that wasn't: Glyphosate's declining weed control over 25 years phys.org/news/2023-12-silver…
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9 Oct 2023
It's sad to see so many food/ag "movements" slide into fad-diet cults and conspiracy ninniness. The pursuit of clicks has replaced reason.
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26 Sep 2023
Right on, Ralph. The anti-science/anti-democracy agenda of the new faux populists must be stopped. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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22 Sep 2023
The Big Ag lunacy is, tragically, a bipartisan affair.
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22 Sep 2023
The problem with this reasoning is that it lets CAFO cattle off the hook, even defending the very destructive and inhumane practice. All cattle raising and dairy operations are not created equal, and we can’t allow them to be conflated.
22 Sep 2023
Methane emissions from cattle and fossil fuels differ fundamentally and should not be conflated.
Methane emitted by cattle is part of a natural or biogenic cycle. Cattle transform existing carbon in the form of plants and fibrous material into methane through their digestive process. Once released, this methane breaks down after about ten years and becomes water and CO2 molecules. The CO2 and H2O are cycled back into new plant material and the cycle continues.
Fossil fuel emissions, unlike those from livestock, release long-sequestered carbon back into the atmosphere, disrupting the natural carbon cycle.
By lumping emissions from livestock together with those from fossil fuels, cattle are unfairly vilified when in reality they are an important tool for ecosystem restoration and a source of nutrient-dense sustenance.
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