Jan Hajek
@ahoj.bsky.social
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Bird flu has wiped out half of South Georgia’s breeding elephant #seals, according to a study that warns of “serious implications” for the future of the species. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population in South Atlantic
Study estimates 53,000 females have died on South Georgia since 2023, with ‘dramatic impact’ on future of the species
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Bird flu has wiped out half of South Georgia’s breeding elephant #seals, according to a study that warns of “serious implications” for the future of the species. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
21 monkeys in the truck
- 5 shot
- traps set up to try to catch 3 monkeys who were still on the loose...
- 5 shot
- traps set up to try to catch 3 monkeys who were still on the loose...
Sheriff’s deputies euthanized five monkeys that got loose when the truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi highway on Tuesday after the driver mistakenly told them that the primates were infected with Covid-19, hepatitis C and herpes when they were not, the authorities said.
Deputies Put Down 5 Escaped Monkeys They Were Wrongly Told Had Covid
Three other rhesus monkeys were still on the loose as of Wednesday after the truck carrying them rolled over on a highway in Mississippi, law enforcement officials said.
nyti.ms
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
21 monkeys in the truck
- 5 shot
- traps set up to try to catch 3 monkeys who were still on the loose...
- 5 shot
- traps set up to try to catch 3 monkeys who were still on the loose...
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Horrific details emerging from El Fasher, Sudan: pools of blood so large they’re visible by satellite, people being killed systematically. Last week, MSF teams assessed 165 children under 5 fleeing the area and found 75% were acutely malnourished. An accelerating genocide before our eyes.
Signs of latest massacres in Darfur are visible in satellite imagery
Analysis concludes paramilitary soldiers are conducting mass killings in house-to-house operations
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Horrific details emerging from El Fasher, Sudan: pools of blood so large they’re visible by satellite, people being killed systematically. Last week, MSF teams assessed 165 children under 5 fleeing the area and found 75% were acutely malnourished. An accelerating genocide before our eyes.
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I joined advocates outside the PMO to say this clearly: no cuts to foreign aid. Carney promised it—keep it. Protect and expand Canada’s support for the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. Canada must lead, not retreat. Lives are at stake.#cdnpoli @ResultsCda.bsky.social
Advocates call on Carney to keep his promise to not cut foreign aid in budget
With Mark Carney’s first ever federal budget just over a week away, international development advocates are calling on the prime minister to keep his pre-election pledge to uphold foreign aid funding.
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I joined advocates outside the PMO to say this clearly: no cuts to foreign aid. Carney promised it—keep it. Protect and expand Canada’s support for the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. Canada must lead, not retreat. Lives are at stake.#cdnpoli @ResultsCda.bsky.social
A better way to reduce the pandemic risks associated with ostrich farming in Canada would be to stop doing it -
Stop breeding, confining and crowding large African birds together on fenced in yards and farms in Canada....
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/o...
Stop breeding, confining and crowding large African birds together on fenced in yards and farms in Canada....
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/o...
Large African birds crowded on Canadian farms — what could go wrong?
A less costly way to reduce the pandemic risks associated with ostrich farming in Canada would be to stop doing it.
www.nationalobserver.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A better way to reduce the pandemic risks associated with ostrich farming in Canada would be to stop doing it -
Stop breeding, confining and crowding large African birds together on fenced in yards and farms in Canada....
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/o...
Stop breeding, confining and crowding large African birds together on fenced in yards and farms in Canada....
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/o...
Interested to learn what happens at this petting zoo👇 - considering the situation at the BC ostrich farm (a farm that was vaccinating ostriches against COVID to generate antibodies in their eggs)...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
AHS testing people in relation to bird flu outbreak at petting farm, Calgary Zoo taking precautions | CBC News
Alberta Health Services has confirmed 17 people have been referred for testing and all “symptomatic workers” at Butterfield Acres Petting Farm are being tested after nine cases of Influenza A H5, comm...
www.cbc.ca
October 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Interested to learn what happens at this petting zoo👇 - considering the situation at the BC ostrich farm (a farm that was vaccinating ostriches against COVID to generate antibodies in their eggs)...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Wrote a lot of words on SOYBEANS!🫛 I love having this job so much lol
America should have greater ambitions for the soybean—treating it not just as slop for the world’s abused livestock, but as a miracle technology with the potential to reshape world diets for the better
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
America should have greater ambitions for the soybean—treating it not just as slop for the world’s abused livestock, but as a miracle technology with the potential to reshape world diets for the better
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
How soybeans took over America — and the world
This technology could feed a world of 10 billion. We’re squandering it, and the trade war with China could make it worse.
www.vox.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Wrote a lot of words on SOYBEANS!🫛 I love having this job so much lol
America should have greater ambitions for the soybean—treating it not just as slop for the world’s abused livestock, but as a miracle technology with the potential to reshape world diets for the better
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
America should have greater ambitions for the soybean—treating it not just as slop for the world’s abused livestock, but as a miracle technology with the potential to reshape world diets for the better
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
With the attention on influenza in ostriches - and some saying culling still needed for #publichealth reasons (not just poultry industry policy)
A reminder that mink fur farming is still legal in parts of #Canada - and no mandatory testing for H5N1, and no policy to cull minks if positive for H5N1
A reminder that mink fur farming is still legal in parts of #Canada - and no mandatory testing for H5N1, and no policy to cull minks if positive for H5N1
‘Incredibly concerning’: Bird flu outbreak at Spanish mink farm triggers pandemic fears
Spread among captive mink could give the H5N1 strain opportunities to evolve and adapt to mammals
www.science.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
With the attention on influenza in ostriches - and some saying culling still needed for #publichealth reasons (not just poultry industry policy)
A reminder that mink fur farming is still legal in parts of #Canada - and no mandatory testing for H5N1, and no policy to cull minks if positive for H5N1
A reminder that mink fur farming is still legal in parts of #Canada - and no mandatory testing for H5N1, and no policy to cull minks if positive for H5N1
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Jane Goodall's curiosity about the natural world led to groundbreaking observations of chimp behavior. But her compassion toward all living things arguably left her greatest mark on humanity: buff.ly/Bux9ySI
October 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Jane Goodall's curiosity about the natural world led to groundbreaking observations of chimp behavior. But her compassion toward all living things arguably left her greatest mark on humanity: buff.ly/Bux9ySI
"You should not be bringing exotic species into our lands. That's my perspective right there from a leader," said Thomas.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Why First Nations in B.C. are making statements on ostrich farm cull controversy | CBC News
First Nations in B.C. are now among national and international voices that have been pulled into a fight to spare over 300 ostriches in the rural community of Edgewood, east of Kelowna, from a Canada ...
www.cbc.ca
October 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"You should not be bringing exotic species into our lands. That's my perspective right there from a leader," said Thomas.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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EU Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban
Unbelievable we are in a climate crisis where meat production is a huge driver of carbon emissions and deforestation
And instead of promoting meat alternatives - they are trying to ban them
www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
Unbelievable we are in a climate crisis where meat production is a huge driver of carbon emissions and deforestation
And instead of promoting meat alternatives - they are trying to ban them
www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv
Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives
www.euractiv.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
EU Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban
Unbelievable we are in a climate crisis where meat production is a huge driver of carbon emissions and deforestation
And instead of promoting meat alternatives - they are trying to ban them
www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
Unbelievable we are in a climate crisis where meat production is a huge driver of carbon emissions and deforestation
And instead of promoting meat alternatives - they are trying to ban them
www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
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i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses
October 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses
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A bizarre marketing (manosphere fuelled) trend...
Protein Craze Is Here. Climate Activists Sounding the Alarm www.newsweek.com/protein-craz...
Nearly 90% "inaccurately believe that it's important to eat meat or other animal products to get adequate protein..."
Protein Craze Is Here. Climate Activists Sounding the Alarm www.newsweek.com/protein-craz...
Nearly 90% "inaccurately believe that it's important to eat meat or other animal products to get adequate protein..."
The protein craze is here. Why are climate activists sounding the alarm?
Consumers are eating more animal products as they up their protein intake. What does this mean for the sustainable food movement?
www.newsweek.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A bizarre marketing (manosphere fuelled) trend...
Protein Craze Is Here. Climate Activists Sounding the Alarm www.newsweek.com/protein-craz...
Nearly 90% "inaccurately believe that it's important to eat meat or other animal products to get adequate protein..."
Protein Craze Is Here. Climate Activists Sounding the Alarm www.newsweek.com/protein-craz...
Nearly 90% "inaccurately believe that it's important to eat meat or other animal products to get adequate protein..."
Immunity
Can be 2 separate but related issues
- prevent disease
- prevent infection
Vaccine or prior infection can be excellent at preventing severe disease - but may still be infection and ability to transmit virus
Easier to detect H5 if animals obviously sick
Otherwise need active lab testing
Can be 2 separate but related issues
- prevent disease
- prevent infection
Vaccine or prior infection can be excellent at preventing severe disease - but may still be infection and ability to transmit virus
Easier to detect H5 if animals obviously sick
Otherwise need active lab testing
Another important consideration in why CFIA is calling for "destruction" of the ostriches who survived infection/exposure to H5N1 (in December 2024) and now may have some immunity
- it is not allowed to vaccinate poultry against H5N1 - 👇
@picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
- it is not allowed to vaccinate poultry against H5N1 - 👇
@picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Why aren’t we vaccinating birds against bird flu?
It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle.
www.vox.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Immunity
Can be 2 separate but related issues
- prevent disease
- prevent infection
Vaccine or prior infection can be excellent at preventing severe disease - but may still be infection and ability to transmit virus
Easier to detect H5 if animals obviously sick
Otherwise need active lab testing
Can be 2 separate but related issues
- prevent disease
- prevent infection
Vaccine or prior infection can be excellent at preventing severe disease - but may still be infection and ability to transmit virus
Easier to detect H5 if animals obviously sick
Otherwise need active lab testing
Another important consideration in why CFIA is calling for "destruction" of the ostriches who survived infection/exposure to H5N1 (in December 2024) and now may have some immunity
- it is not allowed to vaccinate poultry against H5N1 - 👇
@picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
- it is not allowed to vaccinate poultry against H5N1 - 👇
@picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Why aren’t we vaccinating birds against bird flu?
It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle.
www.vox.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Another important consideration in why CFIA is calling for "destruction" of the ostriches who survived infection/exposure to H5N1 (in December 2024) and now may have some immunity
- it is not allowed to vaccinate poultry against H5N1 - 👇
@picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
- it is not allowed to vaccinate poultry against H5N1 - 👇
@picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Soybeans are overwhelming used for feed. 80% of protein produced on Brazil's croplands is used to feed animals iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....
The recent tariff issue is a prime example of how the world's taste for meat (not soy) is shaping distant landscapes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The recent tariff issue is a prime example of how the world's taste for meat (not soy) is shaping distant landscapes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon
Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Soybeans are overwhelming used for feed. 80% of protein produced on Brazil's croplands is used to feed animals iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....
The recent tariff issue is a prime example of how the world's taste for meat (not soy) is shaping distant landscapes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The recent tariff issue is a prime example of how the world's taste for meat (not soy) is shaping distant landscapes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Has there been a change of ♥️
From ostriches are the new beef- in 2021
To fierce advocates for the protection of these "innocent animals"- in 2025
Even Rebel News reporters at the farm saying - "there is no humane way to kill a healthy animal"
Other farms in Canada?
livinghere.ca/are-ostriche...
From ostriches are the new beef- in 2021
To fierce advocates for the protection of these "innocent animals"- in 2025
Even Rebel News reporters at the farm saying - "there is no humane way to kill a healthy animal"
Other farms in Canada?
livinghere.ca/are-ostriche...
Are ostriches the new beef? - Living Here
An ostrich farm on the Arrow Lakes shows us all the benefits of farming this giant bird.
livinghere.ca
September 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Has there been a change of ♥️
From ostriches are the new beef- in 2021
To fierce advocates for the protection of these "innocent animals"- in 2025
Even Rebel News reporters at the farm saying - "there is no humane way to kill a healthy animal"
Other farms in Canada?
livinghere.ca/are-ostriche...
From ostriches are the new beef- in 2021
To fierce advocates for the protection of these "innocent animals"- in 2025
Even Rebel News reporters at the farm saying - "there is no humane way to kill a healthy animal"
Other farms in Canada?
livinghere.ca/are-ostriche...
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"Krill catches in Antarctica have grown steadily in recent years, rising from 106,000 tonnes in 2006 to 518,000 tonnes in 2025"
They will not stop until the penguins whales etc are left to starve and die
Antarctica krill fishing should be banned now
They will not stop until the penguins whales etc are left to starve and die
Antarctica krill fishing should be banned now
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Krill catches in Antarctica have grown steadily in recent years, rising from 106,000 tonnes in 2006 to 518,000 tonnes in 2025"
They will not stop until the penguins whales etc are left to starve and die
Antarctica krill fishing should be banned now
They will not stop until the penguins whales etc are left to starve and die
Antarctica krill fishing should be banned now
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Everyone needs a refresher course on basic human rights
September 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Everyone needs a refresher course on basic human rights
Reposted by Jan Hajek
This is probably the most important chapter to understand why scientists are so confident in a natural origin of the pandemic
It is also a personal tale about heterodoxy, independent inquiry, the power of triangulating over varied lines of evidence, and foul play
Enjoy reading:
It is also a personal tale about heterodoxy, independent inquiry, the power of triangulating over varied lines of evidence, and foul play
Enjoy reading:
Chapter 8 brings us back to Wuhan, inside and around the Huanan market.
We follow the amazing detective work of independent scientists that established the outbreak's unequivocal epicenter.
...and we learn what prize they had to pay for doing their work
www.protagonist-science.com/p/lab-leak-f...
We follow the amazing detective work of independent scientists that established the outbreak's unequivocal epicenter.
...and we learn what prize they had to pay for doing their work
www.protagonist-science.com/p/lab-leak-f...
Chapter 8 - Outbreak: Contained
Adapted from Lab Leak Fever: The COVID-19 origin theory that sabotaged science and society
www.protagonist-science.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is probably the most important chapter to understand why scientists are so confident in a natural origin of the pandemic
It is also a personal tale about heterodoxy, independent inquiry, the power of triangulating over varied lines of evidence, and foul play
Enjoy reading:
It is also a personal tale about heterodoxy, independent inquiry, the power of triangulating over varied lines of evidence, and foul play
Enjoy reading:
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Oh hey, H5N1 in Texas dairy cows! Are you a new spillover or have you always been there, undetected b/c of insufficient testing?
It’s migration season, almost flu season, & we’ve never had a handle on the cow outbreak. Bird flu is here & we ignore at our peril
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
It’s migration season, almost flu season, & we’ve never had a handle on the cow outbreak. Bird flu is here & we ignore at our peril
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
H5N1 detected in Texas dairy herd; researchers can't pinpoint source of California child's illness
www.cidrap.umn.edu
September 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Oh hey, H5N1 in Texas dairy cows! Are you a new spillover or have you always been there, undetected b/c of insufficient testing?
It’s migration season, almost flu season, & we’ve never had a handle on the cow outbreak. Bird flu is here & we ignore at our peril
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
It’s migration season, almost flu season, & we’ve never had a handle on the cow outbreak. Bird flu is here & we ignore at our peril
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
- " the chasm between commercial priorities and global health needs 👇
- "... a tourist from a HIC at essentially zero risk of dying from cholera has more ready access to vaccines than a resident of the endemic country they will visit
@healthlawadamh.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
- "... a tourist from a HIC at essentially zero risk of dying from cholera has more ready access to vaccines than a resident of the endemic country they will visit
@healthlawadamh.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Cholera vaccines for the rich, cholera for the poor: While the global cholera vaccine stockpile runs dry, a booming market for high-income countries exemplifies the chasm between commercial interests ...
journals.plos.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
- " the chasm between commercial priorities and global health needs 👇
- "... a tourist from a HIC at essentially zero risk of dying from cholera has more ready access to vaccines than a resident of the endemic country they will visit
@healthlawadamh.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
- "... a tourist from a HIC at essentially zero risk of dying from cholera has more ready access to vaccines than a resident of the endemic country they will visit
@healthlawadamh.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Visitors at the fair sit on bleachers, watch mother cows deliver, then their baby calves taken away right after they're born, and the mother cows milked right after
They are told that all this done in the best interest of the baby calves
Does it have to be this way?
youtu.be/aDZeqpLjXq0?...
They are told that all this done in the best interest of the baby calves
Does it have to be this way?
youtu.be/aDZeqpLjXq0?...
Inside the Live Birthing Center at the New York State Fair
YouTube video by We Animals
youtu.be
August 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Visitors at the fair sit on bleachers, watch mother cows deliver, then their baby calves taken away right after they're born, and the mother cows milked right after
They are told that all this done in the best interest of the baby calves
Does it have to be this way?
youtu.be/aDZeqpLjXq0?...
They are told that all this done in the best interest of the baby calves
Does it have to be this way?
youtu.be/aDZeqpLjXq0?...
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🧵 I know it's ridiculous, but when he's talking mitochondrial challenges & inflammation, he's again referring to his idea of vaccine-induced autism. Let me explain.
via @acyn.bsky.social
RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection
RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection
August 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🧵 I know it's ridiculous, but when he's talking mitochondrial challenges & inflammation, he's again referring to his idea of vaccine-induced autism. Let me explain.
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This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’ | George Monbiot
A tournament in Cornwall will pit anglers against these magnificent creatures, as part of a rising trend for so-called ‘sportfishing’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...