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Brigitte Wear
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Investigative researcher @desmog.bsky.social | Data, OSINT, supply chains | Paris, she/her.
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desmog.com
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In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds

📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social

Published in partnership with @apublica.org

www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...
In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds
Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.
www.desmog.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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clarecarlile.bsky.social
Day one at COP30 and my first impression is how directly wealth translates to square meter floorspace and flashy screens at the summit

Here is the pavilion for Malawi vs the pavilion for the UK 1/
Malawi's pavilion is a small box, crowded with people but with no screens in sight The UK's has a big red, white and blue frontage - multiple rooms and multiple screens
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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desmog.com
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Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30

Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit

📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇

www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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clarecarlile.bsky.social
Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year.

Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data.

✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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desmog.com
🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’

Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data.

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...
www.desmog.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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fionastorie.bsky.social
At next week’s COP30, “Food & farming companies will claim agriculture is part of the solution to the climate crisis … even though food drives a third of global warming”… see here the 8 big ag green washing terms to watch out for.
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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rtakver.bsky.social
I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!

My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
writesbright.bsky.social Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14d
The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.

Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇

📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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disclose.ngo
🔴 Le fabricant du sucre Daddy au cœur d'une vaste contamination aux PFAS

Des champs de betteraves aux usines du groupe Cristal Union, les polluants éternels sont présents sur toute la chaîne de production

Révélations @disclosengo.bsky.social et @france3ca.bsky.social
disclose.ngo/fr/article/p...
PFAS : le fabricant du sucre Daddy alimente un cycle de pollution éternelle
Cristal Union, le deuxième groupe sucrier français, est confronté à une vaste contamination aux « polluants éternels », révèle Disclose, en partenariat avec France 3. Des champs de betteraves aux usin...
disclose.ngo
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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rtakver.bsky.social
Pay no attention to the 580 diesel generators that can produce enough energy for 3 million homes behind the curtain...

Oh, and did I mention this data centre is part-owned by a Trump-loving billionaire who sat by Starmer at the royal banquet?

My 📝 for
@desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/09/25/c...
Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre
Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it ...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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desmog.com
🔴 Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse

New investigation reveals how farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers rake in millions in subsidies 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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desmog.com
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How Farmed Fish in Dutch Supermarkets Undermines Food Security in West Africa

With Hans Wetzels and @remykaller.bsky.social from @ftm.eu, @brigitte-whl.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/09/28/h...
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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reporterre.net
Défendue par la loi Duplomb, la réintroduction du neurotoxique en agriculture a été censurée.

Cet insecticide demeure toutefois présent dans des produits grand public.

⏰ Rediff. du 12/09/2025

Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/W8j
September 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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clarecarlile.bsky.social
The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring romantic relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities.

✍️ My latest for @desmog.com
desmog.com DeSmog @desmog.com · Sep 19
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‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry

The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups.

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry
The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...
www.desmog.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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coveringclimatenow.org
40% of people practice “news avoidance,” according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s “Digital News Report 2025.” Traditional news coverage’s focus on conflict and suffering leaves people feeling depressed and powerless, respondents said, causing many to tune out. buff.ly/0E4hWEy
September 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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dropsitenews.com
🚨 NEW from Drop Site News: Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

Story by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang

www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...
Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
www.dropsitenews.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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rtakver.bsky.social
Data privacy experts say one part *is* legal - Farage's plan to create a master "data fusion centre" to "relentlessly" track, identify and deport these asylum seekers.

I reported last week @desmog.com that Labour has legalised DOGE-style data grabs in the UK ⤵️

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
August 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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grain.org
Irish dairy companies export polluting, ultra-processed, fat-filled milk powder to Senegal, Nigeria, and Ghana. They advertise products that cannot be described as 'milk' in Europe as something healthy and sustainable. New investigation from @desmog.com.web.brid.gy‬: www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...
How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa
In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...
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July 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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corporateeurope.org
Check out the new article by @brigitte-whl.bsky.social linking Irish dairy giants to “mediocre” milk powder in West Africa

With @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social @premiumtimesng.bsky.social

👇
July 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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annapr.bsky.social
Irish dairy ‘feeding the world’ we are told. Sustainable, grass fed, green. Government funded.

Meanwhile the industry is profiting from selling inferior milk product in West Africa.

Insightful analysis from @desmog.com

#SpeirGorm
July 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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swimsure.bsky.social
A disturbing DeSmog article on major Irish dairy processors' export of Fat Filled Milk Powder (FFMP) to West Africa, helped by 🇮🇪 tax-payer monies.
Local dairy farmers are being displaced by greenwashed, nutritionally-poor FFMP products.
FFMP can incl. palm oil etc, it cannot be sold as "milk" in EU.
July 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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saoirsemc.bsky.social
These articles really shine a light on what a pile of shite the "we must feed the world at the expense of water quality and emissions" arguments are.

The world is being fed rubbish that's undermining local food production too
July 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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hannahdaly.ie
Fat Filled Milk Powder (FFMP) is one of the Irish dairy industry’s largest exports. Almost no one has heard of it because it’s exported mainly to African countries and marketed as milk for its health and sustainability - but it’s made of skimmed milk powder (a byproduct of butter) with palm oil or..
July 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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shaunacorr.bsky.social
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Thousands in Ireland’s public money spent helping wealthy firms pushing cheap substitute 'milk' in West Africa.

Working w/ @desmog.com @premiumtimesng.bsky.social we’ve spent months investigating Irish fat filled milk powder exports - now published here @thejournal.ie 👇
jrnl.ie/6762380
Thousands in Irish public money spent on pushing cheap substitute 'milk' in West Africa
Products made from milk, with the natural fat removed and replaced with vegetable oil, were among those promoted in trade missions and campaigns.
jrnl.ie
July 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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phoebecooke.bsky.social
w/ @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @desmog.com, Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social & @shaunacorr.bsky.social for @thejournal.ie

You can read @premiumtimesng.bsky.social version here: www.premiumtimesng.com/agriculture/...
INVESTIGATION: Unsupported by govt, Nigerian dairy farmers can't compete with subsidised, cheap EU imports
What makes Nigeria's situation dire is not just the importation of cheap milk substitutes, mainly from Europe, but that Nigerian farmers, unlike their European counterparts, get no government support ...
www.premiumtimesng.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
brigitte-whl.bsky.social
Just published in collaboration with The Journal and Premium Times our investigation linking Irish dairy giants to “mediocre” milk powder in West Africa

With✍️ @phoebecooke.bsky.social‬, @shaunacorr.bsky.social and Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social
How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa
In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...
www.desmog.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM