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🇧🇷🥣Brazil proves that ending hunger isn’t a technological challenge, but a political one.
It requires redistribution, democratic planning, and sustained public investment – not just GDP growth or fertilizer subsidies, @rajpatel.org writes for @foodtank.bsky.social
foodtank.com/news/2025/08...
It requires redistribution, democratic planning, and sustained public investment – not just GDP growth or fertilizer subsidies, @rajpatel.org writes for @foodtank.bsky.social
foodtank.com/news/2025/08...
No Beef Here. Brazil Beat Hunger the Right Way
Brazil feeds the world, but its greatest export might be the policies that ended hunger at home.
foodtank.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🇧🇷🥣Brazil proves that ending hunger isn’t a technological challenge, but a political one.
It requires redistribution, democratic planning, and sustained public investment – not just GDP growth or fertilizer subsidies, @rajpatel.org writes for @foodtank.bsky.social
foodtank.com/news/2025/08...
It requires redistribution, democratic planning, and sustained public investment – not just GDP growth or fertilizer subsidies, @rajpatel.org writes for @foodtank.bsky.social
foodtank.com/news/2025/08...
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“The food system isn’t just a supply chain. It’s a system that makes fossil-fueled farming, plastic packaging, and ultra-processing feel perfectly normal. Fossil fuels are there every step of the way, making normal some of the weirdest things about the way we eat.”
www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
How Fossil Fuels Became The Lifeblood Of The Food Supply.
A new study shows how fossil fuels are embedded across of the food chain. While their use in food systems is accelerating, fossil fuel dependence is not inevitable.
www.forbes.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“The food system isn’t just a supply chain. It’s a system that makes fossil-fueled farming, plastic packaging, and ultra-processing feel perfectly normal. Fossil fuels are there every step of the way, making normal some of the weirdest things about the way we eat.”
www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
www.forbes.com/sites/errols...
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April 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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diet related disease really is a thing
obesity will likely overtake tobacco soon (may already have done so)
despite this food policy remains spectacularly unambitious
wonder why? read: foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/defaul...
obesity will likely overtake tobacco soon (may already have done so)
despite this food policy remains spectacularly unambitious
wonder why? read: foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/defaul...
April 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
diet related disease really is a thing
obesity will likely overtake tobacco soon (may already have done so)
despite this food policy remains spectacularly unambitious
wonder why? read: foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/defaul...
obesity will likely overtake tobacco soon (may already have done so)
despite this food policy remains spectacularly unambitious
wonder why? read: foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/defaul...
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last year, we supported a mapping project that revealed a beautiful, hopeful ecosystem of around 2000 uk orgs building regenerative futures. some thoughts from me on how funders and wealthholders should respond: www.jrf.org.uk/imagination-...
Surviving on breadcrumbs: resourcing radical hope
This reflection looks at new research on the scale and nature of efforts across the UK to build alternative futures. How can wealth holders like JRF do more to better support and shield this essential...
www.jrf.org.uk
February 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
last year, we supported a mapping project that revealed a beautiful, hopeful ecosystem of around 2000 uk orgs building regenerative futures. some thoughts from me on how funders and wealthholders should respond: www.jrf.org.uk/imagination-...
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“Now is the time to strengthen our systems for addressing COIs, separating harmful industry funding from science, and acknowledging that public health research should seek to serve the public good, not the profit motives of vested interests.”
Our latest editorial ⬇️
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Our latest editorial ⬇️
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Conflicts of interest in public health research and publications
Providing communities and knowledge users with reliable, independent, and evidence-based information has always been a core function of public health (Thom
academic.oup.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“Now is the time to strengthen our systems for addressing COIs, separating harmful industry funding from science, and acknowledging that public health research should seek to serve the public good, not the profit motives of vested interests.”
Our latest editorial ⬇️
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Our latest editorial ⬇️
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
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I do appreciate how creative humans are and how they can make songs about the fall of democracy that really slap
February 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I do appreciate how creative humans are and how they can make songs about the fall of democracy that really slap
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If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I know this sentiment is well shared, but every once in a while I think about how beautifully powerful and inspiring these paintings are.
January 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I know this sentiment is well shared, but every once in a while I think about how beautifully powerful and inspiring these paintings are.
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I don't think we are supposed to individually prepare ourselves 3x meals a day every day for our whole lives I think we're supposed to have community and sharing
January 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I don't think we are supposed to individually prepare ourselves 3x meals a day every day for our whole lives I think we're supposed to have community and sharing