LA bands taking over my playlists last few years.

it's an ipsos poll. they paid for it. the point isn't the org but what the data tells us.

The point here is that if people don't understand the structure and political economy of food and go only on vibes - even good, pro-animal welfare vibes - then the Pollan-esque "eat meat from happy cows" idea seems not just desirable but, crucially, viable. And that opens it to corporate cooptation.

Source: www.aspca.org/protecting-f....

Does knowing the latter lead to a more serious reckoning with the meat industry or does it lead to hopelessness? I'm not sure. I'd hope the former. But in either case the big challenge isn't just getting people to "care about animals" but to actually understand how the food system works.

~97-99% of meat in the USA comes from factory farms. There is no alternative at any meaningful scale. But if people don't know that, then they will think alternative production methods are a viable, widely-available option when they both aren't and can't be.

Yeah they coulda run with "The Zohpressor" or "Chairman Zoh" for that ChatGPT-written hit piece.

Feed the People! Basic Books. February 17.

(Also this is exactly the conclusion my co-author and I came to from the massive lit. review we did for our book, so very happy to also see a similar conclusion being drawn here in the peer-reviewed lit.)

Paste this everywhere.

* And that is by no means a jab at Mamdani at all. I'm just talking about the scale of the policies, their cost, and the political effort needed to implement them.

See, that's where I would disagree. He pushed through two massive cost-of-living, kitchen table policies, much bigger than Mamdani's campaign promises, and people have just somehow forgotten/focused on everything else.

Thank you! I was in grad school during his two tenures and I remember broad popularity, with only some random jibes here and there about inefficiency, his family, etc. But now it seems like his reputation has been tarnished by... I'm not sure what exactly. Totally undeserved.

Those two programs alone are an incredible political legacy that any mayor would aspire to and would hang their hat on for the rest of their lives. Now people take it for granted and take shots at De Blasio. The man made the city healthier and more affordable forever.

hasn't been for a long time

Also bears noting now that he's being talked about that it was Bill De Blasio who brought universal school lunches to NYC in addition to universal pre-K. Say what you will about his tenure, but these were transformative policies that are now taken for granted. Put some respect on the man's name.