M e r e d i t h L e i g h
@merrymeremer.bsky.social
Environmental, social and food justice advocate.
🫶 Focused on food system transformation.
Latest publications ⬇️ and other resources
https://linktr.ee/merryoga_
🫶 Focused on food system transformation.
Latest publications ⬇️ and other resources
https://linktr.ee/merryoga_
How do you convince a room full of influential people to care about climate change… in 6 minutes? 🎤
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How do you convince a room full of influential people to care about climate change… in 6 minutes?
Listen now | I won the TIME Earth Award. Here's what I said.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
How do you convince a room full of influential people to care about climate change… in 6 minutes? 🎤
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SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court.
Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court.
Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
Plastic pollution is a climate injustice issue. It leaches to soil and water, evaporates to air. Through our inhalatory pathways, it enters our brain and lungs, and it impacts our DNA. Poor people are exposed to more plastic pollution than rich people.
youtube.com/watch?v=slme...
youtube.com/watch?v=slme...
Scientists Speak Out #2 - Prof Thais Mauad - Plastic & Brains
YouTube video by Plastic Soup Foundation
youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Plastic pollution is a climate injustice issue. It leaches to soil and water, evaporates to air. Through our inhalatory pathways, it enters our brain and lungs, and it impacts our DNA. Poor people are exposed to more plastic pollution than rich people.
youtube.com/watch?v=slme...
youtube.com/watch?v=slme...
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“We are headed for a major public health and economic crisis.”
“Denying People the Right to Food”: Millions Could Go Hungry as Trump Admin Holds Up SNAP Benefits
As the U.S. federal government shutdown enters its second month, over 40 million people are now struggling to feed themselves and their families after SNAP food assistance was cut off over the weekend. “We are headed for a major public health and econom...
www.democracynow.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“We are headed for a major public health and economic crisis.”
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Today marks 30 days of the Republicans’ shutdown.
Now, 42 million Americans, including 3.5 million Texans, are at risk of losing access to SNAP.
Enough with the games. It’s time for them to show up and do their damn jobs.
Now, 42 million Americans, including 3.5 million Texans, are at risk of losing access to SNAP.
Enough with the games. It’s time for them to show up and do their damn jobs.
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Today marks 30 days of the Republicans’ shutdown.
Now, 42 million Americans, including 3.5 million Texans, are at risk of losing access to SNAP.
Enough with the games. It’s time for them to show up and do their damn jobs.
Now, 42 million Americans, including 3.5 million Texans, are at risk of losing access to SNAP.
Enough with the games. It’s time for them to show up and do their damn jobs.
"Start with the basic condition for life, water, and you see: Israel forces the Palestinians to make only one choice: leave your country, or die."
Terwijl illegale Israëlische kolonisten op de Westoever in hun zwembad plonzen, hebben Palestijnen even verderop nauwelijks een druppel water om van te leven. Al decennialang gebruikt Israël de waterkraan om Palestijnen elke kans op zelfbeschikking te ontnemen.
Lees verder: corr.es/cc7624
Lees verder: corr.es/cc7624
October 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
"Start with the basic condition for life, water, and you see: Israel forces the Palestinians to make only one choice: leave your country, or die."
October 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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💥Conflict remains one of the leading drivers of hunger worldwide.
The HLPE-FSN Issues Paper “Conflict-induced acute food crises: potential policy responses in light of current emergencies” sheds light on how violence disrupts food systems and livelihoods.⤵️
The HLPE-FSN Issues Paper “Conflict-induced acute food crises: potential policy responses in light of current emergencies” sheds light on how violence disrupts food systems and livelihoods.⤵️
🕊️ Today, on the International Day of Non-Violence, we reaffirm that peace is fundamental to achieving food security and nutrition.
📖Read more in the HLPE-FSN Issues Paper on Conflict-induced acute food crises: www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe...
📖Read more in the HLPE-FSN Issues Paper on Conflict-induced acute food crises: www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe...
New Issues paper “Conflict-induced acute food crises: potential policy responses in light of current emergencies”
New HLPE-FSN Issues paper
www.fao.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
💥Conflict remains one of the leading drivers of hunger worldwide.
The HLPE-FSN Issues Paper “Conflict-induced acute food crises: potential policy responses in light of current emergencies” sheds light on how violence disrupts food systems and livelihoods.⤵️
The HLPE-FSN Issues Paper “Conflict-induced acute food crises: potential policy responses in light of current emergencies” sheds light on how violence disrupts food systems and livelihoods.⤵️
"Before the 7 October atrocity...about 40% of its land was farmed. Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry... But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Before the 7 October atrocity...about 40% of its land was farmed. Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry... But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."
Go off, Al Gore! Down to the last words... Political will is a renewable resource. ✊👏👏👏 youtube.com/watch?v=Ztx0...
September 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Go off, Al Gore! Down to the last words... Political will is a renewable resource. ✊👏👏👏 youtube.com/watch?v=Ztx0...
📣Publication alert!
Exploring the path to food security via food sovereignty. This is my contribution to a set of student policy outlook papers focused on the Arctic.
For more, please read here:
jmmodulerepair.org/wp-content/u...
Exploring the path to food security via food sovereignty. This is my contribution to a set of student policy outlook papers focused on the Arctic.
For more, please read here:
jmmodulerepair.org/wp-content/u...
jmmodulerepair.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
📣Publication alert!
Exploring the path to food security via food sovereignty. This is my contribution to a set of student policy outlook papers focused on the Arctic.
For more, please read here:
jmmodulerepair.org/wp-content/u...
Exploring the path to food security via food sovereignty. This is my contribution to a set of student policy outlook papers focused on the Arctic.
For more, please read here:
jmmodulerepair.org/wp-content/u...
📢 Cover Reveal & Pre-order Launch
Releasing Feb 3, 2026, “Diaspora-ish: Notes on Identities, Unbelonging, & Solidarities” is a collective learning resource that offers inquiries about diasporic identity and belonging aimed at practicing global solidarity.
Releasing Feb 3, 2026, “Diaspora-ish: Notes on Identities, Unbelonging, & Solidarities” is a collective learning resource that offers inquiries about diasporic identity and belonging aimed at practicing global solidarity.
September 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
📢 Cover Reveal & Pre-order Launch
Releasing Feb 3, 2026, “Diaspora-ish: Notes on Identities, Unbelonging, & Solidarities” is a collective learning resource that offers inquiries about diasporic identity and belonging aimed at practicing global solidarity.
Releasing Feb 3, 2026, “Diaspora-ish: Notes on Identities, Unbelonging, & Solidarities” is a collective learning resource that offers inquiries about diasporic identity and belonging aimed at practicing global solidarity.
New publication🚨alert🚨 “Disentangling food transformation narratives: A Q-method analysis on pathways to sustainable food systems and their implications” in @frontiersin.bsky.social.
Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
Frontiers | Disentangling food transformation narratives: a Q-method analysis on pathways to sustainable food systems and their implications
IntroductionWhile the urgency to transform global food systems is widely recognized in scientific and policy circles, differing interpretations of what const...
www.frontiersin.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
New publication🚨alert🚨 “Disentangling food transformation narratives: A Q-method analysis on pathways to sustainable food systems and their implications” in @frontiersin.bsky.social.
Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
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There is a "narrow window" to prevent famine from spreading further in Gaza, says the UN – calling on Israel to allow unimpeded aid delivery.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
UN says time is short to stop famine spreading as Israel bombards Gaza City
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are facing famine in the area of Gaza City, according to a global hunger monitor.
www.reuters.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
There is a "narrow window" to prevent famine from spreading further in Gaza, says the UN – calling on Israel to allow unimpeded aid delivery.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
"The takeaway is clear: cooperative self-reliance and more localized, territorial food systems must become central to how we respond. Resilience can no longer be outsourced."
🚨Trump’s trade wars are hitting food systems hard – pushing up #foodprices and deepening hunger.
Local food systems aren't just a nice idea. They're a lifeline for #foodsecurity.
"Resilience can no longer be outsourced" writes @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social.
📖 ipes-food.org/in-the-cross...
Local food systems aren't just a nice idea. They're a lifeline for #foodsecurity.
"Resilience can no longer be outsourced" writes @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social.
📖 ipes-food.org/in-the-cross...
September 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"The takeaway is clear: cooperative self-reliance and more localized, territorial food systems must become central to how we respond. Resilience can no longer be outsourced."
Telling the story of what climate change looks like on Mauritius. Thanks to @thedialmag.bsky.social.
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
The Future of Climate Change Is on Mauritius — The Dial
Freak tornadoes, “explosions” of jellyfish, flash floods and dried up pumps.
www.thedial.world
September 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Telling the story of what climate change looks like on Mauritius. Thanks to @thedialmag.bsky.social.
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
A model worth replicating:
citizenmatters.in/food-waste-c...
Incorporates waste management, energy production, food production into a closed loop system in a school environment with student participation. Thanks for sharing this story @citizenmatters.bsky.social!
citizenmatters.in/food-waste-c...
Incorporates waste management, energy production, food production into a closed loop system in a school environment with student participation. Thanks for sharing this story @citizenmatters.bsky.social!
1,800 kg less to the landfill: Chennai school’s green solution to food waste
A Chennai school turns food waste into biogas, powering its kitchen and garden, while teaching students hands-on sustainability.
citizenmatters.in
September 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A model worth replicating:
citizenmatters.in/food-waste-c...
Incorporates waste management, energy production, food production into a closed loop system in a school environment with student participation. Thanks for sharing this story @citizenmatters.bsky.social!
citizenmatters.in/food-waste-c...
Incorporates waste management, energy production, food production into a closed loop system in a school environment with student participation. Thanks for sharing this story @citizenmatters.bsky.social!
How to restore food security in settler colonial contexts: Food sovereignty approaches led by indigenous people and further supported by the dismantlement of state policies that enforce colonial systems.
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Settler Colonialism Undermines Food Systems in Crises
In the complex landscape of global food security, protracted crises present an enduring challenge that defies simplistic solutions. Traditionally, responses to food insecurity in such contexts have
scienmag.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
How to restore food security in settler colonial contexts: Food sovereignty approaches led by indigenous people and further supported by the dismantlement of state policies that enforce colonial systems.
scienmag.com/settler-colo...
scienmag.com/settler-colo...
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This is the single biggest problem with our food system. It is absurdly inefficient. Less than half of what we grow ends up on our plates.
Great work by Paul West and other Project Drawdown colleagues.
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
Great work by Paul West and other Project Drawdown colleagues.
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates
In 2020, the world produced more than enough calories to feed the global population, but only half of those calories reached people’s plates due to rising meat and biofuel production
www.newscientist.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is the single biggest problem with our food system. It is absurdly inefficient. Less than half of what we grow ends up on our plates.
Great work by Paul West and other Project Drawdown colleagues.
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
Great work by Paul West and other Project Drawdown colleagues.
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
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Ignoring this might mean missing one of the most powerful tools we actually have to fight climate and biodiversity collapse.
Over the years, I’ve watched report after report confirm what we already know:
🪼 Emissions are still rising
🪼 Ecosystems are still collapsing
🧵
Over the years, I’ve watched report after report confirm what we already know:
🪼 Emissions are still rising
🪼 Ecosystems are still collapsing
🧵
August 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ignoring this might mean missing one of the most powerful tools we actually have to fight climate and biodiversity collapse.
Over the years, I’ve watched report after report confirm what we already know:
🪼 Emissions are still rising
🪼 Ecosystems are still collapsing
🧵
Over the years, I’ve watched report after report confirm what we already know:
🪼 Emissions are still rising
🪼 Ecosystems are still collapsing
🧵
"The purpose of taxing the rich is not so we can fund social services, but to reduce the demands of the rich on our labor and productive capacities so we can do what we as a democratic society believe should be done. Rich people completely corrupt our society and democratic processes."
August 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"The purpose of taxing the rich is not so we can fund social services, but to reduce the demands of the rich on our labor and productive capacities so we can do what we as a democratic society believe should be done. Rich people completely corrupt our society and democratic processes."
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"Beyond Atrocious": Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid
“Beyond Atrocious”: Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid
In Gaza, “the situation is beyond atrocious.” Aid worker Arwa Damon, a former CNN journalist and the founder of INARA, a nonprofit currently providing medical and mental healthcare to children in...
www.democracynow.org
July 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Beyond Atrocious": Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid
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Eyad Amawi, an aid coordinator in Gaza, says Palestinians need more than political statements in order to "stop the genocide" being carried out by Israel, including mass starvation of the civilian population. www.democracynow.org/2025/7/28/ga...
July 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Eyad Amawi, an aid coordinator in Gaza, says Palestinians need more than political statements in order to "stop the genocide" being carried out by Israel, including mass starvation of the civilian population. www.democracynow.org/2025/7/28/ga...
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People around the world are suffering from the increased cost of living
Meanwhile, billionaires and big corporations continue to profit at our expense, and our governments fail to take the bold action we need for a world we can all thrive in.
We #DrawTheLine – it’s time for this to change!
Meanwhile, billionaires and big corporations continue to profit at our expense, and our governments fail to take the bold action we need for a world we can all thrive in.
We #DrawTheLine – it’s time for this to change!
Rising food prices driven by climate crisis threaten world’s poorest, report finds
High cost of staples due to extreme weather could lead to more malnutrition, political upheaval and social unrest
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
People around the world are suffering from the increased cost of living
Meanwhile, billionaires and big corporations continue to profit at our expense, and our governments fail to take the bold action we need for a world we can all thrive in.
We #DrawTheLine – it’s time for this to change!
Meanwhile, billionaires and big corporations continue to profit at our expense, and our governments fail to take the bold action we need for a world we can all thrive in.
We #DrawTheLine – it’s time for this to change!
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From potatoes in Britain to onions in India, weather extremes fuelled by #ClimateCrisis are driving short-term food price surges globally, research has found.
“The meaning of food price inflation is political. It’s always political” says our @rajpatel.org
nationalpost.com/life/food/ex...
“The meaning of food price inflation is political. It’s always political” says our @rajpatel.org
nationalpost.com/life/food/ex...
From potatoes to cocoa and coffee, severe weather spikes food prices worldwide, study finds
Foods hit by extreme weather raise prices, contribute to overall inflation and could trigger societal risks, according to a new study
nationalpost.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
From potatoes in Britain to onions in India, weather extremes fuelled by #ClimateCrisis are driving short-term food price surges globally, research has found.
“The meaning of food price inflation is political. It’s always political” says our @rajpatel.org
nationalpost.com/life/food/ex...
“The meaning of food price inflation is political. It’s always political” says our @rajpatel.org
nationalpost.com/life/food/ex...