Emma Smart

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

Someone please reassure me that the apple blossom I saw this morning is perfectly normal & not another sign we’re hurtling faster towards climate & biodiversity collapse

Please?

(Blackberries in June gave me nightmares)

The age of warnings is over.
The climate and nature crisis is already here, threatening our food, health and national security.
On 27 Nov, top UK experts deliver the official briefing our leaders urgently need. Make sure your MP attends❗️

#TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org

📣 New post and article on Scientists and Emergency Action 📣

🥼 On the many ways we can take action... and why we're powerful when we do: abiperrin.com/p/scientists...

💬 On how we can support the movements that drive transformation, via @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-scientis...

Elbit Systems factory apparently shuttered following Palestine Action campaign The defence company's plant in Bristol is reportedly empty in the wake of a direct action campaign by the now-proscribed group

Direct Action Works ✊

Which is exactly why our government are so keen to proscribe peaceful protesters as terrorists

My very own ‘terrorist’ husband in the photo ❤️‍🔥

#LiftTheBan
#PalestineAction

www.middleeasteye.net/news/elbit-s...

"I feel really emotional right now cause I've got people from Animal Rising behind me, literally sitting on the ground holding signs, knowing that they're about to get arrested" - Rose Patterson, live from Lift the Ban at Parliament Square right now 🚨

#lifttheban #democracy

@metpolice.bsky.social
Pick a Side
Justice or Genocide?

#LiftTheBan @shabanamahmood.bsky.social

YouTube video by Google Play Books Scientists on Survival: Personal Stories of… by Scientists for Extinction… · Audiobook preview

The audio book version of "Scientists on Survival" is now available. It's produced by @bolindaoriginals.bsky.social and you can get a preview including the foward by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social as well as introductory chapters by @abiperrin.bsky.social & @stucap.bsky.social

youtu.be/Sc5yQoigxS4

It’s going to take more than that.

www.defendourjuries.net

Prison bosses make room for possible influx before planned protests across England Exclusive: Possible arrests at protests against Palestine Action ban and asylum hotels likely to stretch prisons

Let's empty the jails so we can fill them with octogenarians who care about genocide.
Because that's the real threat to society.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

BREAKING

Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.

This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.

www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

LIFT THE BAN
www.wedonotcomply.org

Watch as this young man explains in 30seconds why the de-proscribing of Palestine Action is a democratic and moral imperative.

This is the reason hundreds are willing to risk absurd “terrorism” charges for holding simple truthful signs.

From the action. Photo credit Denise Laura Baker

BREAKING: Scientists are occupying the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in London. They are demanding capital requirements for fossil fuels to urgently address climate breakdown.

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Huge love & respect for the brilliant individuals in civil disobedience against a government who would rather arrest peaceful protestors than genocidal war criminals 🪧 ❤️‍🔥

'MPs Need to Listen to the Scientists, Not the Oligarchs’ — Scientists Sound the Climate Alarm at Westminster Chris Packham was joined by more than 150 scientists in a demonstration urging Westminster to start listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change

"Politicians need to listen to the scientists and stop listening to the oligarchs” - Former Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King bylinetimes.com/2025/05/19/c... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @smartyfish.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @drandrewboswell.bsky.social

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Also: Scientists need to step up. Comment from @chrisgpackham.bsky.social on the @sciencetopolitics.bsky.social rally outside Parliament

May 16th - Sentencing Solidarity update

POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED!

All nine Just Stop Oil defendants receive non-custodial sentences, with a mix of suspended sentences and “time served” while waiting for trial.

#FreePoliticalPrisoners 1/3

Holding placard THE UK PUBLIC WANT STRONGER CLIMATE ACTION Bring Science to Politics

Back of a t shirt FOR CLIMATE TRUTH AND JUSTICE ACI NOW

Banner CLImate EMERGENCY

Trilobite chewing gum

Wonderful to meet so many scientists and activists today - great speeches on the importance of following the science not the hustlers and lobbyists (aka also hustlers) also a piece of chewing gum evolving into a trilobite

UK scientists stage historic climate protest at parliament Chris Packham joins over 150 British experts rallying in London to demand urgent, science-based climate policy

🌍 UK scientists stage historic climate protest at parliament

Chris Packham joins over 150 British experts rallying in London to demand urgent, science-based climate policy

By Brian McHugh

@brianmchugh.bsky.social @sciencetopolitics.bsky.social

Scientists stand in front of DEFRA hold placards demanding political action to address multiple environmental crises. Image credit: Kirk Pritchard

A large group of scientists in white lab coats protest in Parliament Square over Government's failure to address the polycrisis. Image credit: Kirk Pritchard.

I went to Parliament today with 150 other scientists to #BringScienceToPolitics. As Sir David King said in his speech, we are currently still accelerating into the polycrisis and we need those in power to put the brakes on immediately! #ActOnFacts @sciencetopolitics.bsky.social

“Scientists need to step up to the plate”

Former Government Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King to massed scientists outside Parliament yesterday

As scientists we need to hold Government to account
#BringScienceToPolitics
@sciencetopolitics.bsky.social

Around 200 scientists in front of the UK Houses of Parliament. Scientists are wearing white lab coats, assembled behind a banner reading "Bring Science to Politics... For climate, nature and our survival"

Here we are about to BRING SCIENCE TO POLITICS

Thank you to the ~200 scientists who have joined us today, many of whom are in Parliament RIGHT NOW, speaking with politicians.

More updates to follow
📸 by Denise Laura Baker

Cancer researcher Lynn discusses being on the cover of Scientists on Survival and the humanity in protesting for your beliefs.

Discover more inspirational stories in #ScientistsOnSurvival.

Video credits: @peteknapp.bsky.social

Out now: buff.ly/dIaeEfo ✅

#BookSky @scientistsx.bsky.social

11. We’re paying twice for this madness. There would be no sheep on the moor if it were not for lavish subsidies, as they are highly unproductive and loss-making. Our taxes pay both for the ecological destruction and for the feeble remedy. Round and round the money goes. Pop goes the ecosystem.

Are you a scientist? Want evidence-based policies, for climate, Nature and, ultimately, survival?

Then join 150+ including @mikebernerslee.bsky.social to "Bring Science to Politics" on Tuesday

⁉️ Info: tinyurl.com/Scientists2025
🥼 Make sure you sign up for full details: tinyurl.com/SciParl25

🌡️ As 2024 shattered records @profbillmcguire.bsky.social made a sobering, rallying call to scientists: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/09/planet-dying-climate-crisis-emergency-scientists

Joining us next week is one way YOU can respond.
⁉️ tinyurl.com/Scientists2025
🥼 tinyurl.com/SciParl25

ONE WEEK TO GO!
Bring Science to Politics

🥼 JOIN US 🥼
Noon Tue May 13
Parliament Square

⁉️ Find out more: tinyurl.com/Scientists2025
🥼 Pledge to join: tinyurl.com/SciParl25

#ScientistsOnSurvival
#ActOnFacts

Photo of Wistman's Wood, a tiny remaining fragment of rainforest on Dartmoor, by Neil Burnell.

The vast fire on #Dartmoor should alert us to the ecological disaster there. This should not be a fire-prone landscape. Were it not for the elimination of trees by grazing, the vegetation type on the high moor would be temperate rainforest, which is extremely hard to burn. But only specks remain.