Brigitte Wear

For months, I analysed the campaigns funded through the Enjoy It’s from Europe programme.

What I found is striking: 1/3 of the campaigns promote exclusively meat and dairy and dozens of them present intensive livestock farming as environmentally friendly

Read my full investigation on @desmog.com

Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels With the clock running down at the COP30 climate talks, the Brazilian hosts are working hand-in-hand with industry groups to secure backing for biofuels in the final text – despite fears that scaling ...

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Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni

www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...

Pesticide Industry 'Hijacked' Climate Stage at COP30, Campaigners Say Syngenta and other pesticide companies used the COP30 climate conference in Brazil to promote programmes to recover damaged pastureland that campaigners fear will drive increased use of toxic…

🚨New: At COP30, the pesticide industry has been making big pledges to fight deforestation by turning Brazil's over-grazed pasturelands into new areas to grow crops. Small-holders fear it's all just a ploy to sell more of the toxic chemicals poisoning nature and harming human health. buff.ly/Yc8qocr

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.

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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...

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

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/

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...

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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...

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...

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...

🔴 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...

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.

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 📖👇

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...

🔴 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

🔴 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...

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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...

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

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

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

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.

🚨 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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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

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.

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

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..

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.

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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

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 ...

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/...

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.

Also published on The Journal and Premium Times
jrnl.ie/6762380

www.premiumtimesng.com/agriculture/...

Through a Freedom of Information request, we uncovered slideshows documenting details of the industry’s 2023 trade mission to Nigeria and Senegal, offering a rare glimpse into the tactics used by the sector to win over consumers in West Africa.

Papa Assane Diop from @humundi.bsky.social‬ said misinformation on social media is overstating the benefits of foreign milk powder, in contrast to fresh milk. “This creates a false perception among West African consumers, turning them away from fresh milk, which is wrongly perceived as ‘dangerous’."