Jenny Splitter

Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders.

Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey in Three Charts: sentientmedia.org/the-hidden-c...

Why Is There Soy in Practically Everything? If you’re avoiding tofu and soy milk, you’re still probably eating more soy than you think.

Why is there soy in everything from meatballs to chicken nuggets to froot loops? sentientmedia.org/why-is-soy-i... from @jesslsr.bsky.social

How about how does it feel to have helped destroy scientific institutions in the U.S.?

Each bird pinching/swallowing Daf is like, damn are we still talking bird killing rituals?

Anyway, feel better!

Is a bad flu season on the way? Experts see reason to be anxious There are early indications that this flu season could be a bad one.

Mutations in #H3N2 #flu viruses have some experts worried we're facing a second bad #influenza season. The new variant, subclade K, may be able to escape antibodies generated by previous infections or this year's flu shot. But some experts are hedging their bets. www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/f...

Major Republican pollster warns that digging in on anti-Nazism will fracture their coalition

Olivia Nuzzi is no Joan Didion, but the OP’s point about personality journalism or whatever we want to call it does track, I think.

Could an early diet of seaweed produce climate-friendlier beef? A UC Davis study shows promising results.

I appreciate this piece including some limitations & criticisms. But best case scenario for feed additives is that they are one component of climate action re: food sector. We still have to talk about eating less beef, something that's often left out of reporting. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

Had a great time chatting with @phoebebovy.bsky.social about Mamdani, the left, antisemitism, and all other things Jewishly angled. Check it out here:

a man wearing sunglasses and a scarf is taking a picture of himself Alt: a person wearing sunglasses and a scarf is in disguise

Me on this website hiding my interest in the Nuzzi-Lizza content I'm definitely not not consuming

How America’s Largest Meat Company Leverages Palantir's Surveillance Tech Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?

Links:

Palantir: sentientmedia.org/tyson-foods-...

Tyson's Covid deaths lawsuits: talkbusiness.net/2025/05/iowa...

Tyson's role in executive order: michiganadvance.com/2024/12/28/u...

A Congressional Select Subcommittee report (2022) found that Tyson’s legal department drafted the executive order Trump signed forcing meatpacking plants to stay open as Covid raged through plants.

Tyson claimed in court it was shielded from responsibility for the deaths by the executive order.

who the hell is double spacing in 2025??

How America’s Largest Meat Company Leverages Palantir's Surveillance Tech Palantir’s controversial software platform is capable of integrating vast amounts of data — but at what risk?

Tyson Foods has used Palantir's technology since the early days of the pandemic to protect its supply chain. The technology predicted infections with a chilling level of accuracy, yet Tyson didn't use it to protect workers but instead lobbied to reopen plants. sentientmedia.org/tyson-foods-...

Me: ugh, so sick of social media and —

OMG THIS CAT IS EVERYTHING LET ME STARE FOR HOURS

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org

Your Squid May Be Harvested By Chinese Vessels With Forced Labor Officers on fishing vessels often subject workers to physical violence, intimidation and fraud. Most of the crew members interviewed by the Environmental Justice Foundation reported being trapped in…

Most buyers sourcing squid from Chinese vessels accused of crew abuse and deaths are based in North America — nearly half in the U.S. and one-third in Canada, according to a September report by the London-based nonprofit @ejfoundation.org.

(via @gaeacabico.bsky.social for @sentientmedia.org)

Iowa ag news!

It is but unfortunately just reporting it isn’t reaching people who aren’t already outraged.

Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life

A little piece of good news. There will have to be more like this: institutions of civil society, academia, and expertise separating from the state.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

He’s very orange

Iowa food companies routinely violate water pollution permits and rarely face penalties - Little Village Deb El Food Products LLC is one of hundreds of Iowa-based companies cited for violating its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit in 2025. Of these, 38 were food […]

Water pollution has become a bad habit for hundreds of Iowa-based ag companies, including some that boast about being "innovative" and "sustainable."

There is a food pantry at Adas Israel in DC. Call 202 413 8671 or email opapados@gmsil.com for discreet help.

DC folks:

How Habitable Will Earth Be When We Search for Life Beyond Our Planet? • The Revelator As we prepare to look for life in other solar systems, we should also look inward at what we’re doing to our home planet.

Before we look for life on other planets, shouldn't we do more to protect life on Earth? https://therevelator.org/how-habitable-earth/

ICE raids in Colorado highlight how violent the U.S. has become - High Country News After migrating to Canada, a journalist reckons with the grief and gratitude of having left.

"As the sun rose over the mesas ... state and local police officers arrived, along with federal officials tasked with breaking up the protest so that ICE could move the children and their father to a detention center elsewhere. That’s when things got violent."
www.hcn.org/articles/ice...

The Increasingly Complex Science of Political Identity Opinion | Understanding why people vote the way they do has emerged as a cutting-edge scientific question requiring new tools.

Political scientists argue our old models are failing. Recent elections reveal voting patterns don't match expectations. We need new frameworks to understand political identity in 2025 and why people vote the way they do.

The Climate Solution Sitting in America’s Trash Cutting food waste is a huge potential climate win. Why are we ignoring it?

In the U.S., about 1/3 of all food produced is wasted. When we waste food, “in many ways, we are throwing out a lot of water, a lot of land, a lot of fertilizer, natural habitat.” - @paul-west.bsky.social

Check out the full article in @sentientmedia.org
https://bit.ly/43KZxZa

#foodwaste

Ozempic for all? Is it happening?

The Climate Solution Sitting in America’s Trash

In the United States, climate change is polarizing, but one environmental challenge draws rare bipartisan agreement: food waste.

Read more in The Core: buff.ly/XPz5ZPK