Jan Hajek

YouTube video by We Animals Who Pays the Cost of Animal Agriculture?

Important documentary film about agriculture in #Canada - including the exploitation of temporary foreign workers -

- "what was your experience like working with animals?

- "c'était épouvantable 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_RD...

Opinion | We Shouldn’t Want to Eat Like Our Great-Great-Grandparents

ICYMI @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and I wrote about why you should not want to eat like your great-great-grandparents and why modern, industrially-produced food is "real food."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

Health secretary

Meat and yogurt

Plus anabolic steroids....

Excellent article

I'm pro a mix of industrial and local backyard wild "natural" foods, like mushrooms, etc if possible

I may be oversensitive, but am not liking the photo they used for the article with all the single-use plastic- won't demonize, but will try to "think about how to make it better"

The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.

“You can’t have the damaging agent be the one trying to normalize itself through something people associate with health, identity and aspiration,” - [Podborski] 🔥🎯

And the main damaging agents are not just fossil fuels and CO2 emissions...

www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

The shouting Tabarnak at the beginning is cool

But the rest seems depressing - that this animal struggled for more than 2 hours and then was gaffed and pulled out onto the ice - in the name of scientific research

Horse Racing Appeal Panel clears local harness racing trainer of horse cruelty TORONTO – An appeal panel has reversed the decision of the province’s gaming commission that resulted in a two-year suspension of horse trainer Anthony Beaton last year. Beaton, an experienced harnes...

It's hard to follow all this - am guessing that opponents would prefer a ban on inflicting "excessive" pain

Am reminded of discussions about the standards used for breaking horses for use in racing - and this case from last year👇

www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/horse-racing...

This is upsetting

1) each voice is equal - ok - but huge imbalance in the number of industry voices vs welfare voices

2) worrisome that welfare groups like @humanecanada.ca approve things like keeping foxes in small wire cages and killing them with anal electrocution

3) why not make laws instead?

RFK too - isn’t he taking testosterone - TRT

I cringe to think if he is taking some kind of organic testosterone - hopefully just synthetic hormones

West coast men helped a moose get back up after it took a tumble on the highway Melvin Rideout and Mark Gionet were travelling on the TCH when they saw the moose fall over concrete median near Marble Mountain

Heartwarming story -

“I was just very, very happy that she was OK” - ❤️

Can we also have heartwarming stories about people rescuing moose from not getting shot by sport-hunters - or re-uniting baby calves with their mothers on dairy farms?

www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...

"Pass the peas and hold the propaganda 👇

@cape-acme.bsky.social

what about the response to misinformation?

and serious steps to prevent future pandemics - like a SARS3 - or Nipah-virus related pandemic...

Do you know what happened to these markets - are they running again - have any serious changes been made to reduce these kinds of live animal markets?

We all share this beautiful planet. It's up to all of us to fight back against those who want to cause it harm.

We'll never stop fighting for #wildlife and wild places: No matter who is in office, no matter what the odds are against us all. The stakes are just too high.

Join us ➡️ bit.ly/4nprZr6

How To Explain Lab-Grown Meat Simply to People Who Aren't Scientists The most common questions about cultivated meat, answered in plain English.

The science of lab-grown meat has made striking advancements, resulting in a technology that has the potential to fundamentally change how humans eat and produce food.

"Vegan leather" can be plastic, recycled plastic, or plant-based - and you don't have to wear leather - everything does have issues - but there are a lot of choices we can make in the world - from the clothes we choose to wear to the foods we choose to eat

Lots of ways to make things better -

For reducing suffering to animals - and pressure on the planet - we could stop killing and eating them

I kind of get this - almost everything has some issues - including cotton production

But isn't that also a little bit like looking at a factory that has forced child labour, while saying that nothing's perfect - there ought to be some kind of red line issues out there

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- and, if you want to prevent pandemics - reduce and stop eating animals - especially chickens and pigs

- more killing is often our answer for outbreaks in wild animals that we help create as well (consider CWD, moose affected by ticks, etc...)

Certainly a fiasco

- after identifying the outbreak, the CFIA preferred approach was to kill all the remaining ostriches, give the owners $3,000 per killed bird - to start up again - and hope they'll self-report future illness - and then more killing and compensation $ following the next outbreak

First we spread BSE by feeding cows parts of dead cows

Now we are spreading a similar fatal brain disease by farming wild deer in pens and shooting them

Whew. I am not familiar with your organization - or with the care for marmots - and also don't want to antagonize, but, seeing that photo holding up a hibernating marmot was unsettling - and weighing all hibernating marmots once a month seems unnecessary and risky (?)

"we work very hard to ensure they are disturbed"

I think that is a typo? Or is it meant to antagonize?

If you really don't want to disturb them, why not let them hibernate without weighing them and holding them up for photos?

Wait - I may be misinterpreting this, is this picking up a hibernating marmot for a photo-op?

Seems reasonable, you protect the vulnerable older people - and you don't disrupt the rest of society.

But what about the vulnerable younger people? Did they propose a way to separate them from the rest of society?

Large African birds crowded on Canadian farms — what could go wrong? A less costly way to reduce the pandemic risks associated with ostrich farming in Canada would be to stop doing it.

Large African birds crowded on Canadian farms — what could go wrong?  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/o...

It’s interesting - I remember similar debates about airborne-related issues on top of respiratory droplets during 2009 H1N1

Glad to see the premier not mince words here. With the stakes this high, we need blunt talk.

That's interesting - I would have expected that dogs with AE in liver would be more likely to have intestinal co-infection than other dogs in same general location. (somewhat similar to pork tapeworm in people - where people can sometimes be both definitive and intermediate hosts)