Ariel Brunner

Study: Emissions from top meat and dairy companies rival those of Saudi Arabia Major new report estimates methane emissions from leading meat and dairy firms exceeded reported methane of all EU countries and the UK combined

45 major meat & dairy corporations generated more than 1bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions eq

Largest 5 emitters analysed - JBS, Marfrig, Tyson, Minerva, and Cargill - together produced 480 mn tonnes, surpassing emissions reported for Chevron, Shell, or BP

www.businessgreen.com/news/4520605...

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

Brilliant visuals making the latest bird migration science accessible.

The birds have important messages for us about our rapidly changing home.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The energy transition is too slow. On biodiversity we're still going backwards.

We've taken a thorough look at good and best practice from across Europe, drawing lessons for addressing both at the same time.

Possibly the stupidest nature destroying project in Europe.

Do write to your local Italian embassy to tell them not to put a giant bird trap in the way of your migratory birds.

slender billed curlew

Today, the IUCN has officially declared the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) extinct 😞

This is the 1st known extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species, whose range included Europe, North Africa & West Asia

The last confirmed sighting was 30+ years ago

Meanwhile, billions in CAP money are spent on devastating ecosystems and destroying farm resilience. And environmental lows are being dismantled.

Compensations are little more than pissing in the wind while ever worse disasters are actively promoted.

Time to give the EP canteen the US libraries treatment?
(*Sarcasm alert)

Profit is entirely down to subsidies (mandates, tax breaks etc)

Food concerns everyone, and so do the rules that protect it. If the EU rolls back food and pesticide laws, we all lose: our health, nature, clean water.

We built these protections together over time. Now let’s defend them.

Speak up now: www.pan-europe.info/ban-toxic-pe...

#HandsOffNature

The emblem of the farmland biodiversity crisis.

On my grandpa's farm they were shooting hundreds, year in year out. For generations. Then in the 60's they wiped them out in 5 years when the farm was modernised. Then it went extinct nationally (IT).

Tens of millions of essentially factory farmed poultry are dumped into the countryside each year. They boost the population of mesopredators like foxes, reducing ground nesting bird populations. They are an obvious avian flue hazard. They eat declining reptiles. Turn out they're also a health hazard

#Biofuels are still made from food and/or on prime farmland (the marginal land BS), they are worse than what they replace (the magic carbon BS), they are massively imported (the rural development BS), it's still first gen (the 2nd & 3rd gen BS).

#MagicalThinking 0 - Reality 1

I'm old enough to remember warning about all of this as far back as 2005, alongside @transportenvironment.org & @eeb.org For 2 decades we've been told not not to negative and believe in fairy tales. Guess what, all of our warnings have come true...

Dedicating just 3% of the land currently used for biofuels to solar power would produce the same amount of energy - and enough to power one third of the global car fleet, if it were electric.

Those that argue against in field solar are barking up the wrong tree (good planning & design still needed)

This neatly explains yesterday's EP veggie burger ban vote.

It's a demented measure as consumer protection. But it is a key defence for the world's second most destructive industry.

Since 1970, global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73%, and more than a quarter of our planet’s species now face extinction.

Nature needs advocates. Political will is needed. Action is essential. So is recognition that this work is not optional—it is foundational.

Ban the chocolate eggs. Gummy bears might be taken for bush meat. Kidney beans are a clear threat to anyone looking for some Italian rognone. And don't get me started on the French Oiseaux sans tête (headless birds that involve no birds at all).

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off the menu as MEPs vote to ban plant-based food terms Vote is victory for MEPs who want to strengthen position of farmers in food supply chain

“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef … Ladies’ fingers are not made of actual ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism,” says Austrian MEP Anna Stürgkh

Ditto Shepherds pie

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"In the five years since leaving the EU, rather than protecting British fish, politicians have set catch limits too high, allowing international trawlers to plunder stocks..."
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Voting results amendment on meat denominations https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-RCV_FR.pdf

Voting results amendment on meat denominations https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-RCV_FR.pdf

355 MEPs voted today to ban the use of meat denominations like burger & sausage for plant-based products.

This is a manufactured issue. Consumers are not confused.

If there was ever clearer evidence of political decision-making being heavily influenced by the animal agriculture lobby. This is it.

The EU frogmarched into ridicule by the intensive farm lobby. The European Parliament has voted through the Veggie burgers ban.

As the world burns, we make symbolic gestures to show we want to burn it faster.

Now let's see if it survives the onslaught of the pyromaniac lobby

At a time when the EC seems to increasingly drift into fact free politics, the leaked #bioeconomy strategy draft is refreshing.
It finally recognises the burning of biomass as essentially a waste of precious resource and argues for resource efficiency, material use and judicious resources use.

With their own bodies contaminated, would our politicians still vote to weaken pollution control rules?

World Bank and BirdLife launch historic conservation push The latest Global Flyway Initiative aims to save critical bird habitats and link three continents across the African-Eurasian Flyway…

Good news and hopefully a breakthrough in funding conservation along our flyway.

www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...

It follows ground breaking work @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social has been doing in the East Asia- Australasia and the Americas flyways.

Dear MS Politicians + MEPs @europarl.europa.eu:
Please start making noise about the #LIFE program. The @ec.europa.eu proposal is insufficient, we need dedicated money in the #MFF (ECF/NRP) to #RestoreNature!
cc @cesarluena.bsky.social @juttapaulus.bsky.social @rasmusnordqvist.bsky.social

The climate crisis- greed death spiral.

Spanish authorities allow the logging of (living) trees in areas hit by wildfires.

Quick money for the landowner but
-permanent déforestation
-loss of regeneration capacity
-loss of shade for livestock
-More soil erosion

Lait: 25'000 vaches suisses pourraient être abattues à cause de Trump Les droits de douane américains ont bouleversé le marché laitier suisse. Pour éviter l’effondrement des prix, les éleveurs doivent réduire leurs cheptels.

Switzerland is killing 2/3 of the #wolf cubs born this year, notionally to protect livestock.

It will also cull 25 000 (!) cows to prop up prices given the ongoing overproduction (US tariffs have shrunk the market).

www.lematin.ch/story/lait-2...

Don't listen to the dirty lobbies that repeat the "either farming or environment" trope.

Listen to the good farmers that work hard on the ground to make a change.

They deserve support. They need to be empowered.

And what is the political response?
Weakening nature protection laws and scrapping conservation funding.

#NihilisticPolitics