Meat and dairy industry campaign groups threaten to withdraw from discussions intended to achieve global food sustainability, if those discussions seriously confront the need to reduce greenhouse emissions from meat and dairy production.

If they are participating only as sabotage, it is better to show them the door. It is better in general to make adequate environmental standards and confront business with them, than to make weak and useless standards that business will give lip service to. The former may eventually overcome business resistance, but the latter achieves only greenwashing.

Scientific research directed at reducing the methane emissions per cow or per chicken are fine, but we must not count those low-emission chickens until they hatch. In the mean time, we must make plans that will avoid disaster if those technologies do not eventuate.

Bias causes US women and blacks to get worse medical care. For some kinds of problems, the crucial responsibility of bias has been scientifically proved by adopting systems that eliminated the possibility of bias.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism. That article is one of the exceptions.

Thai rail workers union leaders have been sentenced to prison for a campaign where they refused to drive trains with broken safety equipment.

Right-wing talk radio hosts are very influential as they tell their listeners not to get vaccinated. When a host dies from Covid-19, the station finds another host.

US citizens: call on the Pentagon to investigate civilian casualties from the Pentagon's drone attacks in Afghanistan.

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