Greenwashing Meat, Whitewashing Milk: Dr. Vas Stanescu Uncovers Animal Ag's Tricky PR Tactics | In Tune to Nature Podcast

You'll be fascinated to learn how the animal ag industry (following the tobacco and fossil fuel industry playbook) influences academic climate research to highlight or produce favorable findings to trick the public and policymakers into continuing to subsidize it and avoid needed regulations that would protect wild and domesticated animals, workers, surrounding ecosystems, and our climate. Associate Professor of Communication at Mercer University, Dr. Vasile Stanescu, has a lively discussion with fellow critical animal studies scholar and vegan advocate Carrie Freeman (host of In Tune to Nature) in this 54-minute podcast where he explains his intriguing research on the meat and dairy industry's rhetorical tactics. He attended industry conferences where they talk about how to undermine legitimate reports/research exposing the devastating harms of their animal exploitation industry. We end with ways to move forward to honestly promote a needed transition to plant-based agriculture and how and why to thank a vegan. We also discuss his podcast with his partner Devs called How We Win: Achieving Animal Liberation at https://www.winforanimals.org/  Check out some of the open-access publications that Dr. Stanescu references on the show: Cowgate:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378179039_Cowgate_Meat_Eating_and_Climate_Change_Denial “White Power Milk”:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363267122_Animal_Studies_Journal_'White_Power_Milk'_Milk_Dietary_Racism_and_the_'Alt-Right' “Slaughterhouse Capitalism” (from Current Affairs; it makes the class-based argument we discussed):https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-industrial-slaughter-became-the-blueprint-for-modern-capitalism The Guardian uncovers a Master's in Beef Advocacy: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-industry-public-relations-messaging-machine  "In Tune to Nature" is a weekly hour-long radio show airing Wednesdays at 6pm Eastern Time on 89.3FM-Atlanta radio and streaming worldwide on wrfg.org (Radio Free Georgia, a nonprofit indie station) hosted by me, Carrie Freeman, or friend Melody Paris. The show's website and my contact info can be found at https://wrfg.org/intunetonature/  While there, consider donating to Radio Free Georgia, a 50+ year old progressive, non-commercial, indie radio station, run largely by volunteers like me and Melody. Take care of yourself and others, including other species, like wild and domesticated animals. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on In Tune to Nature do not necessarily reflect those of WRFG, its board, staff, or volunteers.

In meeting no.1 of 2026, at the last minute, the Commission flooded expert group with Big Meat & Dairy interests, mislabelled as “experts”.

This underhand move badly erodes trust.

Civil society engaged in good faith. Democracy, science & the public interest must come first❗

Full press release by European Environmental Bureau: https://eeb.org/en/eu-livestock-strategy-talks-in-ebaf-undermined-before-they-begin-commission-stacks-the-table-with-big-business-interests/

Shame on you, @EUCommission !

The list is dominated by Big Meat and Dairy industry interests. This choice blatantly tilts the discussion in favour of Big Business and dominates the space that was meant for trust-based, balanced exchange.

This move runs directly counter to the EBAF’s stated strategic purpose. The Board was established following the Strategic Dialogue on Agriculture and Food launched by Commission President von der Leyen in 2024, which promised to “depolarise the agrifood debate” and build a new culture of trust and inclusive dialogue. Instead, last-minute and opaque decisions that further amplify already powerful industry voices seriously undermine trust in this Commission and lend weight to concerns that EU agrifood policy is increasingly being shaped by corporate interests.

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The stakes could not be higher. Europe is facing intersecting crises, biodiversity collapse, climate breakdown, public health risks, deteriorating animal welfare standards and growing pressure on farmers’ incomes and agricultural resilience. Citizens across Europe have been promised evidence-based policymaking that delivers solutions, not talk-shops, not excuses, and not the quiet capture of EU policymaking by unaccountable corporations.

The undersigned organisations remain committed to a constructive and balanced EBAF process. But this will only be possible if the Commission restores transparency, balance, and trust. Over-representing industrial food and farming interests in a forum where they are already represented fundamentally undermines evidence-based debate and calls into question the Commission’s intentions at a critical moment.

#BigMeat #BigDairy

"The Food Pyramid Scheme: How Industry Flipped the 2026 Dietary Guidelines"

Another report by Mic.

The US guidelines will now be promoting grifter diets like keto/paleo to help out Big Meat & Cheese Capital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6fGnHwIbWY

#MAHA #grifters #dietaryGuidelines #BigMeat #conspiracy

The Food Pyramid Scheme: How Industry Flipped the 2026 Dietary Guidelines

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" Investigative reporter uncovers who's orchestrating the meat culture wars "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3EqY5mcJs0

Ed interviews a reporter about meat industry plots related to diet and environment.

#EAT #eatlancet2025report #eatlancet #meatIndustry #bigMeat #cultureWar

Investigative reporter uncovers who's orchestrating the meat culture wars

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More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30

More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s United Nations climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides […] The post More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30 appeared first on DeSmog.

https://murica.website/2025/11/more-than-300-lobbyists-for-industrial-agriculture-attend-cop30-2/

More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30 – The USA Potato

More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30

More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s United Nations climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides […] The post More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30 appeared first on DeSmog.

https://murica.website/2025/11/more-than-300-lobbyists-for-industrial-agriculture-attend-cop30/

More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30 – The USA Potato

I've been following the story of the "insect farming" promise for years, on and off. It's the basis of the famous conspiracy minded carnist. The thing is that it hasn't panned out, as expected by those who understand the physics and biology. There's no free energy machine. And it is also animal farming.

(continues...)

#insectFarming #entomology #BigMeat #agriculture #foodSecurity #technohopium #hype #eatingBugs

"How vegans lost the culture war",
Natalie Fulton

Obviously, the title is clickbait. It's a summary of how Big Meat Capital has been fighting, with disinformation and right-wing politics, against critics and competitors.

What's relevant here is understanding how "meat populism" is used as a propaganda strategy and how international networks of such business interests are acting to produce, test, and refine propaganda playbooks that can be reused in many places in the West.

#BigMeat #capitalism #rightwing #conservatives #rightWingPopulism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytGC_43yjXA

How vegans lost the culture war

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En nu is opeens arbeidsmigratie een punt? De gristelijken en de racisten hadden jarenlang geen zin om de onbetrouwbare arbeidsbureaus de licentie te ontnemen want goedkope arbeidskrachten, die zonder meer op straat gezet kunnen worden, onderbetaald en uitgebuit worden, zijn een zegen voor de bedrijven met arbeiders in #BigAgro en #BigMeat. Wat worden we toch door huichelaars belazerd en geregeerd.
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/collectie/14002/artikel/2586160-naast-asiel-ook-arbeidsmigratie-groot-verkiezingsthema-wat-moet-er-gebeuren
Naast asiel ook arbeidsmigratie groot verkiezingsthema, wat moet er gebeuren?

Al jaren vormen arbeidsmigranten veruit de grootste groep immigranten in Nederland. In Den Haag groeit het besef dat er meer sturing nodig is op arbeidsmigratie.