Monika Merkes PhD Ⓥ

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Passionate about the health and wellbeing of humans, other animals and the environment - and the links between them.
#PublicHealth #Vegan #AnimalProtection #Melbourne #Australia
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4357-3952
Twittertwitter.com/monikamerkes
Election? What election ? 🤣🤣 #VictorianElection2022 #MurdochGutterMedia
@DLClough - these kind of farms are becoming increasingly common. Even in the UK, there are around 1100 mega farms, including 4 poultry farms with over 1 million birds each & 3 pig farms with more than 20,000 pigs each. 73% of animals farmed in the UK are intensively farmed. If the environmental damage & the zoonotic diseases don’t kill us, there’s a chance will come to realise how wrong the cruelty is.
650,000 pigs to be kept in a single 26 storey factory, designed to slaughter 1.2 million animals per year, & not a single word in this 700 word #Guardian story about the disgusting inhuman cruelty of it all. The only concern is for the threat to human health & comfort. Disappointing from @TheGuardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-ready-to-produce-1-million-pigs-a-year #animalethics
China’s 26-storey pig skyscraper ready to slaughter 1 million pigs a year

The world’s biggest single-building pig farm has opened in Hubei province, but critics say it will increase the risk of larger animal disease outbreaks

The Guardian

RT @[email protected]

@[email protected] I don't want to get complacent but I feel this country is finally safe for a long time ahead!

Twitter may be about to fold but here in Australia it it has been now a huge factor in keeping the hard right out in two Australian elections now

The next challenge is take on media

Government owned utilities and services. How I miss thee.

Just imagine if we’d nationalised all our natural resources. What lost opportunity. Imagine no Gina Rinehart.

Why do Australians accept mediocrity? We could be the best in the world at so many things.

#Auspol

The Victorian election demonstrates yet again why we need a Royal Commission into media ownership. Regardless of the outcome, it’s fair to say that Matthew Guy’s Coalition wouldn’t stand a chance without NewsCorp’s relentless attacks on Dan Andrews the last three years, including one of the most hyperpartisan election coverages ever in this country. #SpringSt #VicVotes #AusPol #ThisIsNotJournalism
Why does a paper like the Saturday Paper, whose authors express socially progressive views and are well aware of anthropogenic climate change, still publishes all these meaty recipes? Today it’s coq au vin. It’s the reason why I don’t buy the #SaturdayPaper. For the same reason I don’t subscribe or donate to the #Guardian.
#AnimalAgriculture is a major contributor to climate change, and they know it.
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Science has some bad news for the 'plants have feelings' crowd.

🔗https://www.livescience.com/65905-plants-dont-think-or-feel.html

Don't Waste Your Emotions on Plants, They Have No Feelings, Grumpy Scientists Say

Contrary to what some scientists have suggested, plants don’t think, feel or learn; consciousness is a characteristic of animals alone, experts say.

Live Science