Sara Place

Animal Scientist. Interested in sustainability & the intersection of agriculture & the environment, among other things. Views my own.

[Sara Place @drsplace]

“Sustainable food” discussions nearly always get boiled down to environmental footprints, which is just one piece of environmental sustainability. When will we move beyond comparing footprints (e.g. #GHG/kcal) as a proxy for sustainability?

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."

Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

JACK HUGHES DELIVERS AMERICA'S GOLDEN MOMENT IN OVERTIME.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Brazil surpassed the US as the world's leading beef producer last year, driven by higher-than-expected output and strong export demand, which helped ease global supply shortages and limit a surge in meat prices https://t.co/jenFOLB99A

[Sara Place @drsplace]

🚂💥🗑️🔥🇺🇸

[Sara Place @drsplace]

Ruminating on a new week

[Sara Place @drsplace]

Sunrise on the research feedyard. Collecting individual cattle feed intake, growth performance, & gas flux on 250 head investigating if different doses of supplemental fat in the diet affect cattle growth performance and methane emissions.

[Sara Place @drsplace]

Are we sure that level of socioeconomic impact & potential ecological impact (what happens to the grazinglands?) is worth “saving” 92 Mt of CO2e or 1% of US GHG emissions? We need better metrics & assessments of the food system to avoid simplistic solutions that ignore tradeoffs

[Sara Place @drsplace]

Paper examining the “carbon footprint” of meat consumption in US cities. Total estimated footprint is 329 Mt of CO2e, which is around 5.2% of US gross GHG emissions in 2022.

https://t.co/Yp6BBHR9U3

[Sara Place @drsplace]

One of the “demand side” measures is cutting beef consumption in half and switch that consumption to chicken. The only way this cuts emissions is if there are are fewer cattle & likely farms, ranches, feedlots, & people who have livelihoods supported by cattle

[CLEAR Center @UCDavisCLEAR]

New episode! 🚨

We sat down with @drsplace, a leading voice in beef sustainability, to talk about progress happening across industry. From innovation on the ground to science guiding real climate solutions, this is a CLEAR Conversation you can't miss. 👇

https://t.co/HmA8ye3pkz

[Sara Place @drsplace]

Interesting new pre-print: "Overall, our findings do not support the hypothesis that expanding plant-based meat analogues offerings alone can meaningfully shift consumer choices away from meat"
https://t.co/oEqRZNDEPR

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

MATT PRATER FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

📺: @SNFonNBC

[Sara Place @drsplace]

Why shouldn’t we consider most “generative AI” plagiarism of others thoughts, work, and creativity?

[Sara Place @drsplace]

Number of beef & dairy cows in the US since 1920. Since the peak in 1975, the US has 19.7 million fewer cows in 2025. As dairy cows as a % of total have grown in the past two decades, their contribution to the beef supply has become more important

[CSU AgNext @CSUAgNext]

Register today for the next Dairy Publication Roundtable Series session! Join Dr. Manriquez for a discussion on “Preventing Farmworker Heat Stress and Related Health Risks in Dairy Operations.”

🗓️ Thursday, July 24 | 12:00 p.m. MST
🔗 Register: https://t.co/raYik7fFDf

[CSU AgNext @CSUAgNext]

New on the AgNext Podcast: @DrSPlace joins @DrKimStackhouse and @PedroCattle to talk about methane fact sheets developed with @coagriculture1. These tools help stakeholders better understand methane in livestock production.

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/PLS3fkOyVJ

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

A drop in air pollution in East Asia drove a surge in warming, a new study finds.
https://t.co/XOsrp8PTtI

[Ty Beal @TyBealPhD]

🎙️ Episode 1 is LIVE!

Why is eating well so hard – even when we want to?

Neuroscientist @sguyenet breaks down:
🏪 Why our food environment outpaced our biology
🧠 How certain foods hijack our brains
💊 What the data shows about Ozempic & GLP-1 drugs

Apple: https://t.co/uiovMPl6N7
Spotify: https://t.co/728D3lhmlO

[Peter Ballerstedt @GrassBased]

On July 8th my colleagues and I discussed “The Essential Societal Role of Livestock, Today and Tomorrow” for the Livestock Symposium at the 2025 Meeting of the American & Canadian Societies of Animal Science in Hollywood, FL.
The presentations were recorded and videos are now available.