David Wallinga, MD

Lifting up ways to change our unhealthy food system, plow to plate. Helping health professionals lead that change. Tweets are my own.

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

. @KAWcoalition thanks for the repost

[Keep Antibiotics Working @KAWcoalition]

The drug user fee program for new animal drugs is about to expire (ADUFA). In the reauthorization Congress must include protections from the threat of #AntibioticResistance resulting from the overuse of animal drugs. See blog from @NRDC @Food_Dr https://t.co/fOwf5F99qJ

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Drug resistant "Superbugs": A much bigger, more lethal, threat than previously thought. https://t.co/LyZxXyc0Lw

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

U.S. beef and pork industries are using antibiotics less, not more wisely -- at least since 2017. As my colleague blogged, Big Beef's customers like @mcdonald's must do better, as well. https://t.co/hl7jz4yZyM…

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

After rising for 2 straight years, sales of human antibiotics for use in U.S. livestock are nearly double those used in human patients. https://t.co/qEMOuQV4yK

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Sales for U.S. pigs and cattle are the reason for the overall rise. Pig sales alone are up 28% since 2017. Cattle are up 8%. @Food_Dr #AAW2021 https://t.co/qEMOuQV4yK

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

No wonder U.S. pork and beef producers are using more, not less, antibiotics -- their biggest customers, like @McDonalds aren't holding them accountable!

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

@CathyWurzer @KristiMarohn

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

https://t.co/1ZxPTWHbyu

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

This @MPR story actually has a much rosier take on the @EPA's weak roadmap on #PFAS forever chemicals, made by DuPont and #3M. Here's the @NRDC press release on why it's a weak plan https://t.co/PStzJ9aPi4

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

The Impossible Math of Starting a Farm in Iowa @CivilEats - https://t.co/j4sjSmKBEp

[PictureThis @PictureThisAI]

Can anyone tell me what's this?!😨
Invasive plant? Or edible herb?
Well, PictureThis can.
#plants #plantidentification #nature #flowreCan anyone tell me what's this?!😨
Invasive plant? Or edible herb?
Well, PictureThis can.
#plants #plantidentification #nature #flowreCan anyone tell me what's this?!😨
Invasive plant? Or edible herb?
Well, PictureThis can.
#plants #plantidentification #nature #flowres

[Robert D. Bullard @DrBobBullard]

Climate Scientists Created a SWAT Team for Weather Disasters
- Bloomberg https://t.co/FIgWSK6I53

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

@brontyman Yeah, the next pandemic may be here before we know it. #OneHealth

[Michael F Ozaki MD @brontyman]

‘Spillover’ diseases are emerging faster than ever before—thanks to humans - National Geographic https://t.co/pdp1L95t2V

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Family values? Rich countries spend about $14,000 a year for a toddler’s care, on average. The U.S. spends $500.

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

“The worst time in the world we want to shut down the government is in the middle of a pandemic where we have 140,000 people a day getting infected and 2,000 people a day dying.” — Anthony Fauci. https://t.co/q5UDEeNSuD

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

@JenniferMolidor @DrRupaMarya @JessCulpepper @Fisherfood @MicheleRSimon @grocery_nerd @nilzach @HavenBourque @deenashanker @annalappe @tomphilpott @charli3mitchell @StacyMalkan @fleroy1974 @RyanFletcherDC @AndrewRdeC @DavidMuraskin https://t.co/bNlDrZgeou

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

@JessCulpepper @Fisherfood @MicheleRSimon @grocery_nerd @nilzach @HavenBourque @deenashanker @annalappe @tomphilpott @charli3mitchell @StacyMalkan @fleroy1974 @RyanFletcherDC @JenniferMolidor @AndrewRdeC @DavidMuraskin Chairman McGovern announces Food as Medicine Roundtable. https://t.co/bNlDrZgeou

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

@JessCulpepper @Fisherfood @MicheleRSimon @grocery_nerd @nilzach @HavenBourque @deenashanker @annalappe @tomphilpott @charli3mitchell @StacyMalkan @fleroy1974 @RyanFletcherDC @JenniferMolidor @AndrewRdeC @DavidMuraskin Agree. Food is NOT medicine. Eating food from a health standpoint is about preventing disease. American medicine is 95% about treating disease only after it manifests. If anything, food is public health, NOT medicine.

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Net farm income is worthless, unless the USDA tells us who's getting that income, and who isn't. The decades-long trend is that fewer and fewer "successful" farmers get it, often at the expense of smaller, typically more sustainable farmers.

[Reuters Ag News @ReutersAg]

U.S. pegs farm income at eight-year high amid strong corn, soy prices https://t.co/RGlqmtqCVs

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Remember when we said climate change eventually would affect farmers and ranchers, whether they believed it was real or not? That time is now.

[Reuters Ag News @ReutersAg]

Drought forces North American ranchers to sell off their future https://t.co/UMpEKnVPvE