Jenny Splitter

Award-winning journalist. Editor-in-Chief @Sentient_Media, an award-winning nonprofit news outlet reporting on factory farms and alternatives to the status quo.

[Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter]

When the dairy giant Daisy proposed a new billion-dollar cottage cheese plant in the small city of Boone, Iowa, residents started to ask questions. The plant will need a lot of milk. Where would it come from? An uptick in dairy herds would also mean more manure and water pollution in a state already in crisis. https://t.co/fSbb3BBcEI

[Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter]

Someone just alerted us that our house is on this list! 💀💀💀

[City Cast DC @CityCast_DC]

@alyssafowers tracked down 38 giant skeletons around the District. Many were standard 12-foot skeletons, but others went in … different directions. Here's which skellies stand out above the rest.

https://t.co/cWDrCD1Ov0

[Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA]

“In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers collected dust from inside the homes of crop and livestock farmers near factory farms in Iowa and used sequencing to identify antimicrobial-resistant genes in the microbial community within the dust.” https://t.co/zuIw3klmOn

[Robert D. Bullard @DrBobBullard]

A Scientist Was Pushed Out for Studying Iowa’s Water. Now He’s Running To Regulate It. Sentient Media https://t.co/QjNU9iLd3S

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

You know Nazareth as Jesus city, I know it as a stronghold of the Communist Party of Israel

[Sentient @Sentient_Media]

Thanks to research from 1945, we have a federal standard for nitrates in drinking water. Should this be revisited? @MelinaWalling reports:
https://t.co/3gO2erTU9o

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

"Liberal feminism is the new patriarchy."

https://t.co/KKDxtgPQYX

[Sentient @Sentient_Media]

While the country’s farms tend to have high animal welfare standards, Bhutan also imports most of its meat.
https://t.co/tgOmS8sY9g

[Robert Samuels @newsbysamuels]

Do you live in Tuskegee, Ala? I could use your help for a story! #alabama #tuskegee

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

People keep repeating two foie gras industry talking points that are misleading and, more importantly, don’t tell us whether or not shoving a metal pipe down their throats ~60x causes injury. And then there are harms to force-feeding that I haven’t seen discussed at all. Short 🧵

[Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter]

I totally agree there are more important things to focus on than foie gras. You can easily cook, live, eat and dine without it. Glad that's settled!

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

Washington Post executive editor

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

My comments with @CBC @CBCNews
on Helen Branswell the great science journalist who left us this week

https://t.co/ojjKbhsQ6x

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

CDC just closed offices in Angola and South Sudan. Zimbabwe is next; a dozen more may follow. CDC staff overseas support countries to find outbreaks early and stop them before they reach us. Decisions have consequences. Lives will be lost, including American lives.

https://t.co/u0Z0rntyL8

[Patrick Whittle @pxwhittle]

Rest in peace Helen Branswell, whose courageous reporting on public health and infectious disease was a beacon in the night for decades. https://t.co/ONSzKTv81e

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

It is hard to believe that Helen Branswell has passed away. Just heartbreaking.

On January 4, 2020, Helen wrote STAT's first story on a mystery pneumonia outbreak in China. She saw the pandemic coming well before anyone was paying attention.

Helen was a journalist who knew more than most of the experts she interviewed. She understood the science, the history and the politics of every outbreak she covered. She asked the hardest (and best) questions and never let me get away with a vague answer

Experts learned from her. I certainly did

It's hard to imagine a world of pandemics, biological threats and so much more without a Helen Branswell to explain it all.

https://t.co/kAanDgu1me

[Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter]

@IsraelVive1948 @Erst_Officer What the point of this? It doesn’t address criticisms of the occupation and new laws that are explicitly discriminatory.

[Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter]

Also fuck cancer

[Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter]

This is a huge loss for public health journalism.

[STAT @statnews]

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69. https://t.co/sYRaRZZriY

[Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter]

@phylogenomics @HelenBranswell I was hoping your post did not mean what it means. Such a loss