Tara Kenny

Postdoctoral Researcher @UCCPublicHealth #SocialScience #FoodPolicy #PublicHealth #SocialJustice #FoodPolitics. All views are my own.

[Jan Dutkiewicz @jan_dutkiewicz]

Very happy that our letter to the FAO challenging their errors downplaying the climate benefits of dietary change has been covered in The Guardian.

https://t.co/5pSafvhhGR

[Tara Kenny @TKenn82]

“The complex web of alliances means anyone questioning the overall strategy is viewed as disloyal, if not treacherous”

[Sadhbh O' Neill 🍉🌹 @SadhbhO]

If the unholy alliance of farm bodies and industry is successful in its lobbying, the price will be our rivers and lakes

https://t.co/rZax5GwFAW

[Phoebe Cooke @CookePhoebe]

🟡NEW 🟡

Our @DeSmog team has spent months investigating the network around Ireland’s intensive farming lobby – here’s what we found... 🧵

[Tara Kenny @TKenn82]

Salient investigative journalism here by @DeSmog “shedding light on the links between key actors will provide a basis from which to develop new research questions, and conversations, about how to advance democratic debate and processes to tackle the climate crisis in Ireland”

[DeSmog @DeSmog]

🔴 NEW | Mapped: Inside Ireland’s Powerful Farming Lobby

https://t.co/zRbhyJ3ITI

✍️@cookephoebe @MicHerrmann @swimsure

[Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway]

You can hear the exasperation in this interview with hearing the same talking points from the meat/dairy industry that have been rolled out for years. Even farm orgs at EU level have now accepted change must happen.

https://t.co/Yjvjd5T3bT

[Jan Dutkiewicz @jan_dutkiewicz]

Anyone else find the reification of "culture" in concepts like "culturally-appropriate diet" really problematic? It's one thing to acknowledge culturally-entrenched eating habits as social facts & opportunities/barriers to policy; it's another to treat them as ahistorical facts.

[Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway]

Did I really just hear the head of the @CCACIreland say that we need to eat less sugar to reduce emissions from ag?
Did she mean meat and dairy but the word that came out was sugar??

https://t.co/2cbYn3KD5p

[Tara Kenny @TKenn82]

“This is a victory for our farmers, our environment, and our future – if politicians will have the courage and integrity to act on it.”
https://t.co/1KbfUCikxj

[Tara Kenny @TKenn82]

Here is a peer reviewed article that provides a clearer picture in terms of consumption related GHGe in Ireland: https://t.co/yreL0gaOu8

[Tara Kenny @TKenn82]

Great to see the @CCACIreland Agriculture and LULUCF review highlight the need to address public misconceptions about diet-related emissions. But disappointed to see a Figure used that adds to these misconceptions!

[Hannah Daly @HannahEDaly]

Expanding Irish dairy production is often justified, despite local and climate pollution, because of its importance for nutrition in developing countries. But NGOs are sounding the alarm about the main dairy export to Africa - Fat Filled Milk Powder..
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[Hannah Daly @HannahEDaly]

How many times has the National Dairy Council been found by the Advertising Standards Authority to be making unsubstantiated green claims? I suppose they’re reduced to this now.

[Hannah Daly @HannahEDaly]

President Higgins spoke at length, saying "our food production system is broken". His speech linked growing global hunger to conflict and militarism - including in Gaza - the climate crisis, and "increasing production through intensive industrialized methods".

[Hannah Daly @HannahEDaly]

It was a huge honour to meet @PresidentIRL Michael D. Higgins today, with Director General of @FAO, QU Dongyu. Our President was awarded the FAO Agricola Medal for his extraordinary services to global food security.

[Hannah Daly @HannahEDaly]

This makes me sick to my stomach every time I see it. Why is this not major, major news in Ireland?

A high chance of abrupt cooling in Ireland within the next two decades.

[Tara Kenny @TKenn82]

Super day @SCGCork

[Street Feast @streetfeast]

The cutest Cork feasters today in Stephen Street Community Garden ❤️ Tomás Sheehan (aged 6) Barra Gore (aged 5), Séagh Pierce (aged 3) and Orran Sheehan (aged 5) at the Stephen’s Street Community Garden, Cork City. #StreetFeast2024

[Ruth Hegarty @EggandChick]

My piece in today’s @IrishTimes on the Government’s hot school meals scheme. Embedding industrial food and packaging waste in our schools. A wasted opportunity for co-benefits around food equality, child health, food education, and local food sourcing https://t.co/cJsxq5i6Bo

[Plant Based Doctors Ireland @plantbaseddocIE]

Vegetables are losing their nutrients. “My concerns are policymakers choosing to invest in biofortification instead of supporting more enduring smallholder models of farming that could be more efficient and resilient than large-scale systems” ⁦ https://t.co/jB7tPMWzv5

[Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway]

CAP rollback weakening biodiversity objectives : “All of this is as a direct result of lobbying by the agricultural sector that is not adequately scrutinised"

Big farma now rubbing shoulders with big oil & gas to undermine our futures

https://t.co/r1Np2O28jD