the inhumane confinement of animals in industrial CAFOs is a policy choice and business strategy made and pushed by large agri-business lobbyists, not the average voter of any partisan affiliation.
“This is not a partisan issue. A 2022 @DataProgress poll found that 83% of Democrats and 77% of Republicans considered preventing cruelty to farm animals a matter of moral concern to them personally; when the pollsters described Prop 12, 85% of Dems + 76% of Reps supported it.”
My @nytopinion colleague @ezraklein on how an obsession with efficiency can cost us our humanity — in this case, in how we (mis)treat pigs on factory farms, and how some in Congress aim to make this trade off worse. https://t.co/HjUthpHWNy
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The Trump Administration plans to relocate the US Forest Service, close most of its research facilities, and all of its regional offices—a move likely to undermine forest resilience.
New: Politico is folding E&E, the energy trade publication it bought in 2020.
The company says it is reorganizing its energy coverage under the Politico brand and launching a series of new state and global energy newsletters.
NDAs are the biggest self own by the tech sector in local government relations and politicians would potentially do companies a favor by just banning their use fwiw
the future of america is eating a pb&j every day so you can get a 50 year mortgage on a house next to a data center with a view of a tailings pond and a CAFO
Stand with us to protect the future of Nashville Zoo.
A proposed 69,000-square-foot data center is planned next to the Zoo, but no environmental impact studies have been conducted. Sign our petition to help protect the animals in our care ➡️ https://t.co/q2ISQnxLBK
The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today (https://t.co/2SonuBrsvY)
Councilmember Rollin Horton is sponsoring a zoning bill that would impose restrictions on the kinds of data centers allowed in Davidson County.
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the “turning electricity into intelligence” line is becoming quite popular. it does however make me wonder what we were using electricity for in all previous recorded moments of history