I am so excited to announce the launch of my NEW COLUMN! The first installment of Extra Salt is about how Big Food is dealing with the “ultraprocessed foods” label: shrugging it off, saying the processing is actually good, and, of course, selling more.
Sending solidarity to the Jewish students at Barnard and Columbia who neither called the cops on protestors nor dropped bombs on Gaza, but have endured nearly an entire academic year of constant antisemitism as they tried to get the education they spent years working towards.
I do not have the stomach to really tweet on this, but there is one thing I have to say: It is hard to be a Jew, and watch so many people justify the murder of other Jews, the kidnappings, the brutality. It is especially hard to see it from people I know and once respected.
I know there are bigger tragedies in the world right now, but I just said my final goodbye to my very, very good dog of 13 years who has been with me through so much and I am very sad.
in September,
@BW
dispatched me to the teeny tiny town of Guilford, ME to see where popsicle sticks come from. that story got pushed—but it turns out, the same company is also one of two in the world that makes basically all the swabs for corona tests.
proud to announce that I'm becoming a grill person. also, I'm running out of things to grill that aren't plant burgers and fish filets, please share your fave non-meat grillables. thank you.
while I don't expect meat consumption to significantly drop from COVID19, I have to say, images like this--with eyes-in carcasses--in a major paper are unusual, so kudos to the NYT for showing the reality of how animals become meat
Tyson has reinstated its punitive attendance policy, as COVID cases continue to mount at its plants.
If you care about black and brown lives, you should care about slaughterhouse workers.
the funny thing about Tyson saying "the food supply chain is broken" is that in chicken and pork, they are completely vertically integrated, so they could have just said "Tyson's food supply chain is broken"
I would argue that it has also introduced a new layer of labor for women, the emotional labor of asking/reminding male partners to do these menial tasks. Somehow changing a man's behavior has also become a woman's job.
Which I get. Washing dishes and doing laundry are pretty dull and menial tasks! But it leaves women working a double-shift, between house duties and work duties. And women can't really fix that — most of this comes down to men changing their behaviors (3/3)
okay new yorkers. imagine you got a check tomorrow for all the brokers fees you've paid over your new york tenant lifetime. what would you do with it?
i would go on a long, beach vacation, eat lots of fried fish, and do it all in a brand new wardrobe.
wow, the Covid situation at the meatpacking plants was WAY worse than we thought
at one Tyson plant in Texas, about 50% of the staff had Covid
via
@leahjdouglas
listen, I love my husband, there is no one I'd rather be partnering through this muck with, but in the name of all things dear and sacred I need to spend some time with someone else and no, my children absolutely do not count
I know the news cycle is churning, but please don't forget about the people making your food, many, many of whom are brown and black and suffering under systems that are deeply racist and entrenched.
I’ve tallied over 3,200 additional Covid-19 cases at meat plants since last Friday.
As of today, nearly 25,000 meatpacking workers have contracted the virus, and over 90 have died.
More details on those outbreaks and cases among food/farm workers here:
now would be a good time for a national conversation about the public health reasons to guarantee paid sick days for anyone that works in food preparation just an idea thank you
The framing on this story is all wrong. With Covid numbers climbing, the answer is clearly not “keep indoor dining open to save restaurants.” It’s “send federal aid to save restaurants—without endangering their patrons and staff.”
Someone let me know when we’re going to have a serious conversation about changing the way meat is produced — and reducing the amount — so we can stop doing this over and over and over again
A new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus is spreading silently in workers on pig farms in China and should be “urgently” controlled to avoid another pandemic, a team of scientists says in a new study
every once in awhile, I am just awash in gratitude towards the people that talk to journalists so we can do our jobs. sometimes we ask for comments, responses ASAP and people actually give it to us.
Quarantine content so far seems to be primarily written for people who apparently have lots of newfound free time. how about something for those of us at home with our child(ren) AND still doing our actual paid work. When do I get to try out new hobbies and do some self-care??
um to be clear, they are not "paying customers to pick up their own pizzas," they are giving them a $3 coupon for their next purchase and getting great press out of it.
the full story of American dairy isn't just those that go out of business, it's those that are thriving off of our insatiable appetite for yogurt, ice cream, and cheese.
SCOOP: Vegetarian brand Amy's Kitchen is facing a unionization drive at a second plant. Employees say they get penalized for taking sick days, don't get enough bathroom breaks and are now being subject to union busting.
holy moly!!!
@leahjdouglas
is going to
@reuters
to cover energy and agriculture. This is great news for her, for Reuters, and for all of us. Leah's work has been INDISPENSABLE in Covid and I can't wait to see what she does at Reuters!!!!
It's exhausting watching Jews become political props, used by both parties to achieve whatever it is they're looking to do. We're real people. antisemitism is a real problem. If you've seen it on the right, see it on the left and vice versa. I mean, come on people.
Puritan Medical Products is one of those super important companies whose products you've undoubtedly used but never knew it. I visited them in September for a popsicle stick story. now they're one of two companies making swabs for corona tests.
Fixing the food system is fundamental to so much of our country’s current state of crisis. Not just the obvious issues like hunger, climate change and health but also education, racial and economic inequality, unemployment, corporate power, mental health and so much more.
Extremely grateful to
@Refinery29
for publishing my essay on losing Barley in the middle of a global pandemic. Some things have changed since we said goodbye — I had a baby! — but I still miss her so much every single day.
Second full day of being home with newborn and toddler and said toddler has covered herself (and the pajamas she never changed out of) in marker. We’re talking face, palms of hands, full legs, bottom of feet. Covered.
can we dispense with the notion that a cauliflower "steak" is anything other than a large piece of cauliflower? it is not a steak or steak-like or an entree. it's a side with a larger circumference.
(this message brought to you by Deena: Complaining Again About Free Food)
the CDC decided that this past year-plus hasn't been hard enough on parents and has now decided to force us to either (a) ask anyone unmasked near our children indoors if they're vaxxed or (b) simply keep the kids home forever
while meat companies keep operating despite sick workers, Amy’s Kitchen discontinued a frozen vegan pizza until it figured out how to make it with socially distanced workers.
After reading this investigation of the connections between pangolin hunting and Covid-19, I’ve gotta ask again:
When are we going to seriously consider a fundamental global overhaul of our relationship with meat?
at the supermarket, the canned seafood shelves are still totally full and I have to think people are missing a major opportunity to familiarize themselves with this glorious, long-shelf-life food
Dolly Parton donated $1 million to coronavirus research at Vanderbilt University in April.
Her donation helped fund the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine that is 94.5% effective against coronavirus.
The debate over Secretary of Ag isn’t urban hunger vs rural farmers. It’s status quo vs new way forward. And the status quo hasn’t been serving anyone — not farmers, not food stamp recipients, not any of us who want good food at reasonable prices.
dear publicists,
please stop planning evening events. i have better ways to spend my free time. BUT i love a good lunch. thank you.
sincerely,
a working mom who has a dog and a husband and dinner to cook and television to watch
The big takeaways are this:
1. crowded market, small rollout
2. the technology is chop-and-grind instead of whole muscle, Beyond says because of price
3. they're not healthier than real chicken tenders--and they have a controversial ingredient that could be banned in the EU
an all around important read from
@polly
@lydiamulvany
and Peter Waldman, but consider, if nothing else, this one sentence:
OSHA hasn’t issued a single job site requirement for how meatpackers should protect workers.
warning: this is a sad tweet.
I finally cleared out the front closet of dog stuff and my advice to owners is to give your pup all the treats you've got because one day the pup might not be there to eat them and you will have to throw them away and you know that's just not right.
the new mask guidelines mean that as a parent of unvaccinated children, many places may be getting less safe, because people could lie about their vaccination status. so.
independent meat producers, the ones that use smaller slaughterhouses where social distancing is possible, are not having trouble with output. instead, demand is up and they're growing.
it is simply an overwhelming time to be a Jew who cares about other Jews in America. my support goes to all of us, coping through what feels like an endless barrage of bad news from all directions.
Jews did Zoom seders without complaining — Rabbis even okayed the violation of holiday rules!! — but some people can’t handle skipping a fake holiday that commemorates our perpetration of a major genocide?!
COME ON!!!!
Burger King restaurants are selling about 40 Impossible Whoppers a day... and 230 regular Whoppers, the same number as before they introduced the plant version
It’s the day before Christmas Eve and more than 1.5 million NYCers can’t put food on the table. Let’s help. Send me receipts of a donation to
@FoodBank4NYC
and I’ll match them up to $250. Even better: I’ll do it through my employer,
@business
, and get a match, tripling yours.
Here’s my take:
@aliciakennedy
is the rare food writer who consistently and unapologetically engages foodie-ism with accountability, policy, and ethics.
The thing about quarantine with a small child is that it completely turns your life upside down. These kids need CONSTANT supervision, if not active engagement. That means that not only does your work take a hit, but so does cooking, cleaning and anything else you’d normally do.