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Deena Shanker

@deenashanker

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food for @business and @BW . enjoys a sharp cheddar. Jewish. send cute dog pics to: dshanker @bloomberg .net. opinions my own.

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Deena Shanker
5 months
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.
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3 years
“After my peanut butter and jelly, I’m going to keep crying,” the three-year old informed me.
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3 years
Living for Ina Garten’s reality check response to Reese Witherspoon’s aspirational lifestyle goals
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5 months
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.
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3 years
those two weeks or so where it felt like Covid was really ending were nice
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4 years
We never deserved Britney Spears.
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1 year
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.
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4 years
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.
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4 years
my new thing is that when people ask me how I'm doing I actually tell them
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5 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
3 years
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.
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4 years
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
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4 years
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.
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4 years
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"
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5 years
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.
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Sarah Kliff
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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)
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5 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
3 years
Omg... I have discovered... that my ninth grade boyfriend... ...is Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer
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5 years
BREAKING: Darden announces paid sick days for all hourly workers
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Judd Legum
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As the coronavirus spreads, here is a list of @Darden restaurants that do not provide paid sick leave (except where required by law): @olivegarden @LongHornSteaks @cheddarskitchen @YardHouse @CapitalGrille @Seasons52 @BahamaBreeze @EddieVs
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Deena Shanker
2 years
Sometimes it feels like the editor should get a co-byline. Thank you @daniellesacks for bringing this story together with me!!!
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Deena Shanker
4 years
so where is the restaurant delivery disruptor? seems like good time for a company that doesn't enrage everyone who uses it to emerge.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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
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Deena Shanker
3 years
I have tasted the Impossible chicken nuggets and can tell you: they are crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside, chicken-y throughout.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.
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Leah Douglas
4 years
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:
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Deena Shanker
5 years
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
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.”
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Deena Shanker
3 years
Feels like everyone I know is either quarantined, has Covid, or is … traveling via airplane.
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4 years
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
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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
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3 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
Sometimes I think it’s a fucking miracle any of us are still functioning at all
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Deena Shanker
3 years
SCOOP on the Terminal: Taco Bell canceled a planned test of Beyond Meat’s carne asada after trying samples
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4 years
HOLY SHIT HOW DO PEOPLE HANDLE TWO CHILDREN
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5 years
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??
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5 years
say hello to the Incogmeato burger
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3 years
✨ some personal news ✨ MEET MILO!!!!
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2 years
honest question for other parents: if you have the means, at what point do you pick up your family and move to another country?
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Deena Shanker
5 years
we cooked and ate all the not-turkeys so you don't have to
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Deena Shanker
3 years
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.
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Post Food
3 years
Facing a driver shortage, Domino’s is paying customers to pick up their own pizzas
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Deena Shanker
5 years
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.
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2 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
3 years
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!!!!
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Deena Shanker
3 years
GOT MY FIRST SHOT!!!!! I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING!!!!!!!!!!
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Deena Shanker
5 months
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.
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2 years
did my employer write this? oh.
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Deena Shanker
5 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.
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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.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
Grocery delivery is huge right now. Want to avoid Instacart because of actions like these? I’m guessing you have other options wherever you live.
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Instacart is firing every employee who voted to unionize
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Deena Shanker
5 years
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)
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Deena Shanker
3 years
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
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Deena Shanker
4 years
The fact that there is technically enough food only makes the lack of it for so many families that much more of a failing.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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?
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Deena Shanker
3 years
CEO of McDonald's said on the morning earnings call that he wants to bring the Beyond Meat McPlant to more markets. U.S. test starts next week!
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Deena Shanker
5 years
excited to announce some ~personal news~ when my toddler turns 12, she will be having a Werewolf Bat Mitzvah SPOOKY! SCARY!
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Deena Shanker
5 years
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
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
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Deena Shanker
2 years
love this Shrinkflation story in which Subway puts less meat on sandwiches but says it's an improvement on the product
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Deena Shanker
4 years
Dolly Parton is probably the smartest, most generous and most consistently underestimated person on the planet.
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Alexis Benveniste
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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.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
5 years
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
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Deena Shanker
3 years
Welp
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Deena Shanker
4 years
Is this how anybody else’s parents send them news stories?
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Deena Shanker
3 years
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
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
3 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
3 years
is anyone else feeling nearly paralyzed by delta anxiety or is that just me?
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Deena Shanker
2 years
I made this list 8 years ago and it still works! for the non-meat eaters on Passover seder, I present:
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Deena Shanker
4 years
The calories don’t count if there’s a coup in the nation’s capital, and the baby is crying in the next room because the toddler woke her up. Right?
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Deena Shanker
4 years
Hair is blown out, mascara and earrings are on, even wearing a collared shirt and my nice sweatpants. Let's do this.
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Deena Shanker
5 years
are desk naps acceptable if you're pregnant?
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
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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.
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4 years
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!!!!
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Deena Shanker
5 years
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
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Deena Shanker
3 years
@wagatwe holy shit I've never seen this kind of thing before -- it is FRIGHTENING
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Deena Shanker
4 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
so America is just throwing in the towel on the virus? that's what we're doing?
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Deena Shanker
3 years
want my advice? get yourself so many dish towels you never have to worry about having a clean one. that's my advice.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
Here’s my take: @aliciakennedy is the rare food writer who consistently and unapologetically engages foodie-ism with accountability, policy, and ethics.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
So we’re all just barely holding it together right?
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Deena Shanker
3 years
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.
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Deena Shanker
4 years
Hey look! I won an award with @lydiamulvany and @PattonLes for our story about the behind the scenes collaboration between Big Dairy and Big Plant.
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Deena Shanker
2 years
ICYMI: read the story that inspired this full-page NYTimes ad!
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4 years
I mean, is anyone NOT having a mental breakdown these days??
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