NEW: Workers in Colorado have shut down one of the nationโs biggest meatpacking plants, becoming the first major meatpacking strike in more than four decades.
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Greece reports foot-and-mouth outbreak in cattle on the island of Lesbos. FMD was also found in cattle in Cyprus in February.
www.feedstuffs.com/nutrition-an...
This is the first strike at a U.S. slaughterhouse since workers walked out at a Hormel plant in Minnesota in 1985 www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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A good reminder to never drink raw milk! www.michigan.gov/mdard/about/...
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I think I found my new favorite hobby: fact checking my Uber driver on maga conspiracy theories
Use-of-force experts criticized the Trump administration's justification of the killing, saying bystander footage contradicted its narrative of what prompted it. https://to.pbs.org/3LzLjEV
Whether we're talking about Boston in 1770, Kent State in 1970, or Minneapolis in 2026...people who live in places where the military shows up en masse under false pretenses, are places where people tend to organize to protest for their rights....and also, sadly, places where protesters are killed.
Some history from a historian.
This feels like a trap. Having your phone around pigs is already demonstrating poor biosecurity, is it not?
Particularly relevant today
Giant red rock formations in the desert near Page, AZ. Rocks are about 30โ tall. โ๐ผ
To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave - Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
โWe must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.โ -- Martin Luther King Jr.
After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, marchers blared the best way we can honor him. The same could be said on this day. Let us end racism โthrough persistent revolt, through persistent agitation,โ as King once said, โthrough persistently rising up against the system of evil.โ
Her name is Veronika ๐ฅฐ
Thereโs a GoFundMe for Jonathan Rossโs legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.
This violates GoFundMeโs Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that ๐งต
There is a lot going on, but this $1.5 million funding from the CDC of an unsolicited grant to delay delivery of a well researched vaccine to 7,000 infants in Guinea-Bissau is not okay www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/c...
12/14/2025 the first known Wisconsion dairy farm was confirmed to be infected with avian influenza www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...
In vet school, we would enter a llamaโs stall in the clinic using a trash can lid as a spit shield. Being in the hospital was stressful for even the nicest llama so it was better to be safe than saliva covered.
Happy national Llama Day to all who celebrate ๐ ๐ฆ
Dr. Matt Lucy did a wonderful job asking questions that individuals not versed in veterinary jargon would understand. Jason has had boots on the ground across infected farms around the country and has fantastic insights. Just lovely science communication all around!
This is a great interview with veterinarian Dr. Jason Lombard about the one health issues around the avian flu outbreak in dairy cattle and its spread in people. open.spotify.com/episode/39rs...
Happy Thanksgiving from my turkey to yours
Brown standard poodle wearing a bandanna patterned with pumpkins and lattes sits on fall leaf strewn grass in front of a bush with red leaves. His face is shaved, but the rest of his body is very fluffy. His body is angled to the left, but heโs looking over to the right.
Behold Gideon after his most froufrou groom yet ๐
it's No November. don't ask me for anything, i said no