Workers in Colorado have shut down one of the nation’s biggest meatpacking plants It’s the largest strike in decades. Who wins if meat prices keep rising?

NEW: Workers in Colorado have shut down one of the nation’s biggest meatpacking plants, becoming the first major meatpacking strike in more than four decades.

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Greece reports first FMD outbreak in 25 years Foot-and-mouth disease was detected at a cattle farm in Lesvos.

Greece reports foot-and-mouth outbreak in cattle on the island of Lesbos. FMD was also found in cattle in Cyprus in February.
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3,800 workers are on strike at a massive U.S. meatpacking plant. They want higher wages and better healthcare Union officials say the company charges many workers more than $1,000 each to pay for their safety equipment.

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

Videos of deadly Minneapolis shooting of Alex Pretti contradict Trump administration statements Several government officials had essentially convicted Pretti on social media before the crime scene had been processed.

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 30’ tall. ✊🏼

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave - Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- 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 “through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation,” as King once said, “through persistently rising up against the system of evil.”

Her name is Veronika 🥰

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.

This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.

A thread on how to do that 🧵

CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official Tracy Beth Høeg.

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 llama’s 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 🎉 🦙

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!

Solving the Puzzle of H5N1 in Dairy: A One Health Conversation with Jason Lombard, DVM

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

1st human known to be infected with H5N5 strain of bird flu dies, Washington state officials say The first human to have ever been infected with H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials confirmed late Friday.

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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 he’s looking over to the right.

Behold Gideon after his most froufrou groom yet 💅

it's No November. don't ask me for anything, i said no

Safety Alert FDA analysis has determined that certain dietary supplements labeled as tejocote (Crataegus mexicana) root are adulterated because they were tested and found to be substituted withyellow oleander (Cas...

Take supplements with caution! These weight loss pills were labeled as tejocote, but were actually yellow oleander seeds. The usual fatal dose of yellow oleander is only 8-10 seeds (Pillay and Sasidharan, 2019). www.fda.gov/food/alerts-...