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The UK fishing industry is <a data-mce-href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/26/the-seabed-is-full-of-them-english-fishers-enjoy-surprise-octopus-boom" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/26/the-seabed-is-full-of-them-english-fishers-enjoy-surprise-octopus-boom" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-mce-selected="inline-boundary">celebrating</a>. Not because of innovation, or progress, or anything remotely commendable, but because warmer waters have brought a sudden boom in octopuses off the coasts of Devon and Cornwall.They’re calling it a “financial bonus.” Markets are flooded. Cafe walls are painted in tribute. Even a Christmas decoration named Octavia is now lit up nightly in Brixham, as if stringing up a mollusc in fairy lights makes this grotesque harvest more palatable.In March, temperatures in the region surged 2 to 4°C above seasonal norms, triggering an explosion in octopus numbers. The response from the industry? Trawlers doubled down. Forty-nine-year veteran fishmonger Ian Perkes calls it a once-in-a-career event. Trawlers are scooping up 36 tonnes a day, compared to just 200kg last year. They're delighted. The seabed is “full of them,” they say. And they want it emptied.This is not a happy accident. This is the direct result of human-induced climate breakdown, a symptom of global heating that now serves as a payday for those accelerating the crisis.And it gets darker.There’s no quota for octopus. No limits. No protections. These highly intelligent beings, capable of complex problem-solving, play, and dreams, are being captured en masse and sold for profit. They’re fetching £8 a kilo, with 70–80% exported abroad. Spain, Morocco, Mauritania, all part of a sprawling market that commodifies minds with nine brains and three hearts as if they were sacks of flour.Meanwhile, octopuses are being blamed for doing what any intelligent, hungry being would do: finding food. They’re entering crab pots and eating what’s inside. And rather than questioning whether we should be laying those traps in the first place, the industry is debating how to redesign them to catch more octopuses.This isn't economic opportunity. It's ecological opportunism. It’s animal exploitation dressed up as commerce. And it's being greenlit by a government that, on paper, recognises octopuses as sentient.Yes, in 2021, the UK updated its Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill to include cephalopods like octopuses, based on overwhelming evidence that they experience pain, joy, excitement, and more. Over 300 studies were reviewed. Experts at the London School of Economics confirmed what anyone who's ever observed an octopus already knew: these animals feel. They suffer.And yet… nothing changed.Sentience was recognised, but not protected. The law, full of promises and caveats, was neutered before it was born. Fisheries weren’t impacted. Commercial slaughter methods, however horrific, were left untouched. And now we’re witnessing exactly what that loophole has enabled: an open season on sentient beings, sanctioned by silence.They’re not “stock” or “units.” These are individuals with brains in each limb, who can navigate mazes, use tools, and taste with their skin. They don’t live long, but they live fully. They explore. They observe. They bond. And now, they die. In bulk.So let’s stop calling this a “boom” like it’s some kind of prize. Let’s call it what it is: a massacre, sparked by climate breakdown, driven by profit, and cheered on by those with their hands in the pots.If octopuses are truly recognised as sentient, as the UK government claims, then this should be a scandal, not a celebration.If we're serious about respecting sentience, then the killing must stop, not scale up.And if we want a liveable future, maybe, just maybe, we stop glorifying financial windfalls that come from ecological collapse and start talking about justice. For the oceans. For the climate. And for those whose lives are treated as currency just because they happen to live beneath the waves.Octopuses don’t belong in pots. They belong in the sea. Let them be.

The Great British Cephalopod Slaughter

The UK Government has announced so-called “<a data-mce-href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq548lq8jldo.amp" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq548lq8jldo.amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">modern welfare reforms</a>” for zoos boasting about more space, longer chains, and fewer photo ops with octopuses. This isn’t progress. It’s a distraction.Because no amount of policy padding, enclosure enlarging, or fish-fondling bans can hide the truth: no one, elephant, octopus, or human, deserves to be born into a cage for someone else's entertainment.While ministers and zookeepers pat each other on the back for 196 pages of bureaucratic compromise, young elephants are still dying in concrete pens. Chester Zoo has lost twelve since 2009, eight before they even turned five. Stress-related viruses like EEHV thrive in captivity. In the wild? Not so much. But rather than address the root cause, captivity itself, zoos just keep shuffling elephants around, breeding more, and calling it conservation.A 2-hectare minimum enclosure for an animal who naturally ranges across hundreds of square kilometres isn’t reform. It’s insult. Elephants aren’t dying for lack of paperwork. They’re dying because they don’t belong here.And don’t be fooled by the “conservation” claims. None of these captive-born elephants will ever see the wild. Zoos breed them to replenish their displays, not to rebuild wild populations. It’s PR dressed up as preservation.This isn’t about slightly better cages. It’s about recognising that no cage is acceptable.&nbsp;If we claim to love animals, we don’t imprison them. We protect their freedom. We fight for their right to not be put on display. We campaign, we speak up, we act.<a data-mce-href="https://www.change.org/p/uk-government-end-elephant-captivity" href="https://www.change.org/p/uk-government-end-elephant-captivity" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-mce-selected="inline-boundary">Sign and share the petition calling for a full ban on keeping elephants in UK zoos.</a>We’ve already ended the use of wild animals in circuses, zoos are no different. This isn’t welfare. It’s whitewash. And it’s time to stop pretending otherwise.

The Elephant in the Room Is Captivity

Australia has once again confused violence with virtue. This time, it’s in the form of an aerial massacre. Not of invasive species. Not of so-called pests. But of koalas, one of the country’s most iconic and endangered animals.Around 750 koalas were gunned down from helicopters over Budj Bim National Park in Victoria. Mothers shot from the trees. Joeys clinging to their dying bodies. The government calls this a “compassionate response.” What they mean is: “it was easier to shoot them than help them.”This was not rescue. This was not mercy. This was not care. This was state-sanctioned slaughter of an endangered species, dressed up in PR-friendly concern for “welfare.”Officials say the bushfires left the koalas injured and starving, and that ground rescue was too difficult. So rather than make the effort, they chose to end lives en masse, under the banner of “humane euthanasia.” The same twisted logic that justifies slaughterhouses, trophy hunts, and kangaroo culls: shoot first, spin later.And don’t forget, koalas didn’t start the fires. Humans did. Through climate negligence, land mismanagement, and relentless deforestation. These animals are being killed for the same systems that made them vulnerable in the first place.Wildlife hospitals exist. Rehabilitation centres exist. Emergency protocols exist. And helicopters took to the skies — not to airlift the injured to safety, but to execute them.Activists have rightfully called it a betrayal. A disgrace. A national shame. A massacre hidden behind buzzwords and bureaucracy. While koalas are paraded on tourist brochures and cartoon logos, their real bodies are falling lifeless from scorched trees.The Victorian government has already normalised the commercial killing of kangaroos — often shot to sell their skins for football boots and accessories. Now it seems koalas are simply next on the list of inconvenient lives to be managed by bullet.And where were they shot? In a national park. The very place that’s meant to protect them. Some even argue this is less about “welfare” and more about keeping koalas away from eucalyptus plantations — economic interests once again outweighing lives.When government officials talk about animal welfare, remember this is what it looks like: terrified animals shot from the air because saving them would take too long. And the only thing more disturbing than the violence is how normalised it’s become.This is the slow bureaucratic death of compassion. It’s the apathy of institutions that view wild animals not as someone, but as something to manage, control, and eliminate when they become inconvenient.Koalas have already been pushed to the edge by deforestation, drought, disease, and fire. Their numbers have collapsed across New South Wales and Queensland. Scientists warn they could vanish altogether by 2050. Instead of protecting every remaining life, governments are helping speed up their extinction — one bullet at a time.The public should be outraged. And not just for the koalas. Because what’s done to them will be done again. To other species. In other forests. Under other names. Always wrapped in the same excuses: compassion, necessity, mercy.It’s time the world sees this massacre for what it is: not an isolated incident, but part of a wider pattern of ecocidal politics. And it’s time to say no more.No more killing the survivors of disasters we created.No more pretending mass death is “humane.”No more treating lives as disposable.Koalas don’t need bullets. They need protection.And the real pest in this picture isn’t clinging to a gum tree. It’s in the helicopters. It's in the offices signing off death warrants. It's in every system that turns living beings into problems to be solved by gunfire.Australia’s wildlife is not yours to manage into extinction.

This Isn’t Mercy. It’s a Massacre.

Zombies aren’t real. But fungal pandemics? Those are already happening — just without the clickers and CGI.When The Last of Us hit screens, it gave us a fungal apocalypse with cinematic flair. Cordyceps evolved, jumped to humans, and society collapsed into a blood-soaked mess of spores and screams. Viewers binged the series, terrified — not by fiction, but by the eerie plausibility of it all. Could fungi really adapt to infect humans? Could climate change make it possible? Could that be our end?Short answer: not like that. Long answer: maybe.The Cordyceps that zombifies ants isn’t about to turn your neighbour into a mushroom-headed flesh puppet. Cordyceps is highly specialised. One strain infects a specific species of insect and can’t even hop to other insects, let alone humans. And even if it could, our immune systems and 37°C body temperatures have long been a fungal force field. Most fungi simply can't take the heat.But that last point? That’s where reality starts catching up to horror fiction.Because the planet is heating up. And fungi are adapting. The Real Monsters Don’t Lurch — They MutateFungi don’t need to spread through a TV-style contaminated pancake supply chain. They’re already in the air, the soil, the water, and — thanks to climate change — now in hospitals.Enter Candida auris, a pathogen that thrives in higher temperatures and spreads from person to person. A fungus that emerged on multiple continents around the same time. A fungus that’s multi-drug resistant, deadly to the immunocompromised, and almost impossible to eradicate once it gains a foothold in healthcare settings.It’s not the only one. Species like Aspergillus fumigatus and Histoplasma are on the move, adapting, expanding their range, and making themselves at home in places they couldn’t survive in before. Climate modelling suggests A. fumigatus alone could expose an extra nine million people in Europe to infection by 2100. And this isn’t science fiction. This is published, peer-reviewed, already-in-progress reality. Fire, Drought, Spores, RepeatFungal infections aren’t just hitching a ride on the heat. They’re spreading on the back of our climate chaos.Droughts disturb dry spores. Wildfires create perfect fungal breeding grounds. And agriculture — the leading cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss — clears space not just for cows, but for pathogens. The more we destroy ecosystems, the more we expose ourselves to microbes we were never meant to meet.2024 was the worst year ever recorded for fire-driven forest loss. Fires fuelled by global heating overtook logging and farming as the number one cause of tropical deforestation. From Brazil to the Congo to Siberia, forests are disappearing — and with them, the natural controls that kept fungal threats in check.This isn’t a distant future problem. This is now. And no one’s ready.The medical system is woefully unprepared for a fungal future. Why? Because antifungals don’t make money.Big Pharma loves a profitable pandemic. COVID? Jackpot. But fungal infections? Not enough sick people to justify the investment — at least not yet. And because fungi are more biologically similar to humans than bacteria, developing treatments that don’t harm us in the process is harder. The result? Resistance is rising. Treatment options are falling. And still, barely anyone’s paying attention.The World Health Organisation finally added fungal pathogens to its priority list in 2022. But only after years of mounting infections and mounting deaths. Less than 10% of fungal species have even been described. Let that sink in. We are walking blind into a fungal storm with next to no maps and almost no medicine. Then There’s the Animal IndustryThis isn't just about rising temperatures. This is also about raising animals — tens of billions of them.The same industries torching forests and fuelling methane emissions are also breeding the perfect storm for fungal evolution. Antibiotic use in animal agriculture isn’t just fuelling bacterial resistance — it’s also wiping out the microbial balance that keeps fungi in check. The result? Opportunistic infections. In humans, in animals, in the soil, and in our hospitals.And don’t expect any honesty from industry. The beef and dairy sectors have been caught red-handed funding disinformation campaigns to downplay their role in climate destruction. They’ve borrowed from the tobacco playbook: deny, distract, discredit. The beef industry knew as far back as the 80s that their emissions were a problem. Instead of reducing them, they paid researchers to tell the public otherwise.Meanwhile, dairy giants are turning a blind eye to methane — one of the most powerful climate accelerants. Coffee chains like Dunkin’ scored zero on methane accountability. Starbucks admits dairy is its largest source of emissions, but won’t commit to phasing it out. And the medical profession? Still serving meat to cardiac patients.Fungi might not be bursting from skulls, but the negligence is no less grotesque. This Is Not About Zombies. It’s About Injustice.The real horror isn’t spores. It’s systems. Systems that refuse to act unless there’s profit in it. Systems that protect industries over people. Systems that prioritise short-term convenience over long-term survival. Heat-resistant fungi are evolving faster than we are. And we’re still arguing over whether beef is really that bad for the planet. Hospitals are unprepared. Drug companies don’t care. Governments are stalling. And the industries fuelling the crisis are funding studies to convince you your diet doesn’t matter.They’d rather let the world burn — and its fungal spores bloom — than acknowledge the obvious: the food system must change. Fast. This Isn’t a Game. This Isn’t a Show.There’s no cinematic showdown coming. No final boss battle. Just a slow, suffocating creep of neglected pathogens into places they’ve never been. Into lungs that used to be safe. Into wounds that used to heal. Into bodies with no immunity, no treatment, and no backup plan.We don’t need a mutated Cordyceps to wipe us out. We’ve already created the conditions for something far scarier: a world where the climate is collapsing, the forests are gone, antibiotics don’t work, and fungi thrive in our absence. And that might be the deadliest script of all.

The Last of Us Had Clickers. We Got Candida

What happens when we flip the roles, when humans are farmed, hunted, skinned, experimented on, and paraded around for entertainment, while other animals run the world? It's a question animal rights activists have posed countless times, often through powerful artwork and provocative videos. But does it work? Does showing people a parallel universe where they’re the product finally push them to confront their supremacy?A <a data-mce-href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08927936.2024.2345472" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08927936.2024.2345472" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-mce-selected="inline-boundary">new study</a> has tried to find out.Researchers tested whether a widely used activist video, depicting humans as the victims in common scenarios of animal exploitation, actually reduces speciesist attitudes or behaviours. Two trials. Over 600 participants. Controlled conditions. Measured outcomes. The verdict? A mixed bag that tells us more about how deeply human supremacy runs than it does about the power of cartoons. What Is Speciesism?Speciesism is the default mindset that says some animals matter more than others, and humans matter most. It's the ideological scaffolding propping up every form of animal exploitation: farming, vivisection, zoos, leather, eggs, milk, fur. Without the belief that humans are more important, the entire system collapses.This isn’t just a philosophical curiosity. Speciesism enables and excuses the commodification of sentient lives. It turns someone into something. So if we want to end the use of animals, we have to take aim at the root, the belief that justifies it all. Role Reversal As a MirrorThe intervention video used in the study was something many activists will recognise: a short, art-driven clip where humans are depicted as victims in real-life practices animals endure, being trapped in cages, electrocuted, worn as fashion, used for entertainment and testing.It’s a classic tactic. If people won't empathise with other animals, show them what it would look like if the roles were reversed. Use horror, shame, and discomfort to bypass denial and drive home the injustice. At least that’s the theory.So, what happened? Attitudes? No Change.First, researchers measured speciesist attitudes directly using a validated “Speciesism Scale.” The result? No meaningful difference between the group that saw the video and the one that didn’t. If anything, in the second study, attitudes were slightly worse in the intervention group.It didn’t matter how disturbing the imagery was or how uncomfortable the message, seeing humans strung up like chickens or hunted for trophies didn’t significantly shift people’s underlying beliefs about human dominance.And here’s the thing: that shouldn’t surprise us. You can’t dislodge supremacy with a cartoon. People don’t give up power that easily. Speciesism, like racism and sexism, isn’t just ignorance, it’s identity. It’s ideology. And you don’t undo ideology with a single nudge. Intentions? Yes, Some Change.Next, the researchers looked at behavioural intentions, did people intend to reduce their use of animals?Here, the video had more impact. Participants who watched the intervention were more likely to say they intended to stop eating animals, avoid animal-tested products, or boycott industries that use animals.But before we celebrate, there’s a catch: people in the control group also said they intended to change. Almost everyone, video or no video, claimed they’d reduce their harm. That tells us two things:1. The message is already out there. Cultural momentum is shifting, and people are aware that animal use is ethically loaded.2. Intentions are cheap. Saying you plan to change isn’t the same as changing. Especially when there’s no real cost involved. Actual Behaviour? No Change.And when it came to actual, observable behaviour, like signing an animal rights petition, the video made no difference. No boost in support. No uptick in action.The majority of people in both groups signed it. But the petition wasn't a high-bar ask. There was no sacrifice, no commitment, no confrontation with daily habits. Just a click. And if a click doesn’t increase after being shown graphic injustice, what does that say? So What Did Work?The only real mediating factor was emotion. Not awareness. Not knowledge. Not even empathy. What moved the needle, slightly, was injustice.Participants who watched the video and felt angered or alarmed were more likely to say they intended to change. The more people felt wronged on behalf of the fictionalised humans, the more they considered altering their own actions.This is important. Because for decades, animal advocacy has relied on information. Education. Awareness. But these findings echo what activists already know on the streets and at the slaughterhouse gates: data doesn't break delusion. Emotion does. People already know animals are harmed. They just don’t feel it yet. What Doesn’t WorkIt’s tempting to believe that showing someone a powerful video is enough. That a light will go on and the walls of denial will fall. But this research confirms what abolitionists have been saying for years:You don’t undo a worldview in under three minutes. You don’t dismantle supremacy with a sketch. You don’t stop injustice with implication, you have to confront it head-on.And if we’re still relying on euphemisms like “harm” and “use,” or sanitised cartoon metaphors to deliver our message, we’re softening the blow that needs to land. Where Do We Go From Here?The authors of the study suggest future interventions need to be ongoing and multifaceted. One video won’t cut it. Repetition, intensity, and clarity are key. That means:Stop sugar-coating oppression. Stop hiding behind aesthetics. This is about slavery, supremacy, and exploitation. Say so.Target belief systems, not behaviours. We don’t need people to buy oat milk if they still believe in human superiority. We need them to reject the idea that animals are property.Use real footage. The authors speculate that cartoon images may not be disturbing enough. No kidding. Sanitised suffering doesn’t evoke real reaction. Show people what’s actually happening, if they turn away, they’re not ready to change.Understand cultural context. This study didn’t include huge parts of the world. Beliefs are shaped by religion, education, trauma, economics, and these factors need attention, not generalisations. Injustice Is the SparkIf there’s a lesson here, it’s that feeling injustice is the starting point. It opens the door. But we need to walk people through it. We need follow-up, confrontation, reinforcement. We need movement-building, not just moment-making.Because here’s the truth: almost everyone claims to love animals. But love without justice is meaningless. And justice without action is just theatre.It’s not enough to show someone a video and hope they change. We have to keep showing up. Keep speaking out. Keep turning the mirror on the speciesist logic that allows babies to be taken from their mothers, bodies to be torn apart, and sentient individuals to be reduced to skin, taste, and tools.The cartoon world may be fictional, but the suffering it reflects is very real. And if we want people to see it, we need to do more than entertain their empathy. We need to confront their beliefs.Because speciesism isn’t a mistake. It’s a mindset. And mindsets don’t shift gently. They shatter.

What Really Shifts Speciesist Thinking?

In a digital age where algorithms reward confidence over credibility, a new breed of influencer has emerged: the health super-spreader. They’re not doctors. They’re not scientists. They’re marketers in lab coats, selling supplements, steak, and snake oil.A <a data-mce-href="https://rootedresearch.co/publications/nutrition-misinformation-digital-age/" href="https://rootedresearch.co/publications/nutrition-misinformation-digital-age/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new report</a> from Rooted Research Collective and the Freedom Food Alliance has named 53 of these social media “super-spreaders,” responsible for bombarding up to 24 million users with dietary misinformation. Most have no relevant qualifications. Some outright fake them. 96% profit from the misinformation they peddle.It’s not just a quirky fad or an online rabbit hole. It’s a multi-million-dollar industry built on fear, fantasy, and flesh. These influencers aren’t just misinformed. They’re dangerous. And they’re shaping how people eat, vote, and think about health, animals, and the planet. Meat, Money, and Make-BelieveWhat do these “experts” promote? Mostly extreme, unsustainable diets built on the systematic rejection of plant foods, carnivore diets, keto cults, and raw milk fantasies. Red meat is glorified. Organs are worshipped. Fibre is vilified. Plants are framed as poison. It's nutritional nihilism wrapped in pseudo-scientific jargon.This isn’t about health. It’s about branding. Many of these influencers style themselves as renegades: anti-establishment rebels “exposing the truth” about Big Pharma, plant foods, and dietary guidelines. They throw around terms like “seed oil shill” and “toxin detox” to create a binary worldview, follow them and live forever, or eat broccoli and die.Their tactics are textbook: fabricate medical credentials, invent enemies, and promise salvation through meat. A few even rake in over $100,000 a month selling access to their delusions as coaching sessions, supplements, retreats, and courses. Some charge thousands for consultation despite zero medical training.Their followers are often young, disillusioned, and desperate for certainty. And that’s exactly what the super-spreaders sell. <a data-mce-href="https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Carnivore-Diet-Just-A-Dangerous-Fad-H2H81DC701" href="https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Carnivore-Diet-Just-A-Dangerous-Fad-H2H81DC701" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Carnivore Con</a>Strip away the branding and the carnivore diet is just a modern reboot of medieval medicine: purge, restrict, repeat. Eliminate all plant foods and carbohydrates, survive solely on the flesh, fluids, and secretions of other animals, and you’ll supposedly be reborn shredded, clear-skinned, “in ketosis.”It's epidemiological suicide.This isn’t up for debate. The long-term risks of meat-heavy diets are well-established: heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, scurvy, gout. If you removed every excuse and simply tracked the health outcomes of carnivore influencers and their followers for a decade, the results would read like a textbook on preventable chronic disease.Yes, people sometimes feel better at first. That’s true of any elimination diet. You could live off boiled potatoes for a week and say it cured your acne. But feeling good for a few weeks doesn't mean you're on a sustainable or logical path. Elimination diets are diagnostic tools, not permanent blueprints for survival. <a data-mce-href="https://ko-fi.com/post/Ultra-Processed-Is-Just-a-Distraction-F2F01E4GJ5" href="https://ko-fi.com/post/Ultra-Processed-Is-Just-a-Distraction-F2F01E4GJ5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ultra-Processed Nonsense</a>While flesh-flogging influencers demonise plant-based meats as “ultra-processed,” science tells a different story. According to a <a data-mce-href="https://pan-int.org/news/blog-post-title-one-h42r8-4z5ks-txgfj-4k9db-pxn4x-cnrwj-ze6ad-e2dzh-kfspk-r47b3" href="https://pan-int.org/news/blog-post-title-one-h42r8-4z5ks-txgfj-4k9db-pxn4x-cnrwj-ze6ad-e2dzh-kfspk-r47b3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by PAN International and the Good Food Institute Europe, not all processed foods are equal. Unlike processed meat, which is repeatedly linked to cardiovascular disease, plant-based meat tends to have lower saturated fat, higher fibre, and similar protein levels.Most studies that demonise ultra-processed foods don’t even include plant-based meat, or lump it in with sugary drinks and fried snacks. Strip those out, and the link between ultra-processing and disease vanishes.The nuance matters. Because if we let anti-vegan grifters shape public perception, people will end up rejecting the very foods that could help them live longer, reduce suffering, and mitigate climate collapse. <a data-mce-href="https://ko-fi.com/post/Masculinity-Male-Emissions-P5P81FDVWK" href="https://ko-fi.com/post/Masculinity-Male-Emissions-P5P81FDVWK" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-mce-selected="inline-boundary">Meat, Masculinity, and Misogyny</a>There’s also a gendered undercurrent running through the meat-based misinformation machine. Studies show men consistently have higher carbon footprints than women, mostly due to red meat and car use, both behaviour patterns linked to traditional masculinity.Men also face greater social pressure to avoid plant-based diets. They’re told eating plants is feminine, weak, unnatural. That meat equals muscle. That quinoa is for quitters.This makes them prime targets for carnivore influencers who market meat as rebellion. Red meat becomes a political statement. A steak becomes a stand against cancel culture.It’s absurd, but it works. The Grantham Institute found that women emit 26% less carbon than men in food and transport combined. Eating like a man, apparently, is a climate disaster. The Real Cost of “Biohacking”What’s most disturbing isn’t just the health misinformation or the carbon cost. It’s the ethical erasure.Carnivore influencers aren’t just selling false hope, they’re selling exploitation. Every organ, egg, and secretion they praise comes from someone. A sentient being. Someone who didn’t consent to being turned into a “biohack.”Promoting diets that require the forced breeding, confinement, mutilation, and slaughter of animals isn't just unhealthy. It’s supremacist. It’s the glorification of domination wrapped in a wellness wrapper.And these influencers never talk about that. They’ll post selfies with steaks, but never footage from a slaughterhouse. They'll rave about raw milk but never show the separation of a calf from their mother. The violence is hidden behind hashtags and health claims. Call It What It IsCarnivore diets aren’t cutting-edge. They’re regressive. They’re exploitative. And they’re dangerous to humans, animals, and the planet.This is more than a fad. It’s a backlash. Against evidence. Against empathy. Against progress.We don’t need a diet that pretends to mimic cavemen. We need a mindset that reflects compassion, critical thinking, and collective wellbeing. One that embraces credible nutrition, not conspiracy. One that feeds people without feeding disinformation.The era of the influencer-doctor-hustler hybrid needs to end. Because lives, human and non-human, are on the line.Call out these frauds wherever they peddle their scams.

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The Great British Cephalopod Slaughter

The Elephant in the Room Is Captivity

This Isn’t Mercy. It’s a Massacre.

The Last of Us Had Clickers. We Got Candida

What Really Shifts Speciesist Thinking?

Broscience is a Public Health Risk