Jan Dutkiewicz

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I tried to do what we call, if I may be so bold, a "conceptual scoop"!!

Pls read my story on the most overlooked form of extreme confinement of farmed animals—the routine caging of millions of dairy calves in tiny crates less than 1/10 the size of a parking spot.

It's not about veal! (🧵)

Close-up of a hand holding a Kindle e-reader displaying a passage about food systems, including the line: “The most important thing you can do is banish from your thoughts the idea that we should—and can—scrap the ‘broken’ food system and start over.”

Big belated congrats to @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social on FEED THE PEOPLE! a book that everyone should read and will get a lot out of. It might surprise you to know that they call for throwing away the "broken food system" cliché but they have a GOOD POINT!

The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. for Millions (Published 2019)

Also:
www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/w...

How rioting farmers unraveled Europe’s ambitious climate plan Road-clogging, manure-dumping farmers reveal the paradox at the heart of EU agriculture.

ICYMI:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The EU's farming lobby is a regressive, anti-regulative parasite on the bloc, sucking up direct payments and organizing against common sense environmental policies and now against language.

EU agrees to chop meaty names from vegetarian and vegan food products Lawmakers will ban use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets

The EU definitely has their legislative priorities straight. 🤦‍♂️

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"Subway bread is actually yoga mats" grifter being taken seriously on major food podcasts and major magazine articles about food politics and dude what are we doing?

My take on the current trend of food big tent-ism is that you do not have to platform or make common cause with charlatans and snake oil salesmen and disinfo peddlers just because they currently have clout. If you don't want to end up packed into a clown car, don't let clowns into your car.

The Cutting Room Floor Not Everything You Wrote That You Love Survives

Read @gnrosenberg.bsky.social's new piece about the writing process and why a vignette about mid-rave ice cream at Berghain almost made it into Feed the People!

Stay for the "regenerative" ag hack actually selling million dollar homes.

bearistotle.substack.com/p/the-cuttin...

Efficacy of an intervention in the nutritional status and consumption of ultra-processed foods in children with obesity treated in primary health care in Brazil - BMC Nutrition BMC Nutrition - Effectivechildhood obesity management requires multicomponent interventions in Primary Health Care (PHC), engaging families, communities, and healthcare professionals to foster...

Very interesting paper: Long-term nutritional intervention with kids helped reduce ultra-processed food consumption ... with no effect on BMI.

Quick takeway: focused intervention can change diets, but maybe UPF is not the culprit.

Usual caveats about sample size.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

(This is the raincheck date for the event Feb. 24 event that was cancelled due to snowpocalypse.)

New York City!

I will be doing a book talk at the Barnes and Noble Atlantic Ave. location in Brooklyn on March 10 at 6:30 p.m. Would love to see you all there.

stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Obviously not a dig at quant methods qua quant methods! But the constant undervaluation of qualitative methods is about to be turned on its head.

Decades of qualitative research being undervalued and undercut, careers stunted, researchers disparaged, grad students steered away from qual methods by quant dorks just for them to suddenly realize they're on shaky ground and true original research will keep coming from real world researchers.

Value of ethnographic and field work (you know, actually going places and talking to people) going up exponentially. AI cannot do that work better or at all. Shut up you dorks.

"Jamais la nourriture n’a été aussi sûre et peu chère" : le constat à contre-courant du chercheur Jan Dutkiewicz Co-auteur de "Feed the people!", Jan Dutkiewicz assure que le retour à une alimentation pré-industrielle est illusoire. L'universitaire américain dénonce les discours simplistes et anxiogènes entreten...

Did a long interview with @lexpress.fr (in French) about Feed the People! and modern diets.
www.lexpress.fr/idees-et-deb...

100%

"eating offal reduces food waste"

counterpoint: most food waste happens in losing calories and protein in throughput through animals, not in wasting unused cuts of meat.

counterpoint: eat some tofu and don't support factory farming.

a little too much elective affinity these days between health disinfo influencers, "affordability" discourse, and the academics behind the nutritional guidelines, all getting the credulous treatment in the media.

a classic of the genre

New York City!

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO SNOWPOCALYPSE.

The new date for the Barnes and Noble Brooklyn book talk is March 11th.

Podcast cover artwork, an illustration from the cover of the book.

Is the food system broken? No, say @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and Gabriel Rosenberg. Their new book explains Why Industrial Food Is Good and How To Make It Even Better.

We had a good chat, from cellular agriculture to labour in the food industry.

eatthispodcast.com/ftp

#agriculture #policy

this is the way

It looks pretty and Prince Charles (lol) said it's sustainable is, uh, not how you adjudicate environmental impact.

Asking journalists covering food to please stop treating farming as aesthetics and read a few peer-reviewed publications.

The Myth of Regenerative Ranching The purveyors of “grass-fed” beef want you to believe that it solves meat’s environmental problem. But this is merely a branding exercise, not a climate solution.

You may have come across a piece about the ostensible plight of regenerative ranchers in Point Reyes in a lefty mag. It spends a lot of time on description and pathos and almost none on the actual environmental impacts of livestock. Read this too (or just instead): newrepublic.com/article/1637...

New York City!

This Wednesday, Feb. 25, I'll be doing a book talk at Barnes & Noble in Brooklyn (Atlantic Ave.) at 6 p.m. Come by!

stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

San Francisco!

Gabriel and I are giving a book talk tomorrow night at USF at 6 p.m.

This event is open to the public! Come by.