Israel’s systematic use of rape and sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners is by now well understood and exhaustively documented.

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli, who represents Palestinian “security” prisoners in Israeli detention, told this reporter that his clients sometimes beg him not to visit.

One even told him directly: “Don’t come, because every time you do, I get raped.”

Marmarelli said he could recognize signs of sexual violence with riot batons – a phenomenon, he said, that has been growing since Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, assumed his position – even before his clients spoke. They are visible in the marks of abuse, and the way prisoners struggle to walk.

But batons are not the only weapon used in sexual assaults on prisoners. Specially trained dogs are increasingly deployed to abuse detainees, as revealed by organizations such as the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor as well as the Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem.

One striking account recounts how a young fellow prisoner was attacked and raped by dogs in front of his fellow inmates.

“The soldiers let loose trained police dogs on the young man, who was subjected to [rape],” Fadi Saif al-Din Bakr, a lawyer from Gaza who was detained early in Israel’s genocide told human rights organizations. “I was hoping to die so that this would not happen to me.”

But where do the dogs come from? And by what mechanisms do they enter the Israeli system?

The ballot measures passed overwhelmingly this midterm election, with 73% of DC voters and 66.55% in Denver voting in favor.

The Environmental Protection Agency late last week announced it would end a 20-plus-year effort to develop methods to monitor air pollution from factory farms, effectively shuttering the agency’s stop-and-start attempts to regulate the potentially pollutant-spewing facilities under the Clean Air Act.

The announcement came just days before the midterm elections and was characterized by the agency as a long-awaited reprieve for farmers, a historically important constituency for Trump and the Republican Party.

When tens of thousands of animals are packed into one place, pollution from their waste is blown from ventilation fans or emanates from giant lagoons of liquid effluent. Livestock facilities emit fine particulate matter, ammonia, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and volatile organic compounds, all contributing to a toxic mix. Research has shown that emissions from these operations are a major cause of air pollution, causing nearly 12,700 deaths in the United States a year.

Strictly speaking, concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, are required to get permits under the Clean Air Act and report emissions of these pollutants under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability and Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. But through a deal crafted in tandem with the EPA and the livestock industry, they’ve been given amnesty from doing so for more than 20 years.

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A person in Washington state has died from bird flu after exposure at an infected dairy farm, state health officials reported Sunday. It marks the third human bird flu death in the US since a strain of highly pathogenic (H5) avian influenza (HPAI) made the unprecedented jump from wild, migratory birds to dairy cows, which was first reported in the US in March 2024.

The person who died was a Yakima County resident and was said to have had underlying health conditions, which could have made the person more vulnerable to the infection. On Friday, county officials reported that the person was severely ill and hospitalized. In the subsequent announcement of the person’s death, officials said they would not be releasing further information about the person, including their name, gender, or age, out of respect for the family’s privacy.

“Our hearts go out to the individual’s family and loved ones during this difficult time,” Dave Atteberry, health officer for the Yakima Health District, said in a statement. “Avian influenza can cause severe illness, particularly among people who have underlying health conditions. While this is a serious and heartbreaking outcome, the risk to the general public remains low.” Continued threat

In all, three people have tested positive for bird flu in Washington since the virus was reported in dairy cattle in the state on October 8. All three have been in Yakima County. While announcing the death on Sunday, officials also reported the third case. That case, like the first case, was in a person who had exposure to an infected dairy herd in the county. Both people have reportedly not experienced severe illness nor been hospitalized.

Since the October 8 report of infected herds, Washington state has had 40 detections of bird flu in dairy cows, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Most of those have been in Yakima County, which has reported detections in 33 herds.

This year, the USDA has reported 134 cases of bird flu in cattle, including cases in Texas, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Kansas. The USDA lists no other reports of cases in other domestic livestock, including swine. But the virus has continued to spread in other wild and captive mammals. A report last month from ProPublica revealed that the virus is raging on a mink farm in Utah. The report raised alarm because mink is a species that could give the virus opportunities to mutate to better spread among humans.

To date, no human-to-human transmission of HPAI has been reported from the over 70 human cases detected since 2024. Of the cases, only three have resulted in death. The first death was in a 65-year-old Louisiana resident with underlying health conditions, who became critically ill in January 2025 after exposure to infected wild and backyard birds. The second death, in November 2025, was reported by Washington state officials as an older adult with underlying health conditions who also had exposure to infected backyard birds.

The amount of resources wasted on this kind of carnist bullshit while healthcare is denied to humans... jfc.

We can go all our lifetime eating whole foods from plants with a lot of variety and nothing else, and be generally really healthy. Why are there any people still against any change to this healthy way?

We should value a world we can have where all might flourish and live in peace. This can be without any animals being slaughtered. I found there is a much healthier way to eat, with tasty meals, having a variety of whole foods from plants and removing anything else from the regular diet, and with this there is energy for activity that is also beneficial to us. I have gone well over a decade this way. I really see benefits including more energy in older age in my life.

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Summary: UK Domestic Beef consumption projected to drop 8% since 2024 on rising prices, per capita consumption down 2/3 since the 1980s

UK beef consumption is set to fall for a second year in a row in 2026. The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) forecasts total volumes 3% lower than in 2025 and 8% below 2024 levels.

Price is the main driver. Over the past 52 weeks, higher average prices pushed retail spending on beef up 7.1%. But the volume bought fell 4.6% in shops and 2.9% in restaurants, takeaways and other out-of-home outlets. Shoppers are paying more and getting less.

AHDB doesn't expect a turnaround next year. Its retail and consumer insight manager, Emma Wantling, expects consumer confidence to stay weak through 2027, with food inflation and energy bills squeezing household budgets and shoppers looking for value. Mince, the mainstay of retail beef, is expected to stay subdued as families switch to cheaper options. Steaks and roasting joints are increasingly kept for special occasions. Fast-food chains are expected to push smaller, cheaper burgers.

Supply won't ease the pressure. AHDB senior analyst Becky Smith said global beef supply is likely to stay tight in 2027 as Australia, Brazil and the US rebuild their herds, which will keep prices high.

The latest fall continues a long decline. According to Defra's Family Food survey, household beef purchases fell from 14.5 kg per person a year in 1980 to 5.0 kg in 2022. Taking the 2025–26 decline into account, the figure is now estimated at about 4.5 kg, roughly two-thirds lower. Over the same period, chicken has replaced red meat as Britain's staple protein.

Past price shocks suggest some of the losses will stick. After the 2022–23 cost-of-living squeeze, AHDB forecast that 2024 beef volumes would be only 1% up on 2023 and still 6% below 2019 levels. Beef never returned to pre-pandemic consumption before the current price spike began.

Sources: Agriland / AHDB 2027 UK beef market outlook (18 October 2026); AHDB, Long term protein trends explored; AHDB Agri Market Outlook 2024.

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I care for animals with speaking about it. I was vegan already, and for years, while not knowing I could even be healthy with it. Yet I found the way it could be. I really eat only foods, whole foods, from plants, and nothing else, and have had this way well over a decade already. I am doing really very well with my older age, too.

I understand though that no one is interested in change to this way without meals tasting really good, I have managed that for me, and have really wonderful meals.

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I mean, it's (EDIT: it's actually not possible) possible that they don't, but still, who gives you the right to decide whether an animal shall live or not? Also, the fishing industry is harming the planet and (many) fish contain toxic metals.

I am vegan for animals, indeed, and there are other issues, but I learned the healthy way, it is not just what would be vegan for us, it is with variety of whole foods from plants and avoiding processed stuff that comes in many foods people eat. I do this since I learned to for the much better health there is with this a few years after being vegan, and I benefit noticeably from ten and a half years with it, there is my direct experience.

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