Doctors should tell patients to eat less meat to ‘save our planet,’ vegan med students say – Encourage incremental shifts — such as ‘meatless Mondays or opting for oat milk’

Doctors should tell patients to eat less meat to ‘save our planet,’ vegan med students say By Matt Lamb – Associate Editor ‘If clinicians aim to protect their patients, they need to consider protecting our planet’ Doctors should take advantage of appointments with patients to encourage them to eat less meat and more lentils, according […]

STUDY: ‘The future of vanilla ice cream is at stake because of climate change’ – Published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science

Increasing climate extremes are changing the habitats of wild vanilla species — primarily found in the tropical regions of Central America — and their mainly animal pollinators, the researchers say. This, in turn, is putting global production of vanilla at risk.

For vanilla ice cream, pudding and other desserts, global warming could have a similar impact as it already does on many other foods. Poor harvests of coffee, chocolate and olive oil, for example, have repeatedly caused shortages and higher prices.

To the Mainstream Media: Quit Lying About Crop Yields, They Are Increasing, Not in Decline

To the Mainstream Media: Quit Lying About Crop Yields, They Are Increasing, Not in Decline By Anthony Watts A number of mainstream media outlets carried stories claiming that climate change threatens crop yields and production, among them The Hill, Yahoo News, CNN, and The Guardian. That claim is refuted by everything botany, agronomy, data on crop yields, and the […]

Mother Jones mag: ‘Future Climate Means No More Breakfast’ – ‘Bad news not just for farmers, but also for everyone who eats’ – Cites new study published in the journal Nature

“Looking at that 3 degrees centigrade warmer [than the year 2000] future corresponds to about a 13 percent loss in daily recommended per capita caloric consumption,” Andrew Hultgren, an agriculture researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said. “That’s like everyone giving up breakfast … about 360 calories for each person, for each day.”

Yes, Arizona Republic, Arizona’s Wine Industry Can Continue to Thrive Amidst Climate Change

Yes, Arizona Republic, Arizona’s Wine Industry Can Continue to Thrive Amidst Climate Change ByH. Sterling Burnett The Arizona Republic ran a story expressing worry that the state’s “booming” wine industry will be unable to cope with climate change. This is false. The commercial wine industry is of fairly recent vintage, arising amidst and beginning to thrive during […]

Study claims: ‘Climate change is coming for your cheese’! ‘Heat & drought can affect what cows eat, which in turn impacts milk quality’ – Published in the Journal of Dairy Science

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-coming-for-cheese Excerpt via Science News June 10, 2025: By affecting cows’ diets, climate change can affect cheese’s nutritional value and sensory traits such as taste, color and texture. This is true at least for Cantal — a firm, unpasteurized cheese from the Auvergne region in central France, researchers report February 20 in the Journal of Dairy Science. […]

Analysis: Population & Food Supply: ‘When there is little, or none, people cannot afford the calories to breed. When there is enough, they can and do. When there is too much…[food] they can’t be bothered to breed’

https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/a-reason-the-birthrate-is-so-low A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low: Food By William M Briggs In the 1970s the fear—there is always fear, much of it imaginary or exaggerated—was mass starvation. There were soon, they said, to be too many people, which would lead to disastrous pressure on the food supply, and we’d run out. Some said […]

Wrong, The Guardian, There Is No Evidence Climate Change Is Harming Bananas

Wrong, The Guardian, There Is No Evidence Climate Change Is Harming Bananas By H. Sterling Burnett The Guardian was among a number of mainstream media outlets to carry a story claiming climate change is threatening wipe out banana production. No data supports this claim, rather it is based on speculation about future climate conditions 55 years […]