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Hi all, we need help.

Our nonprofit savescienceoregon.org Is fighting the closure of the ONPRC (Oregon National Primate Research Center) which produces important publicly available biomedical datasets.

These attacks are politically motivated and poorly thought out. Some infamous politicians linked with the NIH are pushing ideas like "We don't need animal testing anymore now that we have AI", which is problematic for a lot of reasons.

We are running an email campaign trying to get more people with deeper than surface level understanding to email the representatives who can do something about this. If you would like to help please send one yourself or just spread the word.

Right now we are running an Oregon trail themed campaign about ONPRC at https://savescienceoregon.org/stay-alive. However our primary goal is informing the general public as nuanced debate on animal testing is difficult due to the subject matter.

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One project investigating impacts of feed additives on reducing methane emissions from the burps of beef cattle over their lifetime was allocated almost €1.5 million.

The research will look at ways of reducing methane emissions in Irish beef systems through strategic use of feed additives and early-life interventions.

The vast majority of methane - a greenhouse gas - released by cattle during digestion is by belching, rather than flatulance.

I saw a post from the rescue I volunteer at saying we got this absolutely adorable 2 week old groundhog!

It was found all alone outside its den, so now it will be living with us until it grows up and is ready to start a den of its own. This little one doesn't even have those big sharp teeth yet.

Despite its scary situation of being lost by its family and then found by scary humans, it looks to be having a nice nap and some active dreams.

Some people may not enjoy these critters, but they are just as special as any other!

https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/2049899806709915761

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46257200

[ER] Well, a promise is a promise.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/vid/p/1074105/we-uncovered-a-multi-million-dollar-plot-to-change-what-you-eat

General Mills, Danone, the beef industry, and more had financial ties to the scientists writing the new dietary guidelines.

RFK said he couldn't be bought, then he let Big Food write the nutrition guidelines.

Take the following premise. Bob sees Mike (who has blue hair) rob an orphanage, and considers him a bad man.
Bob exclaims in a public forum, "That blue-haired sneak! He should be found and put in jail."
Mike (wearing a mask while on the run) highlights this statement, replaying a record of it in another location, and adding: "I can't believe Bob would say such terrible things about blue-haired people! This is extreme bigotry!"
Jill, who also has blue hair, and Derek, who simply doesn't like bigotry, both miss the context of the robbery that happened earlier, and are shocked at the isolated statement.
When the town meets later, the issue of a robbery at the orphanage is downplayed, and the town instead spends the meeting condemning Bob's bigotry.

While a lot could be said about the whole sequence, I want to find out if there is a shortened term used to refer to the deception by Mike when deliberately misrepresenting the grouping of a targeted statement; eg, to build class solidarity the wrong way. The closest I've found might be "Strawmanning" or "Divide and Conquer" but it seems common enough I'd like to see if there's a name.

I tried to generalize by picking "blue hair" for the example, but I admit it'd be an odd, off-color statement by race or appearance. There are still other forms of grouping that are more common to state in conversation, like "gamers" or "voters", or "farmers", in which such statements could apply to all, or just some, of that broad group.

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#Gaza #HelpGaza #Palestine #MutualAid #EmergencySupport

Green party parliamentarians have written publicly to Keir Starmer and foreign secretary Yvette Cooper demanding urgent action from the British government to protect the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla attacked by Israel.

In their letter, Green MPs Siân Berry, Ellie Chowns, Hannah Spencer, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, along with peers Natalie Bennett and Jenny Jones, tell Starmer that the flotilla is under “grave threat” and call on them to act immediately:

Inaction and impunity

The call is the right thing to do. However, the pair’s record of selling out to Israel suggests the Greens should not hold their breath. When previous flotillas have been attacked, Starmer has done nothing of any substance. In fact, he has often failed to say anything, let alone anything meaningful, about Israel’s piracy against previous flotillas.

Both he and Cooper have collaborated with the Israel lobby to wage war on the civil and human rights of British people. Cooper’s successor as home secretary — clearly under Starmer’s orders — is still fighting to maintain Cooper’s unlawful ban on anti-genocide protest group Palestine Action.

Starmer, Cooper, and all his other war criminal partners should be in the dock, not in high office. Make way for someone who will actually stand up for UK citizens and international law.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/59365658