The blog post aims to recalibrate the expectations of cultivated meat, helping end factory farming. It is based on technoeconomic analysis and a demand-side economic model. The blog contains two parts: the first revisits the literature and updates the 2021 Humbird pessimism with a brighter outlook supported by the empirical analysis by Pasitka in 2023. The second part takes those price estimates and feeds them to a demand side economic model aiming to calibrate the potential market share of cultivated and plant-based products.

There is a growing expectation in corporate America that when disaster strikes, companies won't simply write checks, they'll show up. Nearly half of all recognized companies in the survey provided assistance during at least one of seven major U.S. natural disasters over the past four years. Amazon, FedEx, Ford Motor Company, Humana, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Lockheed Martin, Molson Coors Beverage Company, Walmart, and others went further, supporting every disaster examined.

In 2024 alone, 41,800 premature deaths in the US were attributable to road pollution. Polls show a growing share of Americans are concerned about exposure to environmental toxins and would support more stringent regulations from federal officials. If the US reaches 100% market share for electric cars, trucks and buses by 2040, it could avert more than 100,000 premature deaths and prevent 42,000 children from developing asthma by 2050.

There is no scientific evidence that abortion medication is contaminating Americans’ water supply, but it has become a central claim by the anti-abortion movement. 14 Republican state attorneys general and 19 GOP lawmakers in Congress urged the Environmental Protection Agency to classify and regulate mifepristone as a water contaminant.

Farmers in Thailand's Chachoengsao province worry a planned 600-megawatt LNG power plant could increase water shortages and air pollution in an area already facing recurring drought. The project is the latest chapter in an 18-year struggle by local communities, who previously helped stop the same development when it was planned as a coal-fired power station.

Kirk Foyle, 64, died after a May 19 when a pecan tree fell on him at Green Mesquite BBQ in Austin, Texas. His family is suing for $1,000,000 in damages related to the man's death, mental anguish and legal costs. The complaint alleges that staff at the two local businesses allowed the tree to rot and decay without warning customers.

The H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in South Australia for the first time. The industry is on high alert. Inghams, Australia's largest poultry producer, has blocked non-essential access to its operations in WA and is seeking a regional housing order from the federal government's chief veterinary officer.

Bill Cassidy, M.D., is the Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Bernie Sanders is the Ranking Member. Bernie represents the families of more than twenty-five infants paralyzed by botulism in the first months of their lives because of contaminated powdered infant formula. Bill Cassidy wrote to the House counterpart in support of H.R. 7867, the Infant Formula Safety Modernization Act of 2026. The Senate passed the bill S. 272 on April 29, 2026 by unanimous consent.