Nicole Tichenor Blackstone
@nt_blackstone
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Asst. Professor at @TuftsNutrition working on food systems, sustainability, policy, and social justice.
Massachusetts, USA
Joined September 2018
Our research is a call to action for more, and more transparent LCA data to support the development of a #sustainable #cultivatedmeat sector.
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Our life cycle inventory data, which are appropriate to use for R&D scale processes, are available here: https://t.co/SY5KHCsn8g There is currently NO life cycle inventory data publicly-available for commercial scale growth factors for #cultivatedmeat.
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Despite being used in small amounts, growth factors may have significant environmental impacts. Our paper is currently freely accessible here:
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📣 New paper alert! Our team @TuftsUniversity did an LCA of bench-scale (read: very small scale) recombinant growth factor production for #cultivatedmeat. Here's what we found 🧵
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Labour abuses on fishing vessels require evidence-based, worker-driven solutions. @FT coverage of our continued efforts to stand up a WSR pilot in UK fishing @ciw @TuftsNutrition
ft.com
Supermarkets among groups behind pilot scheme to combat human rights abuses in British fleet
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Forced labor is a huge problem in the US food system. But research from @nt_blackstone @j_decker_sparks points to a solution: "The @FairFoodProgram for produce & #MilkwithDignity for dairy have achieved marked improvements in working conditions for participating operations."
Forced labor is often treated as an overseas problem. New research shows it's not. Over 1/2 of forced labor risk in US food system is in US production-& that exploitation has a legacy that connects chattel slavery to current guest worker programs https://t.co/mJEoN0PiJi
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NEW: The FTC should examine high egg prices for signs of price gouging from top egg companies, argues a farm group. Egg prices are up 138%. At top egg producer Cal-Maine - which has 20% market share - gross profits are up more than 600%. My latest: https://t.co/vwS9Q1OESN
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What does consuming alternative protein sources mean for global nutrition, sustainability, & policy? Read the new publication from @NASEM_Health #FoodForum - #AlternativeProtein Sources: Balancing Food Innovation, #Sustainability, #Nutrition, Health:
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One more time, with feeling! 👏 Not to mention the specialty crop lobby opposes direct subsidies, so the idea is a non-starter anyway...
There is a zombie idea that just won't die and I am going to kill it with math. If we put all our crop subsidies into fruit & veg, it WOULD NOT change the way Americans eat ONE IOTA. Ok, maybe ONE iota, but not TWO. Here's why, and it's MATH. A cranky 🧵
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Nutrition researchers - do you want to see more on #sustainability at #ASN2023 in Boston next year? Please upvote our proposed session idea on "Truly Sustainable Diets: Integrating Health, Environment, Economic and Social Measures of Success" at
nutrition.org
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Just finished my favorite week of my ag class - farmers and farm workers. We talk about organizing for justice and the successes of @ciw, @FairFoodProgram and @MigrantJustice. Effective models that center workers for #FoodSystems transformation!
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OMG
The #PlatteRiver is almost entirely dry downstream of Kearney, NE. Almost all of Nebraska is in #drought with over a third in extreme or worse condition. #NEwx Photos by @UNL photographer Craig Chandler.
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Meant to include my co-lead @j_decker_sparks
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There are a lot of reasons, but one of them is lack of data. We are trying to start to fix that. But the bottom line is the public, scientists, and advocates need access to trade data to make progress @CBP. This would be a tremendous setback. 3/3
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One example: our team found that a shocking number of fruits and vegetables consumed in the US have have a high risk of forced labor in their production ( https://t.co/76euYw8pDl). But yet, no one in the food space really talks about this. Why? 2/3
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This is completely outrageous. As someone who has spent the last few years co-leading a team to try to make use of the already sparse data on forced labor in food value chains, I can tell you we need MORE data and transparency. 1/3 https://t.co/1Atu2Urf2A
apnews.com
A group of major U.S. businesses wants the government to hide key import data -- a move trade experts say would make it more difficult for Americans to link the products they buy to labor abuse...
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To inform nutrition and equity efforts in our communities and society, @TuftsNutrition will hire two faculty members, including a chair for the Division of Nutrition Interventions, Communication, and Behavior Change (NICBC). Contact me by email. Details: https://t.co/nfdkTZOn8d.
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Proud of @NikkhahAmin for winning the best dissertation award from @Foods_MDPI! We are lucky to have you @TuftsNutrition working on our #LASTING and #cellag projects! https://t.co/GsXWw0oTHf
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Today the Milk with Dignity Program celebrates five years of bringing human rights to the dairy industry. Five years ago today, dairy workers and the CEO of @benandjerrys stood together to announce "a new day for the dairy industry." 🧵
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