Air quality-related health damages of food.
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The collection of discussions strongly supports the article’s findings, with many citing studies estimating thousands of deaths annually due to food-related air pollution, especially from animal agriculture. The tone varies from factual reporting to activism, with examples like the mention of 17,900 deaths in the US and the suggestion that dietary shifts could save thousands of lives, reflecting high engagement, interest, and perceived impact.
Most discussions support the findings, emphasizing the significant health impacts of agricultural pollution and endorsing dietary shifts.
Posts demonstrate high interest, referencing multiple studies, statistics, and policy debates, indicating engagement with the subject matter.
There is deep engagement, with users sharing detailed summaries, criticizing industry manipulation, and discussing potential policy solutions.
Discussions highlight the importance and potential impact of changing food production and consumption habits to improve public health and environmental outcomes.
Abstract in brief
- Agriculture significantly contributes to air pollution and is a major environmental risk factor for mortality worldwide and in the U.S.
- The study estimates that U.S. agriculture causes approximately 17,900 deaths annually due to air quality-related health damages, mostly from food production, with animal-based foods contributing substantially.
- Strategies such as on-farm interventions, improved waste management, and dietary shifts toward plant-based foods could potentially reduce agricultural air pollution-related deaths by up to 83%.
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Most liked on X and Bluesky@SaysJax You fall for every animal industry pushed piece of propaganda, don’t you? Watch fr 7:25
9 Surtout, il omet celui sur la pollution de l’air, dont on peut penser que celle-ci génère des milliers de morts (cf cette étude américaine) : https://t.co/TFg6OEQf6r
Our paper "Air quality–related health damages of food" in @PNASNews is discussed in Ep. 1 "Food" of @netflix's "The G Word". Thank you, @adamconover, @BarackObama and @MichelleObama for covering our research. Our paper https://t.co/dgM1n9ffHF The episode https://t.co/8MHzR8GYTJ
Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/PpNyEff8B9 "Agricultural production in the United States results in 17,900 annual air quality–related deaths, 15,900 of which are from food production. Of those, 80% are attributable to animal-based foods" https://t.co/R0hMdODEE6
“It’s encouraging to see that the sorts of changes that we can make for our own health can benefit the health of others.” New article by @DrShaena of @PopSci on "Air Quality-Related Health Damages of Food" in @PNASNews. https://t.co/lVAvJ1e5WJ
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PNAS report: https://t.co/SvHQFz6BaZ
Pourquoi la viande coûte-t-elle si (peu) cher ? https://t.co/gwJnNQyiYs via @YouTube
@Vespertilloo Culturel que de vouloir continuer un élevage plus marginal et du coup plus difficilement accessible, en plus du fait que même tué marginalement c'est toujours un individu tué alors qu'on peut manger autre chose https://t.co/MCFfqi4jRq
Un steak à 2€, ça n’existe pas https://t.co/bnQjRN2cXC via @YouTube
RT @mareebasse: Un steak à 2€, ça n’existe pas ! on paie la différence via subventions, pollution de l’air, climat et coûts sociaux... Ce…
Un steak à 2€, ça n’existe pas ! on paie la différence via subventions, pollution de l’air, climat et coûts sociaux... Ce décryptage explique pourquoi la viande est artificiellement bon marché et pourquoi le végétal paraît plus cher... @L214 https://t.co/YFMtAlSBLa
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https://t.co/uaz33STgx8 Le monopole agricole des lobbys et la fnsea, et leur techniques de manipulations politiques, médiatiques. sans parler des intimidations, dégradations, etc, face à tous ceux qui ne soutiennent pas leur modèle.
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9/ Cette étude américaine, aussi publiée dans PNAS, montre les émissions sont stables dans le secteur agricole, alors qu’elles décroissent dans les autres secteurs comment l’énergie ou le transport https://t.co/TFg6OEQf6r
7/ Cette étude, publiée dans PNAS, estime que l’élevage génère 12,700 décès par an aux Etats-Unis via la pollution de l’air. C’est considérable, évidemment. https://t.co/TFg6OEQf6r
@LucianTritt @norfolkandspain Garbage "research" from the Malthusian depopulationists of the Club of Rome. Spewed out without question by @sarahkaplan48 of the globalist Washington Post (owned by Bezos and his banking oligarchy) https://t.co/VAQyVty1G4 https://t.co/mL4ISHRKlO
Air quality-related health damages of food https://t.co/YHovvL57pw
https://t.co/5LcjuMkyEG 13% of ALL air pollution deaths in the US may come from animal agriculture. That's insane. One reason it's so high is because in developed countries we grow tons of crops just to feed them to farm animals. #pollution #airpollution #factoryfarming https://t.co/cCSbIrYWEj
RT @Evolving_Richie: https://t.co/NMkCMoburI Most people don't realise that air pollution has a huge impact on your health, even in develop…
https://t.co/NMkCMoburI Most people don't realise that air pollution has a huge impact on your health, even in developed countries. Even fewer people know that up to 80% of air pollution deaths from food production come from animal products. https://t.co/sxJrOnjA4Z
@MercyForAnimals @Salon US chicken farms also produce a ton of air pollution, linked to several thousand deaths a year: https://t.co/Tqrrlc7AoI
@RexWoods11 @donororgans Debunked nonsense. Watch fr ~7:00➡️ re #Quinoa https://t.co/o4lvo83pG3
La producción ganadera industrial representa un tercio de la enorme huella hídrica de la agricultura en un momento en que la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) advierte de una escasez extrema de agua para 2025. https://t.co/MH4u5yemTZ https://t.co/gWs59HfOzY
@AxiomOrca @Kizwiz6 @S_Catsgotmyback Air Pollution study 10,700 to 13,100 deaths per year COULD BE avoided by shifting to vegetarian or vegan diets. (Known deaths) By ditching meat & dairy, eliminating animal ag bail outs, ending buyback programs, cutting the checkoff programs... https://t.co/ZfBHfmG0H0
@AxiomOrca @Kizwiz6 @S_Catsgotmyback Air Pollution study. 10,700 to 13,100 deaths per year could be avoided by shifting to vegetarian or vegan diets. As well as other health benefits: reduced risk of ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, & obesity. https://t.co/ZfBHfmG0H0
Is being white and vegan racist? https://t.co/BplFU9B35h via @YouTube
@SaysJax You fall for every animal industry pushed piece of propaganda, don’t you? Watch fr 7:25
Is being white and vegan racist? https://t.co/YgY3NvlLPq via @YouTube
Is being white and vegan racist? https://t.co/BDLZvQkvvH via @YouTube
Is being white and vegan racist? https://t.co/jTWYdx8fTs via @YouTube Listen to this
Is being white and vegan racist? https://t.co/iCigiQTud7 via @YouTube
This complements earlier work on air pollution and food... for the US: @_ninadomingo @jdhill @ctessum https://t.co/dLNo10xb6Z and for the EU: @trialsolution @iperezdom https://t.co/JTGhfhtZPe ...
5/ Same pattern in the US, cf this PNAS paper. Emissions are stable in agriculture, while they tend to decrease in energy, manufacturing and transportation sectors https://t.co/TFg6OEQf6r https://t.co/3aAp4rXLiJ
@NickCowern @gordon_struth @ryankatzrosene https://t.co/dYRatEpSJr https://t.co/oNLfnShT4L
RT @palmerova: Air quality–related health damages of food | PNAS https://t.co/EVTanw8Img
Air quality–related health damages of food | PNAS https://t.co/EVTanw8Img
RT @Treich13: Voir par exemple cette étude estimant 13000 décès/an aux USA par la pollution de l’air induite par l’élevage (pas d’études su…
Voir par exemple cette étude estimant 13000 décès/an aux USA par la pollution de l’air induite par l’élevage (pas d’études sur la mortalité en France à ma connaissance) : https://t.co/TFg6OEQf6r
@GionoH @Treich13 "Agriculture is a major contributor to air pollution, the largest environmental risk factor for mortality in the US & worldwide (...) Dietary shifts toward more plant-based foods (...) could reduce agricultural air quality–related mortality by 68 to 83%". https://t.co/jlq3zDTyY0
9 Surtout, il omet celui sur la pollution de l’air, dont on peut penser que celle-ci génère des milliers de morts (cf cette étude américaine) : https://t.co/TFg6OEQf6r
RT @ExtinctionR: "Even greater benefits of 10,700 to 13,100 deaths prevented per year (68 to 83%) could be achieved from more ambitious shi…
RT @ExtinctionR: "Even greater benefits of 10,700 to 13,100 deaths prevented per year (68 to 83%) could be achieved from more ambitious shi…
RT @ExtinctionR: "Even greater benefits of 10,700 to 13,100 deaths prevented per year (68 to 83%) could be achieved from more ambitious shi…
"Even greater benefits of 10,700 to 13,100 deaths prevented per year (68 to 83%) could be achieved from more ambitious shifts to vegetarian, vegan, or flexitarian diets such as the planetary health diet of the EAT-Lancet Commission." https://t.co/F97RfFd1v4
@TheDisproof @DailyCaller Also: "Agriculture is a major contributor to air pollution, the largest environmental risk factor for mortality in the US & worldwide." Switching to/towards plant-based diets would significantly reduce air pollution mortality too https://t.co/jlq3zDTyY0 https://t.co/Y3ZKntalFz
Comunque conferma su scala globale un paper simile sugli USA di @_ninadomingo et al. Univ. Minnesota - in open access. (2/2) https://t.co/9veRzFI2vY
@josephmjauregui bajas el riesgo de enfermedades zoonóticas y la contaminación del aire que es otro gran factor de mortalidad. https://t.co/W5OwZ5tL3r https://t.co/B5UIFBzD99 https://t.co/fAsJX6IlX0
RT @matthewhayek: The authors also left out important metrics too from what they claim are "cumulative" environmental impacts, like respira…
The authors also left out important metrics too from what they claim are "cumulative" environmental impacts, like respiratory illness from pollution. This causes 10s of thousands of deaths in US and China. 9/ https://t.co/efnWv7NUEW https://t.co/XmUNlwII14
Graph from https://t.co/jlq3zDU6Ny
@BitGLEAM According to a recent study, the livestock industry's air pollution is responsible for more than 12,700 deaths per year — more deaths than are attributed to coal-fired power plants. https://t.co/H2bfqj4CuN
RT @jdhill: Our paper "Air quality–related health damages of food" in @PNASNews is discussed in Ep. 1 "Food" of @netflix's "The G Word". T…
RT @jdhill: Our paper "Air quality–related health damages of food" in @PNASNews is discussed in Ep. 1 "Food" of @netflix's "The G Word". T…
RT @jdhill: Our paper "Air quality–related health damages of food" in @PNASNews is discussed in Ep. 1 "Food" of @netflix's "The G Word". T…
RT @jdhill: Our paper "Air quality–related health damages of food" in @PNASNews is discussed in Ep. 1 "Food" of @netflix's "The G Word". T…
RT @jdhill: Our paper "Air quality–related health damages of food" in @PNASNews is discussed in Ep. 1 "Food" of @netflix's "The G Word". T…
Our paper "Air quality–related health damages of food" in @PNASNews is discussed in Ep. 1 "Food" of @netflix's "The G Word". Thank you, @adamconover, @BarackObama and @MichelleObama for covering our research. Our paper https://t.co/dgM1n9ffHF The episode https://t.co/8MHzR8GYTJ
@StevenMBelknap @F_Mariotti_FR @mvmntcoach @kevinnbass Ah, you've focused on health. But not, for instance, on one of the top killers in the US and globally? https://t.co/SmYyHEgyaq https://t.co/hhbvtnnGyD
@DrBeefBabe A similar pattern here with diet related air pollution https://t.co/EbYPGBESmK
RT @NanciGuestRDPhD: @RealHaraldJezek Plant produce waste not even close to the dangers of #toxic #livestock waste releasing #ammonia, nitr…
RT @NanciGuestRDPhD: @RealHaraldJezek Plant produce waste not even close to the dangers of #toxic #livestock waste releasing #ammonia, nitr…
RT @NanciGuestRDPhD: @RealHaraldJezek Plant produce waste not even close to the dangers of #toxic #livestock waste releasing #ammonia, nitr…
@RealHaraldJezek Plant produce waste not even close to the dangers of #toxic #livestock waste releasing #ammonia, nitric oxide, other☠️gases... this #directly causes 10s of 1000s of deaths annually in #US alone! https://t.co/d9keIEoDAR Several studies on this. Must eat fewer animals, period. https://t.co/NnqyTMdW6B
Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/K6ZtvhgGnj
RT @PAN_Int: #Agriculture is one of 6 key sectors contributing to #air #pollution in Europe. A 2021 study estimated 15,900 annual premature…
#Agriculture is one of 6 key sectors contributing to #air #pollution in Europe. A 2021 study estimated 15,900 annual premature deaths from food-related PM2.5 emissions in the US, 80% could be attributed to animal production. https://t.co/mSVybLREOr
RT @jdhill: Please RT: My coauthors and I have received numerous requests for the county-level data (deaths caused per commodity) in our pa…
Please RT: My coauthors and I have received numerous requests for the county-level data (deaths caused per commodity) in our paper "Air quality related health damages of food." (https://t.co/ca07CmazkN). We've posted the data here: https://t.co/qNySlaBCrc. A sample query follows.
Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/7od1v28JQg
RT @jdhill: Our paper "Air Quality-Related Health Damages of Food" is a "Top Story" on @PNASNews's "PNAS in the News" page!
Our paper "Air Quality-Related Health Damages of Food" is a "Top Story" on @PNASNews's "PNAS in the News" page!
Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/KMwEqCmV27
@MiaFarrow The paper, "Air quality-related health damages of food," in @PNASNews is available online to the public for free here: https://t.co/ca07ClSYtf
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Air quality–related health damages of food "Dietary shifts toward more plant-based foods that maintain protein intake and other nutritional needs could reduce agricultural air quality–related mortality by 68 to 83%." https://t.co/O0uZUFqgLq https://t.co/RY3p39MGMQ
Air quality–related health damages of food "Dietary shifts toward more plant-based foods that maintain protein intake and other nutritional needs could reduce agricultural air quality–related mortality by 68 to 83%." https://t.co/MS4axPrxc6
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RT @pquirion1: Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/PpNyEff8B9 "Agricultural production in the United States results in…
Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/e5KF1JqG9C
Issus de : Air quality–related health damages of food, N. G. G. Domingo et al., PNAS (2021) https://t.co/Snd2iTokc1
RT @jdhill: “It’s encouraging to see that the sorts of changes that we can make for our own health can benefit the health of others.” New a…
“It’s encouraging to see that the sorts of changes that we can make for our own health can benefit the health of others.” New article by @DrShaena of @PopSci on "Air Quality-Related Health Damages of Food" in @PNASNews. https://t.co/lVAvJ1e5WJ
Air quality–related health damages of food | PNAS. Curious how this compares to the situation in densely populated NL @estherouwehand https://t.co/YmXXOyHqrj
Allen Robinson, Peter Adams, & other CMU researchers were part of these #CACES findings: Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/KAAK74x8t4
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RT @DocteurJuneau: Effets néfastes de l'élevage , fertilisants etc sur la santé: Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/E…
Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/PpNyEff8B9 "Agricultural production in the United States results in 17,900 annual air quality–related deaths, 15,900 of which are from food production. Of those, 80% are attributable to animal-based foods" https://t.co/R0hMdODEE6
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Effets néfastes de l'élevage , fertilisants etc sur la santé: Air quality–related health damages of food https://t.co/EGev2RnXrs
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Air quality–related health damages of food | PNAS #SmartNews https://t.co/vrlZNELJj4
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Air quality–related health damages of #food | PNAS https://t.co/qexAfoIk99
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https://t.co/PgreyAf6wB The study in question. Pretty sound and sombering stuff. https://t.co/HSQmvZrDgp
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