Undercover Videos, Vegan Supermarket Fantasies, and A Water Fight Nobody Asked For | Rising Anxieties

Animal abuse industry PR groups are suddenly very worried about undercover investigations targeting retailers instead of farms, a Brazilian trade show imagined a vegan supermarket with no bread (checks notes: vegan bread abounds), and a Wisconsin dairy program is teaching kids about cows via “virtual escape rooms.” Also: Congress “fixed” school milk access, USDA quietly un-fixed it, and somehow bird flu is now a trade negotiation.

• Animal Agriculture Alliance writers sound the alarm that undercover campaigns are shifting focus from farms to retail brands like Costco — treating “allegedly” like a magic word
• A Brazilian trade group staged a vegan supermarket stunt to mock plant-based shopping, but got basic facts about pasta, beer, candy, and pretty much everything else wrong
• New federal law was supposed to expand non-dairy milk access in schools, but USDA rules left the provision unfunded and unimplemented
• Wisconsin’s “Adopt a Cow” classroom program is quietly reshaping kids’ trust in dairy farming through propaganda
• Bird flu vaccination could stop the ongoing poultry crisis, but the US won’t do it because trading partners threaten to cut off poultry exports 

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