#Misinformation - the tools that the bar stewards use

A leaked document seen by the climate website #DeSmog reveals that helping to fuel this was a PR firm, #RedFlag, represented the Animal Agriculture Alliance, a meat and dairy industry coalition set up to protect the sector against “emerging threats”, which has staff from #Cargill and #Smithfield Foods – two of the world’s five largest meat companies – on its board.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet

Instead of Meat, could the Market sell something else?
Or are they going to turn it into 'luxury flats' so you can sleep where carcasses of meat used to be piled?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/27/an-emotional-wrench-smithfield-traders-absorb-news-that-market-is-to-close

#BBCNews - London's 850-year-old food markets to close
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje050wz22qo
#Smithfield

Wow no London #Billingsgate or #Smithfield markets anymore. Not clear why this is changing now after hundreds of years - no back story on the #BBC news either!

30 July 1540: Robert Barnes, leading #English Lutheran burnt at #Smithfield #otd with two others at same time as three Catholics were hanged, drawn & quartered (eebo)

Even handed Henry.

Martin Luther was very shocked.

22 July 1575: John Foxe martyrologist is present #otd at the burning of two Anabaptists at #Smithfield #otd - he'd tried to persuade them to abandon their belief (BM)

https://youtu.be/Fg3HcSyfQq8?si=bUmYane4bwZ9YzIb

#Tyson and #Smithfield are among the several reasons I don't eat meat, but hearing what they have done to the #pork and #chicken industries, and to the #farmers, would keep me from eating their products even if I still ate the #meat
itself.

How Tyson Captured All The Pork You Eat (And Made Billions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg3HcSyfQq8

30 Apr 1399: William Sawtre(y) Lollard priest goes on trial before Bishop Despenser of #Norwich #otd accused of 10 heretical opinions. Having recanted & then relapsed, he was burnt at #Smithfield #London in early Mar 1401

30 Apr 1532: James Bainham lawyer & #Protestant martyr burnt at #Smithfield #otd He allegedly declared the flames to be as a bed of roses to him.

29 Apr 1532: Hugh Latimer, Ralph Morice (Thomas Cromwell's secretary) & others visit James Bainham lawyer & #Protestant who would be burnt at #Smithfield the next day. Latimer did not realise, of course, that he would suffer the identical fate 23 years later... (CCC)

How the Museum of London is packing up its huge collection as it moves to its new home in Smithfield.

@BBCLondonNews

8 Feb 1532: James Bainham, evangelical lawyer, abjures his heretical/evangelical beliefs #otd after a spell of torture in the Tower of #London.

Burnt at #Smithfield 27 Apr 1532. He allegedly declared the flames to be as a bed of roses to him.

"Do you recognise me?" - a poster for a found cat seen in the Smithfield-Stoneybatter area.

5 Feb 1526: Robert Barnes #Lutheran arrested by Cardinal Wolsey's sargeant-at-arms #otd Burnt at #Smithfield 1540 with two others at same time as three Catholics were hanged, drawn & quartered (eebo)

Even handed Henry. Martin Luther was very shocked.

22 Jan 1555: John Rogers biblical editor goes on trial before Bishop Stephen Gardiner and the Privy Council #otd He was burnt at the stake at #Smithfield on 1 Feb 1555 (BM)

19 Jan 1693: James Whitney highwayman & #Jacobite tried & convicted #otd
Then reprieved on 27 Jan ... but then hanged on 1 Feb at #Smithfield bars (eebo)

If you stare into long enough into the sausage machine, the sausage machine stares back at you.

Try not to become a #sausage.

Free music in Smithfield this weekend #fleadh #smithfield #dublin