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Wen<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misinformation</span></a> - the tools that the bar stewards use</p><p>A leaked document seen by the climate website <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeSmog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSmog</span></a> reveals that helping to fuel this was a PR firm, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RedFlag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedFlag</span></a>, represented the Animal Agriculture Alliance, a meat and dairy industry coalition set up to protect the sector against “emerging threats”, which has staff from <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Cargill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cargill</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> Foods – two of the world’s five largest meat companies – on its board.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/diet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/VestedInterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VestedInterests</span></a></p>
gentlegardener<p>Cold night,spring oven supper on the fly: <br>islay whisky +10% in vintage <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/waterford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waterford</span></a> crystal. <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/carrs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carrs</span></a> crackers +10% <br>Brie +20% <br>traderjoes tarte aux champignons product of france +20%. <br>A wee General Mills maybe us made pizza ?</p><p>Thin mint chocolate Girl Scout cookies baked in USA Hmmm</p><p>Tomorrows <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> pork tenderloin courtesy of its Chinese owner, pork maybe not Virginia </p><p>Grow it gift it share it trade it thrift it. Buy and cellar the good stuff for days like today.</p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Instead of Meat, could the Market sell something else? <br>Or are they going to turn it into 'luxury flats' so you can sleep where carcasses of meat used to be piled?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/27/an-emotional-wrench-smithfield-traders-absorb-news-that-market-is-to-close" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n</span><span class="invisible">ov/27/an-emotional-wrench-smithfield-traders-absorb-news-that-market-is-to-close</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a></p>
Kriszta Satori<p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCNews</span></a> - London's 850-year-old food markets to close<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje050wz22qo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cje050wz</span><span class="invisible">22qo</span></a><br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a></p>
Shephallmassive<p>Wow no London <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Billingsgate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Billingsgate</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> markets anymore. Not clear why this is changing now after hundreds of years - no back story on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> news either!</p>
jdmccafferty<p>30 July 1540: Robert Barnes, leading <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> Lutheran burnt at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> with two others at same time as three Catholics were hanged, drawn &amp; quartered (eebo) </p><p>Even handed Henry. </p><p>Martin Luther was very shocked.</p>
jdmccafferty<p>22 July 1575: John Foxe martyrologist is present <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> at the burning of two Anabaptists at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> - he'd tried to persuade them to abandon their belief (BM)</p>
geographile<p><a href="https://youtu.be/Fg3HcSyfQq8?si=bUmYane4bwZ9YzIb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Fg3HcSyfQq8?si=bUmYan</span><span class="invisible">e4bwZ9YzIb</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Tyson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tyson</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> are among the several reasons I don't eat meat, but hearing what they have done to the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pork</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/chicken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chicken</span></a> industries, and to the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farmers</span></a>, would keep me from eating their products even if I still ate the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meat</span></a> <br>itself.</p>
KinoGhoul<p>How Tyson Captured All The Pork You Eat (And Made Billions) </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg3HcSyfQq8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Fg3HcSyfQq</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/tysonfoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tysonfoods</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smithfield</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/jbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jbs</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/FactoryFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FactoryFarms</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/cafo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cafo</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/moreperfectunion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moreperfectunion</span></a></p>
jdmccafferty<p>30 Apr 1399: William Sawtre(y) Lollard priest goes on trial before Bishop Despenser of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Norwich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Norwich</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> accused of 10 heretical opinions. Having recanted &amp; then relapsed, he was burnt at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> in early Mar 1401</p>
jdmccafferty<p>30 Apr 1532: James Bainham lawyer &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Protestant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protestant</span></a> martyr burnt at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> He allegedly declared the flames to be as a bed of roses to him.</p>
jdmccafferty<p>29 Apr 1532: Hugh Latimer, Ralph Morice (Thomas Cromwell's secretary) &amp; others visit James Bainham lawyer &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Protestant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protestant</span></a> who would be burnt at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> the next day. Latimer did not realise, of course, that he would suffer the identical fate 23 years later... (CCC)</p>
Global Museum<p>How the Museum of London is packing up its huge collection as it moves to its new home in Smithfield.</p><p>@BBCLondonNews</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smithfield</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/londonhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>londonhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/londonfacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>londonfacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/london" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>london</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bbcnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbcnews</span></a></p>
jdmccafferty<p>8 Feb 1532: James Bainham, evangelical lawyer, abjures his heretical/evangelical beliefs <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> after a spell of torture in the Tower of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a>. </p><p>Burnt at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> 27 Apr 1532. He allegedly declared the flames to be as a bed of roses to him.</p>
IanMoore3000<p>"Do you recognise me?" - a poster for a found cat seen in the Smithfield-Stoneybatter area.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LostCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LostCat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LostCats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LostCats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FoundCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoundCat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FoundCats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoundCats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Stoneybatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stoneybatter</span></a></p>
jdmccafferty<p>5 Feb 1526: Robert Barnes <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lutheran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lutheran</span></a> arrested by Cardinal Wolsey's sargeant-at-arms <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> Burnt at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> 1540 with two others at same time as three Catholics were hanged, drawn &amp; quartered (eebo) </p><p>Even handed Henry. Martin Luther was very shocked.</p>
jdmccafferty<p>22 Jan 1555: John Rogers biblical editor goes on trial before Bishop Stephen Gardiner and the Privy Council <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> He was burnt at the stake at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> on 1 Feb 1555 (BM)</p>
jdmccafferty<p>19 Jan 1693: James Whitney highwayman &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Jacobite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jacobite</span></a> tried &amp; convicted <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> <br>Then reprieved on 27 Jan ... but then hanged on 1 Feb at <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> bars (eebo)</p>
Passed Wonder<p>If you stare into long enough into the sausage machine, the sausage machine stares back at you.</p><p>Try not to become a <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/sausage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sausage</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smithfield</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BlackAndWhitePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAndWhitePhotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NightPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NightPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a></p>
Ronan<p>Free music in Smithfield this weekend <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/fleadh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fleadh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/smithfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smithfield</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dublin</span></a></p>