Brigitte Wear
Investigative researcher @desmog.bsky.social | Data, OSINT, supply chains | Paris, she/her.
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🐟 NEW 🐟 Salmon giant Mowi is a market leader in Scotland, where it operates 48 farms in ‘cold and clear’ Highland waters But locals & fishers living nr several sites complain of ‘invasive’ noise & smells, and say the company just doesn’t ‘give a damn' @brigitte-whl.bsky.social for @desmog.com👇
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs. with @desmog.com
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NEW 🔴 ‘They Don’t Give A Damn’: Scotland’s Highland Communities Tire of Charm Offensive by ‘Polluting’ Salmon Giant Mowi 📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/12/16/t...
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs. with @desmog.com
- Mowi produces > 1/5th of the world’s farmed salmon and plans to grow globally by producing 600,000 tonnes of salmon a year in 2029, up 20% from current levels. In Scotland, Mowi produces a third of the country’s salmon, and is planning to expand.
- We found that, to treat sea lice infestations, Mowi exceeded the authorised limits for the use of toxic pesticides seven times in one month. Local fishers say the velvet crabs they catch are “pretty much extinct” around salmon farms.
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View full threadRead the full story and Mowi’s responses here: www.desmog.com/2025/12/16/t...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearFor months, I analysed the campaigns funded through the Enjoy It’s from Europe programme. What I found is striking: 1/3 of the campaigns promote exclusively meat and dairy and dozens of them present intensive livestock farming as environmentally friendly Read my full investigation on @desmog.com
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NEW 🔴 Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🚨New: At COP30, the pesticide industry has been making big pledges to fight deforestation by turning Brazil's over-grazed pasturelands into new areas to grow crops. Small-holders fear it's all just a ploy to sell more of the toxic chemicals poisoning nature and harming human health. buff.ly/Yc8qocr
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NEW 🔴 In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds 📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social Published in partnership with @apublica.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearDay one at COP30 and my first impression is how directly wealth translates to square meter floorspace and flashy screens at the summit Here is the pavilion for Malawi vs the pavilion for the UK 1/
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearPlans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year. Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data. ✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’ Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearAt next week’s COP30, “Food & farming companies will claim agriculture is part of the solution to the climate crisis … even though food drives a third of global warming”… see here the 8 big ag green washing terms to watch out for.
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇 📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearI spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to! My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 Le fabricant du sucre Daddy au cœur d'une vaste contamination aux PFAS Des champs de betteraves aux usines du groupe Cristal Union, les polluants éternels sont présents sur toute la chaîne de production Révélations @disclosengo.bsky.social et @france3ca.bsky.social disclose.ngo/fr/article/p...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearPay no attention to the 580 diesel generators that can produce enough energy for 3 million homes behind the curtain... Oh, and did I mention this data centre is part-owned by a Trump-loving billionaire who sat by Starmer at the royal banquet? My 📝 for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/09/25/c...
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse New investigation reveals how farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers rake in millions in subsidies 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NEW 🔴 How Farmed Fish in Dutch Supermarkets Undermines Food Security in West Africa With Hans Wetzels and @remykaller.bsky.social from @ftm.eu, @brigitte-whl.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/09/28/h...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearDéfendue par la loi Duplomb, la réintroduction du neurotoxique en agriculture a été censurée. Cet insecticide demeure toutefois présent dans des produits grand public. ⏰ Rediff. du 12/09/2025 Lire l'article ➡️ l.reporterre.net/W8j
- Reposted by Brigitte WearThe U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring romantic relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. ✍️ My latest for @desmog.com
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear40% of people practice “news avoidance,” according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s “Digital News Report 2025.” Traditional news coverage’s focus on conflict and suffering leaves people feeling depressed and powerless, respondents said, causing many to tune out. buff.ly/0E4hWEy
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🚨 NEW from Drop Site News: Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging. Story by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearData privacy experts say one part *is* legal - Farage's plan to create a master "data fusion centre" to "relentlessly" track, identify and deport these asylum seekers. I reported last week @desmog.com that Labour has legalised DOGE-style data grabs in the UK ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearIrish dairy companies export polluting, ultra-processed, fat-filled milk powder to Senegal, Nigeria, and Ghana. They advertise products that cannot be described as 'milk' in Europe as something healthy and sustainable. New investigation from @desmog.com.web.brid.gy: www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearCheck out the new article by @brigitte-whl.bsky.social linking Irish dairy giants to “mediocre” milk powder in West Africa With @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇
- Just published in collaboration with The Journal and Premium Times our investigation linking Irish dairy giants to “mediocre” milk powder in West Africa With✍️ @phoebecooke.bsky.social, @shaunacorr.bsky.social and Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social
- Reposted by Brigitte WearIrish dairy ‘feeding the world’ we are told. Sustainable, grass fed, green. Government funded. Meanwhile the industry is profiting from selling inferior milk product in West Africa. Insightful analysis from @desmog.com #SpeirGorm
- 🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa 📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearA disturbing DeSmog article on major Irish dairy processors' export of Fat Filled Milk Powder (FFMP) to West Africa, helped by 🇮🇪 tax-payer monies. Local dairy farmers are being displaced by greenwashed, nutritionally-poor FFMP products. FFMP can incl. palm oil etc, it cannot be sold as "milk" in EU.
- 🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa 📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearThese articles really shine a light on what a pile of shite the "we must feed the world at the expense of water quality and emissions" arguments are. The world is being fed rubbish that's undermining local food production too
- 🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa 📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearFat Filled Milk Powder (FFMP) is one of the Irish dairy industry’s largest exports. Almost no one has heard of it because it’s exported mainly to African countries and marketed as milk for its health and sustainability - but it’s made of skimmed milk powder (a byproduct of butter) with palm oil or..
- 🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa 📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🚨NEW 🚨 Thousands in Ireland’s public money spent helping wealthy firms pushing cheap substitute 'milk' in West Africa. Working w/ @desmog.com @premiumtimesng.bsky.social we’ve spent months investigating Irish fat filled milk powder exports - now published here @thejournal.ie 👇 jrnl.ie/6762380
- Reposted by Brigitte Wearw/ @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @desmog.com, Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social & @shaunacorr.bsky.social for @thejournal.ie You can read @premiumtimesng.bsky.social version here: www.premiumtimesng.com/agriculture/...
- Just published in collaboration with The Journal and Premium Times our investigation linking Irish dairy giants to “mediocre” milk powder in West Africa With✍️ @phoebecooke.bsky.social, @shaunacorr.bsky.social and Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social
- Fat-filled milk powder (FFMP) is made from skimmed milk powder (a by-product of butter and cream) and vegetable fats. Irish companies are using social media and influencers to market it as healthy, especially for children. But experts describe it as “nutritionally mediocre” and “low quality”.
- FFMP cannot be described as milk in Europe. Instead, Ireland exports it mostly to West Africa – between 2021-2024, Ireland exported >400,000 tonnes of FFMP to West Africa. Higher priced butter and cream are mostly sent to Europe and the US.
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View full threadAlso published on The Journal and Premium Times jrnl.ie/6762380 www.premiumtimesng.com/agriculture/...
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NEW: How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa 📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social @phoebecooke.bsky.social @shaunacorr.bsky.social with Beloved John @premiumtimesng.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/i...
- Reposted by Brigitte WearIn Ingleside, Texas, chemical companies Yara + Enbridge have launched initiatives touching every aspect of life, from gifting children's schools to running a blood donation drive The reason: they want to build a 'low-carbon' ammonia plant that resident say could cost their health and coastline 🧵
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia buff.ly/yyjJu7K 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @sarasneath.bsky.social in partnership with @texastribune.org
- Reposted by Brigitte WearSea bass sold in UK supermarkets is fuelling food insecurity in Senegal! Senegal’s seas are being overfished to make fishmeal for farmed sea bass, which is then sold as "sustainable". We must end #overfishing — in the UK & everywhere. 🌍🐟 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NOUVEAU 🔴 Enquête : Le bar vendu dans les supermarchés britanniques au cœur d’une surpêche dévastatrice au Sénégal ✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social and @brigitte-whl.bsky.social buff.ly/cT9Vszy
- Aujourd’hui nous publions en français notre investigation en collaboration avec The Guardian! Après 2 ans d'enquête, on établit le lien entre le bar + dorade dans les supermarchés britanniques et la surpêche et dommages sociaux au Sénégal. Avec✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social @desmog.bsky.social
- Également publié dans The Guardian la semaine dernière : www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Nous avons reconstitué cette chaîne d'approvisionnement grâce à plusieurs voyages sur le terrain au Sénégal, à l'analyse des données commerciales et à l'étude des emballages des poissons vendus dans les supermarchés britanniques.
- Nous avons également utilisé des images satellites pour confirmer la propriété des fermes dans le golfe de Güllük.
- Reposted by Brigitte WearThe EU’s largest fertiliser producer, Yara, is quietly relying on fracked shale gas from Texas to power “sustainable” ammonia production Over the last 9 months, we traced Yara’s supply chain from the Permian shale Basin – known as a “carbon bomb” – to fertiliser bags in Europe’s fields 🧵
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Green Goals, Dirty Fuel: Europe’s Fertiliser Industry Bets on Shale 📝 Agathe Bounfour & @clarecarlile.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴REVEALED 🔴 Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch @hazelhealy.bsky.social and @brigitte-whl.bsky.social report ✏️ buff.ly/qOFVBWj
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NEW 🔴 UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch 📝 @hazelhealy.bsky.social & @brigitte-whl.bsky.social
- Reposted by Brigitte WearAn unreal two-year investigation from @brigitte-whl.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social for @desmog.com Showing how a vital food source is being diverted from families in West Africa to produce seabass and seabream for our supermarket shelves Would highly highly recommend reading
- Just published in collaboration with The Guardian our two-year investigation linking Turkish seabass and seabream in UK supermarkets to devastating overfishing and social harms in Senegal! www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r... With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
- Tomorrow we're presenting at Dataharvest on the methods of our two-year supply chain investigation, published yesterday! We explore how to find + analyse trade data, codes on supermarket packaging, and satellite data. with @hazelhealy.bsky.social at 17:15 dataharvest25.sched.com/event/1zv2g
- Reposted by Brigitte WearChris Packham read the investigation the Guardian’s Seascape and DeSmog published today into sea bass on our supermarket shelves. Here is what he had to say. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear*Big* scoop from @brigitte-whl.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social
- Just published in collaboration with The Guardian our two-year investigation linking Turkish seabass and seabream in UK supermarkets to devastating overfishing and social harms in Senegal! www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r... With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
- Reposted by Brigitte WearNEW: Phenomenal two-year investigation from my brilliant @desmog.com colleagues @brigitte-whl.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social Who take us on a journey from Senegalese fish factories, via Turkey’s sea bass & sea bream farms, to Billingsgate fish market and UK supermarket fish counters 👇
- Just published in collaboration with The Guardian our two-year investigation linking Turkish seabass and seabream in UK supermarkets to devastating overfishing and social harms in Senegal! www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r... With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
- Reposted by Brigitte WearHere is the 2-year long investigation by the Guardian and DeSmog into the supply chain behind sea bass on sale in the UK. Reporting by Seascape’s Karen McVeigh, @hazelhealy.bsky.social , @brigitte-whl.bsky.social as well as various journalists on the ground www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Just published in collaboration with The Guardian our two-year investigation linking Turkish seabass and seabream in UK supermarkets to devastating overfishing and social harms in Senegal! www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r... With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social
- Also published on The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- We pieced together this supply chain with multiple field trips to Senegal, analysing trade data, and investigating packaging on fish in UK supermarkets.
- We also used satellite imagery to confirm ownership of farms in the Gulf of Güllük.
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch 📝 @hazelhealy.bsky.social & @brigitte-whl.bsky.social
- Reposted by Brigitte WearWe know industry and PR firms can undermine peer-reviewed science but it’s rare to get this 🪟 into their tactics 🧵 In a newly seen document, Red Flag boasts of its “remarkable success” framing the landmark Eat-Lancet report as “radical”, “out of touch” & “hypocritical” Latest @desmog.bsky.social👇
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report A new document shows that vested interests were behind a “mud slinging” PR campaign to discredit the 2019 EAT-Lancet study. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🔴 NEW 🔴 Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report A new document shows that vested interests were behind a “mud slinging” PR campaign to discredit the 2019 EAT-Lancet study. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
- Reposted by Brigitte Wear🟣 NEW 🟣 The ‘Vested Interests’ on the EU’s Agriculture Committee - Campaigners raise concerns over ‘alarming’ potential conflicts in the powerful political grouping www.desmog.com/2024/12/11/r...
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 We also published two new profiles – Skretting and Cargill Aqua Nutrition – in our industrial aquaculture database for World Fisheries Day today! desmog.com/industrial-a... @desmog.bsky.social A thread on World Fisheries Day!
- 🔵 NEW 🔵 Fish Farming Industry is Using ‘Misleading’ Figures to Downplay its Role in Overfishing, New Research Finds 📝@brigitte-whl.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2024/11/21/f...
- Seafood farming markets itself as sustainable. But intensively reared carnivorous fish like salmon eat other, smaller fish taken from the sea – and their hunger is driving overfishing. New research found farmed salmon eat up to six times their body weight in wild-caught fish before reaching market.
- In fact, carnivorous fish farming consumes more nutrients and calories than it produces – adding strain to our overexploited oceans “What we understand about [the industry] has relied on the most optimistic data” @Jennifer Jacquet “The picture is not as rosy as previous studies led us to believe”.
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View full threadAnd Cargill Aqua Nutrition, the fish feed branch of multinational grain trading giant Cargill. Together with Mowi and Biomar, these feed producers control the majority of the world’s salmon feed. www.desmog.com/cqn/
