Thread by @DMDent

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB Patently FALSE.
FACTS
1.Cattle herd Brazil increased as deforestation decreased.
2.Very little feed 4 cattle.
3.90% Brazil's cattle pasture fed & beef production can be increased reducing emissions via such without deforestation (de Silva et al)
4.63% soya UK human use little👇

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB little cattle (Sus Food Trust)
5. Much cattle feed waste(FAO confirmed) as is pig feed but Oatly know all about that massive crop waste unsuitable human use
6. Pig/poultry main soya feed use: reason China losing 1.5 mill hectares yr pasture for tech, fast fashion etc 👇

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB consumerist industrialization, This is why it is pseudoscientific deceit to talk about 'food systems' isolated from other consumerism, which causes pasture loss & need for soya feed for pigs etc & of course some of that consumerism is DUE to move away from leather, wool etc co 👇

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB produce.
7. Co produce as barrier to land exploitation for alternatives such as palm oil as well as fast fashion colossal repeat production/waste because not durable, &
8. Pasture/grassland/marginal land unsuitable for crops
SHARED robust biodiversity historically proven whereas

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB monocrops associated with huge biodiversity loss because of pesticides etc and do NOT produce significant co produce, so MORE land/resources including crude oil for synthetics produced with coal powered electricity, & pure textile crops that in case of cotton have wiped out 24

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB species Aral sea and drained an entire sea in 20 yrs something millennia of wool has not. So pressure on land use must consider ALL consumerism including energy/mining/fossil fuel use, insulating capabilities durability etc & its impact on biodiversity. The energy for
such

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB production of synthetics is significant and alternatives to coal etc also engaged in significant deforestation. Mining also of course also includes mining for chemical fertilizer for crops.
9. Claims that sheep responsible for deforested landscape in UK outrageous historical

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB revisionism and again by contrast areas of sheep/cattle without crops the forests are still there millenia later as in case Balkans/Turkey. Serbia in partic contrast re biodiversity/forest pastoral south v crop north stark. Cultivation (as evidence by lynchets) & dwelling/ship

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB building UK millenia problem re timber, as well as Roman crop demands. By time Normans arrived Britain already significant deforested & for cultivation *taxed on it) not livestock (a reason gladiators were called 'barley men' & diets of all their enslaved & peasant class grain.

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB 10. Much deforestation has been for plantation crops, sugar, rubber, palm as mentioned, but also exotic fruits.
No wonder the big food corporates like Nestle are pushing plant based diets esp re sugar & palm. For most giving up sugar v meat/dairy a no brainer nutrition wise

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB Planation crops of course long been associated with slavery they didn't ship slaves from Africa to be cowboys. Today is no different. Then there was the mega rice project, destroyed an area of forest size of Belgium & Indonesia embark on similarly destructive plan now re crop ag

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB for plantation crops rather than sustainable local food yields, transmigrant plan failing thus AGAIN increasing soya imports to feed, and again WEF already engaged with H&M fast fashion, & Michelin rubber, now implicated with IKEA engaged in deforestation for timber for plywood

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB So much for the WWF attempt to blame meat, while working with these major unsustainable corporates (IKEA broke model of sustainable furniture & H&M sustainable fashion). Indonesia's policy of plant based diets re an already undernourished populace while pushing plantation ag for

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB export is what is CAUSING them to be the worlds biggest deforester & WWF focused on producing mickey mouse data through fraudulent accountancy & greenwashing the corporates engaged real causes.
Now lets look exotic fruit & nut plantation crops

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB So you have cashew nuts a major new problem in Africa, and even areas finger pointing at livestock occurring actually crops are doing more damage. Come back to that point 11. Then coconuts, of course being driven partly by alternative to dairy demands

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB Do we really need bananas & pineapple imports out of season? Nutritional value next to meat/dairy is poor. You'd have to eat 30 bananas to get same protein as 100gms beef. So encouraging massive plantation use via plant based diet push will exacerbate problems re plantation crops

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB 11. Subsistence crops. One of the fastest deforestation rates currently is the Congo, where meat consumption <7kgs pr yr pp, and only 300k cattle. The problem there is SUBSISTENCE agriculture. Reason being forest soil is poor & easily exhausted so commits to more, and at the rate

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB of deforestation it will all be gone by 2100. Livestock could not only provide an answer to this, but also reduce conflict in the region, reduce bushmeat stress, AND provide surplus like leather & ankole horn, sheep & goatskin etc for livelihoods in one of world poorest nations.

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB Conclusion: current anti meat/dairy narrative nothing more than deflection & diversion from global corporates, WEF funded 'science' conspiring, keen to use it as further spivvery. Oatly one of those engaged & could not hide fact that

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB they have massive waste used on sly for animal feed. Animal produce, is NOT just meat/dairy, and some of the solutions they offer do NOT involve deforestation & indeed return to tallow wool leather etc can significantly reduce it, & feed with cultural & economic autonomy v

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB the slavery and corporate attempt to dominate food with pseudoscientific constructions such as 'food systems' and false accountancy. How Global Corporatism does this through funding science, partic Gates, Wellcome & Grantham are explored in the following threads

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB It is nothing more than food imperialism, and excuse for land and resources grab, and it WILL compromise the reputation of both science & media unless it is confronted as the people already can see its Orwellian doublethink. And it is on other issues eg Covid, as well as

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB food. So first up here's Our World in Data, funded by Gates, pushing the narrative his fake meat is the answer to the world's solutions , and using
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@oatly @CotswoldLadyB a false narrative to claim livestock are reason over 100k yrs (didn't exist until c 10k ago) earth has lost much large mammal biodiversity . Here is why that's wrong & indeed ag largely response to disappearance not a cause, & growth of forest contributing threadreaderapp.com/thread/1385208…

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB Now others with snouts in the Gates trough inc BBC. Guardian newspaper, and significant academic lackeys

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB Now Wellcome, engaged in the plant based diet push before they even funded EATLancet

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB Then billionaire elitist who thinks Africa overpopulated, funder of WWF & Grantham institute lackey academics Jeremy Grantham. BUt first @StephenCorrySvl of Survival International explains why the WWF/WEF narrative is wrong . If you find yourself supporting shits like Grantham &

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB @StephenCorrySvl & WWF (Grantham big funder of them) & think yourself woke you need to slap yourself to wake from your delusion: blatant racist imperialism excuse conservation. He also funds drivel masquerading as science why we should farm trees not sheep: invested in woo/forestry I kid you not.

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB @StephenCorrySvl Davos in general working with the WWF who are utterly compromised by their money and excusing global corporate plunder of resources & using indigenous people & livestock farmers who do most to protect it as a scapegoat. Vile ecofascists. Then finally

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB @StephenCorrySvl threads on why looking at livestock as just food is complete FRAUD re co produce & land use

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB @StephenCorrySvl threadreaderapp.com/thread/1386489…

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB @StephenCorrySvl Why forests may NOT be an answer anyway

@oatly @CotswoldLadyB @StephenCorrySvl And a thread by scientist @fleroy1974 on the abuse of data re emissions of livestock