If #SDGs are meant to save earth from industrial destruction, why was the ex-CEO of Unilever (producer of ultraprocessed foods) among its designers on the "UN High-Level Panel of eminent persons"? Not to mention sharks like Podesta & Cameron?
And WHY has the @UN signed a strategic partnership, to meet the #SDGs, with the greatest predators of them all: the elites of the corporate system represented by the @wef? Because they expect that the world's largest polluters can be "converted"? Or...🤔
Or what Chatterjee & Finger have identified as one of the 'worst examples of Northern development strategy' and 'biggest contributors to cultural and environmental destruction in the South', already during the UN 1992 conference in Rio. amazon.com/Earth-Brokers-…
Let me once more - sorry if I insist - refer to this @aleph2020 post. It is dense and a difficult read. But please do the effort, this is crucial to understand where all of this is heading. #DavosAgenda
To sum up: @BorisJohnson thinks that the poor should eat less meat and drink less milk. Stuff them with protein extract/oil/starch mixtures instead; microsize agriculture, while we're at it. What could go wrong? dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
"It suggests families should move away from meat and dairy, helping to reduce livestock numbers, by choosing 'plant-based options' – and one day even meat grown in a laboratory."
Enjoy your meal, Britain!
The idea was already "on the table" in 1969. A Rockefeller commission urging for a dietary shift 'away from consumption of animal livestock towards vegetables and synthetic meats' and 'a closed system of agriculture - food from factories'
I applaud the #EUCancerPlan *BUT* caution: putting #meat 🥩 (a nourishing, evolutionary food) in the same box as 🚬 to solve a contemporary health challenge, would be basing policy on assumptions rather than robust data.
1/ Granted, some studies have pointed to ASSOCIATIONS of HIGH intake of red & processed meats with (slightly!) increased colorectal cancer incidence. Also, @WHO/IARC is often mentioned in support (usually hyperbolically so).
But, let’s have a closer look at all this! 🔍
2/ First, meat being “associated” with cancer is very different from stating that meat CAUSES cancer.
Unwarranted use of causal language is widespread in nutritional sciences, posing a systemic problem & undermining credibility. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Not "processed", but "ultraprocessed". Very different thing.
Nobody argues that processing is bad, on the contrary - it's pretty useful. The fact is that these "planty meats" are concoctions of protein extracts, refined oils, starches, additives, etc. No "plants" to be seen.
Ultra-processed foods are typically generated by transnational corporations 'to create branded, convenient (durable, ready-to-consume), attractive (hyper-palatable) and highly profitable (low-cost ingredients) food products often designed to displace all other food groups'
Calls for a 50-% reduction of beef and lamb consumption by 2030 and a phasing out (!!) of by 2050 in the UK FIRES report, written by a team from six British universities and funded (£5m) by the UK government to meet its legal 'net-zero' target by 2050.