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8 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
😖 This is so 2020 something. At least in the old days, prophets of doom didn't need the "I'm an expert" disclaimer.
But self-hatred seems to be alive and well...
Let's all just auto-destruct?
From that perspective, some would even welcome climate change as the solution rather than the problem, it seems. Strange times....

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6 Feb
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?

Unless...🤔
un.org/sg/en/manageme… Image
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...🤔

weforum.org/press/2019/06/…
This 👇 may turn out to be our era's biggest joke. And a dangerous and bad one too. Image
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6 Feb
Forget insects, eat #rat to save the planet?

h/t @Kenn_FFCI/status ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
If one likes it, that's fine of course. After all, it is not uncommon in some parts of the world, such as Gabon.

In the Philippines, rats are tinned & "sold as STAR meat (rats spelled backwards) in supermarkets"
Even in the part of Flanders where I'm coming from, muskrat was a regional dish. Also known as "water rabbit".
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4 Feb
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'

Here we are!

aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2020/08/ideolo…
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3 Feb
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.

#FollowTheScience yes, but not just part of it!
THREAD👇
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…
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1 Feb
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'
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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30 Jan
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.
Many more examples of interventionist anti-livestock agendas worldwide here: aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2020/10/toward…
aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2020/10/toward…
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