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4 Mar, 10 tweets, 4 min read
💣‼️ “The @FoodSystems summit appears extremely biased in favour of the same actors who have been responsible for the food crisis [...] The @UN [has been urged] to sever the “strategic partnership” with the @WEF"
theguardian.com/global-develop…
"“The @WEF will exploit the @FoodSystems summit to streamline neoliberal globalisation. It will mean that global inequality and corporate monopoly would be sidetracked rather than confronted as the root cause of hunger and extreme poverty"
Background on the Davos #GreatFoodTransformation take-over of the Summit here:

aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2020/08/ideolo…
The world has decided: you're not getting away with this, guys. Expect resistance. Lots of it.
Also here:
+ here:

Fakhri, appointed as special rapporteur [..], has been critical of the market-based solutions put forward by organisations such as AGRA & WEF. [He] has voiced concerns about the prominent role of WEF at the beginning of the summit’s organisation."
genevasolutions.news/climate/human-…
More still: foodsov.org/stop-the-corpo…
This is the "Global Commons Alliance", and these are some of its subclusters, preying on Action Track 2 (chaired by the founder of EAT). A Big Plan for a Small Planet? 🤫
More from @via_campesina
viacampesina.org/en/the-capture…

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1 Mar
Provenza et al: "Some societies are now in the midst of convincing themselves that plant-based faux meat is better than the real thing and that nature is a feeble-minded nitwit compared to the “time-tested wisdom” of Silicon Valley technologies." frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
No New Age fan (I leave the chakra bit to the authors), but this, 👉 YES! "We can come to love & respect life by transforming our utilitarian views of plants & animals merely as sources of food to a reverence for their wide-ranging ecological, economic & social meanings & values"
"A flock in the hands of an 'ecological doctor' can create healthy soil, plants, animals, & food for people in ways that enhance biodiversity, mitigate fires, & sustain local cultures—benefits not considered in life cycle analyses"
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28 Feb
@FructoseNo I'm very familiar with 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇬🇷🇮🇹 diets, also with different traditional & regional cuisines *within* those countries. And I mean *very* familiar. So I have no clue what the bagel & salmon & kiwi are about. Even the tzatziki (or whatever it's supposed to show) looks like a failure.
@FructoseNo If Willett wants to discuss Mediterranean dishes, he can always come over, & I'll show him around Europe. But I have to warn him, there will be no avocado toast & quinoa salad with tofu. And it will NOT look like this:
@FructoseNo But if he would fancy a sandwich, I can take him to Palermo to have a "pane con la milza" (spleen sandwich). Wonderful local snack! It used to be Lucky Luciano's favourite, I'm sure Walter will love it too.
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28 Feb
"A coherent narrative of @WWF’s history..is one in which the world’s power elite..leverage the WWF brand to remove indigenous groups from large sections of natural land [leaving] remaining land open for development by the world’s most powerful companies" therealityinstitute.net/2019/09/parami…
"These activities are in the process of coalescing under a..campaign announced at the 2019 @WEF..The WWF is part of a growing movement on the part of many of the world’s most powerful..to sell off what remains of the planet with the claim that Globalization 4.0 is an opportunity"
"The companies & business interests involved in this movement include such notables as Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble (via Global Shapers), IKEA, Salesforce, Alcoa, Cargill, Citibank, Shell, World Bank and Rockefeller Foundation (via the World Resources Institute)"
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26 Feb
Should we be avoiding animal products?
bulknutrients.com.au/blog/should-we…
NO: academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/1…
YES: academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/1…
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22 Feb
🧵👇 THREAD

The current age is one of SYSTEMISM or ‘faith in Systems’.

Below some reflections on the very fashionable #FoodSystems paradigm (based on Gall's great work 'Systemantics'), especially in view of the upcoming 2021 @UN @FoodSystems Summit.

There may be trouble ahead.
The prevailing view is one of the System-as-machine, whereby it would suffice to know & master a set of underlying mechanisms to understand, predict, & steer System’s behaviour & outcomes, in response to a Problem.
However, this utopian mindset has been criticized for the likely failure & damage it entails & the false sense of holistic management it seems to suggest. Frequently, Systems turn out to be an interventionist expression of high-modernist and reductionist top-down administration.
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20 Feb
In the (urban middle classes of) the post-industrial West, the symbolic value of #meat has been inverted. It always stood for nourishment & vitality, but now represents debauchery & harm.

What happened?

THREAD 🧵: a (very) simplified version of a complex historical trajectory
In the mid-19th C, coming from a Swedenborgian legacy (& building on even earlier meat-avoiding asceticism & mysticism), meat starts to be seen as impure in some Christian sects. Within that same legacy, Theosophy & New Age develop. The first vegetarian societies are founded.
With modernity, scientism develops, & thus an obsession with resource control, monitoring, metrics, top-down interventionism & societal progress & emancipation. Household economies are born, so that diets (now a matter of calories, not tradition) become a target for zealotry.
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