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Frédéric Leroy

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7 Mar, 12 tweets, 5 min read

@UN

The @UN #FoodSystems Summit will have a massive influence on food policies & dietary guidelines, GLOBALLY, for decades to come

Action Track 2 ("Sustainable diets") is preparing us for a quasi-vegetarian "Planetary Health Diet"

Look who's in charge - 😱‼️👇
(+@WEF in background)

https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1367973800399298561

https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1367973843848097800?s=20

Also look at who's the leader representing "civil society" - that is, allegedly, you and me? How was this selected, who was responsible for it, and why was it allowed?

Nobody identified a problem here?

https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1367973843848097800?s=20

From the UN Food Systems Summit's working paper for Action Track 2.

"Healthy diets SHOULD include..." Not may, no: SHOULD.

Not even a mention of meat, dairy, fish, eggs.

Instead: we - yes you!- SHOULD eat beans, nuts & grains

docplayer.net/200350226-Draf…

A little livestock may be ok, as long as it fits within a "circle" of their design. But no worries: we'll have microbial protein & synthetic factory foods to compensate for that. No surprise the entire thing is tightly linked to food processors & Silicon-Valley 'Vegan Tech'.

But only *very* little red meat of course, preferably none at all. Will kill you. You can as well have sugar-sweetened beverages.

There's of course also the underlying Davos/WEF-style twist of representing the COVID pandemic as an opportunity for change...

Strategies:

- work with BigFood (cf. FReSH alliance with WBCSD)
- change dietary guidelines globally towards EAT-Lancet
- regulate promotions (some foods allowed, others banned)
- nudging & taxing (+ likely also a push for bans in public canteens)

More of the same (in line with EAT's "hard policy interventions"). Also note the pressure on food companies to follow their ideas. Food companies that don't match the Planetary Health Diet idea will be pushed out by making them unfavourable for investors.

This need to be understood in the light of the Global Benchmarking Alliance (see below; from aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2020/08/ideolo…).

Scary thing, coming from Davos. Aim: to shape a company's attractiveness to investors by 'creating accountability for those who don’t change'.

More social engineering:

- "alter food availability options"
- provoke a "cultural shift", incl. via "school education programmes" to "ensure the next generation[s] have a novel conceptualisation" of food.

https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1328733907450273793?s=20

Targeting children....

Expect more of this?

https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1328733907450273793?s=20

https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1331956065634697217?s=20

Or this creepy thing:

https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1331956065634697217?s=20

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You may have read @john_vidal's piece on the protests by farmers & rights groups, denouncing the perverse influence of the @WEF over the @UN #FoodSystems Summit.

Let's look closer at what's going on here.

Thread 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1367506058533621763

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