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21 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Leading Dutch agri-food university @WUR instrumentalized by Davos, in an effort supported by @wef-revering Prime Minister @markrutte? This spells trouble for the future of food and farming.

h/t @Nkruif: wur.nl/en/newsarticle…
This Mark Rutte:
Also on the university campus: Unilever's "Global Foods Innovation Centre".

Side note: Mark Rutte joined Unilever in 1992 on graduating, and remained there for two decades.

unilever.com/brands/innovat…
"Unilever has invested €85m in the new center [to] lead its global Foods innovation programs for brands like Knorr, Hellmann’s, The Vegetarian Butcher & Calvė. Areas of research will include: plant-based ingredients & meat alternatives [...]"

Surprise, surprise.

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21 Oct
"The Government stressed a meat or dairy tax was not part of its Net Zero strategy [..] Most livestock farmers are break-even at best. You start putting taxes on them & they're out of business. It will not only hit farming, it will devastate communities" metro.co.uk/2021/10/21/pap…
But they also fear the public reaction (and they should): "Boris Johnson’s food policy strategist says meat tax ‘may be necessary’ but warns of FOOD RIOTS if brought in too soon" rt.com/uk/527631-meat…
Some history lessons:

1) Poland 1980-81
washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
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12 Sep
1/ It hasn't been clear where the UN #FoodSystems Summit is getting its budget from. Using official docs, @larsms has shown that Norway is helping them out:

Question is: Why #Norway & does all this have to do with the #Davos crowd again? Thread 👇🧵
2/ Let's start with a reminder of this infamous deal between the @WEF and the @UN, dating from 2019, before the Summit. weforum.org/press/2019/06/…
3/ The person standing on the left in the previous picture, next to Schwab, is Børge Brende, President of the WEF. A #Norwegian ex-minister.
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9 Aug
#India isn't the #vegetarian model some claim it to be. Watch this excellent summary by @sakie339 to understand why:

Staggering statistics of malnourishment in children & women, reinforced by an aggressive criminalization of valuable foods by ideologists.
"Nutritional indicators/social security schemes were a cause for concern even before the pandemic, which the pandemic has aggravated. With the large number of Covid cases in India, we need to ask if a better nourished population would have handled the pandemic better"
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2 Aug
Do as you please, but no, *we* are not. No way in hell.
As far as the data are concerned, this for greenhouse gas emissions:

aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2019/06/greenh…
This for water:

aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2019/06/water.…
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23 Jul
Propaganda chain @CNN praising the "wealthiest & smartest people in the world" - just for being the superelites they are, and for trying to put the rest of us on a diet of lab-grown imitation foods.
But why would CNN care about healthy diets in the first place, with a founder like this?
But there's more: having in mind that CNN is taking marching orders from its CFR overlords, let's take a look at another key organization overseen by the CFR: the World Resources Institute.
swprs.org/the-american-e…
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20 Jul
Recommendations on red & processed #meat: "When only low certainty evidence is available [.] guideline panels should refrain from making strong recommendations & [encourage] individual decision making based on absolute estimates of effect"

Article 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"The ease with which one can distinguish justified belief from opinion varies across scientific disciplines [...] Epidemiology and clinical epidemiology lie closer to the latter than the former" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"the most vocal nutritional epidemiologists argue that GRADE is applicable only to contexts in which randomized trials are feasible. [A proposed] alternative is the NutriGrade method, for which the lead author now endorses GRADE over his own alternative approach" 💣
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