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Jul 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Something remarkable is going on in the Netherlands. While the Dutch farmers' party @BoerBurgerB is now polled as 3rd largest political party (& increasing), some 77% of the population in the Netherlands seems to be in support of the #FarmersProtest.
geenstijl.nl/5165743/liever…
Here's the poll: 77% agrees (vs. 22% disagreeing).
telegraaf.nl/watuzegt/18068…
And here's the rapidly evolving political landscape.
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Jun 19
Quite a bit of criticism in this review of the "alternative protein" industry: plant-based imitations, cellular agriculture (e.g. lab meat), mycoproteins, insects, precision fermentation, algae.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"There have now been several reports from biotechnology experts that have questioned the optimism of @GoodFoodInst for [cellular agriculture]"
Relates to the costs of culture media, downstream processing, formulation, operation at pharmaceutical quality to prevent contamination.
"The procedures to make plant-based food are sometimes so extensive that the final product would fall under the #ultraprocessed food (UPF) category, the same category in which products that we know as ‘junk food’ already exist"
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Jun 14
Excellent @IanScoones/@PASTRES_erc article:
"The notion of the 'livestock sector' in many global policy reports is largely meaningless [.] There are different costs & benefits, different patterns of emissions, & different routes to mitigation" wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
"An unlikely coalition of scientists, policy-makers, environmental campaigners, journalists, diet-change activists, & those backing industrial production of protein has emerged, focused on technological solutions to climate mitigation"
But: "inadequate data & inappropriate analysis supports such positions, while condemning & vilifying extensive livestock production [This] undermines effective global debate on the future of food & climate change"
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May 24
#WEF22 #Davos2022 now also bringing in a guru to "save our future": a BJP/Modi-linked charlatan who favours a ban on cow slaughter, medicinal use of mercury, and avoidance of cooked food during lunar eclipse. What a circus.
He's also known as Jaggi Vasudev and he's a complete fraud. He's driving science educators in India mad (see article below). But #WEF22 #Davos2022 thinks it's a great idea to offer him a stage.
livemint.com/Politics/ESRnW…
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May 17
From the Action Track 2 paper in the United Food Systems Summit: "ensure the next generation have a novel conception of what the food system can offer"
Enter the Good Life Goals...
Good Life Goal 13: "eat more plants, cut down on meat"
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May 16
"Bring sustainable food systems to the heart of the finance agenda" - take a moment to reflect on this and how this will play out in practice. And start worrying.
Guess who will do well under the FAIRR/EAT/UN/WBCSD regime?
For those who are unfamiliar with FAIRR: it's an investor company of which the membership & wider supporting network comprises institutional investors managing trillions of $ in combined assets. Founded in 2015 by Jeremy Coller, a vegan who wishes to change the food system.
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May 10
In the EU, 96% of #feed ingredients aren't food grade: "cereals, soybean products & pulses [.] are predominantly not of a quality that are suitable for human consumption, but it must be acknowledged that an element of competition for land is present"
🧵1/6 fefac.eu/wp-content/upl…
Also: "When a feed ingredient that is food grade is sold to a feed operator, this is normally always the result of surpluses for which demand from the human consumption market could no longer be accommodated"
2/6
Thus: "from an economic point of view, feed production is per definition never in direct competition with human consumption, hence the significantly lower quotations on the feed market. In that sense, feed use of a material will [.] never drive shortages on the food market"
3/6
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