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Jul 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This, more than a year ago:
"We need to #disrupt food systems"
🤨 that aged well

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And look 👉 Christiana "we-have-to-disrupt-the-food-system" Figueres also has a brother: ex-president of Costa Rica & ex-executive director of the World Economic Forum (#WEF).
But he had to step down, here's why: swissinfo.ch/eng/wef-direct…
So no surprise:
climatedepot.com/2018/12/07/for… Image
Not surprising either:
weforum.org/agenda/2018/01… Image

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Jul 6
High-income countries eat excessive amounts of red meat? Actually no: they may eat more processed meats & dairy, but the intake of red meat, seafood & eggs is lower than the world average. Both for adults & children.
thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…
Geographical distribution of meat intake: highest levels in Asia and Latin America.
Interesting perspective on the intake of animal source foods (note that poultry data are absent, which is unfortunate):
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Jul 6
Why is #NutriScore so ♥️ & pushed by #BigFood multinationals producing ultra-processed foods? Shouldn't they oppose it?
Nope. This article explains it well: stories.publiceye.ch/en/nestle-mexi…
"the introduction of warning labels in Latin America is probably one of the main reasons”
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"To state the obvious: compared to black warning labels, the traffic light has clear advantages [..]: first of all, a colourful scale looks significantly more decorative than a black “STOP” sign"
"while the system used in Mexico or Chile “denounces” an excess of a certain substance, #Nutriscore allows the possibility to compensate for negative nutritional properties with positive ones"

This 👇 18% sugar, mostly water? But "fruits".
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Jul 4
Situation in the #Netherlands: while #FarmerProtests are blocking the country, #WEF-linked ruling parties are collapsing. Out of nowhere: Farmer-Citizen Movement becoming 2nd party in the polls.

#boerenprotest #boereninopstand #boeren #boerenacties🧑‍🌾🇳🇱🚜
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_p…
Rutte, current prime minister - ex-Unilever 🤨
Kraag, deputy prime minister - ex-Shell 🤔
weforum.org/agenda/authors…
weforum.org/agenda/authors…
"the #WEF announced the European Food Innovation Hub will be established in Wageningen [leading Dutch agri-food university] Rutte announced that the Netherlands will host the Global Coordinating Secretariat of the Food Innovation Hubs"
wur.nl/en/newsarticle…
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Jul 1
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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