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Oct 13 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Proud to announce that I'm co-organizing the International Summit "The societal role of meat - what the science says" in Dublin, next week. Top speakers, and - YES! - possibility to follow the various keynotes online - register here for #MeatInSociety: events.zoom.us/ev/Apy_s03Q4-y…
Speakers:
Session 1: the role of #meat in diet and health
Session 2: the role of #meat in a sustainable environment
Session 3: the role of #meat in society, economics and culture
Session 4: Conclusions and next steps

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Oct 11
Article on how @FoodValley_NL at Wageningen University "self-identifies as Vegan Valley”, receiving investments from >60 agri-food multinationals & subsidies from the Dutch state +EU.
The author overlooks one key element: the hand of the @wef in all this.
unherd.com/2022/10/big-ve…
From Jan 2021: "the #WEF announced the European Food Innovation Hub will be established in Wageningen - Prime Minister & Davos man #Rutte announced that the Netherlands will host the Global Coordinating Secretariat of the Food Innovation Hubs" wur.nl/en/newsarticle…
On Wageningen's university campus: Unilever's "Global Foods Innovation Centre". Prior to his political career, #Rutte worked for Unilever, which he joined in 1992 on graduating, and he remained there for two decades. hive.unilever.com/news-and-event…
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Sep 16
Are human bodies adapted to eating #meat and other animal source foods? And how do we know?

🧵 with summary of @aleph2020 info 👇
aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2019/05/animal…
Animals thrive best on diets resembling the ones to which they are physiologically adapted; it would be unlikely that Homo sapiens constitutes an exception to this principle. Any discussion on the healthiness of meat & other animal source foods should at least address this.
Homo sapiens emerged with the anatomical & physiological equipment of a habitual rather than facultative meat eater. Those who argue that the human diet is naturally herbivorous based on a phylogenetic relationship with apes overlook key divergences that occurred during evolution
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Sep 8
"Animal-source foods are believed to contain the #meatfactor, a substance enhancing the absorption of micronutrients from plant-based foods"

academic.oup.com/advances/advan…
"it has been suggested that peptides, phospholipids &
mucopolysaccharides released during digestion of muscle tissue contribute in facilitating #iron uptake by mediating the formation of readily absorbable ferric oxohydrate nanoparticles"
But: "the enhancement in nonheme iron absorption is not at all influenced by the presence of heme in the muscle tissue [..] heme-free beef and heme-free chicken protein maintained the enhancing effect on nonheme iron absorption"
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Aug 18
Due to its disastrous PR, the @WEF has become the laughing stock of the world. Here's their Plan B: "we've recruited 110,000 information volunteers [to] serve as kind of 'digital first-responders' in those spaces where misinformation travels" 🤦‍♂️🤡
weforum.org/agenda/2020/11…
"a new company called Kinzen [..] aims to get the best out of artificial intelligence & human editors to combat online rumours and lies"

#InvasionOfTheWEFBots weforum.org/agenda/2020/11…
"Authoritative voices" now telling us that the discrediting of "authoritative voices" equals disinformation.

@WEF: "Experts note that one of the common facets of disinformation campaigns is discrediting authoritative voices" weforum.org/agenda/2022/08…
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Aug 12
"Contrary to our hypothesis" [😬] "no significant association between the EAT-Lancet diet & the risk of cancer & CVD combined, & separately, was observed"

Planetary "Health" Diet?🧐
academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-a…
As a reminder, this diet was designed based on nutritional theory (mostly from Harvard's Walter Willett), in view of human health, & not based on environmental considerations.
Add that to the fact that this diet is very restrictive, reducing animal source foods (which are excellent sources of key micronutrients that are already problematic) to small amounts, thus leading to concerns about nutrient deficiencies...
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Aug 3
If you think #Nutriscore is bad, prepare for worse.

They've now decided that the scores are too benign for red #meat 🥩 - therefore, the algorithms will be tweaked so that this inconvenience is out of the way.

This is not science. This is a crusade.
THREAD 🧵👇
There are many issues with #Nutriscore. Here are some examples that illustrate its often nonsensical outcomes (note that the designers already tweaked the score of olive oil from D to C to accommodate criticism from Mediterranean countries)
But given that the entire thing seems designed to give the prevailing dogma a boost, based on the magic of #nutritionism (calories! fibre! saturated fat!), some remained rather unhappy with the fact that red meat is often scoring A/B. Imagine, suggesting that meat's good for you!
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