Few days left to register to watch the International Meat Summit online & hear the latest evidence from leading experts. Don't miss this opportunity to learn what the science says about the role of #MeatInSociety & contribute to the conversation. Register: bit.ly/3SCZ9EB
1⃣ Neil Mann: The evolutionary role of meat
2⃣ Nick Smith: Meat in global nutrient supply
3⃣ Alice Stanton: How much red meat is good for us?
4⃣ Bradley Johnston: Evidence-based nutrition
1⃣ Pablo Manzano: Ecology & livestock ag
2⃣ Jason Rowntree: Ruminants & grasslands
3⃣ Wilhelm Windisch: Nutrient circularity
4⃣ Max Makuvise: Smallholders
5⃣ Celso Moretti: Low-carbon ag in Brazil
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…
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…
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
"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"
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"
"Contrary to our hypothesis" [😬] "no significant association between the EAT-Lancet diet & the risk of cancer & CVD combined, & separately, was observed"
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...