A recent report published by EAT and authoritative medical journal The Lancet warns that we must significantly transform the way we eat and grow our food. Failure to do so will cause an increasing proportion of the global population, which is expected to hit 10 billion
people by 2050, to suffer from malnutrition and preventable disease. Today’s children will inherit a planet that has been severely degraded.
The report, which has brought together 37 experts from 16 countries, has for the first time set scientific targets that call for nothing short of a revolution in our farm-to-fork practices to address these seemingly colossal challenges.
The report calls for a “flexitarian” approach to eating which caters for meat eaters, as well as vegetarians and vegans.
But wait! There’s a punchline.
That is truly stunning Nina. The Lancet allows a paper being published without external peer review. Not just are a view references incorrect, but major mistakes have been identified in the environmental portion invalidating claims of effects of various diets on the planet. https://t.co/JQBqR1FJuL
— Frank Mitloehner (@GHGGuru) February 4, 2019
They likely assumed no one would notice.
The @EATforum biodiversity data shows that their EAT reference diet as well as the vegetarian and vegan diets cause much more (!) biodiversity loss than the business as usual diet, which of course is very negative. No major discussion – wondering why.
— Frank Mitloehner (@GHGGuru) February 4, 2019
One article on this stated that there were very few economists or nutritionists on the 37-member EAT board. And here we learn that the report was not peer reviewed. Incredible. Btw, I am a cancer survivor (had my sarcoma surgery 2 1/2 ago), so I have cut way back on red meat, and increased vegetable intake. But still, this report is irresponsible.
And I thought global warming caused cancer!
But we do eat too much sugar.
So Australians are being asked to turn vegetarian so Chinamen can eat Australian meat at every meal.
Our masters have no intention of cutting meat production, just in increasing the portion exported to China to repay money they owe the Chinese—money borrowed without any meaningful attempt to secure the consent of the governed.
Same way they have no intention of cutting oil and gas production—just of making you freeze every winter so Chinamen can drive Hummers.
What will the plants eat if the virtue signalers like Climate Barbie get rid of the nasty pollutant, carbon dioxide. I for one am looking forward to a big burger on the charcoal grill this afternoon.
Can the author’s please explain why humans come equipped with the back molars that we have?
Hint, it’s not to eat rice, beans and green salad three meals a day..
Those canines are interesting too.
Ideal for RIPPING and TEARING flesh from the bone. Mine are quite well developed
BTW Sham … Lancet has REDUCED your intake of Lamb to 1% of your calories!! How’s that square with “your people’s” ancestral diets?
Hey teachers, leave those kids alone
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
“Wrong, do it again! Wrong, do it again!”
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U
Teachers told me to eat Canadian Beef.
Sorry … meat and pudding are both FORBIDDEN!! under the new UN Food guidelines
I thought the greenies wanted a half or more of the human population to die because it would be better for the earth. Letting people starve to death would help their ultimate goal, wouldn’t it.
I’ll lower my meat consumption when all these food weirdos eat shit and die.
I just say I’m a vegetarian adjacent. I eat the animals that eat grains, grass, fruit and vegetables. Calling yourself a vegetarian once removed might also work, sort of the kissing cousin of vegetarians.
Smiling.
“Today’s children will inherit a planet that has been severely degraded…” Actually, the planet will be fine but those children, thanks to the institutional left and their green theocracy, will inherit a shitload of debt and a consequentially degraded level of prosperity.
Exactly. They want Venezuelas everywhere.
So no actual peer review and references completely wrong , yet this gets published in the Lancet. I doubt this chain of events are mistakes – it’s activism 101. Get complete garbage research supporting garbage theories published in key journals and then point to those studies as proof of the validity of the still garbage theories. The next round of research then uses the key journal published study as a reference. This fools all of the “smart” people because they believe everything they read in such journals must be true and not just a big pile of garbage. See Sokal and Sokal Squared Hoaxes to see how easy it is to trick these “scientific ” fields.
If the accusations are true then the paper should be retracted, the EAT Commission laughed out of science and the employees at The Lancet should hang their heads in shame. The simple reason for the errors and peer review fraud is probably a lack of evidence to support their ridiculous diet plan.
Environmentalism is one branch of the faith based Church of Wokeness, along with gender studies, race studies, nutrition science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economists and most other humanities abd social science fields. Religion (or pseudo-religion) and science don’t mesh very well. You end up with this kind of BS trying to pass itself off as science, ruining the credibility of genuine science in the process.
We used to call it propaganda.
Governments want scientific backing for food taxes, obviously. The M.O. is nearly identical to how the war on fossil fuels was implemented. Too bad there isn’t research into a cure for megalomaniac control freaks. Society would be better off without them.
The cure for megalomaniac control freaks is well-understood. But it’s illegal, and they tend to erect multiply-redundant security barriers and outlaw public ownership of hollow metal things that go ‘BANG’, making it quite difficult to administer to them.
Pity.
Fortunately, lamp posts can be found most anywhere; good sturdy rope is cheap, easily used, and (for the time being) perfectly legal.
Best of all, lamp posts and rope seldom go ‘BANG!’ when properly administered…
First they will try to stop all oil trains and then, as we have seen, intensify the war on farmers.
Lancet has gone the way of Scientific American … all propaganda all the time. Full on Nanny Statism
And national geographic. I read them cover to cover for a couple of decades until they completely turned into propaganda and activism.
And they don’t even print full color photos of bare naked African tribeswomen anymore !!! Why bother?
The Liberal left wants more black babies to abort.
Meat is the HEALTHIEST thing I eat. Just as healthy as the many vegetables I eat. My heritage is French … we eat EVERYTHING. Hence the “French Paradox”. Mankind is omnivore, and I believe the bigger the variety of foods we eat … the better. I rarely, rarely, eat processed and junk foods. My freezer is stocked with MEAT … not ready to eat prefabricated crap. And my dual crispers are filled with salad greens and vegetables. Piss-off, you Nanny do-gooder nags!
These FAKE vegans (like fatty Michelle Obama) can go suck their own left testicle (yes, I believe MO has a set). They SHALL NOT control what I eat.
Lancet recommends 1% of your diet in Beef, Lamb, Pork, and Eggs??!!! and 2% chicken??!!! ATFKM !!??
BTW … blaming “The West” for poor diets high in MEAT consumption … must be by insulated and isolated collegiate academics. They might want to examine the REAL diets of peoples across the planet. It is ALL meat-heavy. Stupid twits.
BTW … the Western capitalist nations are home to the FATTEST poor people on the planet. Because they DO NOT eat healthy, balanced, diets. They eat JUNK FOOD … funded by the taxpayers. Wanna know who will IGNORE this proposed diet the MOST? Poor people. They DON’T eat vegetables and greens. They eat JUNK … pure JUNK. How about STOPPING EBT cards from buying JUNK FOOD?? How about working on a REAL problem, and leave me the hell alone.
Exactly. Never before have the people in the world lived so long, been so physically large, had so much comfort and ate so well. Yet we’re supposed to believe life is like the middle ages.
Ahhh, kenji. They can’t leave you alone. The poor people don’t have any money for “our betters” to steal.
Eat what we tell you to.
Live where we tell you to.
Think what we tell you to.
Say what we tell you to.
Stay where we tell you to.
Travel how we tell you to.
We’ve already given up too much. Only bloodshed is going to get any freedom back.
You missed two –
Send us all your money.
Shut up.
Only if the blood is shed where needed. The problem with the Commie attempts is that their guns were always aimed exactly 180 degrees away from the necessary targets…
I posted this comment on the last thread about this diet, but it was a late post and probably didn’t get seen.
The “research” was conducted and published by Gunhild Stordalen a multi-millionaire Norwegian whacko. “Meat” her husband, Petter Stordalen, the source of funding for the “research.”
https://postmediatorontosun.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/5_screen-shot-2019-01-20-at-132349-1.jpg?quality=60&strip=all&strip=all
As usual the hypocrisy runs deep.
From one of the tweets, “No major discussion – wondering why”. I think we here know why.
Are there no intuitions left in our society that have not been taken over by the mentally sick Marxists?
All I ever needed to know about socialists, I got from reading ‘1984’ in grade 9 or 10.
Socialism has only two rules; Napoleon never wants for anything, and the reward for Boxer (and everyone else) is the glue factory.
There are only 2 kinds of socialists; Boxer and Napoleon. And we already know how it ends for Boxer.
Brings into sharp focus why the dude at the top always has a purge on the go. Everyone wants to be Napoleon, and when you take a shot at the king, you don’t miss.
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you talkin’ ‘Animal Farm’?
A preamble for the virtues of Soylent Green.
Little bit by little bit, you will submit, the LIV won’t even notice until it will be too late.
incidentally, wtf is a ‘view’ reference? more friggin twit slang?
p.s. ‘lancet’ is a typo.
s/b ‘lance it’.
Next on the Trudeau Liberal agenda: A mandatory national Protein Tax.
They should stay out of our freaking lives, because…
https://youtu.be/w3EjFgWlW2w
Its just like the same load of Malarkey that those idiots from PETA spread their GO VEGETARIAN over this whole Climate Change/Global Warming hoax the whole thing is nothing but a swindle being carried out by the Globalists its like that crack-pot Jeremy Riffkin and his BEYOND BEEF poppycock this is proof that strict vegans have shrinking brains these idiots strict vegan diets have made them totaly stupid and unreasonible
I always heard that we don’t have an amount of food problem, we have a food distribution problem.
A vegetarian coworker told me that vegans will die in about three years from a certain vitamin deficiency, the vitamin is only meat source based.
Don’t tell the vegans, and we can only hope.
My vegetarian coworker hates the holier than thou vegans.