1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet
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https://www.aleph2020.org/opinion/activist-tactics-and-the-discrediting-of-scientists-leroy-et-al-2023
The same techniques and some of the same people, work to attack climate science.
Worth reading to see their methodology.
Pseudoscience and misinformation are at the core of academia, politics and health
'Humanity's'
Greatest
Weak-
ness.
What REALLY matters is that there's enough water, air, food, space, and energy for everyone to be safe and able to thrive.
But, the concept of a plant-based diet being the foundation for feeding the masses, a positive environmental impact & great health outcomes has been around since at least the 1971, when Diet for a Small Planet was published.
People will be forced to change their diet if they keep on ignoring the reality. Red meat will be for the rich, the rest won't eat nuts and pulses but flies and worms from corpses of those already dead from starvation. But it will solve the obesity problem!
https://www.levernews.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/
Scientists can have vested interests too.
So I'll have mine medium rare please..
1) That's yearly emissions. We improved but it's still positive. What's in the atmosphere is the area under that curve which is still out there.
2) That's territorial emissions. A lot of the emissions that we make aren't made in the UK - stuff that is produced overseas on our behalf.
Factor in per capita total emissions, UK is failing to take responsibility and leadership.
Pseudoscientists have vested interests.
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“A leaked document reveals a PR firm, which represented the meat and dairy industry coalition, set up to protect the sector against “emerging threats”, and which has staff from Cargill and Smithfield Foods – two of the world’s five largest meat companies – on its board.”
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Really struck by the human cost of those involved in the backlash of the Eat Lancet report being subject to attritional damage.
But you’re right. They do have both paid and independently motivated trolls for whom meat eating is their entire identity, it’s actually quite terrifying to observe.
We continue undeterred. My current project is the role of nostalgia as a potential barrier for a plant-based diet.
a large family at a Thanksgiving or
whatever with a live baby calf & the
Strong Daddy with a Butcher's Knife
at the head of the table~some're Appalled
Cheese is a tough /1
Doesn't mean everyone needs to eat meat, although I accept some fail to thrive without it
PR blocking and corporate greed can't dictate to me.
I must add my food is more colourful, fresh and delicious.
Yet is is also true that some 'scientific findings' are themselves subject to opaque 'agendas' which can sometimes only be made visible by peer review - another mechanism under attack.
Caveat emptor remains the best policy.
Nobody knows anything. We don't have books. We don't remember anything. We don't organise to store knowledge in cultural practices.
If Wikipedia goes, so does the truth. It might sound silly, but without the Internet as we were sold it. We are lost.
It’s 15 minute cities all over again isn’t it?
Or failing that, somehow discriminate between opinions, propaganda and facts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDKCD9RUj5U
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The collapse of human civilization feels inevitable right now and its breaking my heart. I'm heartened however by those young people who hold on to hope, they are the future
using influencers &(so called) science communicators to vilify/control narrative perspectives replaces confidence in the scientific method with manipulation towards atavistic hate rather than any attempt to uncover or understand a truth
My family is dying of hunger. 😔💔
Our children are dying of hunger. 😔💔
The crossings are closed, and aid has stopped."
https://gofund.me/40413acc
Please don't ignore me please
Up and top down drivers in this. Sadly also some scientists get involved too and they are honestly the absolute worst hypocrites you can imagine. They collude with trolls, have very little academic integrity and are bankrolled by animal ag whilst calling folk like me ‘biased’.