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The @UN #FoodSystems Summit aims at transforming the way the world eats based on 5 Action Tracks.
This is the composition of #AT2. One would expect a sound consortium, given the impact this will have on all of us. If you don't identify the problem, let's spell it out. Thread
This is the composition of #AT2. One would expect a sound consortium, given the impact this will have on all of us. If you don't identify the problem, let's spell it out. Thread
The Chair is the founder of EAT, an organization advocating a near-vegetarian "Planetary Health Diet" through an interventionist "Great Food Transformation". https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6600773/Less-beef-beans-Experts-say-world-needs-new-diet.html
She's also a WEF Young Global Leader; no surprise that the initiative is to be seen as a "Davos for food" with leading food multinationals in its slipstream (the 'plant-based' market being their new business model) - check this thread for background: https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1320325767620866053?s=20
EAT's intentions are clear - the goal is (I'm quoting):
"to take full advantage of the Summit" & "to force the kind of far-reaching changes that the world now desperately needs" https://eatforum.org/learn-and-discover/eat-at-the-un-food-systems-summit-2021/
"to take full advantage of the Summit" & "to force the kind of far-reaching changes that the world now desperately needs" https://eatforum.org/learn-and-discover/eat-at-the-un-food-systems-summit-2021/
The vice chair represents Farmers Forum India, but is also on... EAT Advisory Board. How convenient. https://eatforum.org/person/ajay-vir-jakhar/
The youth-vice chair of the action track is a leader within the youth climate organization Zero Hour International, actively promoting veganism. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2019/08/19/how-a-johns-hopkins-student-helped-convince-dunkin.html
WHO is the anchoring agency; Branca its key person & also EAT commissioner. For him, within the food system "everything has to be reset [
?] we have to have much smaller amounts of meat on our tables...WHO will be working on the consumer side" https://clf.jhsph.edu/viewpoints/francesco-branca-healthy-and-sustainable-diets-everything-has-be-reset
?] we have to have much smaller amounts of meat on our tables...WHO will be working on the consumer side" https://clf.jhsph.edu/viewpoints/francesco-branca-healthy-and-sustainable-diets-everything-has-be-reset
The innovation pillar will be led by the Good Food Institute (GFI) - an extremely well-funded lobby group for vegan-tech imitation foods. https://gfi.org/blog/2020-top-20/
The civil society leader (representing all of us)? The CEO of an activist platform -members include GFI, WRI, True Health Initiative (with EAT's Walter Willett as core member) & various animal rights organizations (e.g. PCRM) Aim: to half livestock by 2040 https://50by40.org/our-network
Coordinator of the scientific group: another EAT-Lancet member. https://eatforum.org/lancet-commissioner/mario-herrero/
Leader of work stream 1: J. Yi, President of the Good Food Fund in China (government-backed). Also a vegan activist. This may connect to plans of the Chinese government to drastically cut meat consumption. https://channels.ft.com/foodrevolution/china-wakes-need-greener-diet/
Yi's first deputy within work stream 1 is the founder of Brighter Green - an advocacy group with a strong animal rights component. https://brightergreen.org/
His second deputy: an academic from Chatham House & Harvard's Animals Law Program, & an ex-research fellow of the Seventh-Day Adventist University of Loma Linda. Expertise: arguing for "peak meat" & making animal agriculture look catastrophic.
http://hlsalpp.wpengine.com/team-member/helen-harwatt/
http://hlsalpp.wpengine.com/team-member/helen-harwatt/
Work stream 2, led by Vennard from the WRI; also leading the Cool Food Pledge and the Better Buying Lab. Essentially, consumer manipulation and social engineering towards ‘plant-based’ eating. https://www.wri.org/our-work/project/cool-food-pledge
Workstream 3: a representative from WWF & a deputy from -again- WRI
WWF has described animal foods as central to humanity's 'Appetite for destruction'. And then there is this report written by a former... EAT director https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/bending-the-curve-the-restorative-power-of-planet-based-diets
WWF has described animal foods as central to humanity's 'Appetite for destruction'. And then there is this report written by a former... EAT director https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/bending-the-curve-the-restorative-power-of-planet-based-diets
This is where AT2 wants to land (from their December working paper): the EAT -Lancet diet globally implemented & the food gap that would be created by heavily restricting animal foods, filled in with 'plant-based' imitations, bioreactor foods, insects, ...
And a whole set of top-down interventionist measures to arrive there: taxes, dietary guidelines, regulation of advertising, nudges, front-of-pack warnings, meals in public canteens, pressure on companies, school curricula, ....
To be fair, the current version is slightly more balanced (probably due to input by others, from the broader scientific group & other action tracks) - but the AT2 intentions likely remain unchanged. https://sc-fss2021.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-ACTION_TRACK_Scientific_Group_final_7-4-2021.pdf
New version still contains this: create a "cultural shift"
Schools will certainly be targeted:
- "Alter food availability options"
- "school education programmes"
- "ensure the next generation has a novel conceptualization" of the food system
Guess what that would mean...
Schools will certainly be targeted:
- "Alter food availability options"
- "school education programmes"
- "ensure the next generation has a novel conceptualization" of the food system
Guess what that would mean...
