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Joanna Blythman

@JoannaBlythman

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Investigative journalist. SPA Food+Drink Writer 2022. Food Writer of Year 2018. Thorn in flesh of processed food industry. 7 books, inc Swallow This, Shopped.

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@JoannaBlythman
Joanna Blythman
3 years
You won’t drive a car. You won’t go on holiday. Your house will be cold, your water tepid. Your bills will go up. You’ll eat insects, not meat. You won’t have as many children. Suck it up plebs, we’re all in this together. But we blatantly aren’t.
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@JoannaBlythman
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3 years
70 doctors in Belgium call masks a “major threat” to children’s development. 100 UK health professionals- psychologists, academics and paediatricians- say that masks for children are “not only unnecessary but potentially harmful”.
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2 years
FYI parents. New data suggest that for healthy 12-15 year olds potentially serious harms of the jab are likely to outweigh any potential benefits. Over 30 medics, scientists, MPs urge caution in giving Covid jabs to 'low risk' children.
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5 months
Advice to cut meat from our diets is dangerous and irresponsible Based on bad science and faddish ideology. Cutting out meat will cause nutrient deficiencies eg anaemia, and bring more of our diet under the control of the ultra-processed food industry.
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2 years
BMJ editorial: Pharma companies are reaping vast profits without adequate independent scrutiny of their scientific claims. The purpose of regulators is not to dance to the tune of rich global corporations, it is to protect the health of their populations.
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1 year
‘Belief in biological sex has been redefined as bigotry. Standing up for women’s sex-based rights has been rebranded as transphobia. So Rowling’s perfectly normal views, likely shared by most people out there, can be talked about as hate crimes’
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9 months
Italy bans fake meat and lab meat. 74% of Italians are opposed to synthetic foods. The opposition comes from concerns about the health effects of synthetic foods ranging from allergies to tumours.
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4 years
’Eat less meat’ implies that meat is bad (it isn’t) while advancing soil-depleting, GMO soy/faux meat at the expense of nutritionally superior, regenerative meat/dairy that are essential for enhancing soil carbon and reviving pasture ⁦ @sethitzkan
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4 years
He’s waging war on fat, quoting government so-called nutrition experts: count calories, up your physical fitness, avoid foods that are high in fat, sugar, and salt. This advice is worse than useless. It got us into our current mess. Me @heraldscotland
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5 years
My analysis. The new wave of #vegan ‘plant-based’ offerings may, at first glance, seem like healthy options. But most of them are ultra-processed factory products, the polar opposite of real, wholesome food.
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
after months of media noise about everyone going vegan, we can now see the reality: people want the foodstuffs they have always eaten. The meat, milks, dairy and cheese shelves are noticeably empty, and the plant-based fake food shelves are well stocked.
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Joanna Blythman
5 years
We should question the ethics of driving up demand for crops that require high inputs of fertiliser, fungicides, pesticides, herbicides, while demonising sustainable forms of livestock farming that can restore soils and biodiversity, and sequester carbon.
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@JoannaBlythman
Joanna Blythman
2 years
Former judge MEP Mislav Kolakušić gives Macron an earful for ignoring serious vaccine adverse effects. Powerful
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Based Croatia
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Croatian 🇭🇷 MEP Mislav Kolakušić addressing the French 🇫🇷 president Emmanuel Macron in the European Parliament:
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
Fake meat is food fraud. Petition : BAN ‘MEAT NAMES’ FOR VEGETARIAN ALTERNATIVES - Signed via @UKChange
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Joanna Blythman
6 months
Two shopkeepers I know and the monthly fees they pay to the virtual financial institutions that handle their card transactions: Health food store £500 Greengrocer £800 I repeat, that’s every month. If you value small shops #UseCash
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5 years
I'm infuriated that vegan voices persistently refuse to differentiate between the most miserable factory farmed livestock and those in pasture systems. I resent their obstinate failure to distinguish between grass-fed organic steak and the cheapest, nastiest factory banger.
@TheGrocer
The Grocer
5 years
OPINION | Coverage of the proposed ‘meat tax’ hit a new low of intellectual dishonesty, says @JoannaBlythman 🆓
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Oh yes, let’s tax one of nature’s most nutrient dense foods, meat that’s sustained populations around the planet for millennia, and tell people to eat more low fat breakfasts cereals and assorted health-wrecking ultraprocessed products. Madness
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4 years
“Let’s be honest, most companies providing vegan options are just doing it for the cash and give no craps about animal welfare or the environment."
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4 years
⁦Loathe though I am to give any more airtime to the virus, this interview ⁦ @ProfKarolSikora ⁩ ⁦ @unherd ⁩ offers the hope and measured intelligence we need in place of fear. My watch of the week. Uplifting. Thanks both Prof and interviewer
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“We are living through a frenzy of conformity, in which the opinions of a minority are falsely presented by the media, political and corporate classes as though they reflect an established consensus” Sums it up, right? MUST READ ⁦ Brilliant analysis. ⁦ @andrewdoyle_com
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Joanna Blythman
5 years
On government orders many elderly people reluctantly eat low-fat spread instead of butter. We should be asking whether this ludicrous ordinance is depriving them of the healthy fats they need to feed their brains, and contributing to a rise in dementia and Alzheimer’s. My column
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The Grocer
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OPINION | TfL's eggs and bacon ad ban is potentially damaging folly, says @JoannaBlythman 🆓
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5 years
There is an extensive body of research suggesting that livestock should not shoulder blame for the #ClimateCrisis . In fact, these experts would argue that grazing animals are a crucial part of the solution. Good read
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4 years
Plant-based propagandists have put it around that livestock clock up 18%-51% of US greenhouse gas emissions. The correct figure is 3.9%. My column @TheGrocer
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Joanna Blythman
2 years
What a hero @bobscartoons is! Lovely long interview with him @GBNEWS @mrmarkdolan Moving, intelligent, absolutely withering on the official Covid narrative crap that destroyed lives. ‘Never surrender your right to be with the people you love.’ So much love for Bob tonight 😍
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Joanna Blythman
5 years
Soul-crushing supermarket shopping sucks. Follow this manifesto. Life enhancing!
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Joanna Blythman
7 years
Our food system is broken Here's how we fix it #FOTE17 @mistereatgalway #chefs
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Joanna Blythman
2 years
Fake meat is bad for your guts. Well I never! Plant-Based Meat Analogues Weaken Gastrointestinal Digestive Function and Show Less Digestibility Than Real Meat in Mice | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
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Joanna Blythman
5 years
Loads of meat eaten in Mediterranean countries so why no mention? Kebabs, stifado, salumi, daube, moussaka, merguez etc Why have they been edited out?
@maxlugavere
Max Lugavere
5 years
People who adhered to a Mediterranean-style diet including olive oil, fruits, vegetables, fish, and red wine experienced lower rates of cognitive decline in visual spatial organization and memory, attention and global cognitive function over 5 years.
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
Prominent commentators have seriously suggested that the UK doesn’t need its own agriculture +can live on faux meat etc Enough of that, it’s time to support and cherish the farmers who produce our meat, dairy and eggs. They are the people who will feed us.
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5 years
The study of 220,000 adults found that eating three portions of dairy and one and half portions of unprocessed red meat a day could cut the risk of early death by one quarter.
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
‘Debunking the anti-meat mantra ⁦ @GHGGuru ⁩ ‘The key claim underlying these arguments holds that globally, meat production generates more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. This claim is demonstrably wrong, as I will show.’
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
'Fake food' will accelerate the rush to collapse by promoting the industrial model of food and life and the illusion that we live outside nature’s ecological processes. It will destroy food democracy and increase corporate control over food and health.
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5 years
Warms the cockles of my heart.
@mulroybaymussel
Mulroy Bay Mussels
5 years
One month today and 90k views....our beautiful wee Lena is still eating eating mussels #busygirl #lenasussels #nice #mulroybaymussels #donegal #mulroybaymussels
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Joanna Blythman
2 years
More pressure on ⁦ @TheLancet ⁩ to retract or clarify basis for Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study’s wacky calculations linking deaths to red meat, this time from the World Cancer Research Fund.
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
It’s official: Monbiot is a food security risk. Obliterate the #farmers who feed us. Wreck our health with lab ‘food’. Utterly clueless about real food!
@GeorgeMonbiot
George Monbiot
4 years
On Wednesday (January 8th), our film #ApocalypseCow airs on Channel 4. It proposes that, after 12,000 years, farming will more or less come to an end within a few decades. It argues that this shift comes in the nick of time: it's great news for humanity and the living planet.
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3 years
When you need a government-approved QR code to access your freedom, you have already relinquished it. My ⁦ @heraldscotland ⁩ latest
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
There they go again, planet-trashers.
@hilltopfarmgirl
Hill Top Farm
4 years
Walking heifers off the tops.
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
“Meat has massive social benefits. It’s an important source of dietary protein, energy, highly bioavailable micronutrients, even small amounts of animal-sourced food have a really important effect on the development of children”
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"Grass fed, free ranged animals are part of healthy ecosystems." So can we now get over the generic anti-livestock foods thing and agree that the REAL foe is industrial agriculture/factory farming, whether animal- or plant-based?
@G_stordalen
Gunhild A. Stordalen
4 years
@DMDent @Evsthetractor @Culturalmistake @fleroy1974 @EATforum Livestock is not the problem, the current number and our overconsumption of meat in high income countries is. Grass fed, free ranged animals are part of healthy ecosystems. Factory farms are as bad as coal fired power plants for the 🌍, and a health and aminal welfare problem.
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“Without question, veganism can cause B12 and iron deficiencies, and without question they affect your intelligence.” Here’s the research
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
Our small shops are not merely convenient but, as millions of us are discovering, they are essential. As the retail giants are stripped bare on a daily basis, it is our local village shop that stoically — sometimes heroically — manages to fill the gaps.
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
Coca-Cola 'paid scientists to downplay how #sugary beverages fueled the obesity crisis between 2013-2015,'
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Joanna Blythman
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Read below why, along with 99% of the UK population, I COULD NEVER GO VEGAN, and won’t be persuaded by the documentary of the same name. It would need a point by point rebuttal of all the logical fallacies, sweeping generalisations, cherry picking of stats, blatant ignorance, and…
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4 years
Less than 3%. Now will people stop blaming #pubs #restaurants ? Livelihoods, jobs, and the vitality of village, town, city centres at stake. #EndTheCurfew
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5 years
Over-hyped, over-processed, overpriced #fakemeat isn’t catching on. Just Eat Real Food (JERF) eg grass-fed #beef #lamb
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4 years
Serious bunches of herbs from a proper Middle Eastern grocer. A pleasure to work with. So different from those puny overpriced #plastic packs
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5 months
‘Factors?’ Face facts Heather. There’s no appetite for ultraprocessed imitation meat/dairy concoctions. Taste is foul. Texture is horrible. They smell bad. Hard to digest. More expensive than real meat/dairy. The market for fake foods is collapsing
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2 years
When they show a shoulder-shrugging indifference as they take a wrecking ball to the livelihoods of all the restaurateurs, publicans, club owners, suppliers and producers who cater for those of us who value food and drink, we should tell them where to go.
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5 years
“Jo Swinson, helped put in place the legislation to frack UK wide, votes for fracking, takes £14,000 from the director of a fracking company but expects us to believe she is against fracking. I don’t think so.”
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4 years
Researchers found that animal protein is more effective than plant protein in preventing muscles wasting away.
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Joanna Blythman
5 years
Forget all that lean nonsense. In praise of #fat and bone. My @bbcgoodfood column #meat
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4 years
Hilarious. Do watch
@QUBFoodProf
Prof Chris Elliott OBE
4 years
The Crimbo dinner. A video suggesting it'll never be the same again. 🐓
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5 years
Livestock are responsible for only 5% of UK greenhouse gas emissions. All the carbon in ruminant methane is recycled carbon – grazing animals can’t add more to the atmosphere than the plants they eat take out by photosynthesis. ⁦ @SusFoodTrust
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5 years
“Buy less meat, milk, cheese and butter and more locally sourced seasonal food” says @BBCsciencenews Irresponsible. In UK meat, milk, cheese, butter is often locally sourced and never goes out of season!
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3 years
Sanity @Nigella_Lawson 👏 She wants to be able to eat "proper food" and believes we are designed to eat meat. “I feel that we have the teeth for meat and so it's natural for us to want to eat it.” Nigella Lawson doesn't 'see the point' of going vegan
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Joanna Blythman
6 years
Court victory at last ⁦ @ErringtonCheese !⁩ 😀 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾Sheriff Robert Weir, QC, ruled that Errington Cheese did not breach safety standards at its factory and has lifted an order stopping the sale of Lanark Blue and Corra Linn.
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5 years
One reason I keep arguing the principle that animal food production can be sustainable, high welfare, ecological is because it’s unfair to small ethical producers to brand them with the factory farming brush. We need these people for nutritious food from fertile soil
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Sam_Glanllyn
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@JoannaBlythman 🙌🏼 and thank you from this small and totally caring farmer 🙏🏼
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
Give me UK #lamb over imported Thai jackfruit every time. My ⁦ @bbcgoodfood ⁩ December column. Plant-based diets don’t work in winter- unless food miles don’t worry you ✈️
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4 years
“I can't believe I pay for a TV licence for this. Completely biased, lacking scientific backing and largely irrelevant to UK agriculture”. Excellent executive summary #MeatAThreatToOurPlanet
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Joanna Blythman
3 years
What a turn out in France! Demonstrations everywhere. This is Aix👇 #NoVaccinePassportAnywhere
@AnonymeCitoyen
Anonyme Citoyen
3 years
Comme chaque samedi depuis maintenant 7 semaines, des milliers de personnes manifestent à Aix-en-Provence contre le #PassSanitaire . #manifestation28aout #Manifs28aout #Manif28aout
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UK Parliament: Stop supermarkets from selling raw fruit and veg in plastic packaging. - Sign the Pe... via @UKChange
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5 years
“Last week veganist activists attacked the BBC for failing to challenge the supposedly ‘fatuous propaganda’ put forward by food writer Joanna Blythman. Blythman’s sin was to claim that a vegan diet “cannot compare in nutrient density” to meat-based diets”
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5 years
“A recommendation to reduce intake of total saturated fat... might cause a reduction in the intake of nutrient dense foods”. Drip, drip, drip. That’s the meltdown of anti-sat fat dogma you’re hearing
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4 years
“A major study published in The Lancet last year found that people who regularly eat meat (including red, but not processed meat) are 25% less likely to develop cardiovascular disease.” Meat is one of the healthiest foods. Why tax it?
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4 years
Bad bad bad #sheep . We must replace them with a fake food factory! 😉
@hilltopfarmgirl
Hill Top Farm
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Hay time.
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“Eating foods that humans have been eating for hundreds of thousands of years, in the form in which they were originally eaten, is likely to be more benign than eating foods that are relatively new to human diets or processed in new ways”
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3 years
The great majority of foods containing selenium, zinc/vitamin D are of animal origin and high in fat. We are frequently told to reduce our intake of meat. This message is driven by dogma and not by science. Red meat is the most nutrient-dense food.”
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I’m sure I’m not the only food lover, writer, cook who’s wondering if assorted boffins, environmentalists now making apocalyptic, emphatic statements about food actually know much about its production, or even enjoy eating it. Or even have any common sense. #LovemeatHateignorance
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5 years
I’ve had it with #vegan fakery. A mulch of pea protein isolate/additives/gums isn’t #meat . My @bbcgoodfood column
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“This is a campaign telling ordinary people they should be eating less than half a rasher of bacon per day for the sake of the environment, while the patron is flying people around the world in private jets creating one enormous carbon footprint.”
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Idiotic, ignorant, hysterical, fatuous fools comparing one of Nature’s most nutritious foods to cigarettes. Don’t let these imbeciles anywhere near our food! Scientists Want Meat Slapped With ‘Cigarette-Style’ Warning #EatMeat
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You’ll be short of calcium, iron, potassium, D3, K2, retinol, B12, sodium if you adopt EAT Lancet diet. It’s nutritionally deficient. Irresponsible! ⁦ @zoeharcombe ⁩ expert analysis
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6 years
We are now living in the times when people are avoiding the foods that humans have consumed for thousands of years. It is strange to see that people are ready to discard the knowledge gained by our ancestors over thousands of years
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Eggs. What genius thought them up? That’ll be Mother Nature. My latest ⁦ @bbcgoodfood ⁩ 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
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Why not dump supermarket beef shopping and start buying from an independent butcher, farm shop, or online, direct from the farmer? My latest ⁦ @heraldscotland
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5 years
“They have systematically demonised nourishing foods that my mum and granny grew up eating, like red meat, full fat dairy, liver, and eggs. They have advised that people replace these natural, whole foods with ultra-processed and processed foods that are nutritionally destitute.”
@catriona1
Catriona Walsh
5 years
@JoannaBlythman @SusFoodTrust The ethics of food is a lot more hazy than many people think. I wish plant based promoters would think about it a bit more
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2 years
Once living animals are eliminated and replaced with patented plant-derived alternatives, private companies will effectively control the food supply in its entirety, and those who control the food control the people.
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1 year
Good to see these popping up in indie shops! #CashIsKing #UseCash
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Joanna Blythman
3 years
Keep these people AWAY FROM OUR FOOD!
@BeyondMeat
Beyond Meat
3 years
The secret’s out...
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
‘When you say that we are “more disconnected from the natural world” in the same breath as saying that animals are equal to humans, you lost me. In the natural world, the lion does not see the gazelle as its equal. The lion sees the gazelle as its lunch’
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Joanna Blythman
6 years
Cut calories. Eat less. Same old duff advice @PHE_uk IT DOESN’T WORK! Should say avoid ultra-processed food, cook from un- or minimally processed ingredients, forget counting calories, focus on satiety
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4 years
The techno-food corporations see a little green V and the word “plant” as a formula for spinning gold from straw through ultra-processing. Don’t buy it. Me @guardian
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4 years
‘"Vegan food is the biggest rip-off. The ingredients are so cheap. I want to give people value for money.”
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
Please Sustain, don’t go down the #EatLancet anti-animal food path. The enemy is ultra-processed food and industrial agriculture (both animal and plant). We need livestock to build soil fertility as part of regenerative mixed farms.
@UKSustain
Sustain
4 years
Not to be missed! We'll be chairing a @FoodSHIFT2030 webinar Nov 17 as part of @EATforum EAT @Home , looking at radical citizen innovations shaking up the food system. Come for the discussion, leave with inspiration!
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5 years
Finest British beef steak burgers cost £6.61 per kg. The fake burger (which is made mostly of pea protein) costs £21.81 per kg. How’s that for premium pricing?
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Joanna Blythman
4 years
The team found that individuals with the lowest blood pressure were those who had the highest intake of sodium and potassium. Conversely, those with the highest blood pressure had the lowest intake of sodium and potassium. via @healthline
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Joanna Blythman
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How to demonstrate planet-loving street cred: Repeat “eat less meat” robotically. Drop “rewilding” into every possible sentence. Dismiss all animal food production as “vile” or “cruel” No prior knowledge of agriculture/food production required. Lots of career opps
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