Appears that the inimitable Walter Willett is at it again with a recent paper. Here's an analysis by Dr. Georgia Ede:

This is everywhere, big news but fortunately also getting push back.

Diane Rodgers response: 20 Ways EAT Lancet’s Global Diet is Wrongfully Vilifying Meat

https://sustainabledish.com/20-ways...vilifying-meat/

Dr Zoe Harcombe The EAT Lancet diet is nutritionally deficient

http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/01/...ally-deficient/

DietDoctor round-up of media... Report: Cut red-meat eating by 80 percent to save the planet?

https://www.dietdoctor.com/report-c...save-the-planet

Marty Kendall runs this through OptimizingNutrition: Should you EAT-Lancet?
Keep reading...he runs it through his Optimizer way down in this long article. Sodium is only 72% of required minimum, another article pointed out this would kill a person.

https://optimisingnutrition.com/201...you-eat-lancet/

Tom Naughton's comic response: Dr. Willett Has Convinced Me To Become A Gorilla

http://www.fathead-movie.com/index....SgOFU4Y-n5rWgy0

And even a gossipy Mirror response: Globe-trotting billionaire behind campaign to save planet accused of blatant hypocrisy
EXCLUSIVE: Gunhild Stordalen, a Norwegian who owns a £20million private jet with her husband, regularly flies to exotic destinations around the world
And from Marty above:
This sounds much like Ancel Keys and the Olive Oil folks inviting scientists to spend time studying the "mediterranean diet" in sunny Italy and Crete.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world...XX7YBUGUeQ2213E

We live in a crazy world. I am grateful for the sane people who are there countering the craziness.

The Lancet article is what you get when you mix specious morality, bad science and ego. It is a deadly mix.

Yes it is.

And perhaps from the same sources... for similar reasons.

Not a response to the EAT-Lancet paper, but a great response last year to Willett's constant drive to save ourselves from ourselves by desiring to make dietary edicts for the world. Now, the EAT-Lancet paper proposes taxing those ne'er do well red meat eaters to punish them for their roles in causing detrimental climate change, killing defenseless animals, and generally behaving like bad people when compared to his model of how people should behave. What a world, what a world . . . . .

Dr. Kellogg promoted a plant-based diet to quell libidos and subdue the masses, presumably with brain fog and not being able to venture far from water closets. The Road to Wellville movie (1994) is an amusing take on this.

Here's another good round-up of links with responses to the study:
https://isupportgary.com/articles/i...ijacking-health

I also like this from the European Food Agency: https://www.efanews.eu/item/6053
Especially their intro to the editorial that says "These crucial issues, in our humble opinion, should be the responsibility of public authorities, rather than private associations that inevitably act as pressure groups." Emphasis added. And keep in mind that when they're referring to public authorities, that while European food guidelines still have a long way to go, as in other countries, science research there has more public funding than in the U.S., so they're not just saying "trust the government," but trying to say "trust unbiased science."

Do you think Walter has Alzheimer's??



FRONTLINE Interview with Walter Willett.
The Diet Wars.

From 2004! yet he is still advocating a low fat, high grain diet.


https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fron...Fpxqa7VXYJDnUmA

If the vegans only knew.

Not necessarily Alzheimer's; although, I wouldn't rule it out, more likely a comfy job at a prestigious university with many sources of revenue supporting his plant-based (or -biased???) dietary recommendations that make him feel good because he has wealth, prestige, and is doing his part in saving the planet and its people.

[thud]

Soooo tired of the one size fits all mentality. WHY would anyone WILLLINGLY limit meat consumption?? Historically that is for the poor. And as I recently read on human population history, their is less wild meat, so people must cultivate grains and other vegetables. Then as the population rises MORE, the hybridized varieties are developed; and now the GMO's.

World wide we have a food shortage. And far too much is wasted in transit.

I look at a cabbage in the grocery, and it is a perfect ball. In the growing field it is on a thick stalk with large leaves staggered up to that ball with a mass of large leaves surrounding that ball. Nearly half is wasted just getting the cabbage out of the fields.

THe same is applied to producing meat. Too much is wasted and goes to renderer.

Here on my farm, we use everything but the "quack". Oh wait, my ducks cant quack and they have feathers.... sooooo , we use everything except the feathers !!! which goes into compost for the garden, ie feathermeal.

If you want to avoid these taxes, thinking about growing your own is a good starting point. Like vegetables, and a few hens. Im praying THAT will always be a option, especially are there is more push back allowing a few chickens in urban communities.

THANK OP for the share. Im fed up with big governments Big Brother interference on my food intake.

More from Tom Naughton:

Eat Me, Lancet … These People Are A Perfect Example Of The Anointed



http://www.fathead-movie.com/index....f-the-anointed/

Just read Tom's latest blog earlier this morning. A must read in my mind.