PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
by pajamakitten
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pajamakitten
So I actually read that paper when applying for a PhD in nutrition. While it does not recommend a fully plant-based diet, it does both recommend a huge decrease in animal products and ultra-processed foods, while simultaneously highlighting the risks of animal products consumption, and the benefits of eating a whole foods plant-based diet. While the paper is not perfect, it is significantly better than any other mainstream research into whole foods plant-based diets than anything else I have read.
This just shows how desperate the animal agriculture industry is to silence the science, none of which will be news to them anyway, they want to keep people in the dark when it comes to the health and climate risks of animal agriculture.
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>“Everyone was shocked by the volume and tone of the tweets: the aggressiveness and degree of lying, to put it very bluntly,” he said. “Climate change science has faced this kind of backlash for a while. But in this domain – diets and meat – that was new to people. Everyone was shocked.”
It’s really telling that the meat industry has all that money they could use to run studies but they know the science isn’t on their side, so the go for propaganda.
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So I actually read that paper when applying for a PhD in nutrition. While it does not recommend a fully plant-based diet, it does both recommend a huge decrease in animal products and ultra-processed foods, while simultaneously highlighting the risks of animal products consumption, and the benefits of eating a whole foods plant-based diet. While the paper is not perfect, it is significantly better than any other mainstream research into whole foods plant-based diets than anything else I have read.
This just shows how desperate the animal agriculture industry is to silence the science, none of which will be news to them anyway, they want to keep people in the dark when it comes to the health and climate risks of animal agriculture.
>“Everyone was shocked by the volume and tone of the tweets: the aggressiveness and degree of lying, to put it very bluntly,” he said. “Climate change science has faced this kind of backlash for a while. But in this domain – diets and meat – that was new to people. Everyone was shocked.”
It’s really telling that the meat industry has all that money they could use to run studies but they know the science isn’t on their side, so the go for propaganda.