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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hai friendly starlings 😍

#BirdSky 🐦 #BirdsOfBlueSky
🦅🦜🪶🦢🦉

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hai friendly starlings 😍

#BirdSky 🐦 #BirdsOfBlueSky
🦅🦜🪶🦢🦉

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8d

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.

90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.

90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.

Public ownership would make a difference.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

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Jim Smoot, PhD @jcsmoot.bsky.social · 4d

Great thread summarizing latest #EatLancet report presentation.

Here is a link to recording of the 3.5 h presentation.

www.youtube.com/live/4ofJYRz...

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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K. T. Petty @ktp128.bsky.social · 5d

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
🍊🥓🍒

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

No prob! I wonder how the MAHA and protein-fanatic crowds will react to this?!

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Nix! Excellent overview of the #EatLancet launch

Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
🍊🥓🍒

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

Final thought: wonder how the #MAHA crowd are going to react to this, given there seemed to be a big push to consume more animal products (e.g. beef tallow) to make America "healthy" again. Science says otherwise.

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 5d

"... a balanced dietary pattern that is predominantly plant-based, with moderate inclusion of animal-sourced foods and minimal consumption of added sugars, saturated fats, and salt."

Veggies are (still) go!

Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
🍊🥓🍒

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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ignas heitkonig🍉🔻 #BendingTheBiodiversityCurve @ignasheitkonig.bsky.social · 5d

Very important global food paper just out by Rockström et al 👇; thanx to @nixrust.bsky.social for summarizing the main findings 🙏🏽. Focus on fruit and veggies.

Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
🍊🥓🍒

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

And, as if by magic, we at Ostara have been investigating exactly these solutions. If you want to read more about these, check out this report

www.ostaracollective.org/wp-content/u...

www.ostaracollective.org

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

3. Change the narrative.

Stop misinformation. Stop disinformation. Spread awareness about *TRUTHFUL* healthy eating information.

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

2. Tackling corporate power.

Tough one. Not going to be politically sexy. Will require brave decisions and collective effort.

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

What changes are needed?

1. Subsidies.

For instance, $7 TRILLION/year goes into funding climate, biodiversity and land destruction, far surpassing the funding going to tackle these issues.

THIS. IS. ABSURD.

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

3. Insufficient demand for change.

Consumers are being hoodwinked by corporate actors. Think about this stupid protein craze. Most of the Global North eats TOO MUCH protein and there are health risks to doing so.

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

2. Corporate power - this is a BIG one.

There is SO MUCH money and power going into sustaining the status quo - keeping us unhealthy, continuing to destroy the planet.

We MUST tackle this head on.

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

Main barriers:

1. Governments scared to change, in part because a healthy, sustainable diet is more expensive - this is something that needs tackling if we are to create a just food system

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

And here's the numbers for non-ruminant meat and fish - basically we need less non-ruminant meat but more fish

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

This is what it looks like in terms of number of livestock animals now compared with 2050 from BAU and the EAT Lancet Planetary Health diet

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

If we compare the EAT Lancet Planetary Diet to business as usual (BAU) we see the effect that has on land use, GHG emissions, water, nitrogen and phosphorus use.

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

What this looks like in numbers is that only 115 million people globally live in a safe and just food environment

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

So looking at all the factors overall for food justice, we see that much of the world falls short.

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

In terms of the meaningful representation aspect of justice (the right to decent work) we see most countries do not have this.

Farm workers are some of the least well paid employees in the world. They are more likely to be subjected to exploitative, unsafe environments.

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 5d

In terms of climate justice, much of the Global South does not currently live in a safe climate - despite the fact that they were far less responsible for climate change in the first place.

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