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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 5d

- The recommended diet, however, remains largely consistent with the 2019 version.

I've framed the key findings into 3 buckets that I now use when I talk about food systems challenges: how to make them healthier, greener, & fairer. It's all in the newsletter.

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 5d

The 2025 version it here! What's new?
- Food justice plays a central role.
- Better & more detailed modelling & data analysis to project potential outcomes of a transition to healthy & sustainable food systems.
- An expanded membership: 70 experts (from 37), including on justice & livestock systems.

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 5d

The EAT-Lancet report made a big splash & also attracted a big backlash. Some criticisms - too costly, too unrealistic - were legitimate but others seemed to have been due to a highly coordinated campaign by vested interests. Still, it brought the planetary health diet (PHD) into the mainstream.

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 5d

In Jan 2019, a group of eminent scientists, unveiled, for the first time, an ‘ideal diet’ for both a healthy population & a sustainable food system. It recommended a doubling of consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables & legumes, & a halving of meat & sugar intake.

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The Planetary Health Diet, Revisited

The wealthiest 30% drive 70% of food-related environmental impacts. Can we change how we eat, farm, and share power?

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 8d

Listen to the latest episode of my new @issuesinst.bsky.social podcast, NOT NOW BUT SOON, in which I talk to @thinink.bsky.social about global food systems, the authoritarian takeover of Myanmar, and other disasters. Search "The Ongoing Transformation" wherever you get your podcasts!

Not Now, But Soon: The Food System is Rigged

Thin Lei Win discusses growing up in Myanmar, and how that has shaped how she sees the intersection between food, climate, and disasters.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 8d

It's not up on the website yet, but the new episode of my podcast, NOT NOW BUT SOON, is already up on spotify and probably other podcast platforms! In this edition, I talk to the amazing @thinink.bsky.social about the disasters including global food systems and the authoritarian takeover in Myanmar

Not Now, But Soon: The Food System is Rigged

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Kite Tales Myanmar @kitetalesmm.bsky.social · 10d

A Yangon journalist, who stayed on after the coup, wrote of feeling "like a trapped rat" & finally making the heartbreaking decision to leave her home.

"As the plane takes off, I look out the window. The sight tugs at my heart. This is the city I grew up in."

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 12d

And about whether, and how, they might be revived.

Our conversation reminded me of a phrase that has become a rallying cry in Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement, which is waging its own uneven struggle against a brutal military: “They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.”

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 12d

But what does that work mean when famine has been declared in Gaza, when only 1.5% of land is accessible+not damaged & when a people already denied freedom of movement are also being starved? We spoke about the past, present & future of Palestinian food systems...

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 12d

Viven is the founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library (viviensansour.com/Palestine-He...) and a tireless advocate for food sovereignty, not just for her home country but also for the world. For years, she’s worked to preserve the seeds, crops, & stories that root Palestinians to their land.

Palestine Heirloom — Vivien Sansour

PALESTINE HEIRLOOM SEED LIBRARY مكتبه‭ ‬البذور ‬البلدية‭ ‬الفلسطينية Part of the Fertile Crescent,...

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve been wanting to do an issue on food systems in Palestine for a while. I also wanted to do it with somebody who's very much deep in the food culture, storytelling, & preservation issues. This week, I finally managed to do it with Vivien Sansour.

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"I don't see Palestine as an isolated story"

On grief, land, and love in the struggle for Palestinian food and memory

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May Bulman @maybulman.bsky.social · 14d

Glad to have got this over the line

How Tony Blair is lobbying on behalf of Big Tech

His Institute (TBI) is pushing AI solutionism on Starmer’s govt, which is embracing it w open arms, as TBI donor & tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to reap the benefits

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Inside the Tony Blair Institute

Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 16d

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Look to Myanmar for a vision of a world where authoritarians have unfettered power | Simon Tisdall

The brutality and repression there highlight the failings of a dysfunctional world order. Unless we do better, this is the future, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 17d

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Kite Tales Myanmar @kitetalesmm.bsky.social · 17d

A new tale about #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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Kite Tales Myanmar @kitetalesmm.bsky.social · 17d

Our fellow in northern Shan State wrote in vivid detail about the terrifying night when soldiers & police conducting house-to-house searches reached her home, & turned it upside down. They were looking for those responsible for bombing a local police station.

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Escape from the Tiger’s Jaw

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 19d

I chose this section because not only does it vividly illustrates the concentration of power in our food systems, it also showed how this skews markets and also entrenches inequities and systemic injustices. Hence the title.

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 19d

Last week, I shared a wide-ranging interview with @jennifer on Titans of Industrial Agriculture. This week, I’m staying focused on this topic and sharing an excerpt from the book.

Thanks again @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social !

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Power & Prejudice

An illuminating excerpt from "Titans of Industrial Agriculture"

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Mo Ali | مح علي @moali.bsky.social · 19d

If you're on LinkedIn, you'll probably want to switch this toggle to 'off'.

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 26d

Such an honour to be interviewed by the awesome and insightful @thinink.bsky.social about some of the big themes in my new book, Titans of industrial Agriculture. Link below!

Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 26d

Regular readers of Thin Ink know I’m a big fan of @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social's work. So of course when her latest book, Titans of Industrial Agriculture, came out earlier this year, I had to read it.

It's a bit of a magnum opus: 13 chapters nearly 500 pages.
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It’s About Power, Not Prices

Jennifer Clapp on how decades of antitrust policy missed the real dangers of Big Ag consolidation & encouraged industrial agriculture’s lock-ins

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 26d

So I sat down with Jennifer to discuss how corporate power structures in agriculture were entrenched far earlier than most of us realise, why past critiques went unheeded, & what that means for breaking free of the “lock-ins” shaping our food systems today.

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 26d

Jennifer took us through some 170 years of agri history, charting the rise & rise of corporations that now dominate farm machinery, fertiliser, seeds, & pesticide sectors. It’s dense, detailed, illuminating & highly relevant. Striking too to see how many of today’s challenges are echoes of the past.

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Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social · 26d

Regular readers of Thin Ink know I’m a big fan of @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social's work. So of course when her latest book, Titans of Industrial Agriculture, came out earlier this year, I had to read it.

It's a bit of a magnum opus: 13 chapters nearly 500 pages.
news.thin-ink.net/p/its-about-...

It’s About Power, Not Prices

Jennifer Clapp on how decades of antitrust policy missed the real dangers of Big Ag consolidation & encouraged industrial agriculture’s lock-ins

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Prince Caspian @nysea.bsky.social · 27d

It's a terrible tragedy that a young man was murdered in an act of political violence, which this absolutely was, and that his child is now without a father and wife without a husband. But if you think a line was crossed *just* today, well, you're part of the problem.

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Prince Caspian @nysea.bsky.social · 27d

Scott Jennings, in an emotional moment with Tapper, mentioned a bunch of political violence directed at GOPers and Tapper had to remind him that Dem MN lawmakers were assassinated just three months ago. Jennings said a line was crossed today and Tapper had to remind him it was *already* crossed.

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