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Date: January 27, 2020 at 10:53:20
From: chatillion, [DNS_Address]
Subject: The Dark Side of Plant-Based Food… |
URL: https://americanconsequences.com/who-profits-from-plant-based-food-one-traders-beyond-meat-stock-mistake-cities-that-dont-want-tourists/ |
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Who profits from plant-based food?... One trader's Beyond Meat stock mistake... Cities that don't want tourists
January 27, 2019
Dear reader,
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that meatless food options are gaining popularity…
Burger King’s plant-based Impossible Burger produced strong sales and revenue growth for the fast-food restaurant. McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and KFC are among the many other chains to jump on the bandwagon.
And it’s not just vegans who are gobbling up the meatless menu items… According to the National Restaurant Association’s 2019 report, 95% of the people who bought a plant-based burger last year were meat eaters.
So consuming all this plant-based food is healthier for us and better for the planet, right? Not so fast…
The Dark Side of Plant-Based Food…
It’s More About Money Than You May Think
By Martin Cohen and Frédéric Leroy
If you were to believe newspapers and dietary advice leaflets, you’d probably think that doctors and nutritionists are the people guiding us through the thicket of what to believe when it comes to food. But food trends are far more political – and economically motivated – than they seem.
From ancient Rome, where Cura Annonae – the provision of bread to the citizens – was the central measure of good government, to 18th-century Britain, where the economist Adam Smith identified a link between wages and the price of corn, food has been at the center of the economy. Politicians have long had their eye on food policy as a way to shape society.
That’s why tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and grain were enforced in Britain between 1815 and 1846. These “corn laws” enhanced the profits and political power of the landowners, at the cost of raising food prices and hampering growth in other economic sectors.
Over in Ireland, the ease of growing the recently imported potato plant led to most people living off a narrow and repetitive diet of homegrown potatoes with a dash of milk. When potato blight arrived, a million people starved to death, even as the country continued to produce large amounts of food – for export to England.
Such episodes well illustrate that food policy has often been a fight between the interests of the rich and the poor. No wonder Marx declared that food lay at the heart of all political structures and warned of an alliance of industry and capital intent on both controlling and distorting food production.
Vegan Wars
Many of today’s food debates can also be usefully reinterpreted when seen as part of a wider economic picture. For example, recent years have seen the co-option of the vegetarian movement in a political program that can have the effect of perversely disadvantaging small-scale, traditional farming in favor of large-scale industrial farming.
This is part of a wider trend away from small- and mid-size producers toward industrial-scale farming and a global food market in which food is manufactured from cheap ingredients bought in a global bulk commodities market that is subject to fierce competition. Consider the launch of a whole new range of laboratory created “fake meats” (fake dairy, fake eggs) in the U.S. and Europe, oft celebrated for aiding the rise of the vegan movement. Such trends entrench the shift of political power away from traditional farms and local markets toward biotech companies and multinationals.
Estimates for the global vegan food market now expect it to grow each year by nearly 10% and to reach around $24.3 billion by 2026. Figures like this have encouraged the megaliths of the agricultural industry to step in, having realized that the “plant-based” lifestyle generates large profit margins, adding value to cheap raw materials (such as protein extracts, starches, and oils) through ultra-processing. Unilever is particularly active, offering nearly 700 vegan products in Europe.
Researchers at the U.S. think tank RethinkX predict that “we are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruption” of agriculture in history. They say that by 2030, the entire U.S. dairy and cattle industry will have collapsed, as “precision fermentation” – producing animal proteins more efficiently via microbes – “disrupts food production as we know it.”
Westerners might think that this is a price worth paying. But elsewhere, it’s a different story. While there is much to be said for rebalancing western diets away from meat and toward fresh fruits and vegetables, in India and much of Africa, animal-sourced foods are an indispensable part of maintaining health and obtaining food security, particularly for women and children and the 800 million poor that subsist on starchy foods.
To meet the 2050 challenges for quality protein and some of the most problematic micronutrients worldwide, animal-source foods remain fundamental. But livestock also plays a critical role in reducing poverty, increasing gender equality, and improving livelihoods. Animal husbandry cannot be taken out of the equation in many parts of the world where plant agriculture involves manure, traction, and waste recycling – that is, if the land allows sustainable crop growth in the first place. Traditional livestock gets people through difficult seasons, prevents malnutrition in impoverished communities, and provides economic security.
Follow the Money
Often, those championing vegan diets in the West are unaware of such nuances. In April 2019, for example, Canadian conservation scientist, Brent Loken, addressed India’s Food Standards Authority on behalf of EAT-Lancet’s “Great Food Transformation” campaign, describing India as “a great example” because “a lot of the protein sources come from plants.” Yet such talk in India is far from uncontroversial.
The country ranks 102 out of 117 qualifying countries on the Global Hunger Index, and only 10% of infants between six and 23 months old are adequately fed. While the World Health Organization recommends animal-source foods as sources of high-quality nutrients for infants, food policy there spearheads an aggressive new Hindu nationalism that has led to many of India’s minority communities being treated as outsiders. Even eggs in school meals have become politicized. Here, calls to consume less animal products are part of a deeply vexed political context.
Likewise, in Africa, food wars are seen in sharp relief as industrial-scale farming by transnationals for crops and vegetables takes fertile land away from mixed family farms (including cattle and dairy) and exacerbates social inequality.
The result is that today, private interest and political prejudices often hide behind the grandest talk of “ethical” diets and planetary sustainability even as the consequences may be nutritional deficiencies, biodiversity-destroying monocultures, and the erosion of food sovereignty.
For all the warm talk, global food policy is really an alliance of industry and capital intent on both controlling and distorting food production.
© The Conversation
Martin Cohen is a visiting research fellow in philosophy at University of Hertfordshire.
Frédéric Leroy is a professor of food science and biotechnology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Now here are some of the stories we’re reading…
Veganuary is huge. But is it really as simple as animal foods bad, plant foods good?
We seem to have forgotten that, just like meat, vegan food can damage the planet…
Fake Meat vs. Real Meat
Consumers are gobbling down plant-based burgers, prompting meat producers to question the health benefits of “ultra-processed imitations.”
Young trader’s epic Beyond Meat stock misfire: ‘Biggest mistake of my life’
“That’s what I get for betting against the vegan movement.”
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Date: January 27, 2020 at 16:31:44
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Dark Side of a animal-Based diet… |
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No one has to consume fast food or processed plant food to exist well on a plant based diet.
When the recent vegan phenomenon caught on five or so years ago I was like wow I only heard about it via youtube and when I found one video more came up and I was encouraged....But this world is never gonna go that way on account of ones like the article
you shared. I got a real story my own and not about some marketing or sales ploy or other kind of man made business stuff. I told it before here so I can again but it's just a small part of my testimony of how I became vegan and to realize God's will and abide in
the goodness of that which is truly righteousness.
I went vegan because I was praying and asking God about the food in 2002 long before the "vegan" movement. I knew there was something wrong when everyday the news media had a different spin on what to eat and what not to eat. When I saw a
documentary on mad cow in Britain I stopped eating beef that was in the late 90's or so. I was appalled man had made cows cannibals. So I said to myself God knows what to eat man does not know much at all considering all the food confusion.
I started eating kosher and I did not know what a vegan was and only met one vegetarian in my life...2002 mind you. I grew up in WVA a state with some of the worst eating habits and health issues along with a few others...raised that way ate what my parents
gave me but does not mean they knew what was right to eat...I stopped fast food before I stopped the red meat mad cow consumption.
Then I was given three nights of visions in 2002, more real than this fake world. And it was as if I was Eve (and I am I came to realize as time went on) and in the garden in the beginning when I was minding my own affairs in the garden when a pale white arm of a
male came along beside me and in his right hand he had a loverly fruit I admired it for the color which was orange and it seemed to be like a peach or apricot maybe. Then he (the white snake) squeezed his hand and by some act of sorcery when he opened it
blood was dripping down his arm and raw white flesh and it horrified me...I can't tell you to the degree the horror. I never had a thought of eating or killing an animal and that someone did and was doing that caused me to stumble...just the mere thought. It's why
we are to guard them. As this happened in the visions my Lord said "she did not know, she did not know" then he said to me "the life of the flesh is in the blood and the blood has a voice and God hears it".
I had to know what evil was and since Satan did transgress everyone had to know me first because for a reason and a purpose . At this time in history at the end and close of the tree of good and evil you see humans are more confused than ever about food but I
am not. I know why Earth is rocking and reeling like a drunkard, it's by the tricks of the adversary spirit.
Genesis 1:29 was what my Lord took me to and I knew with no doubt not to eat animals again. Now you see the nasty disease in China it's caused because animals are not food though one can eat them, it''snot healthy and causes blindness in spirit and disease.
Some cannot stop or discipline themselves though and enjoy killing and have dark hearts...seeding dead works.
I was not sure what to eat at first after the visions so I ate peanut butter and jelly for awhile and cereal trying to sort it out and for the first few months I did have dairy. One day as I was reading the package on cheese of the ingredients I saw the word "rennet" as
and enzyme and was suspicious so I looked it up. Rennet comes from the intestines of a dead baby calf ...that's the enzyme in cheese unless one purchases rennet free cheese or plant based cheese. So then and there I stopped dairy. Overall my health
increased and I was looking good and others said to me you look so good what are you doing and I said I went vegetarian (not knowing there was a word called vegan till later...I thought true vegetarians do not eat animal products by then). Then they would say to
me "what do you eat"? I would say all kinds of foods and I got looks like how impossible. But I know all things are possible with God, most just don't believe that.
So later it comes out to no surprise the damage of animal agriculture industry does to the planet and the massive consumption of death and destruction, blood, sweat, urine, pain and suffering, diseases, etc. has increased till we have what we do today a dying
planet due to the voracious appetites of the ones with dominion who partake in the upside down dominion death banquet of the principality of the air of this world who goes around like a raging lion.
As for the things that the companies are coming up with in fast food I don't eat fast food and have not for a long time before I had a diet overhaul I stopped eating it realizing it was bad for ones health. I will never have one of their new plant based burgers. As
long as others choose to partake of the death banquet of blood, sweat, pain and tears and they will till this world ends it's not going to go well the overall health of others and the planet because the majority wipe out any progress the few make as they rather live
for the flesh and inherit the zilch.
It's no surprise to me that the current corona virus is from eating snakes btw, it just validates everything I know and have been brought to remember from my past ...I don't know it all nor have I been given to remember ... just what I need to for the good of the
kindgom of true peace which is heavenly.
I don't care what any man made article may say as I know what is right to eat for a healthy planet and it is not about per se man made business marketing or fast food markets of this world. One does not need marketed boxed or fast food really to have a plant
based diet, I do consume some frozen items but it's not like I have to and I did not start out that way when I became what they call vegan which to me is another word scramble for true vegetarian.
It's no wonder in the last days there is more confusion over food than ever. it was the first line of attack by the spiritual adversary to just give me, Eve that thought and horror in my innocence. It remains his first line of attack and all the more being his time is
short. If one is eating and can sup with their enemies or break bread with any passing critter might be a good thing to rethink it if one wants to set themselves apart for a higher power the way the truth and the light so as to dine with him in the peaceable
kingdom in the glory of the beautiful peaceful feast of spiritual first fruits.
My true testimony. Thanks for the opportunity to share I have more and It's not about man's profit in the money market...none of it is the way of my Lord the stocks and selling and making what was free commodities to be sold, it's ridiculous really and upside
down dominion will annihilate the planet that sustains life by following the destroyers ways.
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Date: January 27, 2020 at 16:58:54
From: chatillion, [DNS_Address]
Subject: à chacun son gout :-)(NT) |
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Date: January 27, 2020 at 17:17:54
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: à chacun son gout :-)(NT) |
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If I cannot break bread or feast in fellowship with you now
how could we be going the same realm forever?
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Date: January 27, 2020 at 17:06:25
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: void seed speak of this world of the stiff necked people(NT) |
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Date: January 27, 2020 at 17:07:57
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: choose freely ones way is better phrase and so we do, free will(NT) |
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