Suzi Gerber, PhD

Food Nutrition & Behavior Science🧪🌱 Protein Transition | Chef-Author👩🏽‍🍳 “something of a food polymath” —Feed the People🍴 Econ groupie! Opinions=mine

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

Externalities of meat consumption:
1. Human health
2. Methane emission
3. Ecosystem degradation
4. Effluent caused poisoning
5. Environmental inequality
6. Deforestation
7. Mono-cropping
8. Heat/cool & transport cost & emissions
9. Food poison/pathogen
And more (add below👇🏽)

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@jan_dutkiewicz You mean biological gradients are a causal criteria? Who would have thought!

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@bhanlon15 Can a group of us who are scientists and have published on the topic and/or lived through this create a co-signed letter in response as an LTE?

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@Sophia_Sophi01 And this is why anti microbial resistance and zoonotic diseases are rampaging

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@AlanLevinovitz @zeynep @MeganTStevenson Post viral syndromes are incredibly well described in the literature before and including LC. Your perpetual disregard for the lives of others is the only thing people see when you keyboard smash this hot garbage out here.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@AlanLevinovitz @MeganTStevenson This is wild. She is absolutely correct about what proper disclosures are for IRB requirements and risks of harm. Do you even do human subjects research? Biomedical research? Some of us actually do.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@chotiari @wil_da_beast630 This is wildly untrue.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@jan_dutkiewicz @CraftmeatI It also doesn’t actually describe processing at all but no one wants to talk about that!

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@KennyTorrella Logic is certainly not being applied here so much as carefully guarded boundaries. https://t.co/sv6kxhp7xL

[Steven Godofsky @sgodofsk]

Vegan folks always ask me to produce some sort of closed-form first principles solution to the question of animal cruelty and personhood or whatever and my view is that if you went through that exercise and arrived at veganism I think that process must be inherently flawed.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@AlanLevinovitz @WIRED Oh look who is at it again with the absolutely indefensible shit takes on things that absolutely destroy people other than him. Are you in a race w/ yourself to the bottom? Signed, a scientist who has had long Covid 3+ years.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

We should advocate for full transparency & disclosure of media messaging + stricter influencer & advocacy traceability. The ability to weaponize bot farms & paid attacks on any thought, person or good w/ the impression of false consensus = wealth can bury anything it doesn’t like

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@joshbalk @NickKristof There are material costs as well. Stress has emotionally & physically damaging effects on these animals both of which cause changes in disease susceptibility, meat quality reduction, & altered nutritional composition of resulting foods. Whackamole w/ human, animal& envir costs

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@CraftmeatI @BruceGFriedrich Yes there is a preprint. https://t.co/tsFpgxDne1

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@CraftmeatI @BruceGFriedrich There is a UNC group tha our Tufts team is collaborating with (Not Stout lab to my knowledge ) that is creating A-Gal-free crispr edited beef.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@CraftmeatI @BruceGFriedrich Yes I’m familiar. I was merely correcting that there is not an increase in allergenicity. Yes allergens should e clearly labeled and this is an important one for consumer safety.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@CraftmeatI @BruceGFriedrich The one study on this describes a shift in *relative* allergen concentration because absolute levels of other beef allergens reduce. I’ll speak to Andrew now.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@MikeGrunwald @V4Veg It’s pretty interesting that people in the comments think reducing silage production somehow wouldn’t reduce cattle production. A change in the what & where of production of feed will impact the what & how much of livestock.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@hicasamadim 72

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@JohnStreicher1 This is how we ended up with dyad and attractiveness to partners in endo research isn’t it.

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

@jan_dutkiewicz @Treich13 We really need to finish that paper 😬