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Science, history and nature

[History Girl @HistoryGirlBW]

Quintessentially English. Prince the dog travels by train to his favourite destination, Eastbourne, in 1952.

[Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland]

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen.

📍my favourite oak #lakedistrict

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

It’s a life saver

[Harvard Health @HarvardHealth]

Foundation of a healthly diet: Make colorful vegetables, legumes, fruits, and whole grains the key elements of your diet. #HarvardHealth
https://t.co/OhuycoZCYk

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The American Heart Association recommends getting protein from plants—rather than meat—and avoiding full-fat dairy. https://t.co/pUmNw4JiyQ

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UK @guardian

“Successive governments criticised for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce risk in decade since cancer link found”

https://t.co/YRcHIEdU16

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

'There has to be a considerable reduction in meat consumption...otherwise, we're just not going to be keeping within our planetary boundaries.'

@oxmartinschool and @OxPrimaryCare's Prof Peter Scarborough shares his message for #WorldFoodDay:

[Harvard Health @HarvardHealth]

Two findings published in 2020 suggest that longevity is associated with either increasing plant protein consumption or replacing animal proteins, especially red meat and eggs, with plant protein: https://t.co/GOI7N2irQ7 #HarvardHealth

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

If we ended industrial animal agriculture, there'd suddenly be more than enough food for everyone, we'd essentially end animal cruelty, no one would die, and we'd take a huge bite out of the climate and ecological emergency. We could do this basically overnight.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Vegetarians have 13% lower cancer risk and vegans 23% lower cancer risk than meat-eaters, new meta-analysis finds.

[HFrasier @frasier_hal]

According to the University of Oxford:
Going #Vegan is the single biggest thing anyone of us can do to halt #climatechange, reverse deforestation, preserve biodiversity, stop species loss and save the Planet.
#climatecrisis #climateemergency #deforestation
https://t.co/6bZjWVj33g

[HFrasier @frasier_hal]

800 million trees felled in six years to meet demand for #beef

#climateemergency #climatecrisis #deforestation
https://t.co/p1Je4pTWxV

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

The latest Red List of endangered species worldwide lists no fewer than 48,646 species which are now facing extinction. This is higher than at any time in human history.

[Dr Alan Desmond @DrAlanDesmond]

A leaked document has just revealed how the meat industry helped manufacture the backlash against one of the most important food and climate reports ever published.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Businesses face extinction unless they protect nature, major report warns https://t.co/uGS9X4wz3C

[ScienceTweets @ScienceTweets26]

Oxford University on #ClimateChange

#PlantBased #Vegan #ClimateAction

[ScienceTweets @ScienceTweets26]

According to the UN, the #meat industry is an even greater threat to the planet than the world’s largest oil companies. It also leads to the loss of biodiversity, and is the number one cause of #deforestation

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Vegan #ClimateAction

[HFrasier @frasier_hal]

Sir David Attenborough

Go #Vegan 🌱

#plantbased #climatechange #climateaction

[HFrasier @frasier_hal]

Amsterdam follows other Dutch cities and bans meat and fossil fuel adverts

#ClimateAction #Vegan

[Benjamin Todd @ben_j_todd]

If you want to reduce emissions, ignore plastic packaging and food miles: almost all food emissions come from production.

Reducing meat will do far more than anything else.