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[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

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

If you want to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet, less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat.

[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]

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

[ScienceTweets @ScienceTweets26]

Oxford University on #ClimateChange

#plantbased #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

[Rachel Salvidge @RachSalv]

Superbugs resistant to antibiotics are rising fast. I tested water at Lough Neagh (40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water) & found high levels of antibiotic-resistant genes from human & livestock poo. If we treat waters like sewers, this is what we get. https://t.co/zgi2YkyR6I

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

*Half* of the food produced in the world each year is not consumed by people.

Croplands already produce enough calories to support about 14.5 billion people, nearly double today’s population.

But half is lost to feed for factory farmed livestock, biofuels, or lost throughout the supply chain.

[In America the figure is a truly grotesque 77% of food not consumed by people.]

And we're told that rewilding marginal land poses a threat to food security!

https://t.co/bta8WHqAnK

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

Antibiotics dumped by factory #salmon farms are now contaminating wild fish, including abalone and rock lobsters, up to 10km away from the nearest fish farm.
The marine environment has been sacrificed on the altar of big salmon corporations. #FISHFARMSOUTNOW! #Politas