Mar Maestre

Rethinking and evaluating new pathways for the food system | Views my own

[Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 @DoctorChrisVT]

The harms that come from the thermal, mechanical, and chemical “ultra-processing” of products get the headlines, but they are just part of the problem of the global system of food production where the incentives are in conflict with human and planetary health. If you want to understand the deep sophistication of the UPF concept this excellent thread lays them out with crystal clarity…🧵

[Médicos Sin Fronteras @MSF_Espana]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Hemos suspendido nuestras actividades médicas en Ciudad de Gaza. Nuestros centros están rodeados por tanques y bajo ataques aéreos. Pedimos protección inmediata y cese de la violencia. #Gaza

[Henry Dimbleby @HenryDimbleby]

Any journalists going to be at @Groundswellaguk ? Would love to have a chat about the National Food Strategy and the 10-year Health Plan. Please DM.

[St Mungo's @StMungos]

St Mungo’s has issued an open letter, co-signed with 13 leading homelessness charities, urging the Government to rethink its cuts to health-related benefits laid out in the ‘Pathways to Work’ Green Paper, due to be voted on next month.

These cuts will increase homelessness, put excessive pressure on public services and push people further away from the labour market.

https://t.co/ii3ACQJ5IF

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Quick answer, Brianna:

It wasn’t Hebrew. And it sure as hell wasn’t "Israel."

Before the 7th century, the region you now call "Israel" was a crossroads of civilizations.

Aramaic was spoken. Greek. Latin. Syriac. Nabataean. Canaanite dialects.

Arabic dialects were already in the region before Islam, spoken by tribes throughout the Levant and Hijaz.

And Hebrew?

By the time of the Roman Empire, it had already faded as a spoken language.

It survived liturgically—like Latin in a medieval church—not as a living, breathing tongue of daily life.

So if your argument is "whoever spoke the language first owns the land,"

Congratulations. You’ve just erased modern Israel’s claim too.

Because modern Hebrew was reconstructed in the 19th century:

Revived in Europe.

Imposed in Palestine.

It’s not some unbroken line from Moses to Tel Aviv.

It’s a nationalist invention—ironic, given your whole "historical authenticity" spiel.

Now let’s address your punchline:

"Israel is the most successful decolonialist project in human history."

Read that again slowly.

You’re calling a Western-backed military settler colony,

Armed by the U.S.,

Funded by Europe,

Imposed on an indigenous population through displacement and war,

A "decolonialist" project?

That’s not just ahistorical.

That’s Orwellian.

Let me help you out:

You’re not witnessing decolonization.

You’re watching colonialism with better PR.

Stealing land doesn’t become justice because you slap a flag on it and teach kids to salute.

You don’t get to bomb refugee camps and call it "self-determination."

You don’t get to bulldoze homes and call it "security."

You don’t get to exile an entire population, then rewrite their absence as proof they were never there.

Israel isn’t a "return to indigenous roots."

It’s a return to biblical justification for modern imperial violence.

The same logic used by Crusaders, conquistadors, and colonizers across continents.

You say, "It was the Jews’ land historically, and it’s theirs today."

Okay, let’s apply that logic.

Should Italians reclaim all of Europe because Rome once ruled it?

Should Greece recolonize Turkey because of Alexander?

Should Muslims retake Spain because of Al-Andalus?

History is not a land deed.

And conquest 3,000 years ago doesn’t justify conquest today.

What you’re doing is hijacking history, erasing the present, and packaging ethnic supremacy as ancestral justice.

But no matter how many times you twist it,

Colonialism dressed in scripture is still colonialism.

And Palestine?

It didn’t vanish when your textbooks ignored it.

It didn’t disappear when the maps changed.

It’s still there.

In the names, the ruins, the graves, the olive groves,

And the keys passed down by generations you’ve tried to erase.

So no, Brianna.

Facts aren’t your thing.

Narrative control is.

But history remembers what propaganda tries to bury.

And the land remembers too.

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

All those critiquing @elonmusk (rightly so) should begin by questioning those calling him a “genius” or even a “tech
bro”. He invented NONE of the TECH. Just bought stuff at the right time. More marketing than science. He’s benefitted by billions of government dollars that he questions when given to others. Clear regressive political agenda: underfund government (even more) hoping that deregulation and a weak state can make outer space his playground & sling mud like a child at all progressive politicians like @Keir_Starmer. I wrote about this more than a decade ago in my book The Entrepreneurial State.

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

🏫 What's been the impact of rolling out #FreeSchoolMeals to primary school children in London?

@DrKVincent of @LondonReconnect explains the results of a lived experience evaluation for our latest podcast.

🎧 Listen in full: https://t.co/KGayRsKSGL
@ImpUrbanHealth @CPAGUK @LDN_gov

[Protección Civil @proteccioncivil]

🔴 Si eres un@ de l@s damnificad@s por la #DANA que ha afectado a #Valencia y otros territorios de la Península y #Baleares desde el 28 de octubre de 2024, ya puedes solicitar ayudas del @interiorgob

https://t.co/lxl1Dj5D4g

[House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee @HLFoodObesity]

📢 The Government urgently needs a plan to fix our broken food system 🛠️🍽️ and end the public health emergency 🚨 of unhealthy diets and obesity.

This is the key conclusion of our new report, out today. 📝

Read it here: https://t.co/fOTuckhDy7

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

🙌 New @HLFoodObesity report concludes supporting people to eat well is the single most important priority for the prevention of ill health!

Now @GOVUK needs to urgently implement the affordable and feasible recommendations set out by the committee.

🔗 https://t.co/krYILPDN9Q
#SDIL #HFSS #obesity @DoctorChrisVT @jamieoliver

[Fernando Flores @ArturoBurton4]

Cuando alguien olvida lo que fue es que ya no sabe lo que es ahora #AlfonsCervera
Fuimos inmigrantes, y lo seremos en el futuro; más nos valdría no olvidarlo.

[Ministerio Inclusión Seguridad Social Migraciones @inclusiongob]

⚠️¿Has oído que los extranjeros gastan mucho de nuestro sistema de protección social?

⚡️⚡️Es #FALSO. ⚡️⚡️

👉Los extranjeros aportan un 10% de las cotizaciones de la Seguridad Social y suponen el 1% del gasto.

#Cazabulos

[Gonzalo Fanjul @GonzaloFanjul]

Un análisis preciso e inquietante de la campaña de desinformación islamófoba y xenófoba que ha hecho arder el Reino Unido tras el asesinato de tres niñas. Por ⁦@javisalas⁩ ⁦@el_pais⁩. https://t.co/wEirxuwN1l

[Gonzalo Fanjul @GonzaloFanjul]

Nuevos datos sobre la poderosísima contribución de las migraciones a los mercados de trabajo y al impulso económico de la OCDE. España es uno de los países más destacados. Vía @FT.
https://t.co/Jmr7dalnRA

[José María Clemente @JoseMClemente]

Se puede ser de izquierdas y estar en contra de Maduro y de lo que está pasando en Venezuela.
Se puede ser de derechas y estar en contra de Israel y lo que está pasando en Gaza.
A veces se trata simplemente de ser humanos.

[Dr Clare Pettinger @DrCPettingerRD]

Please donate to support the re-opening of #Plymouth #fish #market 🎣🐟
👇

[Mar Maestre @mmaestrem]

Go and see it before it ends, you only have a few days left!

[WhatsOnStage @WhatsOnStage]

Exclusive: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy extends West End run https://t.co/jwtHHehOlO

[Javier Peña | Hope @hope_enpie]

37 años. Antes y después.

Los 10 cambios más impactantes que he encontrado en Google Earth Timelapse... y una lección imprescindible. #DiadeLaTierra 👇👇

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

🧵 To mark #InternationalSchoolMealsDay we've joined 100+ charities/councils writing to Schools Minister @DamianHinds calling for Govt to ensure all children entitled receive #FreeSchoolMeals

Up to 250,000 children living in some of most deprived households in England are not receiving a nutritious daily meal they have a right to!
#ISMD2024

🔗 https://t.co/KBd6QQxgBM

[1/2]

[ClearFarm @ClearFarmEU]

That's all! Thank you so much to everyone for joining us at the #ClearFarmFinalEvent

👏It has been intense conference and nice discussion on how technology can improve animal welfare along the production chain

Learn more https://t.co/aBw8b4M6W3

#animalwelfare #SmartFarming