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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · 10d

Would love to understand this as well, hope this gets shared publicly.

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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 16d

The EAT-Lancet report shook things up in 2019 by putting food systems at the heart of climate and health. Now it’s back. The 2025 update sharpens the science, adjusts where needed, and adds a crucial layer: social justice.

Our breakdown of the report. 👇

EAT-Lancet 2025: solid science, but will we bite?

“Scientists say we need to eat less meat!” We’ve all seen headlines like this over the years. And if you saw one recently, it was likely based on the 2025 EAT-Lancet report.

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · 16d

My piece on the 2025 EAT-Lancet report:

weplanet.substack.com/p/eat-lancet...

EAT-Lancet 2025: solid science, but will we bite?

“Scientists say we need to eat less meat!” We’ve all seen headlines like this over the years. And if you saw one recently, it was likely based on the 2025 EAT-Lancet report.

weplanet.substack.com

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 21d

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

www.euroveg.eu

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · 21d

Petition against this nonsense: weplanet.yourmovement.org/p/noconfusio...

Stop the EU’s Ban on “Meaty” Words for Plant-Based Foods

Sign now

weplanet.yourmovement.org

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · 21d

Bye bye veggie burgers?

Ridiculous government overreach and policing of language, all thanks to the meat lobby.

www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 26d

Please sign and share this, particularly if you're a European citizen. What Brussels is proposing is both damaging and incredibly dumb, and the European Parliament is about to vote (on 8 October) on an amendment to make it even worse! Please do sign 🙏
weplanet.yourmovement.org/p/noconfusio...

Stop the EU’s Ban on “Meaty” Words for Plant-Based Foods

Sign now

weplanet.yourmovement.org

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Sep 30

Exactly. Your tofu is not driving deforestation in the Amazon. If anything, eating more soy products directly (and eating fewer animals that eat soy as feed) would *reduce* overall demand for soybeans and pressure on tropical forests.

Emily Cassidy @enviroem.bsky.social · Sep 29

Soybeans are overwhelming used for feed. 80% of protein produced on Brazil's croplands is used to feed animals iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....
The recent tariff issue is a prime example of how the world's taste for meat (not soy) is shaping distant landscapes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

www.theguardian.com

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · Sep 26

Meat vs EAT-Lancet - 🥩🌱 - interesting report.

Expecting another massive anti EAT-Lancet campaign when the 2025 update drops next week.

changingmarkets.org/report/meat-...

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · Jun 16

@bartdhondt.bsky.social kan dit per direct de nieuwe partijlijn voor Groen worden? 😉

Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · Jun 16

Sterke tekst over hoe een moderne groene partij zich zou moeten positioneren.

Hopelijk gaan we dit terug zien in de praktijk. 🤞

Eva Platteau @evaplatteau.bsky.social · Jun 16

Dit academiejaar werd ik als non-academic mentor gekoppeld aan Ebru Akgün een doctoraatsstudent van UAntwerpen / VUB.

Deze boeiende uitwisseling leidde tot een tekst over hoe het #ecologisme meer mensen kan meekrijgen in de #klimaattransitie

Dank @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social om te publiceren!

Hoe het ecologisme meer mensen kan aanspreken

Groene partijen staan vandaag vooral in de verdediging. Het is tijd om het klimaatverhaal te herschrijven, zodat meer mensen de noodzakelijke klimaattransitie steunen.

www.sampol.be

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · Jun 16

Prachtige tekst, ik hoop dat Groen als partij deze lijn gaat volgen.

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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · Jun 4

Billions of animals are tortured for meat each year. Millions of slaughterhouse workers suffer too -- physically and mentally: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

This quote really stands out: “Public demand for meat creates ongoing, present, and future exposure to trauma and continual retraumatization.”

What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind

The meat industry has a PTSD problem.

www.vox.com

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · Jun 2

"If we killed every deer in the UK, it could maybe supply 1% of our meat consumption — or three days’ worth of meat."

Unmasking bad ideas around sustainable food production is often easy - just ask the question:

"How does it scale?"

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Eating wild animals might be sustainable for the few, but not for the many

Some back-of-the-envelope calculations on how many it could feed.

substack.com

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · May 15

Minder dan 5 ingrediënten is gezond?

Wie verzint deze onzin?

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · May 6

Ik kan hem niet lezen, maar ik vermoed dat de mensen "die het gevaar niet willen onderschatten" het gevaar weer massaal aan het overschatten zijn?

Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · May 1

To be clear, these authors do not think that UPF consumption actually increases your chance of dying from an accident.

This analysis helps the authors to see if something outside of UPF consumption is influencing their results. Which clearly is the case here.

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · May 1

I'm seeing a lot of "Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death" headlines again.

Did you know that UPF consumption also has a positive association with accidental deaths?

Source: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · Apr 24

The Keto-CTA paper brouhaha is small potatoes compared to a crumbling democracy, but it demonstrates how people believe wrong stuff.

Cherry pick evidence
Manipulate data
Hang out in your silo
Trust your gut

That's how we get RFK Jr, as well as folks who think high LDL is OK as long as it's keto.

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Pl4ntbased @pl4ntbased.bsky.social · Apr 5

In this one, plant protein was more reliably associated with a reduction in frailty.

Summary & commentary 🧵👇

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · Apr 3

My conversation with Mark Lynas on his new podcast: www.weplanet.org/podcast/epis...

We discuss the idea of whether "Everything is getting worse". It was a fun chat.

WePlanet Podcast | Saving The World From Bad Ideas

a WePlanet podcast. The world is shaped by ideas—some good, some bad, and some that seemed good at the time. This is a podcast about rethinking the things we take for granted, challenging sacred cows...

www.weplanet.org

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · Apr 3

Great episode! Especially near the end where we can see a hint of a small ideological difference between you and @marklynas.bsky.social (regarding plant-based eating and flying). I'm in camp Ritchie on those issues, but would love to see this explored further.

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · Mar 27

Een van de vele legendarische Miyazaki momenten. Held.

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · Mar 26

Yes, but I feel like the propaganda from the livestock industry is better understood, at least in scientific circles. For example, Our World in Data doesn't use any livestock propaganda that I'm aware of, but still presents the MSY concept from the fishing industry as scientific.

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Marijn Raeven @mraeven.bsky.social · Mar 26

Highly recommend reading this piece. The pseudoscience around sustainable fishing is quite shocking, and doesn't get much attention.

Also, follow Spencer.

spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · Mar 26

We have been lied to by the fishing industry.

I believe this is one of the great scandals of our age, comparable to oil corporations’ denial of climate change.

Global fishing regulations are based on a pseudoscience contrived to justify cutting the world’s fish populations in half.

my latest:
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · Mar 26

Fishing sustainability is based on a pseudoscientific theory that justifies taking the most marine life for maximum profit.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/sustain...

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