Agri-food scientist
+ CDP activist
(Common sense,
Decency &
Pragmatism)
Tweets reflect my own views
Sep 5, 2018 • 72 tweets • 23 min read
Thread: YES, MEAT IS SAFE & HEALTHY
Besides being a 'pharmakon', meat is also a 'pharmakos' (scapegoat). As the most symbolic of all foods & as a predilected carrier of meaning, it acts as an adsorbent of societal anxieties. Often presented as scientific 'truth'.
Not.
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There is something seriously rotten in contemporary nutrition. The entire chain-of-proof is no longer based on the scientific method but is profoundly corrupted by vested interests and ideological dogma.
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First, let's put aside the myth that plant-based makes you healthier. Those claims are based on weak and biased epidemiological associations (RR=0.8-0.9?? - seriously, that's just meaningless).
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May 12, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Meat: its evolution from long-established health food to poison. What happened? (Small tweetorial, illustrating the ideological coup by Seventh-day Adventists)