EU agrees to chop meaty names from vegetarian and vegan food products Lawmakers will ban use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets

Another big win for the meat industry. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Infant Growth Trajectories in Families Consuming Plant-Based or Omnivorous Diets This cohort study examines the association of family dietary patterns (vegan, vegetarian, and omnivorous) with growth trajectories, weight, and length among infants in Israel.

🌱 New study on infant growth and plant based diets:

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Update: the reviewer wasn't aware of this.

Wow, this is bad. Neither scenario controlled for calories, but the one used was about 25-30% short. That's a massive gap.

"If we remove all the eggs and dairy from this diet and don't replace any of it, vegans are short on all these nutrients!"

I just read all 90 pages of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines, and I will apologize for the length and wonkiness of my take on it.

This is pretty detailed, and you may not have the stomach or patience for it, but here goes.

A very long 🧵

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"...the approach is little more than a gish gallop to support the preformed conclusions that the HHS Secretary, MAHA advocates and influencers have been pushing since the moment they got into office."

Excellent breakdown of the new US dietary guidelines.

The new US Dietary Guidelines ignore recommendations made by scientists around the benefits of plant protein.

Big win for the meat/dairy sector, bad news for health and our environment.

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

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.

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.

My piece on the 2025 EAT-Lancet report:

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

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...

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...

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

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

Bye bye veggie burgers?

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

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

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

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 🙏
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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.

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

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

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

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

Hopelijk gaan we dit terug zien in de praktijk. 🤞

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

What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind The meat industry has a PTSD problem.

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.”

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.

"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?"

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Minder dan 5 ingrediënten is gezond?

Wie verzint deze onzin?

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?

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.

Snippet from study showing the above.

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...

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.

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

Summary & commentary 🧵👇

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...

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.

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.