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Please ask this question upon review of the Lancet Commission,
whose greater good are they really looking after?

We are in a fight to be able to continue to grow our own food amidst
the current attempt to transform the food supply and
take away the people’s access to food.

Lancet’s ‘Great Transition’ Ice Age Farmer
Nov 3 2021 – 13 min
“humanity, and indeed all life, is at a crossroads”
“moving us into the great transition for health care and planetary health”
“the need for a social vaccine”
“how we produce and consume foods”
“food is threatening both people and planet”

What follows are links to the Lancet publication
and highlights of Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission

The 21st-century great food transformation
Jan 16 2019
Lancet

“Civilization is in crisis. We can no longer feed our population a healthy diet while balancing planetary resources. For the first time in 200 000 years of human history, we are severely out of synchronization with the planet and nature. This crisis is accelerating, stretching Earth to its limits, and threatening human and other species’ sustained existence. The publication now of Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems could be neither more timely nor more urgent.”

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
The Lancet
Published: January 16, 2019

“Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support environmental sustainability, however our current trajectories threaten both. The EAT–Lancet Commission addresses the need to feed a growing global population a healthy diet while also defining sustainable food systems that will minimize damage to our planet.

The Commission quantitatively describes a universal healthy reference diet, based on an increase in consumption of healthy foods (such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, and nuts), and a decrease in consumption of unhealthy foods (such as red meat, sugar, and refined grains) that would provide major health benefits, and also increase the likelihood of attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. This is set against the backdrop of defined scientific boundaries that would ensure a safe operating space within six Earth systems, towards sustaining a healthy planet.

The EAT–Lancet Commission is the first of a series of initiatives on nutrition led by The Lancet in 2019, followed by the Commission on the Global Syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.”

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
Feb 2 2019
Article available free of charge, after register with the Lancet