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Recently a bunch of Swedish famous athletes became image-people for the WWF campaign on vegetarian food. The campaign is called 'Vego i världsklass' which, according to my Swenglish, translates into Vegetarian or vegan at the top of the ranks. Aiming high makes sense because the purpose of being an athlete is to reach the top of the ranks.
On November 9, 2020, the Nordic Council of Ministers and The Nordic Council had an event - Climate crisis engages young readers in the Nordic Region. Here's the abstract:
On November 17, 2020, the Nordic Council of Ministers and The Nordic Council invited people to join Choosing Green. This is like the abstract:"Can literature create understanding of a changing world and help children to deal with climate anxiety? What trends can we see in the Nordic countries? Climate threats, relationships with nature, and endangered animals are just some of the topics that are occupying space on young people’s bookshelves. A Nordic seminar on children and young people’s literature found that the need to talk about the environment and climate is largely reflected in the books that are popular among and being written by young readers in the Nordic Region".
"Although the COVID-19 pandemic has stalled climate negotiations, work hasn’t stopped. At the CHOOSING GREEN debate on 17 November 2020, Nordic political co-operation will join forces to brainstorm ideas for next year’s climate negotiations. We’ll talk about climate action, competitiveness, education, and socially sustainable change with some of the most talented people in the Nordic Region. What’s more, you can join us as we broadcast live throughout the day". Here's a link to event.This followed after a summary report published in The Lancet that urged us to submit to getting out of the Anthropocene by applying close to a vegan diet (Willet et al. 2019).
And before that, a schoolgirl in Sweden became the image-person for 'School strike for climate', an orchestrated movement that urged children to be absent from school 20 % of the school-time (Österberg, 2019).
"Going Vegan Makes You 43 Percent More Likely To Break A Bone, Study Reveals" (Housman, 2020).
But this wasn't news at all:
"Kids who were fed meat also outperformed their peers in tests of intelligence, problem-solving, and arithmetic. "The group that received the meat supplements were more active in the playground, more talkative and playful, and showed more leadership skills," Allen said" (popular in Nature by Hopkins, 2003).The study was conducted by Allen (2003).
Why do humans need animal source food?
Climate is a complex phenomenon where trace gasses move in a cyclic fashion between the five spheres: atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere (IPCC, 2013; Riebeek, 2011). Central för this Process is the carbon cycle.
By applying the opposite of dysrationalia, disjunctive thinking (Stanovich, 2015), the conclusion is that the proposed actions have no efficacy on physical and mental health or the climate. Abstaining from animal source food will lead to malnutrition. So, remember to provide your kids, and yourself, with the kind of food that contains the more than 30 micronutrients humans need to sustain mental and physical health.
The post was originally posted on the University of Helsingfors blog for myresearch project (2018-2021).
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