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Yesterday I attended a conference called Responsible Organising a Stakeholder Conference at Finland's Swedish speaking Business School Hanken.
There where some warnings signs. For example, the organizers had announced that they would only offer a vegan option for lunch.
Free lunch at a free conference is just a great thing. Finland has 100 000 poor kids who would love to attend the conference just for the lunch. So, being offered a free lunch is of course just great. But why vegan stuff which has proven to be unhealthy and unsustainable?
At 09.15 the key note speech was given by Kopano Ratele, a professor of psychology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The key note was moderated by Charlotta Niemistö, Director of the GODESS Institute at Hanken School of Economics.
And according to the vision and mission statements:
Professor Ratele has written of book:
But why on Earth is a professor of psychology writing about men's but not women's violence?
Some will react with, I've seen violent men in movies, and women aren't violent. Or, I read about violent men in the tabloids, and my mother was never angry with my dad. She claims. That kind of information is called anecdotes, and has little to do with reality. That's because episodic memory is constructive in a social manner (Schacter and Addis, 2007).
To get the real picture, you have to apply a very complex testing based on science - a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe (Wikipedia).
When applying systematic testing based on the principles of science, its not possible to reject the null-hypothesis for physical domestic violence as a starting point. That means that the premise is that the distribution is even between men and women until proven otherwise.
Scientific studies on domestic violence show that women are perpetrators of physical violence in at least half of the cases (Archer,2000, 2004; Bergkvist, 2002; Bates, Graham-Kevan och Archer , 2014; Bates och Graham-Kevan, 2016; Bates, 2018; Bates, Kaye, Pennington och Hamlin, 2019;
Crick och Grotpeter, 1995; Thornton et al. 2012).
Listen to Dr Elizabeth Bates: Intimate Partner Violence.
Read about Violent women:
I have a decent understanding about nutrition, the anthropological record, and the flaws of EATs proposal (Österberg, 2020), and I must admit that I was a bit surprise to listen to a group of scholars uncritically promoting the diet both for health reasons and to support climate. I mean, that was dismissed years ago.
It's common knowledge that veganism is unsustainable for health. This is manifested in the fact that only 2 % of a normal population chose the option to abstain from animal source food, half of them experimenting with the vegan option. But 85 % give within a year (Herzog, 2014).
People who make the decision to abstain from animal source food also have issues with mental health and social relations (Dobersek et al. 2020, 2021; Plante et al. 2019).
Exactly who came up with the idea to abstain from the food that opened the door for our species is written in the stars, but the first signs may be found in the archaeological records from the Epipaleolithic period, when our ancentors first settled (Hodder, 2018). And after the first agricultural revolution, findings show that people who switch to a vegetarian diet suffered from stunting (Mummert et al. 2011).
More recently, Swedish scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) argued that we should institute a vegan diet:
So again, at a conference that claim to promote diversity and inclusiveness, I tried to ask some questions?
But again, I was met by rejection, and exclusion. I also overheard someone in the audience, or from the organizers, saying: - it's a meta analysis, referring to EATs flawed paper.
Then we had lunch, vegan stuff which was announced already during the invitation for the conference. But even though I had made a remark during registration that veganism is unsustainable and really unhealthy, according to science, and asked for normal food, my request was ignored. Again, exclusion and conformity. Fortunately I brought some meat to put on the rice they served.
The organizers will read this and just not understand why I didn't submit to them. The phenomenon is It's called group-think. In the 1950s, three social psychologists infiltrated a doomsday-sect who conformed to the idea that the Earth would be swamped by a flood on Dec. 21 1954. On page three they wrote:
After the lunch, a scholar talked about her relations to horses, and I realized I was running out of time and left the venue with unanswered questions.
Also read: When did our species start eating meat? The case of vegan proponent Dr Marcus Vinnari
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Listen to Dr Elizabeth Bates: Intimate Partner Violence.
Read about Violent women:
Charmayne McEwen, 22, jailed for more than six years for 'cruel and sadistic' torture of man.
EXCLUSIVE: Chilling note a mum-of-four desperate from more kids wrote before she killed her ex by setting him on fire as her children slept in the next room: 'It won't be an accident... it will be him').
In Finland, a mother was sentenced to life in prison after murdering her child's father: Hovrätten dömer kvinna för mord på ex-man i Eckerö, HBL
And recently, a mother was arrested because she tried to murder her 5-year-old son (HBL).
At academic conferences, the tradition holds that after a talk, the speaker invites the audience, most often fellow academics, to ask questions, including questioning what the speaker just said. This talk was no exception. So I raised my hand.
When I got the microphone I introduced myself as a psychological scientist, and by stating what international science says about domestic violence. Then I stated the obvious question to Dr Ratele: the one about method? Did Dr Ratele use RCTs, questionnaires or what?
Dr Ratele didn't have an answer. Instead he started to mumble about something. And then I was cut off.
Then we had a coffee break, and of course, the organizers who promoted diversity and inclusion, chose to exclude me - the expert with a diverse viewpoint.
After the keynote and coffee brake there were panel sessions and work shops. I had chosen to listen to a panel discussion called Health-promoting sustainable food system.
But the panel didn't present research about food and nutrition in general, they promoted the infamous diet promoted by the ex.wife of the hotel mogul Petter Stordalen (probably paid with his money), Gunhild Stordalen: EAT.
The sad part was that the panel-people didn't follow academic tradition, that is, report on the pros and cons of the proposed diet. Instead they just promoted it as a way to promote health among people and to improve the climate.
But when the paper was published in early 2019, professor Frank Mitloehner at UC Davis sent an email to EATs science director Fabrice DeClerck who responded with the following:
The EAT organization made clear that their proposed diet had little to do with climate. After scrutinizing the paper, Dr Mitloehner also remarked that EATs proposed diet resembles a vegan diet. Read the whole article by Dr Mitloehner: EAT-Lancet’s environmental claims are an epic fail. And the Commission knows it.
EATs proposed diet was also scrutinized for its health claims by nutrition psychiatrist Georgia Ede who also remarked that EATs proposed diet resembles a vegan diet. See full presentation:Dr. Georgia Ede - 'EAT-Lancet's Plant-Based Planet: Food in the (Mis)Anthropocene'.
If one take a look at humans' anthropological record, we find that our ancestors, Australopithecus afarensis, started to eat bone marrow from big dead animal some 3.6 million years before the present (McPherron et al. 2010; Thompson et al. 2019). Bone marrow is dens in nutrients, especially those not found in vegetarian options. As a consequence of this new diet, their brains started to expand, from the occipetal lobe and forward, and their intestinal systems shrank (Aiello and Wheeler, 1995). This is consistent with current science which show that we as a species needs animal source food to sustain physical and mental health (Adesogan et al. 2020; Balehegn et al 2019; Ede, 2019).
EXCLUSIVE: Chilling note a mum-of-four desperate from more kids wrote before she killed her ex by setting him on fire as her children slept in the next room: 'It won't be an accident... it will be him').
In Finland, a mother was sentenced to life in prison after murdering her child's father: Hovrätten dömer kvinna för mord på ex-man i Eckerö, HBL
And recently, a mother was arrested because she tried to murder her 5-year-old son (HBL).
At academic conferences, the tradition holds that after a talk, the speaker invites the audience, most often fellow academics, to ask questions, including questioning what the speaker just said. This talk was no exception. So I raised my hand.
When I got the microphone I introduced myself as a psychological scientist, and by stating what international science says about domestic violence. Then I stated the obvious question to Dr Ratele: the one about method? Did Dr Ratele use RCTs, questionnaires or what?
Dr Ratele didn't have an answer. Instead he started to mumble about something. And then I was cut off.
Then we had a coffee break, and of course, the organizers who promoted diversity and inclusion, chose to exclude me - the expert with a diverse viewpoint.
After the keynote and coffee brake there were panel sessions and work shops. I had chosen to listen to a panel discussion called Health-promoting sustainable food system.
But the panel didn't present research about food and nutrition in general, they promoted the infamous diet promoted by the ex.wife of the hotel mogul Petter Stordalen (probably paid with his money), Gunhild Stordalen: EAT.
The sad part was that the panel-people didn't follow academic tradition, that is, report on the pros and cons of the proposed diet. Instead they just promoted it as a way to promote health among people and to improve the climate.
But when the paper was published in early 2019, professor Frank Mitloehner at UC Davis sent an email to EATs science director Fabrice DeClerck who responded with the following:
The EAT organization made clear that their proposed diet had little to do with climate. After scrutinizing the paper, Dr Mitloehner also remarked that EATs proposed diet resembles a vegan diet. Read the whole article by Dr Mitloehner: EAT-Lancet’s environmental claims are an epic fail. And the Commission knows it.
EATs proposed diet was also scrutinized for its health claims by nutrition psychiatrist Georgia Ede who also remarked that EATs proposed diet resembles a vegan diet. See full presentation:Dr. Georgia Ede - 'EAT-Lancet's Plant-Based Planet: Food in the (Mis)Anthropocene'.
If one take a look at humans' anthropological record, we find that our ancestors, Australopithecus afarensis, started to eat bone marrow from big dead animal some 3.6 million years before the present (McPherron et al. 2010; Thompson et al. 2019). Bone marrow is dens in nutrients, especially those not found in vegetarian options. As a consequence of this new diet, their brains started to expand, from the occipetal lobe and forward, and their intestinal systems shrank (Aiello and Wheeler, 1995). This is consistent with current science which show that we as a species needs animal source food to sustain physical and mental health (Adesogan et al. 2020; Balehegn et al 2019; Ede, 2019).
I have a decent understanding about nutrition, the anthropological record, and the flaws of EATs proposal (Österberg, 2020), and I must admit that I was a bit surprise to listen to a group of scholars uncritically promoting the diet both for health reasons and to support climate. I mean, that was dismissed years ago.
It's common knowledge that veganism is unsustainable for health. This is manifested in the fact that only 2 % of a normal population chose the option to abstain from animal source food, half of them experimenting with the vegan option. But 85 % give within a year (Herzog, 2014).
People who make the decision to abstain from animal source food also have issues with mental health and social relations (Dobersek et al. 2020, 2021; Plante et al. 2019).
Exactly who came up with the idea to abstain from the food that opened the door for our species is written in the stars, but the first signs may be found in the archaeological records from the Epipaleolithic period, when our ancentors first settled (Hodder, 2018). And after the first agricultural revolution, findings show that people who switch to a vegetarian diet suffered from stunting (Mummert et al. 2011).
More recently, Swedish scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) argued that we should institute a vegan diet:
“Drawing on the passage in Genesis (1:29-31) in which God Institute a vegan diet, Swedenborg said that meat-eating corresponds to the fall from grace in the Garden of Eden and was, therefore, the point of entry of sin and suffering into the world” (Phelps, p. 149)” .After Swedenborg, movements started to influence other people to abstain from animal source food. In 1850, American vegetarian society was founded. Thirteen years later, Seventh day adventist church was established. One of its leaders of the movement, a teenage girl by the name of Ellen G. White (1827-1915), argued that meat, milk, and butter were responsible for 'carnal urges' - impure thoughts in men. Another member, physician John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943), developed breakfast cereals as a replacement for animal source food (Österberg, 2019).
So again, at a conference that claim to promote diversity and inclusiveness, I tried to ask some questions?
But again, I was met by rejection, and exclusion. I also overheard someone in the audience, or from the organizers, saying: - it's a meta analysis, referring to EATs flawed paper.
Then we had lunch, vegan stuff which was announced already during the invitation for the conference. But even though I had made a remark during registration that veganism is unsustainable and really unhealthy, according to science, and asked for normal food, my request was ignored. Again, exclusion and conformity. Fortunately I brought some meat to put on the rice they served.
The organizers will read this and just not understand why I didn't submit to them. The phenomenon is It's called group-think. In the 1950s, three social psychologists infiltrated a doomsday-sect who conformed to the idea that the Earth would be swamped by a flood on Dec. 21 1954. On page three they wrote:
“ A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point” .During the conference, I disagreed, but they turned away. I showed them facts and figures (also above), but they questioned my sources. I appealed to logic, but they failed to see my point.
After the lunch, a scholar talked about her relations to horses, and I realized I was running out of time and left the venue with unanswered questions.
Also read: When did our species start eating meat? The case of vegan proponent Dr Marcus Vinnari
Please support the blog via Swish (Sweden) or MobilePay (Finland).
More about my expertise:
Executive coaching for CEOs/managers and workshops to facilitate Organizational Performance, Learning, and Creativity for Problem Solving | Lectures: Nutrition for physical and mental health | Course/lecture: children's emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development | Language training - Swedish | Academy Competency | CV | Teaching skills and experience | Summary of research project | Instagram | Linkedin | YouTube-channel | TikTok | Twitter
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