| The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, and Health is a global initiative that's trying to figure out how to feed 10 billion people on this planet while preserving the environment and maintaining a stable climate. This is the same commission that claims to have figured out a nutritious, equitable diet that everyone can eat, enjoy, and thrive on. It's the diet that allots a couple ounces of red meat per week, an egg every fortnight, a sardine every other day, and plenty of pulses, beans, legumes, and grains. In other words, it's a complete disaster. This diet is a one-size-fits- all approach that actually fits no one. It places the well-being of the planet and the 10 billion strong "human biomass" over the well-being of the individual. It seeks to eliminate personal choice, personal freedom, and indeed personhood itself—all for the good of some imagined "global population". This isn't going to work. Not only because the science is all wrong and they ignore the power of regenerative animal agriculture, but because it's attempting to exert top-down, authoritarian management over billions of individuals. It's going to fail because it presumes to dissolve those billions of individuals into a homogeneous soup of human biomass or "statistics". You know what will work? Feeding yourself and your family before trying to feed the world. That's your priority— taking care of you and yours. This doesn't mean stealing from others, committing crimes against humanity and the environment, or anything crazy like that. But by putting your oxygen mask on before you help your kid or by cleaning your room before you clean up society. There's no other way this will work. Small choices emerge and emanate upwards and outwards. A healthy you fosters a healthy relationship with your family and a healthy familial relationship bleeds outward into your immediate community. And on, and on, and on. What do you think, folks? Feeding yourself and your family the best foods (and the best health practices) have to come first, right? Let me know in the comment section of New and Noteworthy. | 