Open letter to Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres:
Allowing the radical, unproven EAT-Lancet Diet to hijack the Food Systems Summit puts nutrition and food security at risk.
By Diana Rodgers, RD, Executive Director, Global Food Justice Alliance
The Global Food Justice Alliance advocates for the right of all people to choose nutrient-dense foods such as meat, milk, and eggs, which are critical for nutritious, environmentally sustainable, and equitable food systems that can sustain both human life and the planet.
Background:
The challenge of providing adequate essential nutrition to all humanity without degrading our natural resources and environment is significant and ought to concern all of us. The United Nations will host its Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) in September 2021, looking to tackle this challenge. Unfortunately, the Summit appears likely to borrow radical elements of the nutritionally-deficient, scientifically unsound, and elitist EAT-Lancet diet, taking a path that would put global nutrition and food security at serious risk.
Course-correcting now is a critical task, and demands the inclusion of farm workers, indigenous people, pastoralists, nutrition experts, and many more who have so far been excluded from the UN’s top-down, one-size-fits-all process.
Of particular concern is the UNFSS 2021 Action Track 2, chaired by Gunhild Stordalen, the Norwegian billionaire behind the near-vegan EAT-Lancet diet.
While Action Track 2 claims it “will work to build consumer demand for sustainably produced food, strengthen local value chains, improve nutrition, and promote the reuse and recycling of food resources, especially among the most vulnerable,” its work has in large part sought to denigrate nutrient-dense meat, dairy, and eggs.
The UN should not adopt recommendations hand-chosen by a small group of individuals whose preparatory materials consistently and unjustifiably call for radical restrictions on production and consumption of nutrient-dense meat, dairy, and eggs.
The current UNFSS process does not acknowledge the tremendous strides made in the sustainable production of meat, dairy, and eggs, nor does it address the water, land, emissions, affordability, and food waste consequences of its proposed actions, such as doubling crop production.
The EAT-Lancet Diet is Radical, Untested and Nutrient Deficient.
Multiple references in UNFSS materials directly borrow language from the near-vegan EAT-Lancet diet, which proposed that all people everywhere in the world radically restrict consumption of nutrient-dense staples, for example eating to “no more than 98 grams of red meat (pork, beef or lamb), 203 grams of poultry and 196 grams of fish per week.”
The EAT-Lancet diet would allow only tiny daily portions of meat (about 1 bite of chicken or steak or ¼ of a slice of bacon), eggs (⅕ of one egg), and dairy (1 cup of milk), while dramatically increasing consumption of nuts and beans.
The untested EAT-Lancet diet, and by extension the UN recommendations in which it is invoked, would allow 8 teaspoons of added sugar per day. The diet is, by its own admission, nutritionally deficient, lacking in the essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids that are already lacking in the diets of many people.
Studies Against Meat are Weak.
EAT-Lancet’s recommendation for the dramatic reduction in meat is based on very weak and quite contested evidence that eating red meat, or meat in general, causes poor health outcomes. The studies vilifying meat as unhealthy are based on observational research, which can only show associations and are riddled with flaws. For example, the fact that people who frequent airports tend to drink coffee doesn’t mean that airports cause coffee consumption. When adjusted for factors like fresh vegetable consumption (something we can all get behind), and lifestyle factors like smoking, drinking, sleep and movement, there is no difference in all-cause mortality between omnivores and vegetarians.
Meat Consumption improves Health Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Multiple studies, experts, and international organizations agree that nutrient-dense meat, dairy, and eggs are essential in healthy diets.
Only one randomized control trial looked at variations in meat consumption, and it showed that children who received more meat had improvements in growth, cognitive and behavioral outcomes, compared to their counterparts who received no meat supplement. There are no studies showing that removing meat from the diet will improve health or growth. We also know that as people have more access to meat and other animal-sourced foods, they live longer, healthier lives.
Less Meat Means More Nutrient Deficiencies.
Taking meat away from those already receiving too little will increase the devastating health consequences already being experienced, especially for women and children in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Iron and B12 are two of the most common nutrient deficiencies worldwide, and meat is the best source of these nutrients.
Even in high-income countries, nutrient-dense meat, dairy, and eggs are critical sources of essential nutrients, which are particularly important for women, children, and aging populations.
Meat, dairy, and eggs cannot be scapegoated for unhealthy diets.
Demonizing meat consumption for the general overconsumption of calories in some countries is illogical and not supported by evidence.
Meat is one of the lowest calorie forms of bioavailable nutrients, and beef consumption in the United States is less than 2oz per person per day. By comparison, ultra-processed foods in the form of refined grains, oils and sugars are high in calories and low in nutrients and their consumption is at an all time high. These hyper-palatable foods lead to overconsumption of calories. Reduction of these foods should be the real focus of our efforts, not a global reduction in consumption of nutrient-dense foods.
The Recommendations are wrought with Conflicts of Interest and Anti-Meat Bias.
It is distressing to see the UN exclude farm workers, indigenous people, pastoralists, nutrition experts, and many others while advancing decisions made by the highly privileged and plant-based activists.
In addition to the widespread criticism of the EAT-Lancet diet for being scientifically flawed and nutritionally deficient, it ignores the role of fossil fuel use in climate change. Stordalen herself faced charges of rank hypocrisy for recommending others subsist on nuts and beans while enjoying a high-carbon, jet-setting lifestyle herself.
The UN must focus on the food rights of those who are not billionaires and who do not have access to the variety of rarified foods and supplements required to make something like the radical EAT-Lancet diet nutritionally adequate.
Walter Willett, a lead author and proponent of the EAT-Lancet diet, has been called out for multiple conflicts of interest for his corporate sponsorships and interests in anti-meat diets. In fact, 80% of the authors of the report have a dogmatic public track record of favoring vegetarian or vegan diets over omnivorous ones. There are also many chemical, pharmaceutical, and ultra-processed food (including plant-based protein) manufacturing industry backers who stand to make a large profit should the UN usher in the EAT-Lancet style dictates. More information about the economic, political and futurist agendas behind the “planetary health diet” can be found here.
Plants are not necessarily healthier and are expensive.
Radical activists like Stordalen, driving the UNFSS agenda, advocate for dramatically increasing consumption of plant-based and other alternative proteins. These have been shown to be not nutritionally equal to animal-sourced proteins, and in many cases are twice as expensive as their real-food counterparts.
Key UNFSS documents claim these foods have smaller environmental footprints, but studies comparing environmental footprints of foods frequently either only account for calories and not nutrients, incorrectly accounting for differences in protein, nutrient bioavailability, or both.
The environmental impact of animal agriculture is frequently overstated and mischaracterized, while failing to account for the millions of people whose livelihoods depend upon livestock production. In addition, the environmental benefits of livestock production systems (like up-cycling, making use of non-arable land, improving soil health, provision of manure for crop systems, and draft energy) are ignored.
Over-simplified and frequently incorrect assessments of methane emissions are not accurate ways to compare environmental impacts and harm the many millions of people who rely upon livestock for their nutrition or livelihoods.
Reducing meat won’t make a meaningful impact on GHG emissions.
There is no strong evidence that shows a reduction in or elimination of animal-sourced foods would lead to healthier people or substantially less emissions. One study modeled what would happen if the United States eliminated all animal agriculture and found that there would only be a 2.5% decrease in total GHG emissions. At the same time, nutrient deficiencies would increase (with overall calorie and carbohydrate consumption increasing) and the US food system would become “imbalanced.” Additionally, not all plant-based foods have a low carbon footprint when considering their perishability and transportation. In many wealthier parts of the world, little fresh produce is produced in the winter, so the idea that eating only plants is necessarily a better option for climate change is illogical. Additionally, meat substitutes also can have substantially more GHG emissions than consuming local animal-sourced foods.
Grazing animals up-cycle nutrients and increase overall Ecosystem Health.
The nutritional gains and the added environmental benefits of ruminants (cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo, etc), such as increased biodiversity, better water-holding capacity, breaking down non nutritive foods and converting them into a nutrient-rich source of protein and fats, far outweigh their emissions, especially compared to other less nutritious yet higher-emission-producing foods like rice.
Evaluating biogenic cycles vs. fossil fuel emissions paints a different picture.
Emissions from ruminants are part of a biogenic cycle, where the methane converts to CO2 and H2O, which become part of the photosynthetic process and water cycle. By contrast, the emissions from tilling crops, plus the fossil fuels needed to run tractors and factories needed to convert chemically grown monocrops into protein pucks is not part of a cycle. These steps comprise a one-way road of pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere. Moreover, looking only at emissions is a red herring. There are many other aspects to consider when deciding if a food production system is a positive or negative for the ecosystem.
Not all land can be cropped.
All arable land is agricultural land, but not all agricultural land is arable. Arable land is land that can be cultivated to produce cereals, pulses, vegetables, fruits and nuts. Ruminants can graze on marginal land we can’t crop, up-cycling grass into meat, a nutrient-dense food for humans. While some arable land is used for animal feed production, one study showed that removing cattle and sheep from our food system would only result in a 6% decrease in arable land used for feed, and all of our marginal land (⅔ of agricultural land cannot be cropped and is only suitable for grazing). This would have serious food security repercussions. Ruminants can also be integrated into cropping systems and orchards, which increases fertility and reduces the need for chemical herbicides, tillage, and fertilizers. Land can therefore be used for both livestock and crops. In addition, food crop production creates byproducts which can be fed to livestock. Once we understand that ruminants can not only be made “less bad” but can be produced in a way that creates “more good,” the fact that cattle production, for example, covers so much land can be seen not as a liability but rather, a very material asset.
Water use claims against cattle are flawed.
The methodology used to blame cattle for using water is flawed when it includes rainwater. When looking at blue water (groundwater), even in conventional systems, cattle are equal to or better than many crops like almonds, rice, avocados, walnuts, and sugar in terms of blue water. In well-managed grazing systems, animals improve the water-holding capacity of the soil, preventing rain from running off and driving silt into rivers. These benefits are difficult to quantify and typically aren’t included in water-use models.
Cattle up-cycle food that is inedible by humans.
Worldwide, livestock grain consumption is only 13% of their overall feed. The rest of their inputs come from agricultural by-products, leftover grain from alcohol production, which is not edible by humans and has no other use in our food system. Most of these products would decompose and produce GHG emissions if we didn’t convert them into nutrient dense protein by feeding them to livestock. Beef cattle in America have a Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) of 2.5:1, making them a net protein “up-cycler.” In areas where cattle consume only grass, they do not compete at all with humans for edible food, but even in the US, a commercial steer produces 240% of the human-utilizable lysine it consumes. In addition, Australia’s beef industry has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030.
Dietary recommendations must consider equity, ethics, and food sovereignty.
The EAT Lancet diet is elitist and fails to consider the negative health and financial impact it would have on farmers, ranchers, pastoralists, women, children, indigenous communities, and the many others who don’t have the privilege to push away healthy food.
Most beef and lamb come from small and medium sized ranches, spending the majority of their time on pasture, contributing to the economic stability of rural communities.
In many countries, livestock reductions would mean more food would have to be imported, because there’s simply not enough arable land for this level of grain and sugar production.
Owning livestock has been an incredibly empowering tool for women living in areas where they have less access to land ownership. Livestock are “walking savings accounts,” allowing for increased household income and nutrition.
Access to the wide variety of vegetables plus the many supplements needed to make a plant-based diet nutritionally complete varies. Someone in the west may easily visit a gourmet store to obtain the necessary ingredients and supplements to formulate a healthy plant-based diet, but this is not the case for most of the world. It would also take enormous quantities of vegetables to replace many essential nutrients found in meat, dairy, and eggs - massively increasing calorie intake and not accounting for differences in quality and bioavailability.
Food traditions and culturally appropriate diets must be honored. Not everyone prefers or will tolerate a plant-based diet, and no one should be forced to.
Food systems should be regionally specific and enhance the ecosystems in which they occur. They should also be nourishing (not just producing the maximum number of calories) and consider the livelihoods of those who produce the food, not the stockholders of the corporations profiting from the transformation of whole foods into ultra-processed food substitutes. The people deciding upon diet patterns for the future should not only be the Global Elite.
The UN must not perpetuate scapegoating of nutrient-dense animal-sourced foods.
Doing so would do nothing to “resolve not only hunger but to reduce diet-related disease and heal the planet.” The impact, conversely, would be the exact opposite.
Sincerely,
Diana Rodgers, RD
Executive Director, Global Food Justice Alliance
Real food dietitian, sustainability advocate and defender of global food equity
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Michael Block, California, United States
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Melanie Updegraff, United States
Michelle Castillo, Founder & CEO, Colorado, United States
Chris Main, Australia
Kate Field, Medical Practitioner (Emergency Medicine Specialist), Tasmania, Australia
Amanda Johnstone, Scotland, United Kingdom
Giselle Carrillo, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner
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