The World Health Organization withdraws support for a diet rich in plants as a result of political pressure

The World Health Organization (WHO) has withdrawn support for the "Global Health Plan", a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in animal products, as a result of political pressure.

In January, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Diet, Planet and Health of the EAT-Lancet released a report gathering 37 scientists from around the world who partnered to determine the impact of food on the environment.

The scientists concluded that our current diet was not sustainable and that we needed to significantly reduce animal products and adopt almost entirely plant-based foods in order to sustainably feed an estimated population. to 10 billion people in 2050.

Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all the planes, trains, ships and cars used today, with plant foods only repre- 39 a fraction of that.

EAT-Lancet concluded that a sustainable diet would force people to double their consumption of fruits and vegetables while reducing their consumption of animal products by more than 50%.

The WHO was supposed to sponsor the launch of the EAT-Lancet Commission in Geneva, but the UN agency withdrew from the event of March 28, organized by the Norwegian government and sponsored by the Norwegian government, reported the British Medical Journal.

After Gian Lorenzo Cornado, Italy's ambbadador to the United Nations, wrote a letter to WHO stating that a plant-based diet lacked nutrition and posed a health hazard human.

Cornado also said that switching to a more plant-based diet would result in the loss of millions of jobs for people working in animal agriculture, but that it would destroy many traditional kitchens of the country. whole world.

The ambbadador warned that EAT-Lancet "calling for centralized control over our food choices" risks "completely eliminating consumers' freedom of choice."

However, the authors of the study claim that the report of the EAT-Lancet Commission is based on the latest scientific knowledge and does not call for centralized control of the diet, nor in the report.

In addition, despite Cornado's claims that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in animal products is dangerous to health, the Medicine Committee for a Responsible Medicine says that a diet to Herbal reduces the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other diseases.

"Humanity now represents a threat to the stability of the planet," said Professor Johan Rockström, one of the authors of the EAT-Lancet report. "[This requires] nothing less than a new world agricultural revolution. "

Experts estimate that the scheme recommended by the EAT-Lancet Commission would prevent about 11 million premature deaths; However, it has been very controversial and has been described as unscientific, extreme and radical by many health professionals.

"The report does not provide us with the clarity, transparency and responsible representation of the facts we need to trust its authors," said Georgia Ede, MD, an experienced medical researcher, registered psychiatrist and columnist for Psychology Today.

"Instead, the Commission's arguments are vague, inconsistent, unscientific and minimize the serious life and health risks posed by vegan diets."

"If the commissioners fear that red meat is dangerous (which is only valid for Planet Epidemiology), why not recommend other animal foods naturally rich in iron, such as duck, oysters? or chicken liver, for these growing young women, also provide the complete protein needed for growth?