Alexander J. Stein
@ajstein.bsky.social
Agricultural economist interested in food, nutrition, health, sustainability. PhD. EU. Private account. Posts ≠ endorsements. Blocking trolls, unsupported claims etc. Posts in German at @ajstein-de.bsky.social. More infos at www.AJStein.de
Only certain types of #ultraprocessed foods are detrimental, whereas others, although highly processed, may exert neutral or protective #health effects. Certain #UPF groups have been consistently linked to higher diabetes risk across studies… (1/2) doi.org/10.1007/s106...
Are all ultra-processed foods created equal? Relevance of food processing and nutritional quality - European Journal of Epidemiology
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November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Only certain types of #ultraprocessed foods are detrimental, whereas others, although highly processed, may exert neutral or protective #health effects. Certain #UPF groups have been consistently linked to higher diabetes risk across studies… (1/2) doi.org/10.1007/s106...
The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human #cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of #rational thought, too: doi.org/10.1038/d415... #ethics #animalwelfare #animalrights
Be rational: chimp decision-making is guided by the strongest evidence
The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human #cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of #rational thought, too: doi.org/10.1038/d415... #ethics #animalwelfare #animalrights
Big emitters from the food sector move to shape the #COP30 agenda—positioning industrial #farming not as part of the problem, but as a #climate solution; the number of #agribusiness representatives at climate summits almost tripled in the last 4 years… (1/2) www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Big emitters from the food sector move to shape the #COP30 agenda—positioning industrial #farming not as part of the problem, but as a #climate solution; the number of #agribusiness representatives at climate summits almost tripled in the last 4 years… (1/2) www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
#Consumers choose more #plantbased diets (PBDs) due to their lower #health & #environment impacts. Environmental footprints (CO2, water, #landuse etc.) decrease from omnivorous to #vegan diets, and well-planned PBDs can offer #sustainability & #nutrition adequacy… (1/2) doi.org/10.3389/fnut...
Frontiers | Nutrient adequacy and environmental foot-print of Mediterranean, pesco-, ovo-lacto-, and vegan menus: a modelling study
BackgroundConsumer food choices are changing towards a more plant-based diet (PBD) due to growing awareness of their less detrimental effects on health and t...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#Consumers choose more #plantbased diets (PBDs) due to their lower #health & #environment impacts. Environmental footprints (CO2, water, #landuse etc.) decrease from omnivorous to #vegan diets, and well-planned PBDs can offer #sustainability & #nutrition adequacy… (1/2) doi.org/10.3389/fnut...
#Brazil: Its powerful #agribusiness sector tries to steer the agenda at COP30. #Agriculture is its largest #climate polluter but is shielded from real #regulation thru systematic #greenwashing, effective #lobbying & political capture: changingmarkets.org/report/the-m... #meat #beef #dairy #cattle
The Meat Agenda: Agricultural Exceptionalism and Greenwash in Brazil • Changing Markets
As Brazil prepares to host the 30th conference of the parties of UNFCCC (COP30) in heart of the Amazon, the country is positioning itself as a global climate leader with ambitious emissions reduction ...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#Brazil: Its powerful #agribusiness sector tries to steer the agenda at COP30. #Agriculture is its largest #climate polluter but is shielded from real #regulation thru systematic #greenwashing, effective #lobbying & political capture: changingmarkets.org/report/the-m... #meat #beef #dairy #cattle
WTF?! "Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war: Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
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November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
WTF?! "Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war: Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Reducing meat consumption is key to address #environment & #health challenges. In #Finland, acceptance of #taxing the most harmful #meat products has the highest acceptance, driven by perceived #fairness; environmental risk perception has a large indirect effect: doi.org/10.1016/j.sp... #meattax
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November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reducing meat consumption is key to address #environment & #health challenges. In #Finland, acceptance of #taxing the most harmful #meat products has the highest acceptance, driven by perceived #fairness; environmental risk perception has a large indirect effect: doi.org/10.1016/j.sp... #meattax
Food consumption in #China, esp. animal-based products, has risen with population growth & increasing #incomes, resulting in significant #environment impacts. Examining the carbon #footprint of representative dishes shows that #beef & mutton dishes have the highest… (1/2) doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Food consumption in #China, esp. animal-based products, has risen with population growth & increasing #incomes, resulting in significant #environment impacts. Examining the carbon #footprint of representative dishes shows that #beef & mutton dishes have the highest… (1/2) doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
UK: Mandatory front-of-pack #nutrition labelling (esp. warning #labels) would reduce the prevalence of #obesity & related #deaths, compared to the current voluntary implementation of traffic light #labelling, and should therefore be considered by the government: doi.org/10.1016/j.la... #labeling
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November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
UK: Mandatory front-of-pack #nutrition labelling (esp. warning #labels) would reduce the prevalence of #obesity & related #deaths, compared to the current voluntary implementation of traffic light #labelling, and should therefore be considered by the government: doi.org/10.1016/j.la... #labeling
New agreement enables IRRI to apply #CRISPR technology to develop #rice varieties with higher #yields, greater #climate resilience & enhanced #nutrition value, incl. #research to support healthier #diets & speed up variety development: www.globenewswire.com/news-release... #plantbreeding #genediting
Pairwise Licenses CRISPR Platform to International Rice Research Institute to Advance Climate-Resilient, Nutritious Rice
Agreement with IRRI marks Pairwise's third CGIAR partnership, enabling the research institute to use Fulcrum® genome editing technology to develop...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New agreement enables IRRI to apply #CRISPR technology to develop #rice varieties with higher #yields, greater #climate resilience & enhanced #nutrition value, incl. #research to support healthier #diets & speed up variety development: www.globenewswire.com/news-release... #plantbreeding #genediting
The EU discusses banning terms like “veggie #burger” or “soy #sausage”, but people quickly recognize whether they look at a #meat product or a plant-based alternative. The problem is not with the packaging but with the #supermarket shelves where… (1/2) vegconomist.com/studies-numb... #labeling
What Happens if the EU Bans Terms Like “Veggie Burger”? A New Consumer Study Explores - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
While the EU is discussing banning terms like "veggie burger" or "soy sausage", new data from Appinio provides a surprising insight: It's not the name that
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November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The EU discusses banning terms like “veggie #burger” or “soy #sausage”, but people quickly recognize whether they look at a #meat product or a plant-based alternative. The problem is not with the packaging but with the #supermarket shelves where… (1/2) vegconomist.com/studies-numb... #labeling
#Asia: Large-scale blind taste test showed that several meats enhanced with plant #proteins closely match their conventional counterparts on taste. One chicken #mince product even outperformed conventional #chicken mince, i.e. the healthier and… (1/3) gfi-apac.org/breaking-mea...
BREAKING: Meat enhanced with plant proteins outperforms conventional version in A*STAR study
To objectively measure whether or not the newest crop of products that combine animal meat and high-quality plant proteins were close to reaching taste parity with their conventional counterparts, GFI...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
#Asia: Large-scale blind taste test showed that several meats enhanced with plant #proteins closely match their conventional counterparts on taste. One chicken #mince product even outperformed conventional #chicken mince, i.e. the healthier and… (1/3) gfi-apac.org/breaking-mea...
Police look for witnesses after another fatal shooting in #Brussels that killed a 25-year-old man on Friday night. #Shots were fired at a group of people around 9 pm and the 25-year-old man was fatally struck: www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1831... #shooting #gunviolence #violence #Bruxelles #Brussel
Police look for witnesses after fatal Brussels shooting
A man was fatally shot in Schaerbeek, Brussels last Friday. Belgian police have launched an urgent appeal for witnesses to help track fleeing suspects.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Police look for witnesses after another fatal shooting in #Brussels that killed a 25-year-old man on Friday night. #Shots were fired at a group of people around 9 pm and the 25-year-old man was fatally struck: www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1831... #shooting #gunviolence #violence #Bruxelles #Brussel
Serving #meat at a climate summit is like handing out cigarettes at a cancer-prevention conference as the animal #agriculture industry is a top driver of #deforestation and the #climate catastrophe that is wreaking havoc on the planet: www.euronews.com/culture/2025... #COP30 #livestock #animals
Paul McCartney urges COP30 to go vegetarian to avoid climate hypocrisy
The UN Climate Change Conference takes place in Belém, Brazil, next week... And Paul McCartney has some thoughts regarding the menu.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Serving #meat at a climate summit is like handing out cigarettes at a cancer-prevention conference as the animal #agriculture industry is a top driver of #deforestation and the #climate catastrophe that is wreaking havoc on the planet: www.euronews.com/culture/2025... #COP30 #livestock #animals
The development of new #antibiotics will not be enough to curb the rise in #deaths from drug-resistant #infections, for which the misuse & overuse of #antimicrobials in human medicine & #agriculture are the main drivers… (1/2) doi.org/10.1038/d415... #health #AMR
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The development of new #antibiotics will not be enough to curb the rise in #deaths from drug-resistant #infections, for which the misuse & overuse of #antimicrobials in human medicine & #agriculture are the main drivers… (1/2) doi.org/10.1038/d415... #health #AMR
Food price #subsidies are widely recognized as effective tools to improve quality of #diets, but for environmental gains to be realized, it is important to explicitly integrate #environment considerations into food subsidy policies: doi.org/10.1016/j.ei... #prices #health #DALYs #carbon #emissions
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Food price #subsidies are widely recognized as effective tools to improve quality of #diets, but for environmental gains to be realized, it is important to explicitly integrate #environment considerations into food subsidy policies: doi.org/10.1016/j.ei... #prices #health #DALYs #carbon #emissions
In most categories the #NutriScore of plant-based meat & #sausage alternatives is better than that of their #animal counterparts. Reformulation & #fortification could improve their #nutrition profiles further and support more healthier #plantbased options: doi.org/10.3390/food... #meat #health
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November 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
In most categories the #NutriScore of plant-based meat & #sausage alternatives is better than that of their #animal counterparts. Reformulation & #fortification could improve their #nutrition profiles further and support more healthier #plantbased options: doi.org/10.3390/food... #meat #health
Food #ecolabelling should follow harmonised methodological guidelines based on empirical findings, scientific principles & societal values and #label formats should be clear for #consumers. A harmonised EU scheme is key for broad & equitable adoption: doi.org/10.1016/j.sp... #sustainable #labeling
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November 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Food #ecolabelling should follow harmonised methodological guidelines based on empirical findings, scientific principles & societal values and #label formats should be clear for #consumers. A harmonised EU scheme is key for broad & equitable adoption: doi.org/10.1016/j.sp... #sustainable #labeling
Cod in the #BalticSea could soon become extinct as #stocks are severely threatened. The #EU Commission wanted to lower catch quotas, but too many member states voted against it: www-deutschlandfunk-de.translate.goog/eu-fangquote... #cod #fish #fishing #fisheries #overfishing #biodiversity
Meeresbiologe Froese - „Den Dorsch haben wir verloren“
Der Ostsee-Dorsch ist vom Aussterben bedroht: Meeresbiologe Froese warnt, doch trotz gefährdeter Bestände gibt es Widerstand gegen strengere Fangquoten.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Cod in the #BalticSea could soon become extinct as #stocks are severely threatened. The #EU Commission wanted to lower catch quotas, but too many member states voted against it: www-deutschlandfunk-de.translate.goog/eu-fangquote... #cod #fish #fishing #fisheries #overfishing #biodiversity
Pakistan approved the country’s first #GMO sugarcane after assessing the crop's #foodsafety and #biosafety. The development of GM #sugarcane lines within #Pakistan reflects the nation's growing capacity in agricultural biotechnology: pid.gov.pk/site/press_d... #agriculture #plantbreeding #GMOs
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November 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Pakistan approved the country’s first #GMO sugarcane after assessing the crop's #foodsafety and #biosafety. The development of GM #sugarcane lines within #Pakistan reflects the nation's growing capacity in agricultural biotechnology: pid.gov.pk/site/press_d... #agriculture #plantbreeding #GMOs
Adherence to plant-based diets (diets rich in #plantbased foods and low in #meat & sugars) may protect from gastric #cancer, i.e. dietary change has a potential role in cancer prevention: doi.org/10.1093/eurp... #health #nutrition #diets
Association between adherence to EAT-Lancet diet and risk of gastric cancer in the StoP project
AbstractBackground. In 2019, the EAT-Lancet Commission proposed a diet promoting plant-based foods, while reducing red meat and added sugars, aiming to imp
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November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Adherence to plant-based diets (diets rich in #plantbased foods and low in #meat & sugars) may protect from gastric #cancer, i.e. dietary change has a potential role in cancer prevention: doi.org/10.1093/eurp... #health #nutrition #diets
Despite the #business opportunity from #plantbased proteins, many global food companies are not effectively meeting #consumers demand, limiting the category’s #growth and weakening the #resilience of food #supplychains thru over-reliance on animal protein: www.fairr.org/news-events/... #protein
Global Food Companies’ Plant-Based Protein Approach Misses Opportunity for Growth, Nutrition and Resilience | FAIRR
The FAIRR Initiative is a collaborative investor network that raises awareness of the materiality risks and opportunities in intensive livestock production.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Despite the #business opportunity from #plantbased proteins, many global food companies are not effectively meeting #consumers demand, limiting the category’s #growth and weakening the #resilience of food #supplychains thru over-reliance on animal protein: www.fairr.org/news-events/... #protein
The first European company received regulatory approval to #market a cultivated #meat product for human consumption,—although not in the EU but in Singapore… www.proteinproductiontechnology.com/post/parima-... #chicken #EU #Singapore #foodsafety #cleanmeat #culturedmeat #cultivatedmeat
PARIMA secures Singapore approval for cultivated chicken, becoming Europe’s first company cleared to market cultivated meat for human consumption | PPTI News
PARIMA secures Singapore approval for cultivated chicken, becoming Europe’s first company cleared to market cultivated meat | Alternative Proteins | Food Tech | Food Production | Plant-Based Food | Cu...
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November 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The first European company received regulatory approval to #market a cultivated #meat product for human consumption,—although not in the EU but in Singapore… www.proteinproductiontechnology.com/post/parima-... #chicken #EU #Singapore #foodsafety #cleanmeat #culturedmeat #cultivatedmeat
#Urbanization drives consolidation of #farm operations, i.e. we will be dealing with a sector that is increasingly able to organize & lobby for what it wants. This could bring more favorable #regulations & #subsidies for a shrinking group of farmers: doi.org/10.1093/erae... #agriculture #farmers #UK
Urbanization and the industrialization of agriculture
Abstract. As urban environments expand, urban pressure is likely to generate increased competition for resources used in the agricultural sector, such as l
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October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#Urbanization drives consolidation of #farm operations, i.e. we will be dealing with a sector that is increasingly able to organize & lobby for what it wants. This could bring more favorable #regulations & #subsidies for a shrinking group of farmers: doi.org/10.1093/erae... #agriculture #farmers #UK
In #Africa, dependence on natural resources undermines #foodsecurity thru the quality of institutions, income #inequality & #conflicts. Economic & agricultural diversification should be encouraged and money made from natural resources be invested in #agriculture projects: doi.org/10.1007/s411...
Starving rich: linking natural resource endowment and food insecurity in Africa - Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies
Given that eating, and especially eating well, is one of our most basic human needs, millions of people in Africa still do not have enough to eat. In African countries rich in natural resources, the p...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In #Africa, dependence on natural resources undermines #foodsecurity thru the quality of institutions, income #inequality & #conflicts. Economic & agricultural diversification should be encouraged and money made from natural resources be invested in #agriculture projects: doi.org/10.1007/s411...