{"id":46584,"date":"2019-01-19T13:17:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46584"},"modified":"2019-01-19T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:17:24","slug":"the-lancets-new-guidelines-are-a-great-leap-forward-to-worse-than-ww2-rationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/19\/the-lancets-new-guidelines-are-a-great-leap-forward-to-worse-than-ww2-rationing\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Lancet<\/em>&#8216;s new guidelines are a great leap forward &#8230; to worse-than-WW2 rationing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new initiative by <em>The Lancet<\/em> and EAT, a billionaire&#8217;s pro-starvation advocacy group, involves new food guidelines that may leave Britons feeling a tiny bit &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/cooking-with-lancet.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hungry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Lancet<\/em> has got into bed with EAT to transform the global food supply. EAT is a campaign group run by a Norwegian billionaire who flies around the world in a private jet telling people to eat less meat to save the planet. <em>The Lancet<\/em>&#8216;s interest is in getting people to live off lentils for the good of their health.<\/p>\n<p>How much less meat do these people think we should be eating? Much, much less. Less than a sausage a week would be the pork ration in their brave new world.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[WATCH] The IEA&#39;s very own health warrior <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjsnowdon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CJSnowdon<\/a> decided to try the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheLancet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheLancet<\/a>&#39;s delicious nutrition guidelines for breakfast this morning! \ud83e\udd53\ud83c\udf73 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0zJhqQTs6T\">pic.twitter.com\/0zJhqQTs6T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IEA (@iealondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iealondon\/status\/1085786294947479552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[WATCH] Part 2 of the IEA&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjsnowdon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CJSnowdon<\/a> following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheLancet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheLancet<\/a>&#39;s nutrition guidelines. Doesn&#39;t that beef sandwich look like the stuff that dreams are made of? \ud83e\udd6a<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h9cdxIgoUx\">https:\/\/t.co\/h9cdxIgoUx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ncsEuMAAgp\">pic.twitter.com\/ncsEuMAAgp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IEA (@iealondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iealondon\/status\/1085874095407943680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[WATCH] Part 3 of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjsnowdon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cjsnowdon<\/a> following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheLancet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheLancet<\/a> diet. \ud83c\udf57<\/p>\n<p>Not a fan of the diet yourself? &quot;You don\u2019t need to worry about choice or personal responsibility. They\u2019re gonna use a system of taxes and bans&#8230; to make sure you don&#39;t really have much choice!&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h9cdxIgoUx\">https:\/\/t.co\/h9cdxIgoUx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sscnswc5aQ\">pic.twitter.com\/Sscnswc5aQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IEA (@iealondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iealondon\/status\/1085951235319058432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Lancet meat guidelines are smaller than a WWII ration, but then the UK govt\u2019s *actual* sugar guidelines are smaller than a WWII ration. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/auxYDuyMUK\">https:\/\/t.co\/auxYDuyMUK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher Snowdon (@cjsnowdon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjsnowdon\/status\/1086650306606362625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2019\/01\/one-tenth-of-a-sausage.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e2022ad3d22ac3200b#comment-6a00d83451675669e2022ad3d22ac3200b\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Captain Nemo<\/a>&#8221; commented on David Thompson&#8217;s blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank <strong>The Lancet<\/strong> for raising the sausage ration to seven grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to seven grams a week&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My apologies to Orwell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new initiative by The Lancet and EAT, a billionaire&#8217;s pro-starvation advocacy group, involves new food guidelines that may leave Britons feeling a tiny bit &#8230; hungry: The Lancet has got into bed with EAT to transform the global food supply. 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