Jon Bennett
@jonmbennett.bsky.social
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Dir of Comms at
@madrebrava.bsky.social
Chatting (mostly) food systems/climate on here.
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Jon Bennett
Alex Crisp
5 months ago
The protein transition via the supermarket shelves - Madre Brava
open.substack.com/pub/futureof...
@madrebrava.bsky.social
@gfieurope.org
@oxfutureoffood.bsky.social
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Achieving Protein Transition Via The Supermarket Shelves - Madre Brava
Alex speaks to CEO Vicky Bond about the inevitability of the transtion.
https://open.substack.com/pub/futureoffoodsinterviews/p/achieving-protein-transition-via?r=a2hrt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Animal agriculture has a little known link to Thailand's smogs, and people like Aom are suffering because of it. Read her story in the post below, and our report here:
madrebrava.org/media/pages/...
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9 months ago
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📉 Tariffs are dominating the news, which is a good excuse to re-up this thorough piece from Anay Mridul of Green Queen Media on their possible effect on food tech and alt protein. TLDR (although I highly recommend you read it): It's not good.
www.greenqueen.com.hk/trump-tariff...
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Explained: How Trump's Tariffs Will Impact Food Tech & Alternative Protein
Food prices are skyrocketing in the US, and President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China will hit the alternative protein sector hard.
https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-food-tech-alternative-protein/
10 months ago
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Great news for us at Madre Brava!
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11 months ago
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Jon Bennett
Damian Carrington
11 months ago
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
#netzero
#cimatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/britain-net-zero-economy-booming-cbi-green-sector-jobs-energy-security
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Jon Bennett
Madre Brava
11 months ago
Shifting the protein they offer to more plants and less meat is a way for food retailers to hit emissions targets and give their customers a healthier choice. Rewe, Germany's second-biggest retailer, has committed to doing just that in a move that will help shape the food system across Europe.
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The LA fires provided another deluge of apocalyptic photos of the terrible destruction turbocharged by climate change. Madre Brava's
@emilyarmistead.bsky.social
picked out one which highlighted our inability (so far) to tackle the impact on the planet of what we eat.
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11 months ago
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Jon Bennett
Madre Brava
12 months ago
New
@gfieurope.bsky.social
report says: 💶 Alternative proteins could add €65 billion to Germany’s economy by 2045 👩💼 Up to 250,000 future-proof jobs could be created 🇩🇪 High-ambition could defend Germany’s global role in protein innovation Our Senior Associate in Germany, Florian Wall, reacts 👇
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Two stories today catch the eye: Record January temps and cultivated meat pet food. The potential of the latter to affect the former is huge. The UK's first cultivated meat dog treats produce far fewer emissions than raising and slaughtering animals.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Dog treat made from lab-grown meat on sale in UK as retailer claims a ‘world first’
Chicken used in dog treat was cultivated from single sample of cells taken from one egg, says manufacturer Meatly
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/uk-pets-at-home-world-first-lab-grown-meat-dog-treats?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
12 months ago
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Great piece here on plant-based defaults by Emily Chung at CBC:
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
It recognises that our food choices are already influenced by what we're offered as default options in restaurants, events, even hospitals, and asks what would happen if we played with those defaults.
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We're being nudged to eat meat. What if the tables were turned? | CBC News
Restaurants, events and even hospitals generally offer meat as the default meal option. What if they nudged us to make healthier choices for our bodies and the planet instead? Some hospitals, universi...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/plant-based-default-1.7447345
12 months ago
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Madre Brava
12 months ago
🚨 More than 130 organisations have called for an EU Action Plan on Plant-based Foods by 2026 🚨 Representing farmers, health professionals and consumers among others, they wrote to EU Commissioner Christophe Hansen this morning.
@beuc.bsky.social
has the details:
www.beuc.eu/tools/eu-act...
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Large group of organisations call for an EU Action Plan for Plant-based Foods
https://www.beuc.eu/tools/eu-action-plan-plant-based-foods
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Not sure labelling people who give a sh*t about the natural world and our climate as blockers is the strongest route to 'growth'.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Legal challenges to UK infrastructure projects to be blocked in push for growth
Keir Starmer hopes his plan to ‘take the brakes off Britain’ will send a message to business to build more
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/23/legal-challenges-to-infrastructure-projects-to-be-blocked-in-push-for-growth
12 months ago
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Jon Bennett
Madre Brava
about 1 year ago
Our Interim Executive Director
@emilyarmistead.bsky.social
argues that groundbreaking weight-loss drugs are welcome but can't solve our obesity crisis alone.
madrebrava.org/insight/the-...
Versions of this piece were published in
@latimes.com
and
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social
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Madre Brava — The Half Promise of Weight-Loss Drugs
New weight-loss drugs are a game-changer, but they treat the symptom, not the cause.
https://madrebrava.org/insight/the-half-promise-of-weight-loss-drugs
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Jon Bennett
Project Syndicate
about 1 year ago
Overlapping crises caused by our broken food system cannot be wished away. What is needed is a major shift in dietary habits toward foods that nourish both people and the environment, writes
@madrebrava.bsky.social
's
@emilyarmistead.bsky.social
.
bit.ly/4fpIezN
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The Half Promise of Weight-Loss Drugs | by Emily Armistead - Project Syndicate
Emily Armistead warns that addressing the obesity crisis requires remaking a food system that is harming us and the planet.
https://bit.ly/4fpIezN
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"Defusing the time bombs of ill health and environmental catastrophe requires fast, decisive action to remake our dysfunctional food system."
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about 1 year ago
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Well this certainly stirred up a hornets nest. Besides the straw man arguments (Sri Lanka proves organic ag doesn't work 😂), I think the piece is based on a false premise: 'Factory farming is efficient'. It's not. The inefficiencies are externalised, that's all:
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...
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Opinion | Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food
Every farm, even the scenic ones with red barns and rolling hills, is a kind of environmental crime scene, an echo of whatever wilderness it once replaced.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/opinion/food-agriculture-factory-farms-climate-change.html
about 1 year ago
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Good, short piece here on
#cultivatedmeat
- the potential benefits and current challenges, from
@arjunkharpal.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/video/2024/1...
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Lab-grown meat is on the rise — here's how it is made
Lab-grown food is being hailed by proponents as the answer to some of the negative aspects that come along with modern agriculture and food production. But how does it work, and what are the pros and ...
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/12/10/lab-grown-meat-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-it-is-made.html
about 1 year ago
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Troubling that the gap based on income is not closing to any recognisable degree.
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about 1 year ago
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This, from
@mark--watts.bsky.social
at
@c40cities.bsky.social
is bang on. We focus very much on intl. agreements, which are essential, but there is so much impactful work that can be done, and is being done, at city level to mitigate and adapt to
#climatechange
:
www.context.news/green-cities...
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COP29 didn't deliver; it's time to look beyond nation states | Context
To kick-start urgent climate action, we must put leaders of cities, regions, states and provinces at the forefront of future talks
https://www.context.news/green-cities/opinion/cop29-didnt-deliver-its-time-to-look-beyond-nation-states
about 1 year ago
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Jon Bennett
Madre Brava
about 1 year ago
Did you know the EU could slash 48 million tonnes of emissions and save €2.8 billion annually with healthier ready meals? Check out the study here:
https://buff.ly/3CKE9IU
#protein
#foodsystems
#climatechange
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Madre Brava — EU could slash 48 million tonnes of emissions and save €2.8 billion annually with healthier ready meals - study
A new study reveals that the EU could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by around 48 million tonnes annually—equivalent to removing up to 38 million new cars from the road —by aligning ready-made…
https://buff.ly/3CKE9IU
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This is a fascinating piece by Sophie Attwood PhD on leveraging people's food preferences over seasons, days, even hours to help them eat more healthily and sustainably.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/nu...
#HealthyEating
#SustainableFood
#FoodSystems
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A Good Time for Dietary Change?
How we can use daily, monthly and seasonal patterns in food choice for healthy and sustainable change.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/nudging-nutrition/202412/a-good-time-for-dietary-change
about 1 year ago
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Jon Bennett
Madre Brava
about 1 year ago
There are HUGE economic and environmental benefits for Thailand if it moves part of its protein production from animals to plants, including a THB 1.3 economic boost and more than one million additional jobs. Read our recent report with Asia Research & Engagement here:
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Kitchen of the Future_ The economic and environmental benefits of protein diversification in Thailand.pdf
Madre Brava report: The Kitchen of the Future
https://buff.ly/3VgQT0l
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There are loads of innovative and interesting proposals to tackle food systems' impact on the planet. A new one to me is a
#PlantBased
treaty. This Al-Jazeera podcast was an interesting introduction:
www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/202...
#ClimateChange
#FoodSystems
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The Take: Eating our way out of climate collapse
The Plant Based Treaty is an initiative that puts food systems at the center of tackling the climate crisis.
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/11/29/the-take-eating-our-way-out-of-climate-collapse
about 1 year ago
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Jon Bennett
Madre Brava
about 1 year ago
This lecture by
@paulbehrens.bsky.social
is a must watch for anyone interested in our food systems, their impact and how we fix them.
https://buff.ly/3Z9d6i5
Madre Brava advocates for rebalancing the protein we produce and consume, increasing the share of plants for our health and the planet.
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'Towards a liveable planet: land, energy and food system transitions' with Prof Paul Behrens
In his introductory talk, Professor Behrens will describe his work in land use, food & energy systems, and climate change.He’ll answer questions ranging from...
https://buff.ly/3Z9d6i5
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Me watching US cabinet nominations and what's coming out of COP this week.
about 1 year ago
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