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Frédéric Leroy: meat's become a scapegoat for vegans, politicians & the media because of bad science

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Meat has been getting a bad rap in some parts of society, being blamed for everything from increased cancer to greenhouse gas emissions by environmental and commercial influencers. This has led to Professor Frédéric Leroy, Professor of Food Science and biotechnology at Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, to concluded that meat has effectively become a scapegoat for commercial and environmental advocates, much of which was based on bad science. Speaking at a lecture at the University of Auckland, Professor Leroy discussed how this scapegoating came about and whether it is justified. Speaker biography: After having studied Bio-engineering Sciences at Ghent University (1992-1997), Frédéric Leroy (°1974) obtained a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2002, where he continued his academic career at the research group of Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology (IMDO) as a post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Since 2008, he holds a professorship in the field of food science and (bio)technology. His research primarily deals with the many ecological aspects and functional roles of bacterial communities in (fermented) foods, with a focus on animal products. ...more
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Introduction

0:00

The future of food

1:00

UN Environment

3:27

The Pharmakon

4:44

The Daily Mail

8:05

What has changed

13:30

Food fraud

17:14

Planetary health diet

19:09

The narrative

23:56

Professor Mann

24:28

Macro

27:18

Emissions

28:52

Methane vs Co2

33:36

Sinking soil

34:59

Nutrition

36:20

Water use

38:52

Inefficient source of calories

40:29

Beef is the villain

41:33

Not all is well with the environment

42:27

Diversity in diets

46:39

Red meat decreasing

47:44

The evidence

50:25

How can it be

52:41

Relative risk

53:53

Consensus

54:55

Hazards

55:55
Frédéric Leroy: meat's become a scapegoat for vegans, politicians & the media because of bad science
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2019Aug 21
Meat has been getting a bad rap in some parts of society, being blamed for everything from increased cancer to greenhouse gas emissions by environmental and commercial influencers. This has led to Professor Frédéric Leroy, Professor of Food Science and biotechnology at Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, to concluded that meat has effectively become a scapegoat for commercial and environmental advocates, much of which was based on bad science. Speaking at a lecture at the University of Auckland, Professor Leroy discussed how this scapegoating came about and whether it is justified. Speaker biography: After having studied Bio-engineering Sciences at Ghent University (1992-1997), Frédéric Leroy (°1974) obtained a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2002, where he continued his academic career at the research group of Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology (IMDO) as a post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Since 2008, he holds a professorship in the field of food science and (bio)technology. His research primarily deals with the many ecological aspects and functional roles of bacterial communities in (fermented) foods, with a focus on animal products.

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