The EAT-Lancet commission of 37 academics who published the report in UK-based medical journal The Lancet has been criticised for its links to EAT, a self-styled “global, non-profit startup dedicated to transforming our global food system through sound science, impatient disruption and novel partnerships”. Norwegian EAT founder Gunhild Stordalen and her husband, hotel investor Petter, regularly use their image to promote vegan products and international luxury travel.
Commission member Prof Jessica Fanzo said Stordalen initiated the EAT-Lancet research by contacting the editor of The Lancet to form a commission with academic Prof Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, who is also a board member of EAT. Two other EAT employees supported the commission in the writing of the report. Yet Fanzo said that “they never were influential in the findings”.
She added that commission members were not paid for the project, and their expenses were funded by the Wellcome Trust, a UK foundation supporting health research. “There was a lot of controversy that we were all funded by a billionaire in Norway who is a vegan – not true,” she said. Listen to ““Solutions are not simple” – EAT-Lancet author” on Spreaker.
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The EAT-Lancet commission of 37 academics who published the report in UK-based medical journal The Lancet has been criticised for its links to EAT, a self-styled “global, non-profit startup dedicated to transforming our global food system through sound science, impatient disruption and novel partnerships”. Norwegian EAT founder Gunhild Stordalen and her husband, hotel investor Petter, regularly use their image to promote vegan products and international luxury travel.
Commission member Prof Jessica Fanzo said Stordalen initiated the EAT-Lancet research by contacting the editor of The Lancet to form a commission with academic Prof Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, who is also a board member of EAT. Two other EAT employees supported the commission in the writing of the report. Yet Fanzo said that “they never were influential in the findings”.
She added that commission members were not paid for the project, and their expenses were funded by the Wellcome Trust, a UK foundation supporting health research. “There was a lot of controversy that we were all funded by a billionaire in Norway who is a vegan – not true,” she said. Listen to ““Solutions are not simple” – EAT-Lancet author” on Spreaker.
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'Beef demand will go up' – EAT-Lancet report author
'Dangerous' to downsize beef sector
Processing and clear farmer directions the missing links
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