Henry Dimbleby
@HenryDimbleby
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Co-founded , @leonrestaurants , @ChefsInSchools & @the_SRA . Co-author . Author of @food_strategy and Ravenous
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Sainsbury follow Tesco in saying they will unilaterally implement obesity restrictions. Also calling on government to reverse u-turn. Fascinating that the retailers are now calling for more regulation.
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Absolutely delighted with the Government’s announcement today on children’s food poverty.
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The interventions
@MarcusRashford
is calling for are about much more than the sticking plaster of half-term food vouchers. You can find out more about them in the Jobs and Hunger chapter of the National Food Strategy:
#endchildfoodpoverty
is not about children going hungry during the school holidays, this is about children going hungry full stop. Let’s not loose sight of the bigger picture here. There are at least 1.5million children we are not reaching with the free school meal scheme...
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Read why we need the measures
@MarcusRashford
is championing on child hunger and why they will work here
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My letter to The Times this morning. Today is a critical day for our food system as The Agriculture Bill comes back to the Commons.
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It actually is possible to maintain food production and restore nature and sequester carbon. You just have to be careful how you go about it. And you need to reduce meat consumption (by about 30%). Meat production occupies 85 percent of the agricultural land that feeds us.
What the government cannot do is sustain two contradictory policies at the same time. So, which is it to be: rewilding and green energy – or food security?
✍️ Ross Clark
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We’ve published the National Food Strategy today. A Manifesto for a better food system alongside a Strategic Plan to achieve it.
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This is fantastic news.
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🧵On Wednesday I gave the inaugural
@RSPCA
Wilberforce Lecture. I argued that we need to change our relationship with animals radically, not just for their sakes, but for ours. The human species. (You can read the full lecture here ) 1/
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Whichever party is in power in ten years time, they will be crippled by the harm diet is doing to our health. The current political inactivity is grotesque and irresponsible.
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I've written a short note explaining why I recommended the three policies that are the focus of
@MarcusRashford
's campaign.
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After a brief hiatus, it’s time to get going again on this. Urgently. Huge questions being posed by this crisis: about food security - national and individual - and diet related health. Issues are much more complex than the current public debate would suggest.
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Kinder find a way around bans on aisle end displays. Create an aisle end in-aisle. At children's eye level. Nice work
@ferarrouk
. Their public position on advertising to children: we market "primarily to adults" and to "young people 12 years or over."
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This will cost them because the profits will move to less scrupulous competitors. Brave of them to recognise the
#junkfoodcycle
. A turning point?
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Our diet is as great a threat to our economy as it is to our health. Nine times as great as previously thought. Whichever government is in power in 10 years time will be crippled by this if we don’t act.
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The National Food Strategy. Part One.
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Proud to publish Part One of The National Food Strategy today - look out for our formal launch event later today!
#foodstrategy
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Looking forward to judging
@JamieOliver
's
#GoodSchoolFoodAwards
. Please make it hard by nominating someone you think is doing great work at .
#Betterispossible
.
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Ravenous (by my wife
@gemimsy
and me) won best food book at the André Simon awards last night. Incredibly touched to follow in my mum's footsteps. Although she was quick to point out she won it twice (in 1978 and 1979). 😂 Still work to do.
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@elakdawalla
Leave the house in the morning to go to work, walk round the block and then come back into your house and settle down to work. Helps make the mental transition.
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I did a short TED talk on where our food system is going wrong.
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This is a fantastic thread. I would only add one thing. The root cause of the problem isn't the companies, it is the unregulated economics of the system that lead inevitably to these huge concentrations of power. We live in a new Gilded Age.
Where do our calories come from?
I said on
@StevenBartlett
's podcast that "75% of calories consumed globally come from six companies"
I meant to say that 75% of calories come from six *crops*...but how many (or few) companies handle our food is an interesting question. 🧵
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At about 8.20 I’ll be talking on Good Morning Britain about subsidising fruit and vegetables for those living in poverty. Why we need to do it while inequality remains so high and specifically how we can do it.
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And they pretend to care.
At the supermarket this morning, these were the two cereals at child height. This is not breakfast food. This is not food for children. It’s just deliberately targeted crap happily designed to make kids fat. And it comes from the two biggest companies in the sector.
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Great to be launching Bramble Partners today. A new investment firm backing food businesses that will change the world for the better - improving health, the environment, or food security.
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I’m going to be on Today - maybe at about 7.50 - on the delays to promotion and advertising restrictions on junk food. Will do a thread here later about why the arguments people are making to justify the delay are demonstrably flawed.
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I drove across central London yesterday to deliver food. God it was sad - stripped of its bustle and dirt, its lovers and drunks, its hope and its hubris. Everything human gone, except the odd queue at a post office or butcher. Bleak.
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There is no point leaving the EU, only to align ourselves, abjectly, to the values of another trading bloc. The essence of sovereignty is freedom and we must use that freedom to uphold our standards.
Online fringe: Sunday 4th, 9am.
"Setting the standard: exporting our values" with:
-
@TrussLiz
, International Trade Secretary
-
@Minette_Batters
,
@NFUtweets
President
-
@HenryDimbleby
of
@food_strategy
#CPC20
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Furloughed and looking for purpose? Great initiative.
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Some points from my EAC grilling in parliament today in this 🧵. It was an hour long. So much nuance lost. My biggest concerns for food security are nutritional security for those living in poverty and the impact of climate change and biodiversity collapse on global harvests.
.
@HenryDimbleby
: "We live in a world where the biggest danger to our food is the way that we produce our food."
📺Watch live at
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We finished our book yesterday. Out on 23 March. Just in time delivery. You can preorder here:
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In the last four weeks Sainsbury, Tesco and Danone have all said we are not going to tackle diet related ill health without intervention. Extraordinary, ideological, wilful blindness from government.
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"Fascinating . . .comprehensive and concise . . . a clear, reasoned and meticulously footnoted argument for a coherent food policy" FT review.
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Terrific news.
ICYMI:
@HenryDimbleby
's radical and sobering account of how the food system is no longer serving us has been picked as one of Waterstone's Best Books of 2023📚
#Ravenous
will also be out in paperback in January✨
Learn more:
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Today’s lunch at
@ChefsinSchools
first school outside the UK - in Tanzania. People are doing better for our children. Because it is possible. And they care. If you care, better is possible. If you are a head who wants to improve what you serve your children, please get in touch.
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Just another morning chat on the
@ChefsinSchools
Chefs alliance group. These are chefs cooking on tight budgets at schools with high %ages of children eligible for Free School Meals. With love and care, better is possible.
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I’m going to be on Radio 4 Start the Week at 9 taking about fatshaming and our inability to understand that the system is to blame. “A bad system beats a good person every time”
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This is excellent news. You can find the evidence here.
Today
@SadiqKhan
has pledged to continue offering free school meals to primary school children, which is in my opinion a great use of London taxpayer's money. This is HUGE and part of what I’ve been working on for the past 20 years. Food in schools is as essential as exercise
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Should have been done years ago. Need more pressing than ever.
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Ravenous is “an unputdownable, fast-paced, cracking good read. Even if you are not interested in food, three pages in, you will be.” Thank you
@PrueLeith
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This is clear marketing to under 12s. Cynical and clealry dishonest. Sort yourselves out
@FerreroUK
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An interview in the Telegraph today about the intellectual struggle the Junk Food Cycle causes. Fixing our diet-related food crisis is as much about finding a new narrative as it is about getting the policy right. 🧵
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Hello, Nestle. I see your Kit Kat cereal and raise your our chocolate flavoured corn flakes to feed your children. Don’t worry, they are “exciting and nutritious”. FFS. (Nestle, to their credit at least removed the “nutritious” claim.)
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Every school must teach children to cook and grow proper food. This was a wonderful day. So proud of everyone involved.
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Fast forward to today. Our population has swollen to 7.8BN. As we thrived, almost all other forms of wildlife went into decline. Our pets weigh almost as much as all wild animals. The weight of animals bred for food is now more than 10X the weight of all wild animals. 3/
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I ended by quoting Wilberforce: “Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way,” he said, “but you can never again say you did not know.” 40/ ENDS
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This single most important thing that you and I, can do as individuals to improve the food system is to eat less meat. Each of us must cut back on our meat eating – not theoretically, some day in the future, but now. 31/
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Sharon was critical to securing universal infant free school meals and cookery lessons on the curriculum. Her support, under pressure, meant that The School Food Plan and children’s nutrition in general remained a cross party concern. We’re so lucky to have her as an MP.
Ten years ago today, Government published Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent’s School Food Plan.
I was proud as Chair of the APPG for School Food to have collaborated with John and Henry on this work...
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“Dimwit humans facing total wipeout” due to bad diet. It says so in the Daily Star. I need to ramp up the rhetoric.
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The new last chapter in the paperback is worth buying the book for again. A fascinating and absolutely coruscating account of the backlash from BIG FOOD, including the contract you have to sign if you are a scientist paid to advise them.
My Ultra-Processed journey began when someone sent me
@KitchenBee
’s article in the
@guardian
- it remains the definitive work in my view and her writing continues to inspire so much of what I do.
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The audiobook of Ravenous is out today. If you fancy 7 hours and 40 minutes of my dulcet tones.
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I'll be on the Today Programme at 8.10 (that's the plan) to talk about children's food poverty,
@MarcusRashford
's campaign, and why the government needs to do more.
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Excited (and nervous) to be giving the lecture at the Bennett Institute in Cambridge on Friday. In front of some of the sharpest minds to help with the National Food Strategy. Talking about why political intervention in complex systems is so damn hard.
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This picture has really cheered me up. I met them at the after-party for EuroVision, the musical. She was starring in it. I was a rubbish, young, gossip columnist. They were so kind and chatty when they could have given me the cold shoulder. Lovely, lovely people.
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If we want to change our food system for the better, we will have to find local leaders in every village, town and City. That’s why I’m so pleased to be in Birmingham today. The vision the City Council are showing in their efforts to create a better food future are inspiring
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Recommendations from the National Food Strategy featured strongly in yesterday's Levelling Up White Paper. It recognizes huge health disparities in our society - a post code lottery - and identifies diet as a major factor. (1/6)
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Advertorial from the school food industry mag. “PERFECT primary school puds by Wafflemeister, for 4 to 11 yr olds.” Each 35g waffle contains 8gs of fat (half saturated) and 9gs of sugar, leaving 18gs left to house the other 17 or so ingredients. Your children are in good hands!
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Serving children good food cooked from scratch improves their health. Whodathunkit? About to go through the detail. If solid it shows the policy
@JohnV_LEON
and I recommended in the School Food Plan is more powerful than we thought.
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Off to
@BBCr4today
to talk about my inaugural Wilberforce lecture for the
@RSPCA_official
this evening. Meat eating, animal welfare, animal sentience, red tape, and trade deals. On at about 6.50.
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About to talk to
@AndrewMarr9
on
@LBC
to make the case for extending Free School Meals availability to all on UC. More important than ever.
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Excellent news. And quite right.
In all of our trade negotiations, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards.
The government will stand firm in trade negotiations to ensure any deals live up to the values of our farmers and consumers.
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These awards are great. In too many schools, the cooks literally come into and leave the school through a different door from the other staff and pupils. Lovely to see them getting their time in the sun.
HUGE congrats to all of the winners of our very first Good School Food Awards 🏆 sponsored by
@TefalUK
!
We had an incredible 32,000 entries from schools across the UK, and we were absolutely blown away by the high standard 🤯 Discover the winners inspiring stories right here
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We need to change the narrative so people understand that a healthy nation is the bedrock of a strong economy and that the only way to break the Junk Food Cycle is through state intervention. “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have”, Winston Churchill.
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If you are a chef and an educator and want to join a gang of us who are trying to turn things round from the bottom up, please apply. And if your followers might be that person , please RT
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Watching the fightback against interventions on junk food has been grimly fascinating. An education in how the system forces good people to do bad things. (1/n
Advertising works — otherwise, why would junk food companies spend millions on it? It manipulates young people to eat more unhealthy food. Yet we’re hearing rumours that
@BorisJohnson
might backtrack on his promises to child health. Take action
#AdEnough
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Or read both!
Britain’s life expectancy is falling. Not because of Covid. But because of our bad diet.
@HenryDimbleby
excellent on why ‘willpower’ is not the answer.
If you don’t read ‘Ravenous’, read his essay in.
@thetimes
today:
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These four films made with the Wild Isles team are out on Thursday. Business. Food. Marine. And Finance. What is the problem and what is the fix? As you might expect from Attenborough team, they are brilliant. Will post a link on Thursday.
Inspiring to see the extra
#WildIsles
films this evening - dicussing how/why business should urgently lead on the recovery of climate, nature and health
@HenryDimbleby
@DeborahMeaden
@wwf_uk
@Natures_Voice
@nationaltrust
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In 200 years-time, we will look back at industrial livestock farming with some of the horror that we feel for bull-baiting now. 18/
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62% of European all cereal crops are fed to livestock and only 23% feed people. It takes 20 times more land to produce one gram of protein from beef than from pulses. It is an extraordinarily inefficient way to feed ourselves. 21/
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Over 75% of farmland worldwide is used to graze animals of grow food to feed to animals. In the UK it is 85%. 20/
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Please come.
𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇!🚀
Join
@HenryDimbleby
for the virtual launch of Part One of the National Food Strategy on Wednesday 29 July, 1.30 – 2.45pm.
👉
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The success of the food system goes hand in hand with its destructive power. It is by far the biggest cause of the destruction of biodiversity, deforestation, freshwater shortage and pollution, and the collapse of aquatic wildlife. 4/
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This is an exciting arrival. I am a Bold Bean super fan. A fortnightly subscription has changed our life.
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This is where we end up if government doesn’t act.
4. The Rise Of Obesity In America
You can only appreciate this epidemic by watching this video...
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This is another great step forwards to creating a better farming system in the UK. One that produces quality food, provides livelihoods for farmers, and restores nature. DEFRA was never going to get it all right from the off . . . .
The biggest upgrade to the UK’s farming schemes since leaving the European Union has been set out by the Environment Secretary
@SteveBarclay
at the 🚜
@OxfordFarming
Conference today.
Swipe for some of the key updates below 🔽
#OFC24
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Dishoom is one of those vary rare businesses with deep societal purpose. (And delicious food in fun spaces). Amazing business.
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Sandwiched between
@RoryStewartUK
and
@theresecoffey
on stage today. Going to be talking about how we need a range of agricultural approaches informed by the potential of the land and the huge political skill required to deliver that.
Excited to launch
#FutureCountryside
today with
@julian_glover
at
@_HatfieldPark_
with a great lineup of speakers including
@RoryStewartUK
@mukherjee_sarah
@ConygreeFarm
@theresecoffey
@fionacreynolds
@DanielZeichner
@EdenSwimmer
@HeatherJHancock
@HenryDimbleby
and Lord Mandelson
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Alongside the NHS, civil servants are working around the clock to keep the country together. They too deserve our gratitude.
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So exciting to be opening a school farm IN LAMBETH. 😀
Did you hear?
@WoodySchool
have started a school farm which will run alongside the school kitchen!
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If you want to learn more about their ambitions for the farm and it's impact on students, head to the insta "woodmansterneschoolfarm" now!
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We can't wait to see how it goes!
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Such an exciting partnership with
@Riverford
to improve school food and food education in the South West. Many thanks Guy and the team. Look forward to doing big things.
Spotted in the news! A glimpse into our joint efforts with
@Riverford
to improve children's nutrition in the SW.
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I’ll be on
@BBCr4today
just after 8.30 talking about the government’s response to the
@food_strategy
. A lot is happening in 2022 Q1.
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Talking about this on
@BBCr4today
at 7.50. We need a little more care, a little more love, in the system.
This is what school food looks like, with a brilliant chef like
@mikecollins1984
who understands & is passionate about his role in child health & food ed. There are many great school chefs, shackled by unambitious menus & recipes. Lets be ambitious. We can't afford not to be.
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My
@BBCr4today
interview this morning on breaking the Junk Food Cycle, health as an asset, and why reducing health inequality by improving diet will be critical to levelling up.
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The work going on behind the scenes at DEFRA on this is truly impressive. And the way the food sector and government are collaborating is 💪.
Read our response to articles in
@DailyMailUK
,
@Telegraph
,
@Daily_Express
and
@MetroUK
on food rationing.
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He died before I was born, but apparently never talked about it afterwards. I first heard this on a scratched record in my teens. An extraordinary piece of writing.
75 years ago the BBC's Richard Dimbleby was the first broadcaster to report from the liberation of Belsen. His 10 minute report is an extraordinary historic act of journalism as witnessing. Listen to the way he uses 'the simple horrible facts'
#Belsen
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Most animals reared for food globally are factory-farmed: confined in pens, cages, and even multi-storey tower blocks, far from sunlight or greenery, unable to express their natural instincts. 6/
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