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Brazil Gives Nod To Import Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, Russia's Sputnik V: Report

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<p>Brazil has given clearance to the proposal to import Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin into the South American country with some conditions, news agency PTI reported today.</p>
<p>The National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil- Anvisa - had earlier denied permission to import Covaxin after authorities found that the Indian plant in which the jab was being made did not meet the good manufacturing practice (GMP) requirements.</p>
<p>The Brazilian health regulator also approved another proposal to import Russia's Sputnik V vaccine into that country.</p>
<p>According to Anvisa's approval, Brazil is expected to receive four million doses of Covaxin initially.</p>
<p>After using the authorised doses, the agency will analyse the data for monitoring the use of the vaccine in order to assess the next quantities to be imported.</p>
<p>"Anvisa authorised this Friday the exceptional import of the Covaxin vaccine by the Ministry of Health for distribution and use under controlled conditions. The authorisation defined the amount of 4 million doses, which can be used only under specific conditions. The decision was taken at the 9th Extraordinary Public Meeting of the Collegiate Board," it said in a statement in Portuguese.</p>
<p>All batches to be destined for Brazil must have been manufactured after the adaptations of the GMP implemented by the manufacturer Bharat Biotech, according to the corrective and preventive action report (Corrective and Preventive Action - CAPA) presented to Anvisa, the regulator said narrating a slew of conditions for the importing of Covaxin.</p>
<p>On February 26, Bharat Biotech Ltd had said it signed an agreement with the Brazilian government for the supply of 20 million doses of Covaxin during the second and third quarters of 2021.</p>
<p>Bharat Biotech presented an adequate action plan and fulfilled all the pending issues related to the certification of GMP request, Anvisa said. </p>
<p>Bharat Biotech, on May 25, filed new requests with Anvisa on the issues of GMP.</p>
<p>Anvisa recently authorised the conduct of clinical trials of Covaxin in Brazil.</p>
<p>Approval for tests on the immuniser developed in India will serve to assess the efficacy, safety and consistency between vaccine batches.</p>
<p>Announcing the approval of Spuknik V by Brazil on its official twitter page, the Russian vaccine-manufacturer said, "#SputnikV will be used in Brazil following ANVISA's approval. Brazil has become the 67th country in the world to authorise Sputnik V. The Sputnik V team fully answered all questions fromANVISA on the vaccine''s efficacy & safety."</p>
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Anvisa recently authorised the conduct of clinical trials of Covaxin in Brazil. (File) Hyderabad: Brazil has given clearance to the proposal to import Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin into the South American country with some conditions, ne…

The Liverpool Care Pathway – #WeNeedToTalkAboutMidazolam

<p><strong>Midazolam. It should be the word that is on everyone’s lips. If it isn’t we can assure you it will be by the time we’ve finished exposing one of the greatest crimes against humanity ever committed. We have the evidence midazolam may have been used to prematurely end the lives of thousands upon thousands of people in the United Kingdom, who you were told died due to Covid-19. But there is also evidence emerging this hasn’t just happened in the United Kingdom, it is in fact a world-wide issue.</strong></p>
<p><strong>But before we can reveal the evidence we need you to understand what midazolam is. Which is why we released our article ‘We need to talk about midazolam…’ on the 3rd June, and that’s why today we want to talk to you about the Liverpool Care Pathway…</strong></p>
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<p>The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) was a scheme that we’re told intended to improve the quality of care in the final hours or days of a patient’s life. It’s alleged aim was to ensure a peaceful and comfortable death. The LCP was a guide to doctors, nurses and other health workers looking after someone who was dying on issues such as the appropriate time to remove tubes providing food and fluid, or when to stop medication.</p>
<p>The LCP was developed during the late 1990’s at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, in conjunction with the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute. Palliative care is medical treatment designed to make people with terminal illness feel as comfortable as possible – both physically and emotionally. It can be used to relieve symptoms but not cure a condition.</p>
<p>The LCP involved reviews of –</p>
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<li>whether any further medications and tests (such as taking the patient’s temperature or blood pressure) would be helpful</li>
<li>how to keep the patient as comfortable as possible, for example, by adjusting their position in bed or providing regular mouth care (some illnesses or treatments can cause over- or underproduction of saliva)</li>
<li>whether artificial fluids should be given, when a patient has stopped being able to eat or drink</li>
<li>the patient’s spiritual or religious needs</li>
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<p>However…</p>
<p>In 2013 an independent review was carried out by Baroness Neuberger, who recommended discontinuation of the Liverpool Care Pathway. Why was there a review? Because it was applied to patients without their families’ knowledge and when they still had a chance of recovery. Doctors in the NHS were withdrawing treatment, heavily sedating the patient, and removing the tubes which provided food and fluid in the last 24 hours of their life.</p>
<p>The Review and the media highlighted examples of extremely poor practice. Many cases revealed ineffective or absent communication between healthcare professionals and patients or relatives, resulting in appalling care when this happened. Even though the LCP repeatedly emphasised the importance of clear and open communication with the patient and family and within the multidisciplinary team.</p>
<p>Particular concern was raised in the Review about reports of patients being denied oral fluids, contrary to the legal requirement to provide basic care:</p>
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<p><em>‘The offer of food and drink by mouth … must always be offered to patients who are able to swallow without serious risk of choking or aspiration.’</em><sup><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3782767/#b4">4</a></sup>.</p>
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<p>In fact, the LCP guidance was explicit that:</p>
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<p><em>‘… the patient should be supported to take food and fluid by mouth for as long as tolerated.’</em><sup><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3782767/#b6">6</a></sup></p>
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<p>The Review also identified reports of withdrawal of nutrition and hydration by drip or tube, without explanation or consultation. </p>
<p>According to newspaper reports, several families complained about use of the care pathway. Some relatives claimed that their loved ones were put on the pathway without their consent and some said it hastened death in relatives who were not dying imminently.</p>
<p>The review also found that use of the pathway was being encouraged for financial reasons, linked to targets. Almost two-thirds of NHS trusts using the LCP received “payouts” totaling millions of pounds for hitting targets related to its use.</p>
<p>There review also found examples of people who “survived” the Liverpool Care Pathway. A <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223836/I-survived-death-pathway-Patricia-82-given-days-live-family-defied-doctors-gave-water-straw--shes-planning-world-cruise.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span>Daily Mail article</span></a> described how Doctors at a hospital had removed all feeding tubes and drips and placed an 82-year-old grandmother on the Liverpool Care Pathway. Her children and grandchildren were told to say their last goodbyes.</p>
<p>But they said no. And after they defied hospital orders and gave Mrs Greenwood drops of water, her family helped her make a remarkable recovery.</p>
<p>The Liverpool Care Pathway was discontinued in 2014 following mounting criticism and a national review. Or so we are told.</p>
<p>One of the drugs of choice given to heavily sedate the patient and give them a “good death” was a drug called Midazolam.</p>
<p>Midazolam should be used with extreme caution in patients who have chronic renal failure, impaired hepatic function, or impaired cardiac function. It should also be used with extreme caution in obese patients, or elderly patients.</p>
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<li>Midazolam induces significant depression of respiration.</li>
<li>UK regulators insist midazolam should only be administered in a hospital or doctor’s office under the supervision of a doctor or nurse to monitor the breathing of the patient in order to provide life saving treatment to the patient if breathing slows or stops.</li>
<li>Midazolam should be used with extreme caution in elderly patients.</li>
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<p>Covid-19 is an alleged disease which can severely affect the respiratory system. Midazolam is a drug that severely suppresses the respiratory system.</p>
<p>Considering all of the above, how do you feel now that we’ve told you we have the evidence to show midazolam may have been used to prematurely end the lives of thousands upon thousands of people, and you were told that they died of Covid-19?</p>
<p>Please help to get #WeNeedToTalkAboutMidazolam trending on Twitter and share this article on all social media platforms.</p>
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Surprise, Surprise – UK Medicine Regulator is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

<p><strong>On Friday 4th June 2021, the UK Medicine Regulator – MHRA, gave authorisation for emergency use only for the Pfizer / BioNTech mRNA “vaccine” to be used in children aged 12 and over. This is despite the fact <a href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/05/30/shocking-86-of-children-suffered-an-adverse-reaction-to-the-pfizer-covid-vaccine-in-clinical-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span>86% of children suffered an adverse reaction</span></a> ranging from mild to serious in the extremely short, and small clinical study.</strong></p>
<p>To call this shocking would be an understatement but should we really be so surprised considering the fact the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mhra-awarded-over-980000-for-collaboration-with-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-and-the-world-health-organisation" target="_blank"><span>MHRA is funded</span></a> by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?</p>
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<p><em>We are delighted to announce a new partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organisation that aims to extensively improve the safety monitoring of medicines in low and middle-income countries (LMIC).</em></p>
<p><em>New medicines and vaccines, for diseases such as malaria and HIV, may be introduced for the first time in LMIC’s where there are weak or no regulatory systems in place for effective safety monitoring. These new treatments have been developed with urgent public health needs in mind and therefore the need to gather and analyse information quickly on their safety and effectiveness is important. The healthcare and regulatory systems in these settings may often lack the tools, training and capacity to operate a robust safety monitoring system. Whilst great progress has been made with many of LMIC’s now involved as members of the World Health Organization Program for International Drug Monitoring, the experience in collecting, assessing and acting on adverse reaction data, and risk management planning is limited.</em></p>
<p><em>Without an effective system, public health programs are at risk and patients may be affected, should they suffer from adverse drug reactions (ADRs) which are not promptly identified and treated. This can consequently undermine the program and result in a loss of trust in the product or a vaccine. Ultimately, this may lead to lower uptake and therefore, the disease not being effectively treated.</em></p>
<p><em>WHO and the Gates Foundation have launched ‘Project Smart Safety Surveillance’ (also known as Project 3-S) to help LMIC’s identify, assess, and adequately manage the risks associated with new products. MHRA will be joining this initiative to bring regulatory expertise to the project. This will be for a 3-year period where it is intended to run three pilot exercises in different LMIC settings.</em></p>
<p><em>Dr Ian Hudson, Chief Executive Officer at MHRA said:</em></p>
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<p><em>We are delighted to be involved in such an important global initiative. New drugs and vaccines are being brought to the market for the first time in public health programmes in settings where the safety monitoring and regulatory systems need strengthening. The expertise we can bring to the project will help national safety monitoring centres identify risks and benefits early and take appropriate regulatory action to support global heath.</em></p>
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<p><em>Dr Dan Hartman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said:</em></p>
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<p><em>The Triple S project is vitally important to the success of public health programmes to combat some of the world’s major diseases. When a new medicine or vaccine is being used it is critical that potential risks are identified early and well understood. The involvement of MHRA in this project will ensure scientific and regulatory expertise are developed within the national centres.</em></p>
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<p>Will you be allowing your child to take an experimental jab?</p>
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revolution Surprise, Surprise – UK Medicine Regulator is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

On Friday 4th June 2021, the UK Medicine Regulator – MHRA, gave authorisation for emergency use only for the Pfizer / BioNTech mRNA “vaccine” to be used in children aged 12 and over. This is despite the fact 86% of children suffered an adverse reacti…

Muslim neighbourhoods in British towns are ‘no-go areas’ for white people, new book claims

<p><strong>An academic who studied Muslim integration in Britain has revealed in a new book that women and children in some communities are subjected to Taliban-like rules, and non-Muslims face threats of violence.</strong></p>
<p>Ed Husain, professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University, visited mosques across Britain, speaking to businesses owners, imams and locals about life in predominantly Muslim neighbourhoods. He used his on-the-ground research to write a book, ‘Among The Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain’, which is set for release next week. </p>
<p>The Muslim author grew up in a Bangladeshi family in London and was radicalised in his youth before renouncing extremism. According to the professor, integration issues in the UK continue to persist. </p>
<p>One man in Blackburn told Husain that <em>“Asian”</em> teengers repeatedly <em>“jumped”</em> his 12-year-old son simply for <em>“being white.”</em> Another local told the author that certain parts of the town had become <em>“no-go areas.”</em> Blackburn has the largest Muslim population in the UK outside of London, and is a major hub for ultra-orthodox Islamic sects. </p>
<p>Husain also learned that one school in the town had barred girls from participating in swimming lessons, saying that it was inappropriate for them to be seen in bathing costumes. </p>
<p>While visiting a bookstore in Blackburn, the author stumbled across several volumes advocating strict restrictions and dress codes for women, as well as copies of a book which argued that it is sinful to enjoy dancing and listening to music. The town also reportedly has restaurants that provide gender separation for their clientele. </p>
<p>While visiting Bradford, Husain was amazed by how few white residents there were, and was reportedly told by a taxi driver that they had <em>“gone with the wind.”</em> He noted that mosques were on nearly every corner and that even private homes served as places of worship and religious schools. The professor also learned that some Muslim parents in the area had prohibited their children from going to drawing and dance lessons. </p>
<p>An imam in the city confided that there was <em>“widespread abuse of disabled children in the Muslim community,”</em> and that parents were pocketing social welfare money while neglecting their children. </p>
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<p>In Didsbury, the author came across a sign for a local ‘Sharia Department’, which deals with marital issues and other disputes through the lens of Islamic law. </p>
<p>He reported similar interactions and situations in places like Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. </p>
<p>One woman told him that some Muslim communities in the UK had become a <em>“different universe”</em> from the rest of the country. </p>
<p>Like other European countries, the UK has struggled with integrating immigrants from Muslim-majority nations, sparking concern about radicalisation. At the same time, reports suggest that there is a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the country. During Husain’s trip to Bradford, a local predicted that anti-Muslim sentiment could lead to <em>“an apartheid city”</em> within 30 years and give rise to Nazi-like political parties that would persecute immigrants. </p>
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news Muslim neighbourhoods in British towns are ‘no-go areas’ for white people, new book claims

An academic who studied Muslim integration in Britain has revealed in a new book that women and children in some communities are subjected to Taliban-like rules, and non-Muslims face threats of violence. Ed Husain, professor at the Walsh School of Fo…

Texas Bill Banning Tenets of Critical Race Theory and Action Civics Sent to Governor

<p><strong>The Texas legislature has approved a bill that would ban the teaching of concepts associated with Critical Race Theory and “action civics.”</strong></p>
<p>The bill has now been sent to Gov. Greg Abbott (R).</p>
<p>In an interview with Yahoo News published Friday, Texas state Rep. Steve Toth (R), the primary author of House Bill 3979, said the bill is in keeping with the message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</p>
<p>“This bill is a direct reflection of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” Toth said. “It echoes Dr. King’s wish that we should judge people on the content of their character, not their skin.”</p>
<p>The bill prohibits teachers from discussing concepts related to Critical Race Theory (CRT), a Marxist philosophy that embraces the notion that all social and cultural issues should be viewed through the lens of race.</p>
<p>The legislation particularly bans teaching or discussing the ideas that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex,” or that “an individual, by virtue of the individuals’ race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex.”</p>
<p>The bill prohibits teaching that “an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual ’s race or sex.”</p>
<p>Additionally, the measure states teachers cannot be forced to discuss current events in their classes. If they do so, they must “strive to explore the topic from diverse and contending perspectives without giving deference to any one perspective.”</p>
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<p>“The more people learn about critical race theory, whether Republican or Democrat, the more they oppose it,” Toth said.</p>
<p>In another interview with the Houston Chronicle, Toth said CRT is “about profiling our children to promote strife and anger at one another and hatred.”</p>
<p>The Texas lawmaker said that while the name of Critical Race Theory does not appear in the bill, what it prohibits are “prejudicial things that were outlawed in the 1964 Civil Rights movement, like discriminating against someone because of their race or sex.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/education/2021/06/04/exas-bill-banning-tenets-of-critical-race-theory-and-action-civics-sent-to-governor/">Read more.</a></p>
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news Texas Bill Banning Tenets of Critical Race Theory and Action Civics Sent to Governor

The Texas legislature has approved a bill that would ban the teaching of concepts associated with Critical Race Theory and “action civics.” The bill has now been sent to Gov. Greg Abbott (R). In an interview with Yahoo News published Friday, Texas st…

Pastor Jesse Lee Peterson Calls For U.S. To Celebrate ‘White History Month’ Instead Of ‘Perverted’ Pride Month

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<h4>Pastor Jesse Lee Peterson appeared on the One America News network this week to discuss Christianity and morality, and infuriated left-wing activists on social media by stating that Americans should learn more about White history, and celebrate White history month instead of “so-called gay pride” during the summer.</h4>
<p>“You know, I started the white history month in July. This is our fourth year coming up where we’re celebrating white history,” Peterson said. “And what I’ve noticed that in America, a country that was founded by white people and created by white people, one of the greatest country on this side of heaven. And so white people — invited all these other — allowed all this other stuff to happen but you can celebrate everything but white history. We must remember white history, because if it wasn’t for that, there would be no America.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">OAN guest says people should celebrate “white history month” instead of “perverted” LGBTQ Pride, decries that people are “afraid to even mention white history” <a href="https://t.co/6Ph4VVMVuS">pic.twitter.com/6Ph4VVMVuS</a></p>
— Brennan Suen (@brennansuen) <a href="https://twitter.com/brennansuen/status/1400126867982761985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
<p>The pastor continued, “And so they got Black history, women history, Mexican history, so-called gay pride. What’s happy about being perverted? There’s nothing good about that, living in sin, right? And — but we celebrate — I don’t — but they celebrate that. But when it comes to white history they’re afraid to even mention white history. But we got to bring that back because that’s who made America great. We got to show our appreciation.”</p>
<p>As National File <a href="https://nationalfile.com/video-jesse-lee-peterson-celebrates-july-as-white-history-month/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">previously reported</a>, Peterson has celebrated White history month every year during the month of July.</p>
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news Pastor Jesse Lee Peterson Calls For U.S. To Celebrate ‘White History Month’ Instead Of ‘Perverted’ Pride Month

Pastor Jesse Lee Peterson appeared on the One America News network this week to discuss Christianity and morality, and infuriated left-wing activists on social media by stating that Americans should learn more about White history, and celebrate Whit…

America First Conservatives Bash Daily Wire’s ‘Pathetic’ Fundraiser For AOC’s Abuela

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<p><strong>Neoconservative media organization The Daily Wire is receiving heavy criticism from conservatives on social media for orchestrating a GoFundMe publicity stunt that aims to raise tens of thousands of dollars for socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s grandmother.</strong></p>
<p>While AOC has drawn heavy criticism for complaining about her grandmother’s living conditions while enjoying a luxurious lifestyle in D.C., the Daily Wire’s fundraiser has been castigated for extreme tone-deafness at a time when conservatives are enduring record levels of financial persecution.</p>
<p>“Just over a week ago, my abuela fell ill,” Ocasio-Cortez originally wrote on Twitter. “I went to Puerto Rico to see her- my 1st time in a year+ bc of COVID. This is her home. Hurricane María relief hasn’t arrived. Trump blocked relief $ for PR. People are being forced to flee ancestral homes, & developers are taking them.”</p>
<p>Although Cortez admitted later on in the thread that “for the record – my abuela is doing okay,” and “She had a place to go to and be cared for,” the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh quickly organized a page for AOC’s “abuela” on GoFundMe that was heavily promoted by other Daily Wire personnel.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">We've raised nearly 10 thousand dollars in less than an hour. Over 400 compassionate donors have contributed. I am so inspired by this outpouring of support! <a href="https://t.co/3evghuyW2I">https://t.co/3evghuyW2I</a></p>
<p>— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1400869860645781504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2021</a></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">So great to see people stepping up to save <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>’s abuela’s ancestral home since the wealthy congresswoman can’t be bothered to help. $499 from me!</p>
<p>I nominate <a href="https://twitter.com/adamcarolla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AdamCarolla</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/danbongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanBongino</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElonMusk</a> to keep the momentum going! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HelpAbuela?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HelpAbuela</a><a href="https://t.co/G08Nn98YNZ">https://t.co/G08Nn98YNZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/LdT8oPTSDa">https://t.co/LdT8oPTSDa</a></p>
<p>— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1400867353785683968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2021</a></p>
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<p lang="und" dir="ltr" xml:lang="und">Yes. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HelpAbuela?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HelpAbuela</a>. <a href="https://t.co/JXOgbCs6A2">https://t.co/JXOgbCs6A2</a></p>
<p>— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1400862208872095750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2021</a></p>
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<p>GoFundMe, which is recognized by most conservatives as an extremely left-wing Big Tech platform, quickly put the AOC abuela fundraiser on its front page. The fundraiser has received a highly critical response from America First advocates on Twitter.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">National File is being sued by a U.S. Senator. He's hired Perkins-Coie, the firm trying to stop the Arizona Audit, and the firm hired by Hillary for bathroom email server.</p>
<p>If you're considering giving money to AOC's grandma, please consider us first. <a href="https://t.co/0w5Z9HbzNn">https://t.co/0w5Z9HbzNn</a></p>
<p>— Tom Pappert is also infrastructure (@realTomPappert) <a href="https://twitter.com/realTomPappert/status/1400904176041967619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2021</a></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Conservatives are literally fundraising for AOC’s abuela as a publicity stunt before they lift a finger to help the Capitol defendants who face decades in prison for trespassing.</p>
<p>— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickJFuentes/status/1400886336815521794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2021</a></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">This is the most pathetic conservative "activism" of all time. If you donate to this, you are CATTLE <a href="https://t.co/3raGbZ9ro2">https://t.co/3raGbZ9ro2</a></p>
<p>— Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 (@ScottMGreer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1400890085487284239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2021</a></p>
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<p lang="und" dir="ltr" xml:lang="und"><a href="https://t.co/UHOphwihRE">pic.twitter.com/UHOphwihRE</a></p>
<p>— Gavin Mario Wax 🇺🇸 (@GavinWax) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinWax/status/1400898220033728517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2021</a></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">AOC reacting to her political opponents paying for her grandma’s home repairs so she can get another Tesla. <a href="https://t.co/4ExWnTnewm">pic.twitter.com/4ExWnTnewm</a></p>
<p>— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1400885140834775040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2021</a></p>
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<p>Hundreds of Trump supporters are currently being held in federal prison on charges relating to the 1/6 election integrity protest, with countless others having been doxxed by media outlets and deplatformed from Big Tech websites.</p>
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news America First Conservatives Bash Daily Wire’s ‘Pathetic’ Fundraiser For AOC’s Abuela

Neoconservative media organization The Daily Wire is receiving heavy criticism from conservatives on social media for orchestrating a GoFundMe publicity stunt that aims to raise tens of thousands of dollars for socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Corte…

World Economic Forum pushes MIT program that automatically detects “disinformation narratives” online

<p><strong>Misinformation and propaganda are as old and as present as human communication and societies organized into states.</strong></p>
<p>The curiously intense focus on these the last couple of years prompts many to believe such issues are now used as justification and smokescreen for suppressing legitimate but unwanted speech, and free expression-related civil rights.</p>
<p>Depending on where you stand on that, you may be reassured or dismayed that the World Economic Forum (WEF) is one of the entities pushing hard the agenda of online misinformation presenting a huge danger today – and endorsing some “solutions.”</p>
<p>One comes from MIT and its “Reconnaissance of Influence Operations (RIO)” – now there’s a name George Orwell would probably not kick out of his novels.</p>
<p>Out the gate, RIO “establishes” that power of misinformation on social networks and elsewhere online is such as to sway elections, but also allow different points of view to be expressed, or as the program announcement put it, “sow discord.”</p>
<p>Another dangerous point the MIT program aims to address is disinformation feeding “conspiracy theories” – but in light of the recent embarrassing U-turn on the “Wuhan lab leak” there’s no evidence of a firm and consensus-based definition of what a “conspiracy” even is. Rather, the category seems prone to political whim.</p>
<p>But RIO looks to be designed to work under the false premise that these definitions are objective, and agreed on by all stakeholders.</p>
<p>You’d think that as far as conspiracies go, the one about Russians electing a US president by exploiting social media is the most tired and by now well-debunked one.</p>
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<p>Nevertheless, that is one of the claims to fame made by those behind RIO and MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Artificial Intelligence Software Architectures and Algorithms Group, whose goal is not only to “automatically” detect what they deem to be disinformation, but also what their machine learning algorithms are programed to identify as “disinformation narratives.”</p>
<p>That means the tool would recognize the level of influence of accounts not only by their size in terms of followers, but also other elements as a measure of overall impact. Recognize for what reason? Highly likely to censor and remove.</p>
<p>“The team envisions RIO being used by both government and industry as well as beyond social media and in the realm of traditional media such as newspapers and television,” <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/researchers-are-using-artificial-intelligence-to-stop-the-spread-of-disinformation/">the WEF said on its website.</a></p>
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Progressive groups are “fed up” with Biden’s infrastructure playbook

<p>The honeymoon period between President Joe Biden and progressives is ending.</p>
<p>Progressive groups, who cheered Biden passing his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus bill through Congress with only Democratic support early on, are growing increasingly frustrated over Biden’s prolonged infrastructure negotiations with Senate Republicans.</p>
<p>A tentative deadline to strike a bipartisan deal by Memorial Day has come and gone. And on Friday, Biden once again spoke to lead Republican negotiator Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, with their conversation yielding no deal, according to Capito’s spokesperson. Progressives are frustrated by the pace, and by the White House’s choice to lower the price tag of their $2.25 trillion infrastructure package to try to get GOP support.</p>
<p>“We’re fed up and we want our voices to be heard,” said Evan Weber, the political director for the progressive climate group Sunrise Movement, which staged a protest blocking an entrance outside the White House on Friday afternoon — with dozens of 20-something protesters risking arrest. “Since the election, we’re starting to feel he’s ignoring the very people who put him in office and spending more time talking to the party of insurrectionists who don’t feel he’s president.”</p>
<p>Biden <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/business/economy/biden-infrastructure-senate-republicans.html">has now proposed</a> shaving over $1 trillion off of his initial price tag on a physical infrastructure package, and proposing a 15 percent minimum tax on corporations in an attempt to placate GOP concerns about raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent. Both are signs that the White House is serious about negotiating with Republicans to find common ground — a vow Biden made repeatedly throughout this campaign.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">President Biden speaks to reporters on May 27. Many progressives are frustrated by Biden’s willingness to lower the overall cost of his infrastructure plan as he seeks a bipartisan deal with Republicans.</span></figcaption>
<span class="e-image__meta"><cite>Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images</cite></span></figure>
<p>“The President is engaged in good faith with both parties in Congress to deliver historic infrastructure investments that will drive economic growth, produce the clean technologies of the future and create good-paying jobs,” a White House official told Vox.</p>
<p>But to progressives, the events of the past few weeks are a sign that Republicans are trying to stall while Democrats have a unified majority in Congress, to hurt Democrats electorally in the 2022 midterms. And many are worried that Biden is prioritizing working with Republicans over another campaign promise to get bold things done for the country, including tackling the climate crisis and improving racial equity.</p>
<p>With Republicans signaling they’re unhappy with any new taxation proposals, progressives are still holding out a shred of hope that Democrats will ultimately pass an infrastructure bill via budget reconciliation — a process where they can use only Democratic votes in the Senate.</p>
<p>Progressives have an ear in Biden’s inner circle, especially with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, and they have had some early successes on policy and personnel. But getting Biden to promise something and getting him to actually deliver it are two different things — and it presents their greatest challenge in Biden’s tenure so far.</p>
<p>“Republicans are never going to agree to a deal,” Jamal Raad, co-founder of the progressive climate group Evergreen Action and a former top staffer to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, told Vox. “This is bad-faith negotiating only done to run out the clock on the Biden agenda.”</p>
<p>On a sweltering June day, a group of about 60 Sunrise youth activists spread out in front of a White House entrance, blocking cars from going in and out.</p>
<p>Sitting on the hot blacktop pavement, the protesters sang, chanted, and shared stories about how they have been personally impacted by the climate crisis. They yelled into a megaphone, asking Biden to listen to them. There was one problem, though: The president actually happened to be out of town when the Sunrise blockade began.</p>
<p>And Biden, specifically, is whose ear progressives need the most. Unlike his swift legislating with the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the president seems more comfortable taking his time on an infrastructure package — even if that makes lawmakers and left-wing groups uncomfortable.</p>
<p>“We’re using this action today to make our demands really clear,” Sunrise advocacy director Lauren Maunus told Vox. “If [Biden] does not respond to those demands, then we’ll be back at the end of June with a lot more people.”</p>
<p>Specifically, Sunrise was demanding a sit-down between Biden and their co-founder Varshini Prakash, who was a member of a climate task force created by the Biden and Bernie Sanders campaigns after Biden won the Democratic primary. The task forces were meant to unite the left and more center wings of the party and create Biden’s agenda in the process.</p>
<p>Prakash and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) were Sanders’s picks for Biden’s climate task force, which also included the president’s top climate officials: US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy. Together, the group came up with an extremely ambitious climate plan, proposing to spend $2 trillion over four years to intertwine climate action with clean energy jobs, and drastically cut America’s greenhouse gas emissions.</p>
<p>“On climate, I think we actually made far more progress than I think I even anticipated,” Prakash told me in an interview last summer, after the task forces had wrapped up. “In large part, that was because many of the advisers on climate on Biden’s side were also equally amenable to ambitious action as people on the Bernie side.”</p>
<p>Biden married his infrastructure and jobs agenda to his climate agenda before he was inaugurated, noting the potential for job growth in the clean energy sector during the presidential campaign. “When I think about climate change, the word I think of is ‘jobs,’” Biden said in a July campaign speech announcing his $2 trillion plan.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">A group of Sunrise climate activists block a vehicle entrance at the White House on June 4.</span></figcaption>
<span class="e-image__meta"><cite>Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images</cite></span></figure>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">Climate groups once allied with then-presidential candidate Biden are growing frustrated with his prolonged infrastructure negotiations with Republicans.</span></figcaption>
<span class="e-image__meta"><cite>Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images</cite></span></figure>
<p>Indeed, the reason progressive groups are getting anxious about infrastructure negotiations is that Biden’s infrastructure plan is also his climate plan; it would invest billions in new tax credits for clean energy, contains a clean electricity standard, and has $174 billion in funding to collectively speed up production of electric vehicles (EV), user rebates to help purchase them, and money to install 500,000 EV charging stations around the nation’s roadways. Democrats and climate groups are keenly aware that time is running out to take action; the climate prognosis for the planet is looking increasingly dire if countries keep emitting carbon at their current pace.</p>
<p>“When Miami is going underwater or California catches fire again, no one is going to be thinking, ‘Well, at least we got some Republican votes on that infrastructure package,’” said Jamie Henn, director of Fossil Free Media and a co-founder of the climate group <a href="http://350.org/">350.org</a>. “Biden’s legacy depends on his ability to go big on climate, not dither around the edges.”</p>
<p>The flip-side dynamic that progressive groups are frustrated by now is that infrastructure was always going to be the area the Biden administration saw as having the most potential for bipartisan compromise with Republicans. Infrastructure has for years been the subject on which Republicans and Democrats believed they could come to an agreement, because it traditionally encompasses boring but essential needs like roads and bridges.</p>
<p>The White House is obviously aware, as well, of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/cnn-poll-bipartisanship/index.html">numerous</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/5/12/22421064/mcconnell-poll-bipartisanship">polls</a> showing that voters favor bipartisanship in Congress, and want both parties to have input into a bill. A <a href="https://assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2021/06/01103557/210582_crosstabs_MC_WASHINGTON_RVs_v1_SH.pdf">recent Morning Consult poll</a> found 85 percent of voters saying it was very or somewhat important for legislation to have bipartisan support, and 62 percent saying they disagreed with the idea that politicians seeking bipartisan support was a waste of time.</p>
<p>The very fact that Biden added so much of his climate agenda into his infrastructure plan, plus a proposed $400 billion to bring down long-term care costs and raise wages for home health aides, who are largely women, including women of color, greatly expanded the definition of infrastructure. Progressive groups are now warning Biden that he can’t abandon the coalitions of youth voters and people of color who helped get him elected — and also deliver visible, noticeable results through a big bill.</p>
<p>“Going small on climate is a political trap because it means you sacrifice some of the most visible, popular parts of the clean energy transition: more charging stations, solar panels on rooftops, a Civilian Climate Corps that puts tens of thousands of people to work,” Henn said. “We know the GOP and fossil fuel companies are going to blame Democrats for the inevitable collapse of the fossil fuel economy. The best way to combat that narrative is to have a big, visible clean energy program.”</p>
<p>Biden and a group of Senate Republicans led by Capito have been trading infrastructure counteroffers for weeks. Yet another talk between Biden and Capito on Friday afternoon saw no final deal; instead, they agreed to essentially check back in on Monday. But if talks flounder or yield a smaller bill, some Democrats on Capitol Hill are itching to go it alone.</p>
<p>“We move as quickly as we can on going big, we move as quickly as we can on negotiations,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) told Vox recently. “At some point, if they won’t go where we believe the country needs to go and where the country seems to want to go, then we take off.”</p>
<p>The White House has already cut its initial $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal by more than $1 trillion, and proposed significant changes to the taxation plan to pay for the infrastructure plan.</p>
<p>The GOP group, meanwhile, has added less than $100 billion in new spending to its initial proposal. The latest Republican plan <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/05/27/1000717244/senate-republicans-release-928-billion-infrastructure-counteroffer">totals $928 billion</a> but is proposing just $257 billion in new spending, and repurposing the rest of the infrastructure money from unused American Rescue Plan funds. On Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden wants to see Republicans propose more money specifically for electric vehicles and rebuilding veterans hospitals.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) is the lead GOP negotiator on Biden’s infrastructure bill.</span></figcaption>
<span class="e-image__meta"><cite>Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images</cite></span></figure>
<p>“There are areas where the president has priorities where he’d like to see more,” Psaki said. She said that even though Biden is continuing to talk to both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, “there are some realities of timelines” being driven by certain congressional committees. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is expected to mark up a five-year surface transportation infrastructure bill this coming week, which contains elements of Biden’s American Jobs Plan.</p>
<p>Still, progressive groups are telegraphing their disappointment, especially after the Senate GOP filibustered a bill for a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill — a violent event led by supporters of President Donald Trump targeting lawmakers of both parties.</p>
<p>“It’s hard to argue Republicans are good faith negotiations when they couldn’t pass that.” Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, told Vox of the commission bill. “Democrats are attempting to govern, and Republicans have their eyes on 2022 and 2024 and are seeking to get back into power.”</p>
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<p>According to a <a href="https://www.plantbasedfoods.org/retail-sales-data/">report</a> recently published by the Plant-Based Foods Association and the Good Food Institute, two organizations that advocate for plant-based foods, plant-based milk alone accounts for <a href="https://www.plantbasedfoods.org/retail-sales-data/">35 percent of the total plant-based foods market, worth $2.5 billion to plant-based meat’s $1.4 billion</a>. Plant-based milks don’t just dominate the plant-based food sector, they also take up a sizable portion of retail milk sales — 15 percent overall, and 45 percent in natural food stores.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">Plant-based milk is the largest segment of the overall plant-based food industry.</span></figcaption>
<span class="e-image__meta"><cite>SPINS, The Plant Based Foods Association, The Good Food Institute</cite></span></figure>
<p>Oatly’s sudden rise since it came on the US market in 2016 has helped drive this growth. Almond milk sits at the top of the plant-based milk category, but <a href="https://www.fooddive.com/news/oat-milk-surges-to-second-most-popular-in-plant-based-dairy/586010/">oat milk recently pushed soy milk out of second place</a>, thanks to Oatly and big brands like Silk (owned by Danone) and Chobani <a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-lifestyle-health-business-f5bf285bf70e1bf73d050656d110aa7e">following Oatly’s lead</a> with a range of oat-based dairy products.</p>
<p>In fact, Starbucks, which started using Oatly products last year in select US stores and rolled it out nationwide earlier this year, says its share of orders that use plant-based milk jumped from <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/oatly-s-about-to-go-public-in-an-increasingly-crowded-milk-aisle">17 to 25 percent after it introduced Oatly</a>.</p>
<p>These shifts from traditional to plant-based dairy are important in the fight against climate change, as traditional dairy is an especially resource-intensive sector. According to a 2018 University of Oxford study, any way you slice it, <a href="https://theconversation.com/which-milk-is-best-for-the-environment-we-compared-dairy-nut-soy-hemp-and-grain-milks-147660">cow’s milk uses much more land and water and emits far more greenhouse gases than any plant-based milk</a>. For example, almond milk gets a bad rap for being water-intensive, but cow’s milk requires about 70 percent more water to produce, emits more than twice as much Co2, and requires more than 15 times as much land. Compared to almond milk, oat milk uses much less water but a little more land.</p>
<p>On top of the environmental impact of traditional dairy, most dairy cows, at least in the US, are <a href="https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estimates">raised in factory farms</a>.</p>
<p>Yet despite the popularity of plant-based milks, they haven’t quite made a dent in taking the cow out of dairy, their raison d’être. Some farmers do say <a href="https://civileats.com/2018/11/05/whats-behind-the-crippling-dairy-crisis-family-farmers-speak-out/">plant-based milk is affecting their bottom line</a>, and a <a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2020/december/plant-based-products-replacing-cow-s-milk-but-the-impact-is-small/">late 2020 report</a> that was funded by the United States Department of Agriculture found that “increased sales of plant-based alternatives are negatively affecting households’ purchases of cow’s milk” but that it’s “not a primary driver.”</p>
<p>There are a lot of factors that affect dairy production and consumption, and adoption of alternatives is just one of them. But in order for plant-based startups to become a primary driver in displacing conventional dairy, stealing market share from the milk shelves of the supermarket isn’t enough. Oatly and its competitors need to figure out how to make a great alternative for another dairy product: cheese.</p>
<p>Some vegan advocates say that “<a href="https://vegannews.press/2020/06/11/dairy-is-dying-sales-fell-1-1-billion-dollars-according-to-dairy-farmers-of-america/">dairy is dying</a>” (or <a href="https://www.livekindly.co/the-dairy-industry-is-dead/">already dead</a>), in part because of the United States’ <a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/2387/american-milk-consumption-has-plummeted/">decades-long decline in milk consumption</a> coinciding with the rise of plant-based milk.</p>
<p>Many dairy farmers are indeed hurting, but plant-based milks aren’t the biggest culprit — it’s Big Dairy, which has been <a href="https://thecounterorg.wpengine.com/how-rural-america-got-milked/">consolidating and squeezing out small farmers</a>, one of several factors that caused <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/6/18/21295834/why-american-farmers-are-throwing-out-milk-coronavirus">11,000 dairy farms</a> to shutter between 2014 and 2019. The pandemic only hastened this trend, as major dairy customers — schools and restaurants — closed down, resulting in farmers across the country dumping millions of gallons of milk. <a href="https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming/dairy/7-of-u-s-dairies-shuttered-in-2020/article_b5f755dc-5639-5b61-aef9-1c0763849f95.html"><strong>Seven percent of US dairies closed in 2020.</strong></a></p>
<p>But dairy is far from dead: The number of dairy cows in production has <a href="https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Milk_Production_and_Milk_Cows/milkcows.php">increased slightly in the past decade</a>, and they’re producing <a href="https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Milk_Production_and_Milk_Cows/milkprod.php">more milk</a> — <a href="https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Milk_Production_and_Milk_Cows/cowrates.php">more efficiently</a> — than ever.</p>
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<p>This can be explained, in part, by Americans’ love for cheese; per capita cheese consumption has risen <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/183785/per-capita-consumption-of-cheese-in-the-us-since-2000/">25 percent</a> since the early 2000s, which is one factor that has kept milk production high, since it takes nearly <a href="https://www.progressivedairy.com/topics/management/how-much-cheese-is-there-in-a-hundred-pounds-of-milk">10 pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese</a>. (Butter consumption is rising even faster, and it takes more than <a href="https://dairy-cattle.extension.org/how-many-pounds-of-whole-milk-does-it-take-to-make-a-pound-of-butter/"><em>21 pounds</em> of milk</a> to make one pound of butter.)</p>
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<p>There are plant-based cheese alternatives on the market, and they generally fall into two categories. The first are the pricey, fermented wheels or tubs of spreadable cheese, often made of nuts, seasonings, and cultures (and sometimes oils, gums, and starches), which have managed to impress the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/dining/vegan-cheese.html">taste buds of omnivorous food critics</a>. Bigger brands like Miyoko’s Creamery, Kite Hill, and Treeline Cheese dominate this first category, but there are <a href="https://www.eater.com/22315684/vegan-cheese-history-ingredients-process-grocery-brands">dozens of smaller, artisanal outfits</a> like the Herbivorous Butcher in Minneapolis and Rebel Cheese in Austin.</p>
<p>The second category consists of the bags of shredded or sliced mozzarella or cheddar, often made with oil and potato starch or cornstarch, which don’t melt and stretch (or taste) the way cheese from cow’s milk does. The problem is best summed up by the joke about how a vegan’s house burned down and the only thing that didn’t melt was their cheese.</p>
<p>But Americans eat a lot of shredded and sliced cheese, and the vegan versions haven’t improved much since I last heard that joke some years ago (though if you’re curious, I suggest giving Violife, Field Roast, and Follow Your Heart products a try). And even though the plant-based food industry has grown rapidly in the past few years, its startups loaded with billions in investment, no company has come close to making a “breakthrough” shredded or sliced cheese product akin to the Beyond or Impossible burger — or a carton of Oatly — that can bring in curious omnivores.</p>
<p>Not yet, anyway.</p>
<p>The absence of great shredded and sliced plant-based cheese could be a problem of demand or innovation, or both.</p>
<p>Meat gets much more attention for its ecological and animal welfare harms than cheese, to the point where nearly a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/282779/nearly-one-four-cut-back-eating-meat.aspx">quarter of Americans</a> say they are trying to cut back. But you don’t hear much about people trying to reduce their cheese intake, even though globally, the dairy sector <a href="http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623">emits more greenhouse gases than all meat sectors</a> (except beef), and most dairy cows, at least in the US, are factory-farmed.</p>
<p>On the innovation side, it’s simply much harder to replicate stretchy, melty cheese made from cow’s milk than the soft, spreadable varieties.</p>
<p>“Achieving the stretchy quality and texture consumers expect from harder cheeses upon melting has proven challenging to date, which is why soft plant-based cheese may be more prominent,” Dr. Priera Panescu, a senior scientist at the Good Food Institute, told me over email.</p>
<p>Ryan Pandya, the CEO and co-founder of Perfect Day — a food technology startup based in Berkeley, California — shared a similar sentiment with <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dairy-free-cheese">Wired</a>, explaining, “The melty, stretchy thing is absolutely the most challenging holy grail thing to do. Because there’s only one protein known to man that does this, and it’s casein.”</p>
<p>Through precision fermentation, which is used to make specific proteins, enzymes, or vitamins, Perfect Day has developed a microflora (fungi) that converts sugar into whey, another protein in milk, for its ice cream products. The company says it’s also <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90607741/this-animal-free-dairy-isnt-plant-based-its-grown-from-real-cow-protein-with-no-cows-involved">working on cheese</a> but doesn’t have plans for the shredded or sliced varieties in the near future.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.realvegancheese.org/">Real Vegan Cheese</a>, a nonprofit, open-science research project — quite rare in a field of venture capital-backed startups — <em>is</em> going for the “holy grail” of cheese by adding the genes for casein to yeast and other microflora, and then adding plant-based fats and sugars. New Culture, based in San Francisco, is also working to replicate casein, using microbial fermentation, similar to Perfect Day’s approach, to make shredded cheese. The company plans to launch its first product in late 2023.</p>
<p>When asked about the lack of stretchy plant-based cheese, Panescu said that “academic researchers are working to address these challenges by using biological interventions, optimizing more flexible, well-assembled plant-based proteins, and applying mechanical texturization processes.”</p>
<p>One of those researchers is Alejandro Marangoni at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. According to <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665927120300113?via%3Dihub">Marangoni’s research</a>, zein — a protein found in corn — is an overlooked tool in the search to make plant-based alternatives to animal products. Most companies making shredded and sliced plant-based cheese use starches and gums for the melt and stretch effects, but zein could be a better route. When hydrated and heated above a certain temperature, it forms a “flexible, bendable mass which may be pulled, stretched, and sculpted,” sharing “melting characteristics with cheddar cheese.”</p>
<p>Motif FoodWorks, a food tech startup based in Boston that has received investment from the major dairy company Fonterra, recently <a href="https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2021/05/17/Motif-FoodWorks-accesses-transformative-plant-based-technologies">signed an exclusive licensing deal</a> to use a unique food processing technology Marangoni developed using zein.</p>
<p>Motif’s CEO, Jonathan McIntyre, told me their newly acquired tech will enable them to make a stretchy, gooey vegan cheese that’s better than what’s currently on the market. “This technology doesn’t solve all problems in plant-based cheese,” he said, and that “there are other aspects, like mouthfeel and creaminess” that they’re using other tools to address.</p>
<p>McIntyre isn’t yet sure whether Motif will develop its own products, work with a dairy company to make a plant-based product, or partner with an existing plant-based cheese company to upgrade its own, but he does envision it being used on nachos and, of course, pizza. You can see it in action below or <a href="https://madewithmotif.com/2021/05/13/bringing-meltiness-and-marbleization-to-plant-based-cheese-and-meat/">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Given all the hype around plant-based food, it may come as no surprise that there are <a href="https://newprotein.org/evolution">dozens more startups</a> racing to make convincing cheese alternatives — but Impossible Foods isn’t one of them. While it is developing Impossible Milk, a spokesperson told me the company won’t be selling Impossible Cheese anytime soon.</p>
<p>Then there’s Oatly, which recently <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-20/newly-public-oatly-eyes-plant-based-cheese-as-the-next-frontier?sref=taxRtTxi">told Bloomberg</a> it’s making “good progress” on developing oat-based cheese products, though its CEO didn’t specify what kinds. Given the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/19/oatly-1point4-billion-ipo-priced-84point4-million-shares-at-17-each.html">$1.4 billion</a> the company raised from last month’s IPO, it seems like it should have the resources to raise the bar on plant-based cheese, and a devoted customer base who will likely be curious enough to give it a try.</p>
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