Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
Milan Food Expo: The Coldiretti Pavilion
I especially enjoyed the pavilion of Coldiretti, an association of Italian farmers.
“No party” can—and is supposed to be—read two ways: no fun, or no political clout.
The pavilion houses a farmers’ market promoting the products of its members.
Coldiretti doesn’t have much use for GMOs, but for reasons we don’t often consider in the U.S.
In case you can’t read the photo:
What is good for the GMO multinational corporations is bad for Italy.
Because they cancel our extraordinary diversity.
Because they suffocate many to reward one.
Because the seeds of the earth belong to those who work it.
Because food certainties belong to “free research.”
Whatever you think of such views, I’m hoping the Milan Food Expo will get visitors thinking about these food issues and more.
