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.”
by Marion Nestle
Nov
21
2017
Farm Bill #2: Unlikely allies
Politics makes strange bedfellows, as documented by Politico in a report on the coalition of unlikely allies working to reform the farm bill.
Let me start with my favorite: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), not exactly a bastion of radical thought. The AEI puts out a series of thoughtful position papers, remarkable for their clarity, on a range of farm bill issues: Agriculture in Disarray.
To date, 6 have been published.
- Reforming the farm bill: an overview
- Covering losses
- Reforming agricultural insurance
- Farm policy and trade
- International food aid
- The future of SNAP
You may not agree with these American Boondoggle viewpoints, but you will have a good chance of understanding what the arguments are about.
