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
22
2017
Farm Bill #3: Philip Brasher’s guide
If you want to get serious about understanding farm bill issues, spend some time (you will need it) with Philip Brasher’s posts at Agri-Pulse (I’ve written about these previously, but here’s the complete set):
- Lesson #1: Every farm bill is unique – the last one was a doozy
- Lesson #2: The Farm Bill ‘Math’ is complicated and ever-changing
- Lesson #3: Regional divides make writing a farm bill more of a gamble
- Lesson #4: Linking farm, food programs is crucial to farm bill passage
- Lesson #5: Coalitions key for conservation, crop insurance and farm program success
- Lesson #6: An unsung farm bill hero, rural development needs more champions
- Lesson #7: Farm Bill supporters challenged to focus on the long-game of science
