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
Mar
29
2018
How much of the food dollar do farmers get?
USDA has just issued a revision to its food dollar series—its graphic explanation of how the U.S. food dollar gets spent.
This tells us that 15.8 cents out of every food dollar goes to the producer; the rest goes for marketing.
Oddly, the USDA does not provide an updated illustration of the marketing components from its previous version in 2006:
What this tells us is that 80% of the cost of food is accounted for by marketing.
Don’t farmers deserve more?
