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
Apr
6
2018
Weekend reading: Intro to the Farm Bill
The 2018 Farm Bill is due in six months but it impossible to follow without a scorecard. Fortunately, we have help.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Harvard’s Law School Food Law & Policy Clinic in collaboration with a group of other law-school programs has produced a series of reports on its Farm Bill website.
- Diversified Agriculture Economies
- Food Access, Nutrition, and Public Health
- Productivity and Risk Management
These are grounded in history and organized by issue and goal. They are a great place to start to understand the issues.
