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
Sep
13
2019
Weekend reading: how farm subsidies really work
The Environmental Working Group does a good job of tracking government payments to agricultural producers. This makes fascinating reading.
The EWG documents what is happening with the bailout program intended to insulate farmers from the effects of the trade war with China.
Here is a question to ponder over the weekend:
Q: Who benefits from these payments?
A: Trump campaign advisors, of course.
