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
Jan
22
2020
USDA issues guidance for non-GMO labeling
The USDA has issued a guide for meat and poultry sellers explaining what they need to do to claim that their products are non-GMO. This, apparently, will do.
What, you may ask, are they to do if their products are GMO? Here’s your answer.
That USDA is allowing the use of non-GMO rather than non-bioengineered must be considered some kind of miracle or oversight.
AgriPulse says producers want more guidance before trying to comply with whatever the biotech labeling law means.
I can’t wait to see if meat sellers use any of this.
