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
Oct
21
2020
Food Policy Action releases 2020 Scorecard: Vote!
Food Policy Action started keeping score on congressional votes on food issues in 2013, but the last time I wrote about its scorecard was in 2017.2020
It has just published its 2020 interactive Scorecard, which you can use to check how your state’s legislators score on food issues.
As Food Policy Action puts it, the “scorecard underscores Senate’s failure to feed hungry, protect workers.”
Food Policy Action identifies six ways Trump has hurt eaters, food workers and farmers.
The purpose of the Scorecard is to hold legislators accountable. Now is the time to do that.
Vote with your votes by November 3.
