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
Jul
26
2021
The UN Food Systems Pre-Summit starts in Rome TODAY: Online Access
Thanks to Tom Forster at the New School for sending information about the programs—formal, informal, and counter. The formal and informal events are in Rome, but available online. Registration is essential.
For information and registration:
Formal programme: this has the schedule for the 150 sessions. Register for them here.
Informal programme: register at the links given.
Counter Summit events: these are listed online, along with a call to action.
The Counter events are being organized by the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism for Relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CSM).
The CSM has produced the following resources:
