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
3
2021
Weekend reading: food and climate change
I recently ran across this useful website: Climate Change Resources, with live links to each of these sections.
But it also has a general section on the impact of food production and consumption, with ideas about what to think about:
- Eating food that is locally grown and sustainably raised
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Eating less meat which can have a significant impact on deforestation
- Reducing foods with palm oil can again impact deforestation
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Buying food with little or no packaging, paper or plastic
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Being attentive to food waste
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Thinking a bit more about fish?
It also links to the World Resources Institute’s How to sustainably feed 10 billion people by 2050, in 21 charts.
This, in turn comes from a WRI report, Creating a Sustainable Food Future: A Menu of Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050.
We have plenty of work to do. And here are plenty of ideas about where to start.
