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
Dec
1
2017
Weekend action: Advocating for organics (Toolkit!)
IFOAM—Organics International–offers a Global Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture, for use by anyone who wants to advocate for organics and sustainable agriculture.
The toolkit includes:
- A main report, Guidelines for public support to organic agriculture, with facts, arguments, and tips.
- A version of the main report aimed at Sub-Saharan Africa.
- A decision-aid for relevant policy measures.
- Tips for organic advocates on how to raise political awareness of the need to support organic agriculture.
- A policy template for countries with an emerging organic sector.
- A model PowerPoint presentation, Why and how should policy makers support organic agriculture.
- A PowerPoint diagram on possible support measures
The main report offers Policy summaries for specific measures to promote organic production and consumption.
No excuses!
