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
30
2020
What’s Up? Women in the Food Business
This is a collection of articles from BakeryAndSnacks.com, a food industry newsletter, about attempts of food companies to engage women in their businesses.
Is this empowerment, or is it exploitation or marketing? You decide.
- PepsiCo’s push to empower Saudi female entrepreneurs: The food and beverage giant’s philanthropic arm has partnered with INJAZ Al-Arab to launch a new entrepreneurship development program to empower Saudi female entrepreneurs. Read more
- The women behind the bakeries on a mission to end gender-based violence, unemployment and human trafficking: Two all-female bakeries on either side of the Atlantic Ocean are championing social issues. Read more
- Empowering Indonesian women in palm oil earns Cargill IBIE sustainability award: The global supplier built a fiscal and civic support program in South Sumatra, Indonesia, to nurture women in leadership roles – an important part of its 2020 palm oil transparency commitment. Read more
- Mars puts mums at the heart of a new snack to tackle nutritional deficiency in India: Straight Forward Design was enlisted to create a brand identity that inspired trust in mothers. Read more
- Call for entries: PepsiCo supports gender equality with Stacy’s Pita Chips: PepsiCo and Stacy’s, under the Frito-Lay umbrella, are calling for women-led startups to apply to the Stacy’s Rise Project incubator competition, a mentorship and grant program. Read more
- BakeryandSnack Chat Podcast: PepsiCo partners with CARE to tackle the gender gap in farming: The PepsiCo Foundation is collaborating with humanitarian organization CARE to tackle gender inequality in the agriculture sector with an $18.2m investment in She Feeds the World. Read more
- ‘Dream big’: Serena Williams aces 2019 slot on General Mills’ Wheaties athlete series: General Mills has signed on the seven-times WTA Player Of The Year for its signature Wheaties box. Read more
- The power of eating breakfast together as a family: Kellogg’s celebrates working moms in Thailand: The efforts of hard-working Thai mothers is just one of the stories highlighted by the Kellogg Company in its ninth annual Diversity & Inclusion Report, titled, Features. Read more
- SNAC launches Women in Snacks network to embrace diversity and inclusion: Only a handful of women lead with world’s largest companies. Fortune 500 lists 20 in the position of CEO – actually, now 18 following the departure of PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi and Campbell Soup’s Denise Morrison – down from 32 in 2017. Read more
