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
Nov
10
2022
The British food industry needs to do better on sustainability
The Food Foundation in Great Britain has produced a report on the status of the British food industry.
The full report is here.
Here’s what the writers of the report would like the food industry to do:
Like American food companies, British food companies put profits to shareholders as their top priority. Knowing this, the report calls on government to set mandatory standards.
We need to do this too.
