Why the Next President Will Need a National Food Policy
By Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador, Olivier De Schutter
▻https://medium.com/@michaelpollan/why-the-next-president-will-need-a-national-food-policy-a4e551c44cb3
Because of unhealthy diets, 100 years of progress in improving public health and extending lifespan has been reversed. Today’s children are expected to live shorter lives than their parents. In large part, this is because a third of these children will develop Type 2 diabetes, formerly rare in children and a preventable disease that reduces life expectancy by several years. At the same time, our fossil fuel-dependent food and agriculture system is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than any other sector of the economy but energy. And the exploitative labor practices of the farming and fast-food industries are responsible for much of the rise in income inequality in America.