Sustainable diets and public health - Tim Lang

In this talk, Tim Lang grapples with the issues surrounding what is a good diet for people's health and environmental sustainability. He moves from the work of Ancel Keys to Sweden's attempt to address this through policy changes in the EU to the failure of the 2nd International Conference on Nutrition to tackle the crucial big issues. One of the central ones being 'do I eat fish?'. He rejects nanny corporations as the entities telling us what to eat through their marketing but grapples with the problems of eating meat, dairy and fish as well as over, under and mal consumption. The science on both environmental and public health nutrition grounds agrees a plant based diet is best but this has to be produced in ways that safeguard biodiversity. Achieving sustainable diets is a political issue as it is about questions of control. Following a century which separated people from their roots he calls for a contract and converge approach to achieving both sustainable diets and the sustainable development goals. Running order below:
Introduction: 0.00
Part 1. Beyond productionism: 2.50
Part 2. Policy routes: 8.00
Part 3. The UN's unmet challenge: 15.08
Part 4. Principles and politics: 24.00
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