Latest posts tagged with #FoodPolicy on Bluesky
230,000 people told the EU to #EndTheCageAge 🐔
Read our full analysis by Tashi at API: www.animalpolicyinternational.org/post/landmar...
#AnimalWelfare #CageFree #EUPolicy #FarmedAnimals #EndTheCageAge #AnimalsDeserveMore #FoodPolicy #EULaw
The UK is now adding folic acid to white flour.
A small tweak… but a BIG impact on preventing birth defects.
Is this smart public health — or “mass medication”?
goinggreenpodcast.blogspot.com/2026/04/foli...
#PublicHealth #FoodPolicy #Sustainability #Healthcare #UK
Who gets access to food law and policy training?
CHLPI’s global assessment finds:
• North America leads in courses, clinics, and centers
• Latin America and Europe are building momentum
• Many high‑need regions lag far behind
Read: https://ow.ly/pCRa50YCSSx
#FoodPolicy #HigherEd
Raspberries → fuel costs → fertilizer through the Strait of Hormuz → FDA self-certification since 1958. One Boston Public Radio conversation, a lot of reasons to pay attention to what's happening to your food supply. 🎧 https://ow.ly/WGys50YBp3N #FoodPolicy #FoodIsPolicy
The lowest bid is often the most expensive habit. #FairTrade #SmallFarmers #SchoolMeals #FoodPolicy
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Knowing what the shifts preferences away from income support toward environment & R&D.
Informing citizens about green conditionality significantly boosts CAP acceptance.
#FoodPolicy #CAP #AgriPolicy
A banner for a new study in Nutrients. The study, "Understanding Food and Nutrition Insecurity Among College Students: Evidence from a Cross-Campus Study," was co-authored by Kritee Niroula, Summaya Abdul Razak, Jolaade Kalinowski, Loneke T. Blackman Carr, Amy Gorin, and Kristen Cooksey Stowers.
#NewStudy: In a survey of 6,500+ college students, 36% of respondents were food insecure, while 20% were nutritionally insecure.
Rates were significantly higher among students with low income, housing instability, and/or a higher number of dependents. #FoodPolicy
🔗: www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/18...
Gone are the days when energy drinks were marketed almost exclusively to men with gaming brand deals and extreme sports tie-ins.
Pastel cans, fun flavors, and promises of effortlessly snatched bodies - welcome to the "feminine era" of energy drinks.
#FoodPolicy #Health #News
The Coalition will push for:
✅ Restrictions on marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children
✅ A Front-of-Pack Warning Labelling (FOPWL)
#FoodPolicy #NCDs #HealthyFoodEnvironments #IamAPHRC #WeAreAfrica
Dietary change requires policy support as consumer choices are largely shaped by industry & government actions. The modeling shows that… doi.org/10.1038/s430... #Consumers #Diets #FoodPolicy >>
A heated debate in Minnesota over a bill to restrict SNAP purchases of taxed snack foods reveals deep divisions on nutrition, equity, and the impact on low-income families.
Click to read more!
#MN #CitizenPortal #FoodPolicy #MinnesotaSNAP #NutritionAccess #EquityInitiatives
Everybody's talking about ultra-processed foods, but the U.S. hasn't established a federal definition for them yet.
One contender for a definition comes from Brazil, where restrictions on ultra-processed foods are already being incorporated into government regulations.
#FoodPolicy #Health
🌍 The East African Community (EAC) is taking a bold step towards healthier food systems.
This week, #IamAPHRC convened regional policymakers, researchers, and public health experts to discuss the development of a common Nutrient Profile Model for the region.
#FoodPolicy #EAC #NCDs #APHRCResearch
Link to my recent #PublicHealth in Action talk, about why it is so hard to get people to think about 'obesity' systemically, and why we should focus on on equitable food access instead. @publichealthucc.bsky.social #commercialdeterminantsofhealth #foodpolicy #foodjustice
www.ucc.ie/en/publichea...
@ewgofficial.bsky.social has released its 2026 tally of clean and dirty produce. Link to the Dirty Dozen below.
#Medsky #nutrition #diet #organic #foodpolicy #foodpolitics #farming
A new FLPC study maps food law & policy offerings at 494 universities in 6 regions and 30 years of scholarship.
The field is emerging, but uneven.
Details: chlpi.org/resources/food-law-and-p...
#FoodLaw #FoodPolicy #CHLPI
Today at 1 PM ET: Conversations on Food Justice. Join Global Food Institute and Food & Society at the Aspen Institute for a panel on the evidence and the questions behind SNAP purchase restrictions. Register: https://ow.ly/iEJc50YwZhi #FoodJustice #FoodPolicy #SNAP
'WashU study finds no clear link between food aid and childhood obesity'
🖋 Ashley Winters | St. Louis American
📸 Photo from Canva
#stlamerican #stlnews #stlouis #FoodPolicy #ChildHealth #NutritionPrograms #WashU #CommunitySupport
Selfie of two beautiful smiling women with great glasses. On the left Susana Ramirez; on the right Nancy Matsumoto. Behind is a blue screen with the UC Merced logo
Picture of a conference room full of people sitting. At the front are five women on a panel. Big UC Merced logo projected behind them, and to the left side is a giant window through which the beautiful campus pond is visible
Photo of Nancy Matsumoto’s new book Reaping what she sows.
Living in CA’s Central Valley & studying #FoodPolicy #FoodPolitics #FoodLiteracy #PublicHealth & #Nutrition is sometimes just plain fun.
Tonight I got to hear from 5 incredible women including @nancymatsumoto.bsky.social about how #WomenWhoNourish are changing the rules of agriculture 👩🌾
Laura Schmidt (UCSF) is the kind of researcher who complicates the narrative when the narrative needs complicating. She's joining Conversations on Food Justice on March 24. Register: https://ow.ly/oFnl50YvuOm
#FoodPolicy #SNAP
Sara Bleich, Vice Provost for Special Projects at Harvard University and Professor of Public Health Policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is wearing a black blazer over a red blouse standing outdoors with blurred greenery in the background. She is a panelist on the upcoming Conversations on Food Justice.
If you want to know what the research on SNAP restrictions actually says, you want Sara Bleich in the room. She'll be on Food & Society at the Aspen Institute's March 24 panel for Conversations on Food Justice. Join us: https://ow.ly/ln1h50Yt5S3 #FoodPolicy
In Focus with Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan:
Europe's school food policy gap www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#foodpolicy #obesity
#FREE to read with registration (also FREE)
#MedSky #EndoSky
#FMR
Liuzhou's local food policy boosts economy. Luosifen's success drives regional growth. 🍜📈
Details: www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/fmr...
#localfood #foodpolicy #economy
116 countries now tax sugary foods or drinks.
The lesson is clear:
diet-related NCDs won’t be solved by awareness campaigns alone.
Cities and governments need structural food policies — pricing, reformulation, and healthier food environments.
#NCD #ChronicIllness #PublicHealth #FoodPolicy
The poor today aren’t starving.
They’re being guided toward the cheapest foods available.
Subsidized grains.
Industrial seed oils.
Cheap sugars.
Carb-heavy dietary guidelines.
This isn’t a willpower problem.
#KetoFiveO #MetabolicHealth #RealFood #FoodPolicy #HealthTruth
When policies addressing ultra-processed foods focus on identifying specific chemicals on ingredient lists, Big Food shifts what additives they use to avoid regulation.
Thus, some experts are proposing a different approach: define what constitutes a "non-ultra-processed" food instead.
#FoodPolicy
This week on Democracy Does, I talk with Professor Andrew Flachs about how agriculture policy affects all of us, from grocery prices to community health.
Episode drops Thursday on DemocracyDoes.com
#DemocracyDoes #NewEpisode #FoodPolicy #AgPolicy
New—Europe's school food policy gap thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#obesity #healthyfood #foodpolicy
#FREE to read with registration (also FREE)
#MedSky #EndoSky
KneeDeep student reporting fellow Sachi Bansal asked three Rodriguez High School seniors in #Fairfield what healthy food means to them — and what they think of the federal government's new #foodpyramid. buff.ly/ZQ4wMoF
#FoodPolicy #ClimateAndFood #BayAreaYouth #CommunityVoices
Join BFI for a conversation on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and the future of healthy food systems today, March 11th from 5:00 – 6:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-serve. Doors open at 4:45 PM 🍏 #UltraProcessedFoods #SchoolNutrition #FoodPolicy
