Redefining 'Good Food': Making It Affordable and Sustainable

🍽️ Food has caused crises in public health and the environment.

🌎 Providing good food for everyone can create a healthier and more just world.

❓ Defining what good food means is essential.

🥦 Eating more plant-based foods and less animal products is crucial for addressing climate change, personal health, and resource use.

🍔 Eliminating junk food from our diets is essential, as it is the root cause of many diet-related problems.

📚 The speaker, who has extensive experience in the food industry, emphasizes the importance of understanding the impact of our food choices on health, environment, and society.

🍽️ More than half the calories in the United States come from ultra-processed food, leading to skyrocketing rates of chronic disease and shorter lifespans.

🌍 Our current food system contributes to the climate crisis, environmental damage, and species extinction.

🔄 To eat better, we need to make changes to the food system, as it determines what we eat and affects our health and the environment.

🍽️ The current food system prioritizes high yields and convenience over nourishment and health.

🌱 American farm policy should shift towards supporting sustainable farming that produces nutritious food.

💼 Food workers, often immigrants and people of color, face low wages and poor working conditions.

🥘 Good food means treating workers right, providing living wages, healthcare, childcare, and education.

🍎 Nutrition is important, and steps should be taken to improve school lunches, teach children about food, and restrict junk food marketing.

🌽 Access and affordability of healthy food are crucial, and federal support should shift towards promoting health instead of unhealthy choices.

✅ Good food should be fair, just, nutritious, and accessible to everyone, prioritizing human well-being over profit.

The current food system prioritizes profit over protecting the land and feeding ourselves well.

To create a good food system, we must redefine profit and prioritize long-term well-being.

Specific steps to improve the food system include eliminating the routine use of antibiotics in factory farms, regulating pesticides, and putting land into the hands of responsible farmers.

🍽️ Good food is a critical need and society should support its production and distribution.

🔄 We have the power to change the food system and create a just and global food system.

💪 The way we provide and sustain ourselves with food is crucial for our present and future.