Obesity rates are still alarmingly high, per latest CDC data

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to Food Fix! I’m sending this from Claremont, Calif., where I just gave a talk on food and climate politics at my alma mater. It was a full circle moment to be speaking to students in the same buildings where I wrote my thesis on food policy many years ago. While I was there, I was struck by two things:

First, almost every single student who attended the talk indicated they were familiar with the concept of regenerative agriculture – this was striking to me because Claremont McKenna focuses largely on government and economics and has little to no focus on food or ag. It suggests to me that these concepts have truly hit the mainstream, even if they haven’t translated onto very many acres and are only starting to show up as marketing on food labels.