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Current global trade treaties and agricultural policies disregard subsidiarity and people’s fundamental right to food sovereignty.
Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
But for most of us the debate is no longer pertinent. We simply accept that we will live in consumer economies with some very unfortunate side effects to them (crass advertising, unhealthy foodstuffs, products that are disconnected from any reasonable assessment of our needs, excessive waste …) in exchange for economic growth and high employment. W
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Mitch Katz directs the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the second-largest county health care system in the country. He described to me how economic incentives can stack up against upstream care. “Because there’s been little money toward prevention, there’s no payer or mechanism for prevention research like there is for medical res
... See moreRishi Manchanda • The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source (Kindle Single) (TED Books)
Federal law requires the EPA to prove that the cost of removing a contaminant doesn’t exceed its benefits (deaths averted, that is, with a human life valued at $6.1 million).