On June 29, 2020, the Food Forum of the National Academies https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/07-22-2020/healthy-people-healthy-planet-building-a-more-sustainable-resilient-equitable-and-nourishing-food-system-a-workshop announced that on July 22 and 23, 2020 a virtual workshop will be held to “…explore the integration of the health, societal, economic, and environmental effects and future needs of the food system. The main objective is to understand how to achieve a resilient food system in 2050 that provides access to safe and nutritious food with environmental and economic sustainability. Workshop presenters will explore three main dimensions of the food system: vulnerabilities, resiliency, and transformation. The workshop will include discussions on global change, access to health and food, resiliency in complex dynamic systems and resiliency for the future, and consumption- and production-oriented strategies to transform the food system …” – Three sessions will address Vulnerabilities of the Food System; Resiliency of the Food System; and Transformation of the Food System #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #FoodPackaging
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
