#food-policy

#food-policy

From traditional borek pastries to soups of all sorts, sausages and pasta, to slices of melon and rich puddings anybody who's ever been to Turkey on vacation is well acquainted with the many and varied delights of the typical breakfast buffet, particularly those found in Turkish tourist hot spots. Turkish hotels understand the allure of the buffet and will often decorate their websites with pictures of this kind of culinary offering.

Earlier this month, the wellness entrepreneur Calley Means delivered opening remarks at a symposium called "The Future of Farming: Exploring a Pro-Health, Pro-Farmer Agenda," held in Washington, D.C., at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank. Means is prominent in Make America Healthy Again, the clean-eating, vaccine-skeptical movement that opposes corruption in the food, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries. He is also a top adviser to MAHA's patron saint, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., now the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

"I don't know how the list of chemicals was constructed. Warnings have to be accurate in order to be legal," said Thomas Galligan, emphasizing the importance of truthful labeling in the new law.

"Malnutrition can stunt growth and lead to obesity," she said, pointing to a 2022 study by the Turkish Statistical Institute showing that 62.4% of children in Turkey predominantly eat bread and pasta.

"Nothing that we're asking for is impossible or out of the ordinary at all," said Natasha Nicholes, founder and executive director of the We Sow We Grow Project, an urban farm in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood.

The difference in Froot Loops' colors in the U.S. and Canada highlights a potential shift in consumer preferences, with growing pressure for natural alternatives.