The United States has the most expensive health care in the OECD. In 2023 per person health costs were $US13,432, with the comparable country average at $US7,393.[1] Despite spending nearly twice the OECD average on health care, the United States performs poorly on avoidable mortality, chronic disease burden, and healthy life expectancy, indicating weak value … Continue reading Food is medicine
Top image credit: Wild Meadows Farm Customers in Auckland and Northland can now buy regenerative meat via two websites. Out the farm gate was set up by farmers to "help farmers sell directly to consumer, ensuring transparency, fair pricing, and meat you can feel good about eating". There are currently five farms listed on the … Continue reading Farm to table regenerative meat
Every day across Northland, thousands of students sit down to a free lunch. What’s on the plate tells a much bigger story about who we are and who we could become. Approximately 120 schools get lunches via the Ministry of Education’s Kai Ora, Kai Ako programme. Of these 53 schools manage their own lunches, 54 … Continue reading Why the Way We Feed Our Kids Matters for Climate and Community
I was born in 1956, a year after Victor Lebow proclaimed the gospel of consumption. Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption.… We need things consumed, burned … Continue reading From consumers to citizens
In September 2025 the Food and Land Use Coalition published Re-WIRE Agri-Food Value Chains. The report presents a framework to map risks and opportunities across major commodity value chains (e.g. beef, soy, cocoa), showing how climate, regulatory, financial, and human rights pressures are reshaping agrifood systems, and offering pathways for more resilient, regenerative supply chains. … Continue reading Agri-Food value chains
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