Risking European agriculture productivity for sustainable farming goals may cause global tensions, as other countries cannot make up for the bloc’s reduced output, says a United Nations (UN) expert.
The European Commission’s Green Deal, including the 2020 Farm to Fork strategy, seeks to establish the EU’s food system as a global sustainability standard. By 2030, the plan aims to halve pesticide use, cut fertiliser use by 20%, and dedicate a quarter of agricultural land to organic farming.
However, concerns about
The camera opens on a square table laden with McDonald’s items. Fries, chicken nuggets, and burgers fill the screen in what can only be described as a smorgasbord of fast food.
A larger-than-life host appears wearing a breathing tube meant to aid in poor sleep – a sign of drastic weight gain – before gorging himself for over 40 emotionally-turbulent minutes, in which he has a breakdown about surpassing 400lbs and pins his anxiety on the amount of fried chicken
When the behaviors we thought would make us happy don’t, we’re forced to bridge the gap between where we are and where we want to be. But our happiness goals are often stifled by the disease of addiction—and its complex neurochemical influence on our desires.
A conversation with psychiatrist Anna Lembke helps us understand the gap between the cravings that drive us and the happiness we seek.
This episode was produced by Rebecca Rashid and is hosted by Arthur Brooks.
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In the early phases of the pandemic, as the coronavirus spread in the United States and doctors and pharmacists and supermarket clerks continued to work and risk infection, some commentators made reference—metaphorical reference, fast and loose and over the top—to ritual human sacrifice. The immediate panicky focus on resuming business as usual in order to keep the stock market from crashing was the equivalent of “those who offered human sacrifices to Moloch,” according to the writer Kitanya Harrison.
