Parke Wilde
@parkewilde.bsky.social
Food policy research and demand-side climate innovation.
https://nutrition.tufts.edu/profile/faculty/parke-wilde
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Yes, certainly a happier ending!
January 17, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Yes, certainly a happier ending!
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Time for my annual Reactions To Nat Bullard's Collection of Charts
Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
January 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Time for my annual Reactions To Nat Bullard's Collection of Charts
In @motherjones.com, USDA says food security measurement is "subjective, liberal fodder." But, reading closely, neither Colleen Heflin or I said anything very liberal. There is a long proudly bipartisan American tradition of seeking to promote food security and food affordability.
SNAP now has work requirements for people 55 to 64. But because of the axing of a USDA food insecurity survey, we may not have comprehensive data of the effects of this barbaric change. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/food/2026/01...
Trump's USDA is hiding the data on food stamp cuts
The agency's Food Insecurity Survey was pointless "liberal fodder," a spokesperson said.
www.motherjones.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:59 PM
In @motherjones.com, USDA says food security measurement is "subjective, liberal fodder." But, reading closely, neither Colleen Heflin or I said anything very liberal. There is a long proudly bipartisan American tradition of seeking to promote food security and food affordability.
Hi Gianluca. So great to see your travelogue again. I had followed your previous journey daily with fascination a couple years ago. Totally optional, some time when you have internet, may I interview you for a video project of our #flyingless initiative? Email at firstname . lastname at gmail.
January 17, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Hi Gianluca. So great to see your travelogue again. I had followed your previous journey daily with fascination a couple years ago. Totally optional, some time when you have internet, may I interview you for a video project of our #flyingless initiative? Email at firstname . lastname at gmail.
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The “$3 per healthy meal” idea is just another way of saying “poor folks are just doing poverty wrong.”
It’s also setting up an argument that SNAP is too generous.
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It’s also setting up an argument that SNAP is too generous.
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Healthy and affordable food is within reach for all Americans
The Trump administration has released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030, which emphasize eating real food and offer a flexible, affordable and attainable framework for healthy eating,…
thehill.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The “$3 per healthy meal” idea is just another way of saying “poor folks are just doing poverty wrong.”
It’s also setting up an argument that SNAP is too generous.
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It’s also setting up an argument that SNAP is too generous.
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Nine years ago, the solution for our holiday photo Rebus puzzle was a song title from a Broadway musical we were obsessed with at the time. Hint: person 1 (1 word, a contraction), 2 (1 word), 3 (2 words), 4 (2 words). Digression: around that year I started to no longer feel tall (even at 6 feet).
January 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Nine years ago, the solution for our holiday photo Rebus puzzle was a song title from a Broadway musical we were obsessed with at the time. Hint: person 1 (1 word, a contraction), 2 (1 word), 3 (2 words), 4 (2 words). Digression: around that year I started to no longer feel tall (even at 6 feet).
Jess Fanzo's essay describes leaving Columbia University (during a time of capitulation) and moving to a professorship focused on food policy at the Italian campus of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) (during a time of upheaval in international affairs).
In my latest blog, I reflect on a tumultuous 2025, leaving the chaotic U.S. for Italy. As I transition to my new role at Johns Hopkins, I will focus on sustaining hope for systemic change despite ongoing global challenges. The journey continues. shorturl.at/Ct8IE
The Journey of Hued Grief — The Food Archive
2025 has finally come to a close, and what a year it has been. For many, the last 365 days (well, + the beginnings of 2026…) have felt like an endless hellscape of despair, marked by one shocking and ...
shorturl.at
January 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Jess Fanzo's essay describes leaving Columbia University (during a time of capitulation) and moving to a professorship focused on food policy at the Italian campus of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) (during a time of upheaval in international affairs).
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The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to producing liquid biofuels such as bioethanol & biodiesel. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?
Putting solar panels on the land used for biofuels, e.g., would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks worldwide to go electric.
Putting solar panels on the land used for biofuels, e.g., would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks worldwide to go electric.
January 13, 2026 at 12:38 PM
The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to producing liquid biofuels such as bioethanol & biodiesel. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?
Putting solar panels on the land used for biofuels, e.g., would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks worldwide to go electric.
Putting solar panels on the land used for biofuels, e.g., would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks worldwide to go electric.
Lawrence ("Don't look back")
Devon Gilfillian ("All I really want to do")
Devon Gilfillian ("All I really want to do")
January 13, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Lawrence ("Don't look back")
Devon Gilfillian ("All I really want to do")
Devon Gilfillian ("All I really want to do")
Please, dear people on public assistance, who have low incomes by US standards, help Bessent out in his ideological framing by spending your scarce resources on drugs or alcohol, not giving it to family overseas who have even less than you. Your generosity is embarrassing folks.
Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."
January 13, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Please, dear people on public assistance, who have low incomes by US standards, help Bessent out in his ideological framing by spending your scarce resources on drugs or alcohol, not giving it to family overseas who have even less than you. Your generosity is embarrassing folks.
And while I'm at it,... and this too is not why most people will watch this TV show,... Pluribus is particularly interesting for people who have spent long hours looking at maps of long-distance low-carbon bus routes through Latin America and wondered how to handle the Darien Gap in Panama.
January 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
And while I'm at it,... and this too is not why most people will watch this TV show,... Pluribus is particularly interesting for people who have spent long hours looking at maps of long-distance low-carbon bus routes through Latin America and wondered how to handle the Darien Gap in Panama.
It is amusing to have a zombie genre show where the zombies are nice.
Plus,... and I recognize this is not why most people will watch this TV show,... Pluribus is particularly interesting for people who run constrained optimization models for hypothetical diets.
Plus,... and I recognize this is not why most people will watch this TV show,... Pluribus is particularly interesting for people who run constrained optimization models for hypothetical diets.
Finished watching Pluribus. Confirms my long held view that VGilligan is a genius.
Also: holy wow on Rhea Seehorn. She floored me in BCS but this is essentially a one-woman show. I wonder if her face/jaw are tired at the end if the day. Those muscles did a lot of work.
Also: holy wow on Rhea Seehorn. She floored me in BCS but this is essentially a one-woman show. I wonder if her face/jaw are tired at the end if the day. Those muscles did a lot of work.
January 11, 2026 at 7:23 PM
It is amusing to have a zombie genre show where the zombies are nice.
Plus,... and I recognize this is not why most people will watch this TV show,... Pluribus is particularly interesting for people who run constrained optimization models for hypothetical diets.
Plus,... and I recognize this is not why most people will watch this TV show,... Pluribus is particularly interesting for people who run constrained optimization models for hypothetical diets.
In this thoughtful 2019 column (about healthy eating, not just obesity), you wrestle with holding a high standard of evidence that permits knowing almost nothing in the end.
Just to me, your thread this week sounded more open to feasible research designs.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/fo...
Just to me, your thread this week sounded more open to feasible research designs.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/fo...
Perspective | Here’s what the government’s dietary guidelines should really say
Hint: It’s time we ignored the “evidence” about what to eat.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
In this thoughtful 2019 column (about healthy eating, not just obesity), you wrestle with holding a high standard of evidence that permits knowing almost nothing in the end.
Just to me, your thread this week sounded more open to feasible research designs.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/fo...
Just to me, your thread this week sounded more open to feasible research designs.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/fo...
Have your views on this point evolved over time? If you don't mind the question, did you used to come down quite hard on nutrition folks who failed to achieve a standard of evidence that was inherently infeasible? Feel free to say "no never did that," in which case I'll believe I misremembered.
January 8, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Have your views on this point evolved over time? If you don't mind the question, did you used to come down quite hard on nutrition folks who failed to achieve a standard of evidence that was inherently infeasible? Feel free to say "no never did that," in which case I'll believe I misremembered.
Well, there's two of you, in harmony. As Arlo Guthrie says, in the Alice's Restaurant Massacree, if three of you do it we can call it an organization, and with 50 it'll be a movement.
January 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Well, there's two of you, in harmony. As Arlo Guthrie says, in the Alice's Restaurant Massacree, if three of you do it we can call it an organization, and with 50 it'll be a movement.
Your section of the film is interesting and provocative, with a vision of abundance that seemed outrageous to the population-focused interviewer and yet is insightful for engaging with other thinkers with important concerns that climate action would equal austerity.
January 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Your section of the film is interesting and provocative, with a vision of abundance that seemed outrageous to the population-focused interviewer and yet is insightful for engaging with other thinkers with important concerns that climate action would equal austerity.
Excellent summary. In the details, Kevin Klatt wrestles with how to balance the indications that the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) are a fairly mild or "ambiguous" appeal to real foods against other indications that they are a radically unscientific pro-meat-and-butter agenda.
For anyone interested in the new Dietary Guidelines, here's a breakdown and my thoughts:
kcklatt.substack.com/p/ambiguous-...
kcklatt.substack.com/p/ambiguous-...
Ambiguous DGAs & The Rancher's Pyramid
Tame on the surface, more underneath
kcklatt.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Excellent summary. In the details, Kevin Klatt wrestles with how to balance the indications that the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) are a fairly mild or "ambiguous" appeal to real foods against other indications that they are a radically unscientific pro-meat-and-butter agenda.
I had originally yesterday interpreted the new Pyramid mildly as praise for all healthy whole foods, with all 3 corners being good, but Secretary Kennedy seems to intend a strong pro-steak anti-grain interpretation. x.com/i/status/200...
x.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I had originally yesterday interpreted the new Pyramid mildly as praise for all healthy whole foods, with all 3 corners being good, but Secretary Kennedy seems to intend a strong pro-steak anti-grain interpretation. x.com/i/status/200...
Now that video from the press event is out (here) and the South Park upside down pyramid meme has been tweeted by Kennedy (next reply), it seems the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans can be taken as a sharp change to a pro-meat pro-butter agenda. youtu.be/uToZ393oqDE?...
White House Releases New Dietary Guidelines For Americans, 'Turning the Food Pyramid Upside Down'
YouTube video by New York Post
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January 8, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Now that video from the press event is out (here) and the South Park upside down pyramid meme has been tweeted by Kennedy (next reply), it seems the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans can be taken as a sharp change to a pro-meat pro-butter agenda. youtu.be/uToZ393oqDE?...
On reflection, the two most novel themes of the new guidelines may be: (a) meat is fine after all (in contrast with strong scientific evidence for limiting red meat and processed meat) and (b) the criticism of highly processed foods is rhetorically more fierce than in past editions. (4/3)
January 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
On reflection, the two most novel themes of the new guidelines may be: (a) meat is fine after all (in contrast with strong scientific evidence for limiting red meat and processed meat) and (b) the criticism of highly processed foods is rhetorically more fierce than in past editions. (4/3)
On saturated fats and processed foods: "In general, saturated fat consumption should not exceed 10% of total daily calories. Significantly limiting highly processed foods will help meet this goal." Very traditional. (3/3)
January 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
On saturated fats and processed foods: "In general, saturated fat consumption should not exceed 10% of total daily calories. Significantly limiting highly processed foods will help meet this goal." Very traditional. (3/3)
On food group priorities: After all the anticipation over an upside-down pyramid (What foods will be favored on top? What foods on the bottom?), the actual graphic has no direction: meats in one corner, fruits and vegetables in one, whole grains in one, all equally lovely, nothing ever bad.
(2/3)
(2/3)
January 7, 2026 at 7:28 PM
On food group priorities: After all the anticipation over an upside-down pyramid (What foods will be favored on top? What foods on the bottom?), the actual graphic has no direction: meats in one corner, fruits and vegetables in one, whole grains in one, all equally lovely, nothing ever bad.
(2/3)
(2/3)
With so much bluster, everybody thinks the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) must be radical.
But could they actually be indecisive?
On sodium: "Avoid highly processed ... foods that are salty," and yet for meats, "If preferred, flavor with salt, spices, and herbs."
realfood.gov
(1/3)
But could they actually be indecisive?
On sodium: "Avoid highly processed ... foods that are salty," and yet for meats, "If preferred, flavor with salt, spices, and herbs."
realfood.gov
(1/3)
America's New Dietary Guidelines
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans reset U.S. nutrition policy by restoring science, common sense, and real food as the foundation of national health.
realfood.gov
January 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
With so much bluster, everybody thinks the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) must be radical.
But could they actually be indecisive?
On sodium: "Avoid highly processed ... foods that are salty," and yet for meats, "If preferred, flavor with salt, spices, and herbs."
realfood.gov
(1/3)
But could they actually be indecisive?
On sodium: "Avoid highly processed ... foods that are salty," and yet for meats, "If preferred, flavor with salt, spices, and herbs."
realfood.gov
(1/3)
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Yes, like a Monty Python skit: "When has the United States ever engaged in imperialism? Never,... well besides the Philippines, Cuba, Nicaragua, pretty much never,... and of course it goes without saying Hawaii, Guam, Vietnam, quite seldom,... excluding old examples like Mexico ..."
January 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Yes, like a Monty Python skit: "When has the United States ever engaged in imperialism? Never,... well besides the Philippines, Cuba, Nicaragua, pretty much never,... and of course it goes without saying Hawaii, Guam, Vietnam, quite seldom,... excluding old examples like Mexico ..."
Yes, like a Monty Python skit: "When has the United States ever engaged in imperialism? Never,... well besides the Philippines, Cuba, Nicaragua, pretty much never,... and of course it goes without saying Hawaii, Guam, Vietnam, quite seldom,... excluding old examples like Mexico ..."
January 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Yes, like a Monty Python skit: "When has the United States ever engaged in imperialism? Never,... well besides the Philippines, Cuba, Nicaragua, pretty much never,... and of course it goes without saying Hawaii, Guam, Vietnam, quite seldom,... excluding old examples like Mexico ..."