The Legal Role in Building Sustainable Public Health (Symposium Transcript)

Subtitle

Food as Public Health moderated by Lauren Caverly-Pratt and Grace Benitone

Authors

Joanna K. Sax, California Western School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

The article presents a discussion of food as a public health issue, beginning with why science matters and utilizing science to solve food as a public health issue, especially as it relates to sustainability and climate change. Consumer misperceptions of the risk created by new scientific technologies (e.g., GMOs), or even older scientific technologies, may thwart use of such technologies to solve sustainability problems. The talk addresses why consumers might inappropriately assign risk to certain scientific applications and ways that we might want to think about resolving that issue or closing the divide between consumer misperception of risk and evidence-based assessment of risk with possible interventions.

Recommended Citation

Joanna K. Sax, The Legal Role in Building Sustainable Public Health (Symposium Transcript), 6 Belmont Health L.J. 34 (2022).
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.cwsl.edu/fs/427