OPINION ON THE EAT-LANCET REPORTIrresistable force; Immovable object

摘要

In January, just as we in Australia were devising strategies to enjoy, or at least get through, another month of record-breaking high temperatures, North America was almost brought to a standstill due to record breaking Artie weather conditions. Against this backdrop of extreme weather events keeping the media busy, an irresistible force (climate change science) met an immovable object (nutritional science) in the form of the release of the EAT-Lancet Commission's report on healthy diets from sustainable food systems.1 And interestingly, the report proposed a framework for food system transformation which ostensibly accommodates both.