archive for the 'Food justice' Category

Centralization takes center stage at the Commonwealth Club

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Saturday, August 23rd, 2008.

As part of the “How We Eat” series at the Commonwealth Club last week, Slow Food Nation Policy and Communications director Naomi Starkman moderated a thoughtful panel discussion about the centralization of the food industry with Michael Dimock, President of Roots of Change, Paul Frankel, managing director, Ecosa Capital and Don Shaffer, President and CEO, RSF Social Finance.

Report from Taste3: “Culanthropy” in New Orleans with the Culinary Corps

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Tuesday, August 5th, 2008.

Christine Carroll’s Culinary Corps is a group of professional cooks and bakers who volunteer their culinary skills to help with post-Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.

Ain’t nobody here but us pigs…

by Janet @ Monday, July 28th, 2008.

At the rate food prices are increasing, maybe we don’t need to worry about people overeating, but a report by Youfa Wang, Lan Liang, Benjamin Caballero and Shiriki Kumanyika released today says 86 percent of Americans are going to be overweight or obese by 2030. Their study, “Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating […]

Animal behavior: Crackdowns on meatpacking workers give new meaning to ‘inhumane’

by Elanor @ Monday, July 14th, 2008.

An editorial in the New York Times shines a spotlight on injustice in the food system, thanks to a report by an interpreter working at the scene of the nation’s largest immigration raid ever. The raid took place in May at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, IA.

Déjà chew: The food price crisis in context

by Guest @ Tuesday, May 20th, 2008.

A look back at past food crises can tell us a lot about the origins of today’s global riots over high food prices — and what we need to avoid them in the future. Guest post by U Tennessee ag economist Daryll Ray.

Rock bottom of the food chain: Children in the fields

by Bonnie P. @ Tuesday, April 29th, 2008.

Here in the United States alone, more than 170,000 children aged 12-17 — and that’s the legally hired number, estimates of the real number put it closer to 430,000 — are exempt from federal protective child-labor laws. That means they can work in 100-degree fields for six to seven days a week, 10 hours a day, for far less than minimum wage. They do so to help their families survive.

Digest - Commentary: Eating local gains political clout, food prices, corn crisis

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 6th, 2008.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - Commentary/features: SOLE supply blockages, choco woes, go bananas

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, February 26th, 2008.

Although the big companies (who buy though layers of contractors and middlemen to give themselves plausible deniability) initiated a voluntarily program several years ago to reduce child labor, not much improvement can be found.

… Water dries up fast in food desert : When a community group’s effort to bring a full-service grocery store to their neighborhood failed, they approached the managers of a local convenience stores with survey data showing the need for fresh food.

Digest - Features: Good food for the poor, Pollan ready for next topic, cloned milk no worse than regular

by Ethicurean @ Friday, January 11th, 2008.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Digest - News: Farm Bill foundering, FRESH Act fails, FDA-China pact

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, December 13th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - News: Farm Bill moving again, pork brain illness, WIC gets healthier

by Ethicurean @ Friday, December 7th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - News: Seattle market bans HFCS, fertilizing Malawi, FDA bashes self

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, December 4th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Blogs: Local focal, 0157 by the numbers, courting food stamps

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, December 4th, 2007.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

Digest - Commentary: Tesco to open in poor neighborhoods, Monbiot on biofuels, GMO warriors

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, November 7th, 2007.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

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