Change for Food

Mon., September 24, 8:30 am -Wed., September 26, 4:30 pm

Minneapolis , Minnesota

Food + Justice = Democracy is a national meeting like no other. Led by a steering committee of partners in the food justice movement, the agenda stakes out the space to elevate the food system stories of communities of color and tribal nations. With this grounding, participants will co-create a food justice policy platform to carry forward as a network.

Whatever your cultural background, this can be a more effective, and often simpler, approach to healthy eating than trying to parse the complex language of carbs, calories, and nutrition science. Across the board, our ancestors generally ate better than we do, since they lived before the advent of mass-market processed food.

Valerie Seagrest from Shalini Kantayya on Vimeo.

(Source: speakerforthetrees)

Interactive infographic: Making Sense of the Farm Bill

Been wondering what the 2012 Farm Bill is all about? Or what you should be paying the most attention to? Check this out.

As new federal standards intended to make school food more healthful and nutritious go into effect, changes are already under way in many districts.

Finally! The Oregon Dept of Education is hiring a statewide Farm to School and School Garden Coordinator! I’m not quite qualified yet…but I sure hope jobs like this will be more common in the years to come.

pbs-food:

Watch The Story of an Egg, presented by PBS Food and ITVS.

More information at Lexicon of Sustainability.

Has anyone watched these features on PBS? Looks interesting.

Jamie Oliver, huffingtonpost.com

This Sat­ur­day, May 19, will be the first-ever glob­al Food Rev­o­lu­tion Day. I can not tell you how proud I am that we have more than 500 cities in 57 coun­tries around the world stand­ing up for real food. And it couldn’t be a more impor­tant…

(Source: localfoodlab)

I can attest to this - I remember when WSU wanted to invite Michael Pollan to campus but their Ag department almost prevented it. Crazy!