Americans are beginning to understand that buying and eating locally grown food is better for our health, the environment, and our local communities and economies than consuming the monocropped or factory-raised processed foods that we find cheaper, faster, and more readily available.. Local communities support farmers markets across the country. Through outlets known as Comnunity [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food justice’
Op-Ed: The Marathon for Health
Posted in Brooklyn, Spring 09, tagged food justice, health care, institutions, policy on April 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hot Bread Kitchen: Jessamyn
Posted in New Amsterdam, Summer 08, tagged bread, food justice, labor on July 28, 2008 |
This post is one of a series of essays written for the New Amsterdam Market. Each essay stems from a conversation between the author and a vendor who participated in the New Amsterdam Market of June 29th. The essays seek to address each vendor’s (food-related) enterprise, to highlight the reality behind their commitment to sustainability, and to convey the [...]
New Yorkana
Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged biodiversity, cuba, cyclical, food justice, food sovereignty, health care, land use, urban agriculture on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It took a crisis in Cuba for urban agriculture to take over. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 cut off nearly all agricultural imports to Cuba, including pesticides, fertilizers, farming equipment, and food. Not only did organic farming increase, by necessity, but Cubans began cultivating a significant percentage of their food in urban [...]
Hedonistic Health Care
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, tagged food justice, health care, policy on January 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last week I attended two events featuring journalist, author, and professor Michael Pollan. He joined chef and restaurant owner Dan Barber on Tuesday evening in a lecture hall of the 92nd Street Y, and Wednesday he spoke at a Just Food fundraiser, in a beautiful Flatiron District apartment. Prompted by the queries of Joan Gussow at both events, Pollan had to address the [...]
Egological: Balancing Dependence
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, tagged biodiversity, community, food justice, permaculture on November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A month ago, I wrote an essay entitled Recognizing Accents. I wrote on the importance of knowing and acknowledging all the different voices that contribute to the movement for nutritious food, land stewardship, and local community.I have had to acknowledge recently, while I listen to these voices, that I tend to work hardest on my [...]
Recognizing Accents
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, tagged collaboration, community, diversity, food justice, policy on October 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’ve struggled over the past few weeks to focus on a single topic about which to write here, but I expected Thursday night’s lecture at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service to provide some specific food for thought. I knew the event had to do with technology and rural development, and I’ve been interested recently [...]
Migrant Farm Labor: Policy Versus Voice
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, tagged food justice, labor, policy on October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This week, the reading for the Food Systems I: Agriculture class at NYU included The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest, by W.K. Barger and Ernesto M. Reza. The book documents the history of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), particularly the establishment of a national boycott of Campbell Soup products from 1979 to 1986, [...]
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