In last week’s New Yorker, an article entitled Testing, Testing, written by Atul Gawande, details the author’s optimistic perspective on the Senate’s new health care bill. Gawande highlights and applauds the bill’s inclusion of pilot programs reminiscent of those responsible for transforming American agriculture in the early 20th century. “While we crave sweeping transformation,” he [...]
Posts Tagged ‘policy’
Listening, Learning
Posted in Fall 09, tagged health care, history, policy on December 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Real Food, Real Health
Posted in Brooklyn, Spring 09, tagged health care, policy, research on May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Over the last several months, I have conducted a research project with my friend Sam Lipschultz, who recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Our research focused upon farm to institution collaboration in the United States, and particularly upon Farm to Hospital programs. Below is a brief introduction to our final report, and you can download [...]
Op-Ed: The Marathon for Health
Posted in Brooklyn, Spring 09, tagged food justice, health care, institutions, policy on April 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
No Risk of Recession
Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged land use, policy, research, students, the future! on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend, a few close friends of mine who care about where their food comes from, and appreciate those who produce the food they enjoy, voiced their curiosity as to whether the whole “local food thing” was just another diet fad. These friends, Bekah and Raphi, are a couple in their twenties living in Berkeley, working [...]
Like Ballrooms, These Battlefields
Posted in Berkeley, Spring 08, tagged Climate, place, policy on February 4, 2008 |
Moving across the country during the election year might have required me to forsake much exploration, and strike out instead for more immediate community interaction and political participation. My “mental map” of the Bay Area last week was a list of words: of sidewalk chalk, beards, murals, speeches shouted from VWs, black panthers, and protested [...]
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 [...]
The Farm Bill: Untangle the Weave? Or Knit Anew.
Posted in Brooklyn, Fall 07, tagged policy, the future! on November 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On Monday, November 12th, the Wagner School of NYU hosted a panel entitled “The Farm Bill 2007: Understanding the Political, Agricultural, and Nutritional Impact” with guests Marion Nestle, Dan Barber, and Christina Grace.Michael Pollan must have come up eleven times in the two-hour event. With all due respect for the author to whom I might [...]
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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