"eating is an agricultural act" --Wendell Berry, The Pleasures of Eating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE9l94b3x9U
SUCH an interesting video. Goes along with my research presentation on chickens and eggs. Perdue is a company that focuses on profit and profit alone, not the consumer or the humane treatment of chickens. Worth the watch.
Fast food workers in almost 200 cities in the US are expected to walk out of their job tomorrow (Thursday), demanding higher minimum wages. This campaign of unionization of workers began two years ago, and it has been said that workers are gaining momentum. Two important cities, Seattle and San Fransisco passed laws to raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars over the next coupe of years, and New York and L.A. are also hopping on that bandwagon. McDonalds workers will be the first to go on strike tomorrow, and this will thankfully help raise awareness and injustices in the fast food industry in terms of how low the minimum wage is.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-fight-work-stoppages-planned-at-many-fast-food-restaurants/
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has been forced to suspend food aid for more than 1.7 Syrians who have fled the war in their homeland and are now scattered throughout many nations in the Middle East. The WFP simply ran out of money, and now millions of people are starving. Syrian refugee families in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon will be faced with a harsh and disastrous winter without the proper food aid. International aids filed to fill a 64 million dollar funding shortfall, which will only help during the month of December, but then will run out. The timing of this cutback could not be worse.
An interesting and quite depressing read, please check this article out!
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/2/syrian-refugee-aidcuts.html
Celebrity chefs Tom Colicchio, José Andrés, Sam Talbot and a handful of others went to Capitol Hill to deliver a petition to members of Congress, with the aim of convincing them to support legislation requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods.
“Americans need to know, on a very basic level, what they’re eating,” said Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., an organic farmer who attended this meet up as well. Chefs, beyond having control over the ingredients that go into their dishes,feel a certain obligation to their diners.
After passing a law requiring food manufacturers to label products containing GMOs in May, Vermont is currently in the midst of fighting a lawsuit, filed by organizations aiming to block the bill, saying mandatory labeling violates the Constitution.
Read more: http://www.wtop.com/41/3754793/Top-chefs-meet-with-lawmakers-to-urge-GMO-labeling-#ixzz3KrqaKRk4
Something we’ve talked about in class, but is worth bringing back up!
The corporate food system has once again brought GMO into the votes of Americans, recently in Colorado and Oregon. Colorado’s Proposition 105 failed by a 2-to-1 margin, with just under 66% of voters claim that honest food labeling isn’t for them. And in Oregon, Ballot Measure 92 has also been defeated.
Interesting to see how these bills are either passed or not passed. Definitely worth the read.
http://www.naturalnews.com/047578_GMO_labeling_Big_Food_biotech_industry.html
A student in a Maseno School in western Kenya decided to do something out of the ordinary, by harvesting waste from students, waste from kitchens on campus, grass, and cow manure to create a viable solution as a waste bioreactor. This underground solution ended up creating biogas, a source of renewable energy, to use for cooking. Definitely a cool and interesting article to read that I highly recommend it. Puts a different perspective on biogas!
This is an amazing article to read during the holidays. Ben Simon, 24 years old created a non-profit organization, Food Recovery Network, that takes leftover food from college campuses and distributes it to impoverished and hungry community members. He voices his opinion that America’s biggest environmental issue is the fact that we produce too much food when it’s not necessary. What started his appreciation for food recovery was when he was a student at University of Maryland, and he spotted staff throwing away so much perfectly good food that he decided to start an initiative to fix that. Awesome read, I highly recommend.
This entrepreneur turns leftover cafeteria food into hot meals for hungry people
6 months ago, before I became a vegetarian, I ate Chick-Fil-A 3-4 times a week. The chicken nuggets and spicy chicken sandwiches were my absolute favorite food, complete with a side of their famous waffle fries and a vanilla milkshake. The workers at Chick-Fil-A treat their customers with the utmost respect, as they greet you with the most lovely and welcoming, “hi! How are you today? What can I get for you?” and after completing your order, they reply “Absolutely, it will be out shortly. Thank you so much for coming today and we hope you have an amazing day!” So so so nice. I thought the Chick-Fil-A business could not be beat, besides the extremely conservative views and the manager’s punch on gay marriage a couple of years ago, and them closing on Sundays. What I didn’t know was how their workers in the factory farms they got their chickens from treated the birds. Truly disgusting and worth the watch of the video and read of the article. I even signed the petition below. Now, I will not go to Chick-Fil-A for just my waffle fries. I will boycott that chain until they clean up their acts.
Read below:
https://www.change.org/p/help-the-simpsons-co-creator-sam-simon-take-a-bite-out-of-chick-fil-a-s-animal-cruelty?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=190326&alert_id=ubKisHQomu_nNlO5aFRjAC373r2Fs8lxxBZzBrIilnBtNnz95GIl6M%3D
“Relax- California Isn’t About to Dump Pesticides on Organic Farms”
There’s been a rumor going around that California Department of Food and Agriculture is planning to spray pesticides on organic farms, forcing them to go conventional. What the truth of the matter is, that the state put a new environmental impact report that details everything it does in pest control. Pretty cool read!
Relax — California isn’t about to dump pesticides on organic farms
Although this article leans on the radically conservative side, I thought it was interesting to hear a different perspective. Tad DeHaven, a liberatarian “think tank” put the blame on Obama and the rest of congress for the administration’s failed economic policies. Official data from the USDA illustrated that the government’s food stamp program (SNAP), grew in both enrollment and spending since Obama came into office. The radical conservative opposers to Obama claimed that the rise in SNAP prices had everything to do with the “failed war on poverty” and further, “purposeful expansion of the welfare state.”
I thought it was interesting to read about SNAP and food stamps from a side I oppose. I highly encourage those with an open mind to read..
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/joseph-rossell/2014/11/03/food-stamps-crisis-ignored-nearly-98-network-stories
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/joseph-rossell/2014/11/03/food-stamps-crisis-ignored-nearly-98-network-stories
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