Have you heard about Food Day?

[rbnyc]

Poll question: Have you heard about Food Day?

http://foodday.org

Reduce diet-related disease by promoting healthy foods.
Support sustainable farms & cut subsidies to big agribusiness.
Expand access to food and alleviate hunger.
Protect the environment & animals by reforming factory farms.
Promote health by curbing junk-food marketing to kids.

I am currently planning a Food Day event with my not-for-profit. I know we're all involved with a huge variety of important issues, and I have often felt overwhelmed with the number of issues that need attention and systems that need reform. I do feel that reforming the American food system can have a really broad impact.

As I've been reaching out to community partners to coordinate our event, I'm finding many folks haven't heard about this yet. I really want to spread the word.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011, Washington, D.C.—Many of the most prominent voices for change in the food movement and a growing number of health, hunger, and sustainable agriculture groups today announced plans for Food Day—a nationwide campaign to change the way Americans eat and think about food. Organized by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Day will encourage people around the country to sponsor or participate in activities that encourage Americans to "eat real" and support healthy, affordable food grown in a sustainable, humane way.

[auntAgonist]

1. .....K&R

[rbnyc]

2. Thank you. (nt)

[Maru Kitteh]

3. First time. K&R

[rbnyc]

4. Thanks. Someone Unreced. (nt)

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. bastards

[rbnyc]

11. I wish they'd have said why. (nt)

[rbnyc]

5. How do people feel about the Center for Science in the Public Interest?

Just curious.

[bvar22]

6. Everyday is "Food Day" at our place.

K&R for more exposure.
All pesticides, chem based "fertilizers", herbicides, and GMO crops are forever BANNED!

:hippie:

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. nope

[AsahinaKimi]

9. The problem with eating healthy foods...

is that they are expensive, unless... you know where to shop. As an example, our weekly farmers markets have far less expensive veggies than found at a supermarket like Safeway. The veggies may not look as pretty, but they seem to taste far better.

[rbnyc]

10. That's part of what Food Day is about.

Why are healthy foods more expensive...because policies favor a food industry that creates cheap unhealthy food and is inclined against local small farms. But locally grown, organic, real foods could become affordable and feed everyone.

Have you ever seen this film?

http://www.freshthemovie.com/

FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.

Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy.

[RebelOne]

12. Go vegetarian. That's how I eat healthy. No meat. b/t

[rbnyc]

15. My head agrees, and so does part of my heart.

But I love the taste of blood.

I try to go free range and organic whenever possible and I try not to have meat every day.

[Kali]

16. there is plenty of vegetarian garbage or junk food

and meat is perfectly healthy in moderation, it is good nutrition

eating processed crap all the time is what is not particularly healthy

[yellowwood]

13. Eating Healthy Isn't So Expensive

I always hear the argument that eating healthy is expensive.
Since my family became more food-conscious,our food bill has gone down.
Oatmeal--much cheaper than processed cereal.
Dried beans
Brown rice
Dried fruit
Wheat flour. There's a white wheat flour available that can be used in cakes, etc.
Not that much meat, if any.
Cook from scratch, whenever possible.

Check the fruit juice content of "juices."

When I see families' food carts stuffed full with soda, chips, crackers, sweenened cereal, I know that they are spending way more than they need to on food.













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[rbnyc]

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