Here’s a great clip of LaDonna Redmond at last Thursday’s Step Up to the Plate event, sponsored by World Hunger Year. WHY has joined forces with several other organizations to form a US Working Group on the Food Crisis, and they’ve issued a Call to Action that you can sign onto.
Anna Lappe has more [...]
Entries from October 2008
Words from WHY
October 20th, 2008 · No Comments
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News Feed
October 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Red fish, green fish? Our good friend Kim O’Donnel from A Mighty Appetite gives us a preview of the new eco-friendly sushi guides coming out next week.
Oh yeah, Oprah Last Tuesday, my grandmother called my dad and said, “those animals Leslie talks about are going to be on Oprah.” That’s right, Gramma! For the [...]
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Dispatch from Anchorage: Brussels Sprout and the upcoming winter
October 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments
This guest post is from Alison Arias, a South Anchorage Farmers’ Market reporter and co-owner of Rise & Shine Bakery, who also keeps a great food blog calls Alison’s Lunch. She sent this last week and tells us that there is 5 inches of snow in Anchorage, but the farmers still have brussels sprouts [...]
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World Food Day
October 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Today, October 16th, marks World Food Day, “a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and informed, year-around action to alleviate hunger.” With soaring food prices and economic woes on the minds of many, the events on World Food Day 2008 are sure to be well attended.
Among the countless gatherings taking place across the [...]
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What’s Fair Got to do with the Price of Green Tomatoes?
October 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
As the world watches the stock markets, nobody, but nobody wants to hear about paying more for anything. But one group is moving ahead with a campaign to pressure corporations to pay a little more (a penny a pound, to be exact) for tomatoes. And they’re winning.
Before I go on, think back about [...]
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