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Food Safety Modernization Act Gaining Momentum

October 22, 2009

Here’s a list the groups that are on record in sup­port of this bill. There are none listed in oppo­si­tion accord­ing to Govtrack.us — I wonder…

Amer­i­can Frozen Food Insti­tute
Gro­cery Man­u­fac­tur­ers Asso­ci­a­tion
National Fish­eries Insti­tute
Uninted Fresh Pro­duce Asso­ci­a­tion
National Restau­rant Asso­ci­a­tion
Pro­duce Mar­ket­ing Asso­ci­a­tion
Gen­eral Mills
Kraft Foods

Tagged as: activism, food

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Sitopia: A New Way of Seeing Food and Culture

October 16, 2009

A look at the his­tory of food and the city– this provoca­tive TED.COM video by Car­olyn Steel shows how food shapes our lives, and that “we can use food as a really pow­er­ful tool to shape the world bet­ter.” I got goose-bumps at the end.

Tagged as: activism, agriculture, food, slowfood

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Flex Food versus Slow Food

September 12, 2009

How about the term “Flex Food” as a replace­ment for the rather dowdy term “Slow Food” — I’d rather imply a show of force; a tak­ing back con­trol over our bod­ies; our com­mit­ment to flex­ing our con­sumer dol­lars back into our local com­mu­ni­ties and farms.
Flex­ing is a show of power– food is under­go­ing a REAL revolution, […]

Tagged as: activism, cultural, political, slowfood

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Future Gardens of Mycological Mindfulness

September 10, 2009

This video gives me so much hope– it’s long (at about 17 min­utes), but worth the time. Besides inspir­ing you to think about mush­room mycelium as being like a huge under­ground brain net­work that com­mu­ni­cates with and man­ages resources for var­i­ous plant species, it will also explain how mush­room mycelium can be used to clean […]

Tagged as: activism, cultural, mushrooms, mycelium, mycoremediation, political

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Intuitive Eating, Chinese-Style

September 2, 2009

I have strug­gled for nearly two decades with binge eat­ing– it’s only in the last year that I’ve finally found the space inside myself that allows me to stop eat­ing when my body says “I’m full.” Part of it is slow­ing down a bit and lis­ten­ing to my body, my stom­ach. And part of it […]

Tagged as: activism, cultural, event, political, slowfood

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Eat-In an important Labor Day event nationwide!

August 31, 2009

Check out Slow Food USA’s web­site here to find out where you can attend the nation­wide Eat-In on Labor Day. We need to bring national atten­tion to the unac­cept­able food served to school­child­ren on a daily basis.
Here is a list of the key ideas of the Eat-In:

We’re call­ing for Con­gress to pass a Child Nutri­tion Act that […]

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