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“Pizza is a Vegetable?!” The Truth Behind the Headlines
On Thursday Nov 17th, Congress passed an updated version of the Agriculture Appropriations Bill. This effectively blocked a proposal submitted by the USDA on January 13th, that elevated nutritional standards of the National School Lunch Program. Most of the headlines in response to this focused on a singular issue of tomato paste, pointedly asking, “Pizza [...]
Slow Food meets Food Justice
Tom Philpott, a writer for Mother Jones, brings together two opposite voices of the food movement. Nikki Henderson is the executive director of People’s Grocery, an “anti-poverty nonprofit in low-income West Oakland,” and Alice Waters runs Chez Panisse, a white-tablecloth Berkeley restaurant dedicated to The Slow Food Movement, serving local, sustainable and organic food. In [...]
Who are the Bioneers?
The Bioneers community has had a significant impact on my work. Every time I go, I learn something and invariably find a few gems. – Michael Pollan, Author, The Omnivore’s Dilemma & In Defense of Food In 1990, Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel founded the Bioneers Conference, which focused on pioneering the fields of biological [...]
