The Trump administration's Agriculture Department approved a revised Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that will leave 3 million citizens without access to food. If SNAP is supposed to “do right and feed everyone,” it’s not easy to justify the purpose of the program’s revision.
Read MoreThe CA landscape has endured the wrath of wildfires for years. While Californians expect wildfires to a degree, climate change has introduced a new species of fire, one that is a destructive and dangerous force of nature. But when I think about society’s relationship to our planet, it seems our our greed, hatred, and ignorance has blinded us from cultivating a collective human purpose to save the dying Earth.
Read MoreThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report which exposed the continuous effects of climate change on the dying planet. Although technology and media allow us to understand the rest of world’s food conflicts, we still manage to distance ourselves from the source of these harsh realities. We believe we are making a difference when we recycle, compost, shop at a farmers’ market, and sign online petitions to “fight climate change.” Do we really understand the institutions that persistently perpetuate the symptoms of global warming, food insecurity, and waste? What are farmer subsidies? What is Big Ag? And what do 2020 candidates have to say?
Read MoreSlow Food Nations and the Eater Young Guns Summit were comprised of workshops, speaker series, and tasting tables in order to bring an awareness to food that goes beyond buzzwords like cage-free, sustainably harvested, and ethically sourced. Both events were able to challenge attendees to think about what a restaurant can be, and what we as diners, neighbors, and cooks, can bring to the table.
Read MoreWe go to our supermarket and take a walk to our fish counter. You see some labels: farm raised, previously frozen, wild caught. What does this all mean? While we assume that fish reeled in from the open ocean are better for our bodies, can we also assume that this is good for our economy and our nation’s fishermen? The answer may surprise you.
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