May 2013
Eat Real News
May 2013
Today, most farm animals are confined in “factory farms”—sometimes containing as many as fifty thousand or one hundred thousand cattle, hens, or pigs. These practices result in needless animal abuse and illness, environmental degradation, and harm the people who live in and around those “farms.” Isn’t it time we took farm animal cruelty off the national menu?
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- Food News
- From the Blog–What’s the Meat Industry Trying to Hide? A lot.
- Animal Welfare and Food Day 2013
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I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. – Temple Grandin, Ph.D., renowned animal-welfare advocate.
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April 2013
Eat Real News
April 2013
Is your workplace literally making you sick?
With an average working adult spending nearly 10 hours working and commuting a day, eating real and staying healthy at work can be a challenge. When we are busy with work, we often look for convenient food options. Does the workplace environment matter? Experts in worksite health promotion say it does, both to employees’ health and to companies’ bottom line, but the devil is in the details.
- When it Comes to Workplace Wellness, the Devil's in the Details
- Workplace Wellness and Food Day 2013
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Workers spend much of their lives in the workplace, so that setting can have a significant impact, for good or for bad, on their attitudes, behaviors, and weight. Creating a workplace environment that makes eating well and being active the norm is potentially a very important part of the comprehensive solution to epidemic obesity. Dr. David Katz, Director, Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center
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March 2013
Eat Real News
March 2013
Formal food education for kids is a powerful notion, one that can address both obesity and hunger by increasing food literacy and developing food life skills: being able to cook a repertoire of healthy, tasty recipes; better understanding of our food system; and ability to deconstruct ads.
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Food News—Food Education Goes National in Schools Across the U.K.
From the Blog—Food Education Resources You Can Use to Start Teaching About Food Right Now
Food Education and Food Day 2013
What we need now is a commitment at the highest levels of government to commit to a national crash course in edible education. Our schools can lead the way. Chefs Jose Andres, Joan Nathan, and Alice Waters
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February 2013
February 2013
“Eating Real” can mean a lot of different things to each of us. To some it could mean eating locally grown produce when possible, and to others it may mean a plant-based diet. However, there’s one issue that we think should fall under the universal umbrella of Eating Real: fair labor conditions for all workers in the American food chain, from farm to plate.
Contents:
Food News—Taking a Stand for Food and Farm Workers in the U.S.
From the Blog—This Year Don’t Just Eat Right, Eat Right and Just by Saru Jayaraman
Advocating for Fair Labor on Food Day 2013
If you care about sustainability — the capacity to endure — it’s time to expand our definition to include workers. You can’t call food sustainable when it’s produced by people whose capacity to endure is challenged by poverty-level wages. Mark Bittman, journalist, food writer, and award-winning cookbook author.
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January 2013
Eat Real News
January 2013
Welcome to the first edition of the Eat Real Newsletter, Food Day's own monthly publication offering content related to Eating Real. We'll share with you cutting-edge food systems resources, information on upcoming events, food policy news and insight, and everything else in between as we work year-round towards creating a healthy, affordable, sustainable food system.
Contents:
Real Food News—Gaining Momentum to Take on Big Soda
From the Blog—TEDxManhattan Changing the Way We Eat 2013
Food Day 2013—Not Too Early to Start Planning!
Food Day aspires to celebrate the food system when it's working, and fix it when it's broken. Michael Jacobson, Center for Science in the Public Interest Executive Director and Food Day Founder.
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