Good Food is Everybody's Business
Now that the White House and Walmart have positioned themselves at the head of the healthy food movement, food manufacturers are rallying the troops and gathering right behind. Yet another front-of-package labeling scheme.
Carry-out, ready-to-eat, ready-to-heat, and “street food” – that is, food cart goodies – all seem to be boxed in either old-fashioned “Chinese restaurant” white paper board boxes or horrible Styrofoam plastic clamshells. Good to keep food warm, bad for the environment.
The recent establishment of an Employees Stock Ownership Plan, made it possible for Bob and Charlee Moore, founders of Bob’s Red Mill, to liquidate part of their ownership in the company and donate $5 million to a new research center at Oregon State University that will focus on whole grain foods nutrition. The center will be called the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition, and Preventative Health.
In spite of the rapid growth of an alternative food system – local and sustainable food production, farmers’ markets, the public’s rising food consciousness – we become more dependent everyday on industrial agriculture whose representatives insist that it is the only way to feed a hungry world. In the face of such assertions, we must ask if our dependence on such a system threatens to supplant individual self-reliance.
Mark Winne’s second book, Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture takes on the universal struggle between human freedom and authority in its relationship to food.
Get the lyrics! Sing along! A great protest piece by Synister Dane playing music by farmers for farmers and the folks who eat the food they raise!
We are getting heavier. On average, U.S. adults weigh 24 pounds more than they did in 1960. And in that same time, obesity among children and teens has tripled, from nearly 5% to 15%. The strategies needed to put the nation on a weight-loss plan are obvious. So how do we put those strategies into action?
It turns out that bread made with KAMUT® Brand Khorasan Wheat is not jut good tasting but good for you too. A recently published study confirms antioxidant properties of Kamut® Khorasan Wheat and its role in protecting against oxidative stress.
