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Oregon Food Bank: Hunger & Food Insecurity In Epic Proportions (video)
In Oregon alone, 20 regional food banks, and 950 local agencies are involved in distributing food to those in need
And, it’s not nearly enough. 25% of the state’s populace are receiving food stamps, and many of those are children.
Hacking the Food System In the Public Interest
How do you turn an unwieldy piece of massive, but vital legislation, into something immediately relevant to the public, at large?
Oregon Food Bank: Hunger & Food Insecurity In Epic Proportions-2 (video)
We would do well to listen to what Rachel Bristol, longtime CEO of the Portland Food Bank has to say on the subject of poverty and food insecurity in the U.S.
Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer Stands Up for the 90% of Local Farmers
Earl Blumenauer feels that the 2012 Farm Bill should benefit the majority of hard working farmers— not a small minority as currently exists.
Dan Imhoff Talks About Farm Bill 2012 in Seattle
March 16, 2011 A couple of weeks ago author and publisher Dan Imhoff spoke at the University of Washington about the upcoming Farm Bill. Imhoff had published Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to the Food and Farm Bill in 2007, which is an excellent resource to help anyone understand this complex piece of legislation. “The [...]
A Conversation with Anna Lappé on Climate Change and Industrial Agriculture-2 (video)
What is the proper role for government to play with our food system?
Carlo Petrini: Give Value To Food 5 (Video)
Is U.S. agricultural policy fundamentally flawed? Since the Nixon administration, when then Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, led the drive to invigorate agriculture production by encouraging farmers to become bigger, and to maximize production even as commodity prices would likely fall over time; sales quantity, and the opening of foreign markets to U.S. farmers were [...]
A Conversation With Dan Imhoff-Part 6: What Can You Do? (video)
In part 6, Dan Imhoff offers suggestions for what citizens can do to help influence the outcome of of the 2007 Farm Bill that is still relevant today.