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November 28, 2011

The Food and Environment Reporting Network Launches

For Immediate Release: November 28, 2011 Contact: Sam Fromartz, Editor-in-Chief 202.423.8779-c; sam@thefern.org Naomi Starkman, 917.539.3924-c; naomi@thefern.org THE FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK LAUNCHES Independent, Non-Profit, Investigative News Organization to Focus on Food,...

October 29, 2011

The Food Movement Must Occupy Wall Street

by Kristin Wartman, Food Writer The Food Movement Must Occupy Wall Street If you are paying attention to Occupy Wall Street–and by now most people are–the anti-corporate message is coming through loud and clear. Most participants at the events now spreading across the country say they...

October 26, 2011

Californians Urge Healthy Food and Jobs Focus in Fast Tracked Farm Bill

http://www.ewg.org/release/californians-urge-healthy-food-and-jobs-focus... CONTACT: EWG public affairs 202.667.6982; ssciammacco@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. — More than 60 public health, nutrition, food, farm and environmental groups representing hundreds of thousands of California citizens are...

October 26, 2011

Quick and dirty: Congress may rewrite the Farm Bill in two weeks

http://www.grist.org/farm-bill/2011-10-24-will-lawmakers-rewrite-the-far... by Tom Laskawy 24 Oct 2011 8:09 AM A two-week Food Bill rewrite stacks the deck against good-food advocates. Last month, I wrote that prospects for reforming the Farm Bill were dim. My prior assessment is turning out to be...

October 25, 2011

Students and campus food workers unite for Food Day

http://www.grist.org/food/2011-10-24-food-workers-on-food-day by Chris Bohner 24 Oct 2011 3:26 PM Northwest UNorthwestern University dining hall workers celebrating new contract as part of the students’ living wage campaign.”They took our knives and gave us scissors to open bags of...

October 25, 2011

Corporate Accountability Int’l Turns Up the Heat on McDonald’s

Yesterday, October 24th, was the first annual Food Day, and people across the U.S. are taking action to promote healthy, affordable and sustainably produced food. In recognition of Food Day, Corporate Accountability International members and activists are turning up the heat on McDonald’s to...

October 24, 2011

Food Day is here.

After months of organizing by countless people, there will be more than 2,000 events from coast to coast—ranging from small house parties to massive festivals — for Food Day. Local governments are seizing the opportunity to announce new food policy initiatives. The National Archives will be...

Surprising Facts

Ninety percent of Americans make less in real dollars than they did in 1973 – on average $4,000 less. The wealthiest 400 Americans now control more wealth than half the world’s people.

Worldwide, more people are members of cooperatives than own shares in publicly traded companies. Cooperatives provide a fifth more jobs than do global corporations.

More than a third of both the world’s grain and fish catch now go to feed livestock, which return to us only a fraction of the nutrients.

If the whole world moved to sustainable agriculture, a U. of Michigan study found that enough food could be grown to feed the world’s current and projected population.

An MRI study of people competing vs. cooperating found that cooperating stimulates the same parts of our brain as does eating chocolate!

America emits twice the carbon per person that Europe does. But think what’s possible: California emits 20 percent less carbon per dollar GDP than Germany; and it gets almost a quarter of its electricity from renewables!

In Washington DC, more than two dozen lobbyists push mainly corporate interests for every one representative American citizens have elected to protect our interests.

In 2011, solar use grew all over the world, soaring 54% to 28 gigawatts.

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