06/08/2023
Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of June 7, 2023
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โข The Urban Outreach Center is More than a Food Pantry (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข Ireland Requires Health Warnings on Alcohol Products (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข ICYMI: 5 NYC Hospital Programs That Use Food to Address Chronic Diseases (nycfoodpolicy.org)
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โข Mayor Adams And Chancellor Banks Announce $8.4m State Grant To Purchase School Food From Local Farms (NYC.gov)
โข Chef Rich Torrisi And Major Food Group Team Up With Robin Hood, New York City’s Largest Poverty-Fighting Philanthropy (Forbes)
โข Mayor Adams Unveils Food Education Roadmap to Promote Healthier School Communities Across New York City (NYC.gov)
โข New York City Unveils Plan To Improve Food Education Across Public Schools (ABC 7)
โข New York Is Shut Out of the James Beard Awards for the First Time in History (Eater)
โข Mayor and City Council Find Middle Ground on NYC Outdoor Dining Structures (Total Food Service)
โข Chicken Sold to NYC Food Carts Wasn’t Properly Inspected by Distributor: Prosecutors (NBC)
โข NYC Not Tracking Individual Food Purchases Under Climate Plan (Yahoo! News)
โข Yard Waste To Be Collected for Composting in NYC; Rollout Slated for March 2024 on Staten Island, DSNY Says (SI Live)
โข Stonyfield Helps Transition Eight NYC Parks to Organically Maintained Properties (Dairy Foods)
โข Move Over, Caviar. Ham Is the Hot New Luxury Item on N.Y.C. Menus. (Robb Report)
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โข How Food Insecurity Affects Peopleโs Rights To Choose Whether or Not To Have Children, and How They Parent (The Conversation)
โข An Alarming Rise In Food Insecurity Has More Americans Skipping Meals (Tasting Table)
โข Two Young Leaders Address Food Insecurity (Nonprofit Quarterly)
โข Could CEA Be the Future of Farming and Solve Food Insecurity? (HortiDaily)
โข โFood Is a Basic Human Rightโ: Activists Call To End Work Requirements in Nutrition Assistance Program (Nutrition Insight)
โข First Look: New Fund for Food-Insecure Americans (Axios)
โข Philly Share Food Program Launches Campaign for Justice (WHYY)
โข Women, Girls Primary Victims of Growing Food Insecurity in Pakistan (The Nation)
โข Funding for the Future of Rwandan Food and Nutrition Needs (Food Tank)
โข Extreme Weather Threatens Chinaโs Food Security, With Forecasts of Summer Droughts and Floods (South China Morning Post)
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โข World Bankโs New Chief Asks Staff To โDouble Downโ on Development, Climate Efforts (Reuters)
โข New York Dairy Farm Sued for Discharging Animal Waste in Violation of Clean Water Act (Food Safety News)
โข Climate Savior or โMonsanto of the Seaโ? (Food and Environment Reporting Network)
โข Commentary: Food Procurement Bill Would Boost Sustainability, Equity (Times Union)
โข The Landmark Trial That Could Determine Who Pays To Rid Americaโs Drinking Water of PFAS (Grist)
โข Fungi May Offer โJaw-Droppingโ Solution to Climate Change (The Hill)
โข How to Grow a Permaculture Food Forest in Your Yard (and Why You Should) (Lifehacker)
โข To Fight Climate Change, Weโve Got to Quit Making So Much Plastic (Mother Jones)
โข Millets โ Ancient Drought-Resistant Grains โ Could Help the Midwest Survive Climate Change (Modern Farmer)
โข Empowering Farmer-to-Farmer Networks: AGROMIX’s Efforts to Support Sustainable Agriculture in Europe (Food Tank)
โข Canadian Produce Industry Urges Government To Support Its Sustainability Efforts (The Packer)
โข Growth of Regenerative Farming in Greece (Food Tank)
โข For These Teens, a Unique Beekeeping Program Teaches About Much More Than Honey (Modern Farmer)
โข Gulf โDead Zoneโ Forecast To Be Smaller Than Average, but Still Twice Reduction Goal (NOLA)
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โข โRhythms of the Landโ Preserves the Untold Stories of Black Farmers (Civil Eats)
โข Cultivating Food Justice – It Takes A Village (Agricultural & Rural Convention)
โข โNone of the Muslim Kids Can Eatโ: Illinois To Provide Halal and Kosher Meals to Schoolkids (The Guardian)
โข A Pop-Up Restaurant in Kabul Is Run by Women for Women. The Taliban Is Watching (NPR)
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โข States Are Fighting to Bring Back Free School Meals (Civil Eats)
โข When Both Sides Blame the Ref (Food Fix)
โข Congress Created Changes to Food Assistance. Hereโs What They Mean (NPR)
โข Politicians Contemplate Food Price Caps in Fight Against Inflation (Bloomberg)
โข Debt Ceiling Deal Includes New Work Requirements for Food Stamps (New York Times)
โข GT Thompson’s School Whole Milk Bill Passes Committee (Lancaster Farming)
โข What’s Happening with the Next Farm Bill? (Food Tank)
โข Farm Credit Is Resisting a Farm Bill Push Toward Equity (Civil Eats)
โข Senate Child Labor Oversight Looks To Be a Rehash of the Mostly Known Information (Food Safety News)
โข Racial Equity and Institutional Food Procurement: An Interview with Rebekah A. Williams, Co-Founder of Food for the Spirit and the Buffalo Food Equity Network, and Jessica Gilbert-Overland, Campaign Director, Good Food Buffalo Coalition (CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute)
โข Alabama Lawmakers Pass Bill to Cut 4% Food Sales Tax in Steps (Bloomberg Law)
โข California State Assembly Passes Franchisor-Franchisee Joint Liability Bill (Restaurant Dive)
โข Snack Industry Leaders To Meet With US Lawmakers To Discuss SNAP Nutrition (Food Navigator)
โข Report: Diners Who Order off Restaurant Websites Tip Better, Order More Often (Restaurant Dive)
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โข These Are the Winners of This Yearโs James Beard Awards, the Biggest Night in Food (NPR)
โข James Beard Foundation, Whose Awards Honor Chefs, Is Now Investigating Them (New York Times)
โข Abuse Runs Rampant in Restaurant Industry. What Will It Take To Change? (Here & Now)
โข An Industry Case for the Flexitarian Diet and Shelf-Stable Plant-Based Foods (Food Dive)
โข Baby Boomers, Gen Z Have Different Grocery Habits During Time of Inflation (Supermarket News)
โข Wage Hikes May Have Been a Key Driver of Inflation. They May Now Be Fueling Mass Layoffs (CNBC)
โข Weekend Reading: The Loss of Small Dairy Farms (Food Politics)
โข The Truth About โLocalโ Food in US Supermarkets: โItโs a Marketing Gimmickโ (The Guardian)
โข With High Food Prices, Grocery Shopping Has Become a Strategy Game. Angelenos Share How They Get By (Los Angeles Times)
โข Beef Prices Expected to Stay High (The Food Institute)
โข Annals of Marketing: The American Beverage Association (Food Politics)
โข Saudi Arabia Amps Up Global Food-Security Push With Salicโs Brazil Poultry Deal (Bloomberg)
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โข How Astronauts Heading to Mars Could Enjoy Fresh Produce and Grill Meat (CNN)
โข Culinary Arts Students Example of Maineโs Educational Innovation (Central Maine)
โข Tradition Meets Innovation as Plant-Based Foods Surge in the Middle East (Vegconomist)
โข Alternative Protein Startups Converge in NYC at Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins (Food Navigator)
โข Keeping Food Safe With Vision Inspection Systems (Food Tech Biz)
โข Go Ahead and Make Your AI Recipe. It Wonโt Be Good. (Eater)
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โข Who Owns the Narrative Food as Medicine? (Corbin Hill Food Project)
โข FreshRx New Mexico: Produce Prescription Program Spotlight (Center for Food as Medicine)
โข Food is Medicine: Uniting Innovation and Equity (Tufts)
โข What the Eating Disorder Chatbot Disaster Tells Us About AI (The Takeout)
โข Study Finds Risky Foods Often Available at Healthcare Facilities (Food Safety News)
โข Most Americans Are Interested in Sober Bars (Food Institute)
โข Sick Workers Tied to 40% of Food Poisoning Outbreaks, C.D.C. Says (New York Times)
โข CDC Report Highlights the Need for Improved Ill-Worker Policies To Prevent Foodborne Illness (Food Safety News)
โข Op-Ed: Adolescent Nutrition: What Legacy Are We Giving Our Children? (Food Tank)
โข The Most Common Eating Disorder in the U.S. Is Also the Least Understood (New York Times)
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โข The Center has created 59 Neighborhood Food Resource Guides. Click HERE to find your neighborhood.
โข The Center’s guides have been updated by more than 300 volunteers who have spent thousands of hours making more than 200,000 calls to keep data up-to-date.
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โข Bringing the Good Food Purchasing Program to NYC – CUFPI (CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute)
โข Hunger Within the Boroughs of New York City (Zara Charitable Foundation)
โข The Color of Food (Applied Research Center)
โข Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network (Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media)
โข Resilient Farmers, Ranchers and Communities: Social Sustainability in Agriculture (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education)
โข Procuring Food Justice: Grassroots Solutions for Reclaiming Public Supply Chains (Food Chain Workers Alliance)
โข Pathways to Reparations: Land and Healing Through Food Justice (Human Geography)
โข Toward Comprehensive Food Policy: A Conceptual Transformation from a Production-oriented Scheme (Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics)
โข The Right to Food: Trends and Comparative Analysis of Legal Frameworks in Italy, Brazil and the United States (European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance)
โข Food Craving During COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Health (The 6th International Conference on Energy, Environment, Epidemiology and Information System 2021: Topic of Energy, Environment, Epidemiology, and Information System)
โข Association of Place With Adolescent Obesity (JAMA Pediatrics)
โข Assessment of the Massachusetts Flexible Services Program to Address Food and Housing Insecurity in a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (JAMA Health Forum)
โข Creation of a Healthy Partnership: A Pilot Study (Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition)
โข Sugar, Sugary Drinks, and Health: Has the Evidence Achieved the Sweet Spot for Policy Action? (The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
โข Designing Profitable and Climate-Smart Farms Using Virtual Reality (PLOS ONE)
โข Is the Temperament of Crossbred Dairy Cows Related to Milk Cortisol and Oxytocin Concentrations, Milk Yield, and Quality? (PLOS ONE)
โข Impact of a Low-Carbohydrate Compared with Low-Fat Breakfast on Blood Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Trial (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
