11/08/2023
Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of November 8, 2023
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โข Update Interview With Qiana Mickie, Executive Director of NYC Mayorโs Office of Urban Agriculture (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข The Interfaith Centerโs Unifying Mission in Cultivating a Socially Just Future (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข ICYMI: Agape Food Rescue Prepares Meals from Donated Food for Food-Insecure Individuals in NYC (nycfoodpolicy.org)
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UPCOMING EVENT:
Food As Medicine Summit: Treating Disease
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๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ, ๐๐จ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด
โข The Big Apple Puts Added Sugars on Notice (Food Fix)
โข A New Generation of Community Gardeners Have Big Goals for Cultivating the Concrete Jungle (The Architectโs Newspaper)
โข Queer-Centric Food Pantry Provides Free Groceries Across NYC (CBS New York)
โข These Massive New Sculptures in NYC Are Made Entirely of Canned Goods (Time Out)
โข Employees of Death & Co, an Award-Winning Bar, Are Unionizing (Eater)
โข Addressing the National Issue of Food Insecurity on Campus (Pratt News)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด
โข Food Insecurity Is Getting Worse. What Can We Do About It? (Forbes)
โข More Americans Are Going Hungry, Gleaners Food Bank Is Calling on Lawmakers To Address the Need (WRTV)
โข Josรฉ Andrรฉs: Food as a Tool of War and Peace (Axios)
โข Food Deserts Plague Chicago Neighborhoods. Could the City Run Its Own Grocery Stores To Fill In the Gaps? (Chicago Sun Times)
โข Arkansas Has the Highest Rate of Food Insecurity in U.S. (Axios)
โข Grain as a Weapon: Russia-Ukraine War Reveals How Capitalism Fuels Global Hunger (The Conversation)
โข WIC Budget Cuts Threaten Vulnerable Families (Food Tank)
โข Mauiโs Food System Is In Focus As The County Recovers From Fires (Civil Beat)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐บ, ๐๐จ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ
โข How Did Democrats Lose Control of State Agriculture Policy? (New York Times)
โข Johnsonโs Brewing SNAP Crisis (Politico)
โข FDA to Hold Virtual Public Meeting and Listening Sessions on Strategies to Reduce Added Sugars Consumption in the United States Nov. 6-8 (FDA.gov)
โข A Chilling Proposal for the US Produce Industry and Canadian Consumers (The Packer)
โข Animal Welfare Advocates Want a Say in the Next Farm Bill (Civil Eats)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ, ๐๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ท๐ช๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต
โข Food Systems Count for at Least 15% Of All Fossil Fuels (Global Alliance for the Future of Food)
โข Global Health and Environmental Costs of Food Industry Are $10TN a Year โ UN (The Guardian)
โข EPA Unveils Game-Changing Insights on Food Waste (NRDC)
โข Cigarette-Style Climate Warnings on Food Could Cut Meat Consumption, Study Suggests (The Guardian)
โข Pollination Cultivates Climate Resilient Pathway For Regenerative Agriculture (Forbes)
โข Years Into a Climate Disaster, These People Are Eating the Unthinkable (Washington Post)
โข Kansas State University To Lead Climate Change Food-Strengthening Initiative (Successful Farming)
โข Pineapple Leaf Tea and Potato Peel Soup: Five Ways To Cut Food Waste (The Guardian)
โข Why Not All Cities Are Welcoming Community Composters (NPR)
๐๐จ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
โข China Signs Purchase Agreements for Us Farm Goods Worth Billions of Dollars (Agriculture Dive)
โข Cleaning Up Asian Farms Is Key to Tackling Foodโs Climate Impact (Bloomberg)
โข US Agricultural Land Sees Inflation-Crushing Gains as Investors Snap Up American Farmland (Morning Ag Clips)
โข Mexico Reports First Outbreak of H5N1 Bird Flu on Poultry Farm (Reuters)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด
โข How Google Tackles Food Waste (GreenBiz)
โข Burger King Wonโt Offer More US Plant-Based Options in Near Term (Bloomberg)
โข Beyond Meat Slashes Revenue View Again, Will Cut 8% Of Jobs (Bloomberg)
โข Ocean Spray Debuts Zero Sugar Varieties As Juice Category Fractures (Food Dive)
โข The Long Reach of the Walmart-Walton Empire (Civil Eats)
โข Thanksgiving Dinner Costs Are Up Even as Turkey Prices Tumble (Bloomberg)
โข โStartup Nationโ at War: How Israelโs Food Tech Sector Is Handing Upheaval (Food Dive)
โข Milk Suppliers Sour Over Carton Shortage (Packaging Dive)
โข Why Restaurant Lobbying Groups Oppose the NLRBโs New Joint Employer Rule (Eater)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
โข โFor the Industry To Succeed, There Will Need To Be a Ramping Up of Investmentโ: The Past and Future of the Cultivated Meat Market (Food Navigator)
โข PepsiCoโs Doritos Brand Creates Technology To โSilenceโ Its Crunch (Food Dive)
โข Beyond Meat Slashes Workforce As Business Model Is Under Fire (Food Dive)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ
โข 10 Things I Know Are True About Food โ That People Donโt Want To Believe (Washington Post)
โข Top 8 Food and Beverage Trends According to Dietitians (The Food Institute)
โข Cockroach Grinders and Powdered Bananas: Beautiful Food Posters From the Dystopian Supermarket of the Future (Fast Company)
โข โReducetariansโ Eat Less Meat Without Going Cold โ or No โ Turkey (Axios)
โข โOn the Brink of Extinctionโ: A Food Historianโs Hunt for Ingredients Vanishing From Us Plates (The Guardian)
โข In โFood,โ Geoff Sobelle Explores the Extremes of Eating (New York Times)
๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ
โข FDA Proposes to Ban Food Additive, Continues Assessments of Additional Chemicals (FDA)
โข More Fruit Pouches for Kids Are Being Recalled Because of Illnesses That Are Linked to Lead (Morning Ag News)
โข Tyson Recalls Nearly 30,000 Pounds of Chicken Nuggets Over Metal Pieces (New York Times)
โข Some Psychiatrists Have Started Prescribing Ozempic (New York Times)
โข Dietitians Share 8 Tricks To Eat More Fiber for Gut and Heart Health (Today)
โข Future-Proofing Health Against Climate Catastrophe (Tufts)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ (๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ Center For Food As Medicine)
โข Providence Milwaukie Hospital Community Teaching Kitchen Spotlight (foodmedcenter.org)
โข Free Weekly Produce Delivery Improved Blood Sugar, Food Security in Low-Income Adults (American Heart Association)
โข Associations of Ultra-Processed Food Consumption, Circulating Protein Biomarkers, and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (BMC Medicine)
โข Medicare Plans That Help Seniors Afford Groceries Surge (Axios)
โข Chocolate: An Update on the Food Politics Thereof (Food Politics)
โข Dietary Guidelines May Soon Warn Against Ultra-Processed Foods (Washington Post)
โข Nutrition and Aging: A Two-Way Relationship (News Medical)
๐ก๐ฌ๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐
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.
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐
โข Sugar Program: Alternative Methods for Implementing Import Restrictions Could Increase Effectiveness (US Government Accountability Office)
โข A Qualitative Study to Inform the Development of a Subsidized Community-Supported Agriculture Program for Chinese Americans in Brooklyn, New York, US (Preventive Medicine Reports)
โข โWeโre Hungry in Hereโ โ Food Insecurity Behind the Walls of DCโs Jails (George Washington University, DC Justice Lab, and DC Greens)
โข Power Shift: Why We Need to Wean Industrial Food Systems Off Fossil Fuels (Dalberg and Global Alliance for the Future of Food)
โข More Than Procurement: Examination of a Farm-To-Early-Care and Education Pilot (Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development)
โข Balancing The US Agricultural Trade Deficit With Higher-Value Food Crops (Farm Action)
โข The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 (FAO)
