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Plow to Plate Presents: Fed UP!

Posted by Adam Rabiner on May 18, 2012 at 4:35pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

After several years of reviewing films about the food production system for this paper, I thought there was little left for me to learn from documentaries of this type. Yet FED UP!, a movie that focuses on genetically modified foods and is brought to us by Wholesome Goodness Productions, served up (often amusingly, using old, archival footage) some information that was new to me - unappetizing morsels that are not so easy to digest.

For example, the film…

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Brooklyn Food Coalition endorses the Another City Is Possible Week of Action!

Posted by Brooklyn Food Coalition on May 9, 2012 at 5:05pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

After the Brooklyn Food Conference on May 12th join with Another City Is Possible activists at City Hall to demand justice, NOT austerity measures.

Food Stamp Challenge NYC

Posted by Benjamin Solotaire on May 5, 2012 at 1:43pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Join Mario Batali and many more in the Food Stamp Challenge (May 11-17). Mario Batali & his family, FoodBank CEO Margarette Purvis and others (list still in formation) will be living on a food stamp budget for the week ($31 per person – the national average SNAP benefit amount). Mario will be sharing his experience with his 275,000+ Twitter followers, talking about it on his national talk show “The Chew". More than 100 ordinary New Yorkers have signed up to participate, with a week still… Continue