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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…

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

Cross-posted from Food Systems NYC

by Rosalin Luetum

Photo: Courtesy of encore.org

In anticipation of the second…

Another City is…

The first draft of the 2012 Farm Bill is here – and it doesn’t do nearly as much as it should to fight hunger and support local and regional food systems, so we need your help.

 

It’s not too late to get a better food and farm bill through Congress – if we act quickly!  Tomorrow the…

The Harvest follows three migrant worker families through a summer as they chase the harvests from state to state, with particular focus on the children: Zulema Lopez, age twelve from El Cenizo, Texas, Victor Huapilla, age sixteen, from Quincy, Florida, and Perla Sanchez, age fourteen, from Weslaco, Texas.  Like the split linguistics of the film title, Zulema and Perla speak English, as well as Spanish, because they are American born.  The Harvest addresses their hopes, fears,…

OVERVIEW

Citizens Committee for New York City is a small non-profit organization committed to supporting resident-led community improvement initiatives in primarily low income neighborhoods throughout the City.

We seek a Project Coordinator to assist with all tasks involved in supporting the grassroots groups in our network, including community outreach, grant management,…

In the Park Slope area this Sunday?  Come join us at our Food + Garden summer camp open house!

Located at our camp headquarters, Ger-Nis Culinary and Herb Center, this is an opportunity for you to meet our wonderful staff, taste a typical Butter Beans summer camp snack, get answers to all your questions and mingle with other like minded parents, and children are certainly welcome.

WHEN

11am-1pm / April 22nd 

WHERE…

As you’ve probably heard, there has been quite an uproar over the working conditions at the Golden Farm Supermarket on Church and E 4th St. in Kensington. Since Sonny Kim opened the store in the late 90s, he paid his workers illegally: under $5/hour without overtime for 72 hour work weeks. Only last year, after a Department of Labor investigation found that he was keeping false books, did Mr. Kim begin complying with national labor standards. Workers, with the aid of New York Communities for…

By Travis Waldron

Cross-posted from Think Progress, April 10, 2012

Congressional Republicans have targeted the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps, for budget cuts, and have attempted to paint it as a program rife with fraud and abuse that is on an unsustainable path. While their argument ignores a host of…

Whats inside the 26 ingredient school lunch burger

by Andalusia Knoll

For those who live in Kensington and nearby central Brooklyn neighborhoods, Golden Farm has long been a neighborhood institution, open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, providing a range of Russian and other international products and fresh produce at affordable prices.  Unfortunately, this variety of products and it’s constant availability come at the expense of worker’s rights, with a largely immigrant work force who for years have worked 70+ hour work…

In the Park Slope area this Sunday?  Come join us at our Food + Garden summer camp open house!

Located at our camp headquarters, Ger-Nis Culinary and Herb Center, this is an opportunity for you to meet our wonderful staff, taste a typical Butter Beans summer camp snack, get answers to all your questions and mingle with other like minded parents, and children are certainly welcome.

WHEN

11am-1pm…

Dear FTOP Members!



The Brooklyn Food Conference needs YOU to help organize this HUGE community event,

taking place at:



Brooklyn Tech High School in Ft. Greene on Saturday, May 12th 2012!



We are expecting over 5,000 people including lots of kids.



For more information please visit the Conference website at www.bkfoodconference.org.



To get involved and get an assignment that you’ll enjoy, please sign…

There is more than one scene in Farmageddon of SWAT teams and sheriffs, pistols drawn, searching, seizing, and confiscating goods. But Farmageddon is not an action film, crime drama, or documentary about Mexican drug cartels or American suburbs ravaged by meth labs. The victims of these raids are small scale farmers and processors selling locally produced fruits, vegetables, meat, and dairy products in particular, that have run afoul of state and federal food safety…

The Brooklyn Food Coalition hopes you will participate in the Park Slope Food Coop discussion and vote on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions.  The debate on the Coop's involvement in the BDS campaign has inspired passionate conversation.  We applaud the democratic process that the Coop has facilitated and are proud to be members of this community. …