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America’s “Food Sweatshops”: New Reports Find U.S. Food System Fraught with...
If you’re concerned about the impact of your food choices on other people, there are two must-read (or at least skim) reports that have been published recently. The Southern Poverty Law Center has...
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Humane Educator’s Toolbox: Tomato Pickers Living on $20 a Day
When people talk about healthy food and food justice issues, they often speak about organics, or public health, or subsidies, or obesity, or even sometimes the impact on the environment and animals....
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Changemakers: Stephen Ritz & the Green Bronx Machine
“Kids should not have to leave their community to live, learn, and earn in a better one.” Stephen Ritz is a passionate, enthusiastic educator in the South Bronx (the oldest 6th grader you’ll ever...
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Humane Issues Round-Up: Food Edition
There are 3 recent food-related stories in the news we wanted to make sure you know about: 1. There’s good news for people who care about healthy, sustainable, just food. Recently the W.K. Kellogg...
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Report Reveals Dismal Conditions for Many Food Chain Workers
Image courtesy of National Farm Worker Ministry via Creative Commons. One of the humane education presentations I do focuses on conditions for workers on factory farms and in slaughterhouses. At the...
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Food Empowerment Project (FEP)
FEP is an organization dedicated to creating a just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of our food choices to affect people, animals, and the earth. The site includes useful information and...
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How’d That Get on My Plate?
Everybody eats, but how often do we stop to think about how the food on our plates got there and about the impacts of that food on people, animals and the planet? This activity encourages participants...
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Dive!
Food waste is a significant problem. Depending on which reports we consult, worldwide we humans waste between 30-50% of our food. There are increased efforts to reduce food waste in schools and in...
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Food Chains
by Sanjay Rawal 2014 86 min “There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it.” Farmworkers have long been exploited, living and working...
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Food Not Bombs: 30 Years of Feeding the Hungry
Creating a just, compassionate world requires lots of different kinds of actions: raising money, transforming broken systems, educating others, changing our own destructive habits, passing legislation,...
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