Turning tables on hunger—one meal at a time! Thanks to Kroger's incredible effort in the Zero Hunger Zero Waste campaign, we can distribute over 300,000 meals to families in Atlanta. We're growing a healthier future together!
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Sustainability Storyteller ♻️ || Saving our planet one story at a time || Zero Food Waste Advocate || SDG 12.3 🥙 || On a path to building a cutting-edge food waste recycling plant in Nigeria
Please don't waste food! Why? Someone is dying for the food you trash. How? Buy what you need Eat what you buy Bought too much? Don't trash it ❌ Share it ✅ Someone said, "throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry". But I choose to put it this way 👇 Food go from their plate to garbage those who do not know what hunger is 🥺. Still wasting food? This post is your wake up call. Happy weekend buddy 😁. PS - What did you have for breakfast 😋? #foodwaste #sdg12 #sustainability #foodwasteadvocate
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Heading to a farmers market this weekend? Did you know you can *triple* SNAP and EBT benefits when you shop? It's true! Our Market Bucks program helps customers stretch their budget and make healthy food more affordable by matching SNAP and EBT spending dollar-for-dollar up to $10 at participating farmers markets across Minnesota. Because everyone should have access to fresh, healthy, local food. There are just 4️⃣ easy steps to using SNAP-EBT at the farmers market. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4dC5YkQ
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Take a look at our Story Map highlighting our qualitative research project examining community based grocery options D.C. aimed at addressing food insecurity. “Our project examines existing D.C. policies aimed at addressing food insecurity through supermarkets. Our goal is to provide the D.C. government with information about how policies aimed at addressing food insecurity impact small grocers.” Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University #foodjusticepolicy #foodinsecurity
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Just a reminder in the name of very cheap animal flesh, we have low genetic diversity in large scale production of meats. The idea that they’re raised for slaughter anyway is why most/all are over bred and inbred animals used for consistency and convenience’s sake, same as standardized sized hen’s eggs, mean they are all so genetically similar, and in very close quarters, that if one got sick they would all likely share the same fate. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. Another reason to buy from local producers that practice better (animal) husbandry, & more so interested in heritage breeds or breed for diversity not purebred exclusively.
"We could be facing mass culling... that's going to put constraints on the food supply" Peter McCullough, MD, MPH with Joe Pags #MFEducation https://lnkd.in/gh96Q8HY
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Cannot stop thinking about the Detroit People's Food Co-op since I first learned about it. An except from the Facebook post that enlightened me: "What is a food coop? A food co-op is a grocery store that’s owned by its member/owners as opposed to a grocery store such as Kroger or Meijer which has corporate ownership or an independent grocery store owned by a family or individual. In a food co-op members have a role in shaping the store culture, operations, and product standards. Detroit People’s Food Co-op is democratically controlled by its member/owners. Each member/owner can only purchase one ownership share and has one vote. Although food co-ops, like all businesses, must have revenues that exceed operating costs if they are to be sustainable, food co-ops prioritize community well-being over making profits for member/owners." https://lnkd.in/e3epEDRi
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Marketing Director | Local Agriculture Marketing | Procurement Strategy | Connecting Agribusiness to Consumers | Economic Development | Food Systems | Indiana
If you live in the Johnson County area, we would love for you to attend tonight's Indiana Food Vision- Johnson County Listening Session at 5:30 held at Purdue Extension Johnson County. I have had a lot of questions about the Indiana Food Vision the last few months and hope you have directed your questions and thoughts to the website and to the contact email. The website it fairly informative but please reach out if you need further context or would like to be involved. At tonight's event our discussion will center around these questions: *What is a food system and what is our role in it? *What is working/not working in our food system? *What assets do we have currently and can build on? *What would a perfect food system look like? Details of note: -We all eat- so we all have a place in this conversation. Even those who grow our food. -I think we can all agree that we want to see more 'Indiana Food' on 'Indiana Plates' and there are many ways and many paths to get to that goal. -A food system includes growing food, transporting food, processing food, packaging food, buying food, cooking/eating food, disposing of food, reusing of food, and so on. That is a big space, and it takes a lot of ideas and a lot of pathways to feed our communities. -Lastly, when creating a food system that is organized for a community and region- you need input from people who work in these areas to really move the needle: zoning, policy, public spaces, small business development, marketing, public education, planning, economic development, healthcare, emergency food assistance, healthy food education, food councils, community foundations, community governments, and so on. So, it is vital to have a cohesive discussion on topics that are actually relevant to us all- and how we eat, where we buy our food, and eating in general- that is a relative topic amongst us all. Happy to discuss offline, please reach out. I am only one of many volunteers. IndianaFoodVision.org to learn more and to take the completely anonymous household survey which is just in place to gather data statewide.
Indiana Food Vision • Cultivating an equitable food system for all Hoosiers
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Illinois EATS (Equitable Access Towards Sustainable Systems) will disperse nearly $29 million to address food insecurity in Illinois. As a West Side health collaborative focused on addressing health inequities, Wellness West applauds the state's efforts. We're tackling social determinants of health like food insecurity every day with our Food Connections program, partnering with Instacart Health's Fresh Funds and local grocery stores. Benefits are available to eligible Wellness West patients who qualify. As a healthcare collaborative making an impact on this issue, we know how important access to healthy food is to our communities, and we welcome complementary efforts like Illinois https://lnkd.in/gHiWa4q7. #foodinsecurity #sdoh #heathequity #IllinoisEATD #wellnesswest
Governor JB Pritzker on Instagram: "Today, I’m proud to announce the IL Eats program is dispersing nearly $29M to address food insecurity in the state. Here’s how it works: local produce from farmers, bought at fair market value, will be distributed by providers like food banks to communities in need at no cost."
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Organizations across Michigan and our nation are working together to build a more resilient and equitable food system. And it starts with supporting local food producers. Watch this informative video from our partners at W.K. Kellogg Foundation about the shortcomings of our current food system and how we can work together to improve health outcomes, racial justice, environmental sustainability, and economic justice. Promoting policies and practices that support this innovative work is at the core of what we do. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gA2T8Sa4
🌱 Our nation's food system is in urgent need of transformation. At the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, we're collaborating with stakeholders across the food industry to reimagine a system that prioritizes values like racial equity, health, sustainability and economic justice. Together, we're envisioning a food system that better serves families, businesses, workers and communities. Check out this animation to learn more about our vision for a more equitable and sustainable food future: https://wkkf.co/dsde
Video: How we're transforming food systems | Every Child Thrives
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Giving communities the powers to stop KFC near schools is not just about stopping the egregious roll-out of junk food marketing to our kids. It’s about giving communities agency and choice about their food environment. It’s the clearest example of how government can help “make the healthy choice the easy choice”. Right now, it’s the big corporates, with their addiction to the UPF business model, who define the way we eat. It’s time people had a better say as well.
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In the last funding year, in the issue area of Food Security, 1,037,291 meals were provided. To learn more about how we impact food security in southwest Michigan or to invest in our work, visit uwsm.org #8daysofimpact #liveunited
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