The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots partnership of individuals and groups who strive to give an effective voice to all those who live in or serve Brooklyn and wish to achieve a just and sustainable system for tasty, healthy, and affordable food.
Thank you for making the Brooklyn Food Conference a rousing success! Please see [...]
The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots partnership of individuals and groups who strive to give an effective voice to all those who live in or serve Brooklyn and wish to achieve a just and sustainable system for tasty, healthy, and affordable food.
Thursday, October 29th City Council Candidates Debate on Food Issues. Click here for [...]
A frequent comment we heard during and after the conference was in response to our tagline: Be Heard. “Where’s the ‘be heard?’” People kept asking. While there were open forums in the workshops, it was clear that participants wanted a greater voice. That’s why we created the neighborhood chapters. But we’ve also just added an [...]
Nineteen years after winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Stephanie Black’s artful exposé H2 Worker (trailer) is still relevant. Darn. I would hope that what Ms. Black revealed by sneaking into remote labor camps at night might have woken us all up enough to say, “Hey, we’re willing to pay a little more [...]
Over the next few months, Congress will have the opportunity to make serious improvements to programs that feed millions of children each day. By passing a strong Child Nutrition Act (CNA) next year, Congress can take steps towards ending child hunger and obesity, and significantly improving the nutritional health and awareness of our children.
Here [...]
Urban agriculture has the potential to feed all of us city dwellers, but the benefits of city growing go way beyond nourishing the millions of people here.
Health benefits
It’s no secret that greenery is good for our health. Edible and medicinal plants nourish and heal our bodies while aesthetically providing psychological well-being and comfort. Plants clean [...]
Original posted on Civil Eats by Kurt Michael Friese
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In 1946, when President Truman signed the School Lunch Act, he said, “In the long view, no nation is healthier than its children, or more prosperous than its farmers.” If that was a statement of purpose rather than merely a [...]
Our food is making us sick, and it’s killing the environment and hurting the people who produce it. At the Food Conference, LaDonna Redmond challenged us to change this. We’ve never had a food system that wasn’t based on exploitation, she said. We may think how we eat is our personal choice, but that’s bull, [...]
Bed-Stuy Farm is in danger of losing half its land. HPD (New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development) wants to sell the lot to a developer to pay off a debt. What, you may ask, is so wrong with this? The Brooklyn Rescue Mission doesn’t hold title to the lot, and HPD [...]
By Arun Gupta
The confluence of factory farming, the boom in fast food and manipulation of consumer taste created processed foods that can hook us like drugs.
Among my fondest childhood memories is savoring a strip of perfectly cooked bacon that had just been dragged through a puddle of maple syrup. It was an illicit pleasure; varnishing [...]
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