Starting a New Conversation on Fair Food

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from Civil Eats:




Starting a New Conversation on Fair Food
June 1st, 2011 By Kim O'Donnel


Unless you travel in food policy or agronomy circles, you probably haven’t heard of Oran Hesterman. It’s time you had.

Hesterman, who runs the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based nonprofit Fair Food Network, has written a book that just might wake you up and get you to care about what’s going on with the food you eat and how it gets to your table.

Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All is what Hesterman is talking about, and I’ve got to admit, this reporter covering food news cracked open his book (which landed in bookstores yesterday) a tad wary.

Would this highly educated and well-meaning agronomist-activist guy really offer anything new to the sustainable food conversation, I wondered, and more importantly, would he speak to regular people trying to feed their families in a tough economy and who might not understand the difference between grass and grain-fed (or why it matters)? ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://civileats.com/2011/06/01/a-book-to-begin-a-new-conversation-on-fair-food/

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1. Recommend

[Countdown_3_2_1]

2. Fair Food: I thought this was about Deep Fried Twinkies. nt

[OneGrassRoot]

3. LOL. ;) n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

4. Excellent, K&R n/t

[MineralMan]

5. Darn. I though this was going to be about stuff to eat on a stick.

Oh, well.