A great radio program called “Radio Times” from http://www.whyy.org on the topic of hunger, current legislation around the food industry, community gardens, shots at Michael Pollen and Alice Waters, and thoughts from people in the trenches of institutional changes regarding our nation’s hunger issues.
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Hunger persists. The wealthy United States is home to millions of people who can’t sustain basic nutrition in their homes. Those numbers are growing as more families are going hungry because of recent wide-spread layoffs. Our guests are hunger-eradicating activist, JOEL BERG, who is the Executive Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. He served in senior Executive Service positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture for eight years. His new book is called, “All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?” CAREY MORGAN is the Director of the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger, a non-profit that fights hunger in Southeastern Pennsylvania through education, outreach, and advocacy. And Pennsylvania State Senator MIKE BRUBAKER (R), from Lancaster County, is the co-chair and founder of the legislation of the Pennsylvania Hunger Caucus.
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1 Rev. Bill // Feb 18, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Thanks for these words, Ryan. I’ve been talking to more and more people interested in “urban agriculture” as one way to act directly at the issue of hunger. I attended, along with Rob and Jane T., our neighborhood association last night to talk with them about our community garden. Sacramento Elementary School people were there, too. They serve three meals a day to kids on free and reduced price meal lists (low income families): that’s breakfast, lunch, dinner. Glad to be in partnership with them on the garden project.
Bill
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