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Current Food Policy News & Archives
2008 News
July
L.A. bans new fast food outlets in impoverished area of city
Seattle PI, July 29, 2008
May
Seattle hospitals purchasing local, sustainable food
Healthcare without Harm, May 29, 2008
Check can stimulate community health
Seattle PI, May 27, 2008
Food policy starts next door
Seattle PI, May 23, 2008
Farming among the next crop of local startups
Seattle PI, May 20, 2008
Seattle orders local food
Captial Press, May 2, 2008
Living Food: Smarter shopping
Seattle PI, May 2, 2008
No easy access to fresh groceries in many parts of Seattle
Seattle PI, May 1, 2008
April
Seattle to support farmers markets by cutting fees
Seattle PI,April 30, 2008
Local Food Action Initiative a recipe to cure society's ills?
Seattle PI, April 21, 2008
Living Food: Grow, buy locally
Seattle PI, April 9, 2008
We can address local hunger crisis
Seattle PI, April 9, 2008
Study Explores Whether San Francisco Could Feed Itself from Local Farms
American Farmland Trust has received a grant from the San Francisco Foundation to conduct a feasibility study of the potential of the City of San Francisco to feed itself well and healthily with a minimal impact on the local, regional and global environment by increasing the share of its food consumption produced by sustainable farming methods within the Bay Area itself and the immediately surrounding agricultural areas, including the 15 counties within 100 miles of the Golden Gate. Read more.
March
Farming the City: Planners Start Thinking of How to Feed Us
Like many good ideas, community food planning seems obvious in retrospect. Each new subdivision raises a host of concerns as it goes through the approval process - but how well its surroundings can feed future homeowners has seldom been one of them. However, the notion that a community must give some thought to how to feed its members seems to be taking root. Read more.
March 22, 2008
February
Seattle lawyer rakes in on foul food
The Seattle-based Marler is the undisputed king of food poisoning litigation. He has made good money from bad food, ringing up more than $300 million in settlements for his clients in the rapidly growing legal field of food safety. Read more.
February 4, 2008
Beef off menus in local school districts
Cafeterias in Seattle elementary schools will serve waffles and scrambled eggs on Tuesday instead of waffles and sausage. For lunch Thursday, mu shu chicken will replace mu shu beef. Read more.
February 2, 2008
January
Bill aims to put more farm-fresh foods on school lunch menus
Kia Kozun knew that lugging 40-pound boxes of vegetables single-handedly from a Sequim farm to a friend's bistro wasn't entirely sustainable. The outreach manager for Nash's Organic Produce wanted to sell to school cafeterias. For five months, she borrowed a certified kitchen to shred cabbage and wash dirty lettuce. Because of insurance and liability standards, the payments flowed through a maze of regional and national distributors, who all took a cut. Read more.
January 10, 2008
2007 News Archives
Get More Local Produce into the Schools
Seattle Post-Intelligencer,December 18, 2007
Living Food: It's about balance
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 21, 2007
Give thanks for locally produced food
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 21, 2007
If the Pilgrims had landed in Puget Sound. David Horsey Cartoon
Living Food: Link Farms, Schools
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 15, 2007.
FARMED OUT Special Report
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 15, 2007.
Do Food Miles Make A Difference to Global Warming?
Reuters, October 16, 2007
Capital Press
As yields rise, does nutritional value fall?
Capital Press, September 21, 2007
Living Food: Smaller is Better
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 13, 2007.
Overweight? Blame Your Zip Code
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 12, 2007.
Farm Bill Showdown
The Nation, August 27, 2007 Issue
Obesity Spreads In Social Circles As Trends Do, Study Indicates
Washington Post, July 26, 2007
Kellogg Strengthens Marketing Practices to Children, Announces Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labeling
Is local better than organic? Weekday on KUOW discusses the sustainability of eating.
New Executive Order in New York creating a Food Policy Council
See the Executive Order in full.
Mayor's Press Conference: Locally Grown Food 5/9/2007
Seattle Channel
May 9, 2007.
Eating out - sustainably Read more.
Seattle PI, March 23, 2007
American planning Association discusses the farm bill Read more
School Students Eat More Fruits and Vegetables and Drink Less Pop, Survey Says
(“Survey Reveals Hidden Truths About Teenagers,” heraldnet.com, March 22, 2007) Read more.
Tumwater School District Launches Nutrition Label Program to Encourage Healthier Choices in School Cafeteria
(“Nutrition Labels Added to Food,” theolympian.com, March 27, 2007) Read more.
Dole Food Company Introduces School Vending Machines That Provide Healthy Snacks Read more.
amonline.com, February 27, 2007
Vancouver Food Charter approved
Details on the goals and principles of the Charter, as well as related background materials, can be found on the Food Policy web-pages.
Did you know?
There are more than 50 Food Policy Councils throughout the United States and Canada?
There are more than 500 chickens in backyards around Seattle?
Seattle area families spent the most dollars per household on food at home at $4,176 when compared with 17 other US cities.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2003
More than 64,581 tons of food were disposed of by Seattle area businesses in 2004, an estimated 20-30% of this waste was still edible.
2004 Commercial and Self-Haul Waste Streams Composition Study, http://www.cityofseattle.net/util/static/COS_005398.pdf
Between 1974 and 2002, the number of corporate-owned U.S. farms increased by more than 46 percent
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. 2002 Census of Agriculture. USDA. 2002.
- The average refrigerator has a voracious energy appetite. It is the single biggest consumer of electricity in the average household, responsible for 10-15 percent of the electricity you use each month.
Earthday Network. http://www.earthday.net/resources/2006materials/Top10.aspx
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