Food Systems

Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

Chefs Boot Camp initiative is part of the James Beard Foundation's education and outreach programming and represents a relatively new step in the culinary community: the recognition that chefs can — and should — try to influence food-systems policy...

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Pound Foolish

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09/22/2017

Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious food.

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At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste

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09/21/2017

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) - a network of 400 of the biggest consumer goods companies across 70 countries - along with Champions 12.3 has approved a Call to Action to standardize food date labels worldwide by 2020.

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New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students

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09/20/2017

Just days into the new school year, there are already problems with the food served to New York City’s 1.1 million students.

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NYC: The New Capital of Fast-food Nation

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09/20/2017

The accelerated minimum-wage hike that New York state imposed on fast-food establishments has not stopped them from proliferating in the city. Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A and others smell opportunity as rising costs squeeze out small fry.

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The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

New York City officials have announced that all 1.1 million public school students would be provided with a free daily lunch. This came a few months after state Senator Liz Krueger and state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill to address...

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Ex-Googlers Stir Up Controversy With Bodega Pantry Concept

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09/18/2017

Two Google veterans have developed a convenience concept called Bodega that they’ve been testing in 30 San Francisco-area locations and now want to roll out to other markets, according to Fast Company. Bodega is a five-foot-wide pantry box filled...

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The Fate of NYC’s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry

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09/15/2017

Recently fired undocumented employees of Tom Cat Bakery are joining with worker advocates to urge the food industry to better protect immigrant workers under the Trump administration.

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

The author and journalist’s new book explains how antibiotics overuse helped chicken ascend from a local delicacy to an everyday protein, with serious health consequences as a result.