Who doesn’t love a good rescue story? But now imagine one that involves rescuing millions and millions of pounds of nutritious foods from being taken to landfills and sending them to hungry people instead. Welcome
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Did You Eat Today? Thank a Food Worker
The most under-reported and neglected aspect of the good food movement is the 20 million workers who toil every day — often under inhumane conditions — harvesting fields, killing and cutting up animals, packing boxes,
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Letter From The Editor: George Stanley McGovern, 1922-2012
George McGovern, 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee and former U.S. Congressman and Senator from South Dakota died Oct. 21 at age 90. He was a World War II pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber, flying
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New Congressional Scorecard Grades Lawmakers on Food Policy Votes
If you follow politics, you may have noticed there are loads of scorecards that grade politicians. Each special interest seems to have at least one such report card. Environmentalists, for example, have the League of
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North Korea May Need Emergency Food Supplies
United Nations food agencies are assessing whether to begin an emergency operation in North Korea to help millions of people at risk of hunger, according to an Agence France-Presse report.
North Korea made the
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Isn’t It Hunger?
The New York Times headline shouts: “Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High.”
President Obama says: “hunger rose significantly last year.” But, researchers for a Department of Agriculture report will only say that people