Sentences with phrase «food policy»

This is truly a fantastic contribution to the field of food policy.
So in that spirit, here are my top 5 gains in food policy.
«Other school systems can use these results to guide changes to their own school food policies,» they said.
He has written extensively on French food production and European food policy issues.
All of this leads to the poignant observation that a sustainable food policy crosses political lines like no other issue.
As you know, I am very much concerned with food policy & advertising issues.
If you eat, you won't want to miss this interactive and stimulating discussion with a leading food policy expert.
-LSB-...] This is a great example of how our nutrition recommendations are affected by food policy.
You will be introduced to basic nutrition concepts and discover how food policy and politics affect our diet and health choices.
This includes research defining the characteristics of government and industry that lead to the adoption and implementation of healthy food policies, alongside a strong program of advocacy.
In this presentation, we overview a structural race analysis, share specific implications for breastfeeding and first food policy and practice.
I've only recently started following your blog, but school lunches and our general food policies are quickly becoming a major concern for me.
This document, updated every five years, informs federal food policy and helps determine what's in school lunches.
That means starting the conversation with each other, the people from whom we buy our food and our elected officials who set food policy.
And what other kid - and - food, school lunch, and food policy books do you want to add to the list?
* All starred items can be done with store - bought food for those who have a store - bought - only food policy.
It's sad but true that big money dictates food policy, which influences public health recommendations immensely.
I want to inspire them to make healthy changes in their own diet and to use this information to influence food policy.
Putting pupils and the wider school community at the heart of a school food policy can lead to creative solutions to issues which previously may have been barriers to success.
This is why I think I want to work somehow in food policy and public health so I can fix this crazy mess of a country!
I speak at universities and conferences internationally about nutrition and sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and food policy issues.
Yet, few countries have taken regulatory steps to protect children from the negative health effects of obesity or implemented widely - recommended healthy food policies.
It IS important to think about what the implications of local - first food policies can be.
Prof. Corinna Hawkes, Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report's Independent Expert Group and Director of the Centre for Food Policy at City University London, shares a summary of findings from the Global Nutrition Report.
US - based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has said that India and China could become net importers of grains and meat while Russia, Canada and the US could be big exporters by 2050.
Funding for such agricultural research in general has been dwindling in recent years, according to the Washington, D.C. — based International Food Policy Research Institute.
Of course North America has a flourishing movement of Food Policy Councils, but these are predominantly local movements.
You'll also see many friends of this blog interviewed, including Janet Poppendieck, Brian Wansink, and experts from the Yale Rudd Center on Food Policy & Obesity.
«It's the first national chain that I'm aware of that's ever said that,» said Josh Balk, senior food policy director for the Humane Society of the United States.
«[It's] one of if not the worst forms of animal cruelty within industrial animal production,» says Josh Balk, senior director of food policy at HSUS.
But Nicola Edwards, who works for California Food Policy Advocates, told LA School Report that a recent union survey doesn't really reflect how most LAUSD teachers feel about the program.
A few weeks ago, I shared on The Lunch Tray's Facebook page a widely read Washington Post op - ed urging President Obama to articulate a national food policy for the last two years of his term.
The Chicago Food Policy Action Council (CFPAC) has been working with the Mayor's Office to bring the Good Food Purchasing Program to Chicago over the past three years.
«The impact of these policies is that no egg producer in their right mind will continue locking chickens in cages, which represents an earth - shattering turnaround in the industry,» said Matt Prescott, senior food policy director for the Humane Society of the United States.
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Michael McCain, president and chief executive of Maple Leaf Foods, was pleased by the news and applauded the federal government's leadership and consultative approach to building a national food policy as the foundation for a more sustainable food system.
Part of a breakfast series put on by the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College, the event, Zoning and the City «s Food System: Opportunities to Shape Healthier Food Environments in NYC, brought together a full room of interested parties - students, advocates, and others - at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Register HERE for the Seattle Food Tank Summit, Growing Food Policy on March 17.
I feel privileged to write regularly for Civil Eats, an award - winning outlet for food policy news, and earlier this year I had the chance to meet the site's dynamic and lovely co-founder, Naomi Starkman.
Slate would like readers — and presumably food policy writers such as Black — to suggest ways of solving the obesity problem.
«McDonald's plan is a bold vision that will help preserve the effectiveness of these critical medications to fight infections and keep us healthy,» Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, said in a statement.
Rogowski, who helped bring the first ever farmer's market to the city 15 years ago, spoke of the need to create a unified dialogue about food policy between Manhattanites and rural upstaters.
In a wide - ranging interview last week with Politico «s senior food policy reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich, outgoing Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he remains confident that most of the Obama nutritional reforms will be preserved: «'' I don't think that any administration, coming in, following this administration, would be able to roll back everything that's been done in the nutrition space.
It would have a huge effect on how we are producing food and how much food we are producing,» said Tom Colicchio, Top Chef judge and co-founder of the advocacy group Food Policy Action.
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