Book Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma 10th Anniversary Edition
How did we get here, America? How did our relationship get so broken? And where do we go now? Starting […]
Hunger
Book Review: America, We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation
In his 10th Anniversary edition of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Michael Pollan reports that over the last decade, much about the
And charity for all
On Lincoln’s birthday in 1948, the train named the Abraham Lincoln Friendship Train launched from Lincoln, Nebraska with carloads of food donated by the local residents and residents of Colorado and Wyoming. Even more donations were picked up in Iowa, South Dakota and Illinois before meeting up with the Friendship Train in New York where the trains were met by a ticker tape parade before the supplies were loaded on a ship and sent on to France and Italy.
Book Review: America, We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation
Starting with the premise that Americans’ most important relationship is with their nation, Joel Berg’s second book, America We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation, makes a case for how we must both stop blaming the nation’s problems solely on “the politicians” or “the system” and take personal responsibility to solve them.
Articles & Research
How Much Do We Waste?
A great article on discarded produce in America. Food waste may or may not directly cause hunger but the link between hunger and food waste is unassailable.
National Geographic – The New Face of Hunger
Its mind boggling that over 50 million Americans will not know where their next meal is coming from. Is that really true? Food insecurity seems both color blind and disrespectful of geography. It affects the young, the working, the retired and the disabled. It’s in our rural areas and in our cities. In fact, there is not a single county in America that is immune from hunger.