Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger
At the Brooklyn Food Conference, I attended a workshop about how climate change affects the food system. What I got most out of it was learning how our casual, daily behavior here dramatically impacts smaller civilizations around the world and that that, in turn, impacts our own food and sustainability issues. It was enlightening, and inspiring to realize that those daily decisions we make - from conserving energy to voting with our wallets - do make a difference.
In a related light, The Nation has published this list of "Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger"
Not surprisingly, many items on this list - tailored to address world hunger, a very important issue in its own rite - also would directly impact our own cultural food issues. Suggestions like
"Write letters to the editor and op-ed articles in your local paper calling on the government to cut or end subsidies that encourage large agribusinesses to overproduce grains and dump their surpluses on the developing world at sub-market prices."or
"Eat less meat"are emblematic of the type of change we need to take to clean up epidemics here and policies which bely them.
It's a great list - I only wish it provided more actionable resources.