By FALPC Intern, Kristina Kalolo The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity recently released their Fast Food F.A.C.T.S. (Food Advertising to Children and Teens Score) report investigating the nutritional value of children’s meals and marketing strategies fast food restaurants target at youth. The group argues that, “Objective and transparent data are necessary to […]
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Factory Farms, Local Meat, and Being Vegetarian in Worcester
One conversation that seems to make people instantly uncomfortable and evasive is talking about the meat we eat and where it came from. It is understandable considering the immense factory farming, or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), that dominate U.S. food production. Started as a way to produce “cheap meat”, now 99% of the meat […]
Are You Defending Your “Right to Know”?
By Kristina Kalolo, FALPC Intern Two Massachusetts legislative committees are considering five bills that would require the labeling of GMOs (genetically modified organisms). Essentially, these bills would require the words “genetically engineered” to be present on the front of packaging and that processed foods would say “partially produced with genetic engineering” (approximately 75 percent of […]
Kindergarteners on the Farm!
By Isabel Burgess and Lauren Wetherbee, Worcester Kindergarten Initiative It’s been a busy year at the Worcester Kindergarten Initiative! The initiative, which is facilitated by the Massachusetts Farm to School Project in conjunction with the Worcester Public Schools, is a multidisciplinary nutritional education program that aims to teach kindergarteners about healthy eating and local farms […]
Delicious Summer Recipes
Summertime is here and that means warm weather, fun activities, fresh fruits and vegetables and grilling outdoors. In our last blog we listed many all of the produce that are seasonal in the summer months; and there are so many ways to cook, grill, prepare and eat them. Anyone can get creative when cooking. Summer […]